My LIVE Stories Susan Wong
Album info
Album-Release:
2012
HRA-Release:
09.12.2020
Album including Album cover
- 1 You've Got a Friend 03:59
- 2 Billie Jean 03:33
- 3 Something 03:09
- 4 Close to You 03:19
- 5 September 03:38
- 6 You Make Me Feel Like a Natural Woman 03:45
- 7 What a Difference a Day Made 03:35
- 8 Perfect 03:58
- 9 Cry Me a River 04:44
- 10 I Will Survive 03:19
- 11 Love Will Keep Us Alive 04:56
- 12 California Dreaming 03:30
- 13 When You Say Nothing At All 04:05
- 14 Sometimes When We Touch 04:19
- 15 Have You Ever Seen the Rain 03:19
- 16 Do That to Me One More Time 03:58
- 17 Desperado 03:53
Info for My LIVE Stories
Mit ihren gefühlvollen Interpretationen bekannter Klassiker machte sich Susan Wong einen Namen unter Jazz-Fans und Freunden audiophiler Klänge. Ihr neuestes Werk „My Live Stories“ bildet einen Querschnitt ihrer bisherigen Werke, den die stimmstarke Hongkong-Chinesin in den berühmten Ocean Way Studios von Nashville in einer zweitägigen Live-Session aufnahm. Auf der Tracklist standen Highlights wie „September“, Cry me a river“, „Desperado“ und das Michael-Jackson-Cover „Billie Jean“.
Tontechnisch verzückt die Live-Aufnahme mit Wongs herausragend und nah am Mikro abgenommener Stimme, die körperhaft, nie anstrengend mit viel warmem Schmelz den Zuhörer fesselt. Die begleitenden Akustik-Instrumente entfalten in der zum Aufnahmestudio umgebauten Kirche einen natürlichen, lebendigen und offenen Klang, bleiben dabei aber stets ortbar und sauber voneinander getrennt.
Susan Wong
Susan Wong
was born in Hong Kong and immigrated to Sydney, Australia with her family at the age of seven. Musically inclined from a young age, she learned to play the piano at age five and later she also learned the violin. At Kambala in Sydney, she sang alto in the choir and appeared in the school dramas (Gilbert & Sullivan & the like) and entered a number of piano competitions. She received an associate diploma (ATCL) in piano from Trinity College London.
Her first break in the music world was at the age of sixteen when her parents entered her for a singing contest in Sydney. It was organized by TVB with the winner to be offered a recording contract with one of the big music companies in Hong Kong. She won the competition and went to Hong Kong, where she met with the TVB producers who wanted her to sign with one of the music labels. After much deliberation she decided that a music career wasn’t right for her at that time and instead returned to Australia to study at University.
After graduating from university, she returned to Hong Kong in 1997 to help run her family’s accounting business; at this time, she gained her CPA certification. One of her students, who she was teaching piano, was working for a Hong Kong independent label, and Wong asked the boss if they wanted a singer. Wong started recording her favourite English songs and made the album Close To You (2002).
In early 2007, Susan Wong signed a new recording agreement with Hong Kong-based Evolution Music Group and released her first album under evosound in August 2007.
The first release under this agreement, Someone Like You, was recorded in Nashville, USA and won critical and commercial success throughout South East Asia.
Wong recorded her second album, 511, for the evosound label in Geneva Switzerland with producer Adrien Zerbini.] It contained bossa nova influenced versions of songs such as Michael Jackson’s Billie Jean and Everytime You Go Away by Hall & Oates. Billie Jean received extensive airplay throughout South East Asia and a version on YouTube received over 450,000 views.
Returning to Geneva in 2010, Wong started work again with producer Adrien Zerbini along with guitarist Ignacio Lamas. The recordings mostly concentrated on sparse acoustic new interpretations of classic pop songs from the late 1960s and early 1970s including California Dreamin’, The Sound of Silence and Have You Ever Seen the Rain?. The ‘studio master’ download of the album peaked at No. 1 on the Linn Records ‘studio master’ download chart and spent over six months in the Top 10.
Five years on from her first visit Susan Wong returned to Nashville to record at Ocean Way Studio. The live in the studio project My Live Storieswas released on CD, SACD, and HQCD in December 2012 with the live DVD/Blu-ray released in 2013.
In 2014, Wong released her fifth studio album, Woman in Love, which is a tribute to great female ballad singers. Susan Wong is currently recording a new album, set for release in 2018.
This album contains no booklet.