Chinese Music Blog

Hins Cheung: The Book of Laughter and Forgetting (Xiao Wang Shu)

Even though the Guangzhou born singer Hins Cheung has based his singing career in Hong Kong ever since his second album, he sings mostly Mandarin instead of Cantonese song. “The Book of Laughter and Forgetting”, a title borrowed from the book by Milan Kundera is his first ever Cantonese album. Unlike his previous albums, there are [...]

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Hins Cheung: Spring.Summer.Autumn.Winter

Track 1: 过云雨 Guo Yun Yu (Rain of Passing Cloud) The first radio plug from the album. It’s very different from his previous songs. Instead of powerful ballad, this song is simple, serene and folk-like, a bit like Stefanie Sun’s “Yu Jian (Meeting)”. I was surprise at how this song dominated many Chinese music chart. For [...]

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Hins Cheung (Zhang Jing Xuan): Am/Pm

Hins Cheung (Zhang Jing Xuan), a singer-songwriter from Guangzhou, China has been getting much popularity in Hong Kong. Composing and arranging most of the songs, this album is called “am/pm”, with the concept of music in the morning, evening and night. It starts with an intro of a small piece of music of birds chirping in [...]

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