Wednesday, March 4, 2009

The Two Ms Changs of Hong Kong



Just this morning I learned that Chang Loo had passed away in Hong Kong on January 26th of this year.
Back in 1995, I was in Penang, Malaysia and went to a music store to get more cassettes for my walkman. One of the tapes I bought was a compilation of Chinese music on EMI/Pathe. I listened to it right away and was enamoured of two of the singers. I took the tape back to the same store where I had bought it and tried to match up the Chinese characters for these two with the rest of the tapes in the store. I found three tapes that day. Two were by Grace Chang and one by Chang Loo. I thought the two Grace Chang tapes were great but I was a little disappointed by Chang Loo. Later on I found other Chang Loo music that did live up to that first impression.
Chang Loo is now gone but as far as I know, Grace is still enjoying her retirement. Luckily, there are plenty of tapes, discs and mp3s around so future generations will continue to be amazed by the music these two produced.


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