Video of me singing Girl from Ipanema

Years – decades? – ago as a child, I’d sit, my eyes glued to the telly as I watched my favourite singers win awards. I’d exalt in their triumphs and get all smug about it the next day in school. Now, all I do is I gloat over Premier League scores. I just watched a…

Bruno called today, asking if I was interested in accompanying a jazz singer who’s performing at Takashimaya next month. I was excited but naturally apprehensive. While I’ve been playing piano / keyboards for most of my life, I have no formal jazz training, and my uncle (a jazz drummer) said he could tell from my…

Help. I still haven’t chosen a band name and the concert flyers etc are being printed very, very soon. We don’t even have a poster, unlike the rest of the bands, because even though we’ve taken photos, we don’t have a name!!! These are suggestions I’ve just emailed my band members: Revival (which is how…

[Update: This post has been Tomorrowed! Thanks DSng.] It was John Legend‘s first time in Singapore and we gave him a rousing welcome. Actually, we couldn’t seem to stop welcoming him, even when we got to the end of the show. The concert began choppily, though. The opening act, Tanya MichelleTara Michel, tried hard but…

I’m contemplating getting a new keyboard and am sorely tempted by the new Korg Triton Extreme. The special thing about it is that it has the features of the other Triton models and more, and … it’s blue, not silver. It isn’t cheap. I’m waiting for it to hit the shops in Singapore to see…

I just spent the last three hours holed up in my studio, running through the side As and Bs of almost all the diskettes I’ve stored my music on. Each disk contains twenty tracks, some good, some bad, many incomplete. I don’t know why I’m writing this down, because it won’t matter to most of…