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Faye Wong’s Offspring~ Leah Dou – With You

April 19, 2013 — 2 Comments

Faye Wong’s baby girl is no longer a baby. Leah Dou (Dou Jingtong, 竇靖童) is freaking 16 years old, and I just discovered that she’s posted a song online. Daughter of Chinese musician Dou Wei (窦唯) and Asian diva Faye Wong, you’d think their daughter would be predestined for musical haven — Of course, in this day and age, you would be more inclined to think that she’d be a spoiled brat. But her introduction makes it seem like she’s a composed young adult.

Seems like Dou and Wong have been decent parents.

Move over Taylor Swift, as much as your first two albums seemed to pave an okay-ish path of songwriting skills with some… vocals, Leah Dou has arrived and hasn’t even started yet. Is not only that she’s Faye Wong’s child (and she’s enormous) , that just got me mildly interested. I clicked on the link thinking “oh, great! Another kid on the internet with a guitar.” But passed the first few chords, the quality of her voice is just… mind-blowing. And I don’t think she’s even trying to impress. She’s just chilling.

Of course this comes after her mom’s latest release that has already shot up to my favorite tracks this year, and I doubt any other track will snatch the #1 spot for my yearly music countdown.

You can follow Leah’s activities on Facebook, YouTube, Soundcloud and Twitter… and Weibo.

In Sharing china, faye wong, independent, new music, new talent, taylor swift

Top50 Songs of 2012~

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It’s that time of the year again.

You know where to go.

Posted on December 13, 2012 In Chinese, English, Graphics, Japanese, Jobs, Korean, Music, Sharing, Spanish, Swedish amy wong, andrea echeverri, best of, big bang, blog, brown eyed girls, by amy wong, chang shilei, china, chris lee (li yuchun), christina aguilera, crowd lu (lu guang zhong), faye wong, imogen heap, japan, korea, lala xu jia ying, latin america, mika nakashima, miyavi, new music, new talent, peru, pink, rankings, regina spektor, sa dingding, soundtrack, sunnyhill, sweden, taiwan, white stripes, yam

Faces: 105 of Cinema’s Most Beautiful Close-Ups

After some flame from their compilation of 135 Shots That Will Restore Your Faith in Cinema [1], Flavorwire is back with a new compilation~~~ this time around focusing on faces, their emotions and their beauty… to relative success. I don’t think I could fault them… I had enough with Wong Kar Wai (included multiple times), multiple Zhang Yimou shots (and a double appearance of Gong Li to boot!), there was Park Chan Wook, Guillermo del Toro, Leslie Cheung’s face.

It was a thing of beauty.

The only face I could possibly suggest would have been Greta Garbo’s last shot on Queen Christina, but I’m content.

Posted on November 10, 2012 In Chinese, Clips, DVD/BR, English, Films, French, Japanese, Korean, Sharing, Spanish, Swedish audrey tautou, brad pitt, contemporary classics, darren aronofsky, faces!, faye wong, gong li, gorgeousity!, greta garbo, guillermo del toro, jean pierre jeunet, juliette binoche, kate winslet, maggie cheung, movie classics, norah jones, tony leung, wong kar-wai, zhang yimou

The Chinese Music Collection

October 20, 2012 — Leave a comment

It’s been roughly… four years. Give or take. It’s been a good ride, and it’s still going strong… so we still got a long way to go. Guys, if you would’ve gotten me at my “good” times, you’d be millionaires by now. Back when I was in high school I bought anything I could… even if I only like one song- I would have bought your whole album for that one song. I’ve got around 30 physical album with music in Mandarin — that’s roughly 7 albums a year… which is about an album every two months. Trust me, it’s not a bad deal.

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Plus, imports are expensive…

All of the albums’ artists have their tags on the blog except for SingerSen. I haven’t talked about her much on this blog… yet. But maybe one day in the near future, I’ll add her own tag.

This is also not counting the music DVDs xD so there’s a couple more.

As a fan, I think I’ve been good to Chinese music fandom.

Harper’s Bazaar celebrates with Faye Wong and Chen Man

September 27, 2012 — Leave a comment

Harper’s Bazaar China loves to celebrate with Faye Wong and photographer Chen Man, this is why both of them grace the cover of this year’s anniversary Harper’s Bazaar edition celebrating their 26th year. They celebrated their 25th year the same way.

So being the lover of photography that I am, I went around and look them all up — including last years photos. You can also check this Faye/HB photoshoot.

And as you can see, I have instantly fallen deeply in love with photographer Chen Man’s work. And I’ve already ordered her book Chen Man: Works 2003-2010, and added her tag xD so you can maybe expect more Chen Man postings in the future.