Susan Wong

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Susan Wong

Susan Wong ( Chinese  黃翠珊 , * 1979 in Hong Kong ) is a Chinese- Australian singer .

Life

Born in Hong Kong, Wong immigrated to Sydney , Australia with her parents at the age of seven . She started at the age of five years with the piano , later came the violin added. During her school education at the Kambala boarding school in Sydney, she sang in the alto range in the school choir there and obtained an ATCL diploma in piano from Trinity College London .

Encouraged by her parents, she took part in a music competition sponsored by TVB at the age of seventeen, won it and with him the opportunity to sign a record deal with a large music label from Hong Kong. After much hesitation, Wong decided against a musical career and started studying. She returned to Hong Kong in 1997 to work in her family's accounting firm. She also completed a CPA on the side .

Wong continued to give piano lessons. One of her students worked for Seven Seas, a Hong Kong-based Japanese record label. Encouraged by him, she released her first album Close to You there . The album was a huge hit in Hong Kong, Singapore and Thailand. She recorded her next albums in Nashville, among others . In 2009 the album 511 was created and with it began the collaboration with the label Evosound, the producer Adrien Zerbini and the guitarist Ignacio Lamas in Geneva .

Wong is one of the most popular cover singers in Southeast Asia and has over 35,000 monthly listeners on the music streaming service Spotify .

Discography (selection)

  • 2002: Close To You
  • 2004: I Wish You Love
  • 2005: These Foolish Things
  • 2005: Just A Little Bossa Nova
  • 2006: A Night At The Movies
  • 2007: Someone Like You
  • 2009: 511
  • 2010: Step Into My Dreams
  • 2012: My Live Stories
  • 2014: Woman In Love
  • 2018: When You Were My Man
  • 2019: Close To Me

Web links

Commons : Susan Wong  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

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  1. ↑ Biography. In: susanwong.net. Retrieved October 15, 2016 .
  2. ↑ Spotify: Susan Wong, accessed September 10, 2016
personal data
SURNAME Wong, Susan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 黃翠珊 (Chinese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION chinese singer
DATE OF BIRTH 1979
PLACE OF BIRTH Hong Kong