Tanya Chua 蔡健雅, accomplished songwriter and winner of the 2006 Taiwan Golden Melody - Best Female Vocalist award, recently promoted her newest album, Goodbye & Hello, in Shanghai. She mentions that one of the tracks, 達爾文, was originally written for Eason Chan.
Tanya admits she is a one-sided wishful thinker. She has always admired Eason and always thought of working or singing with him, but unfortunately it has yet to happen. She says she woke up one morning wanting to write a song for Eason and ended up writing the song 達爾文. While writing the song, she felt every note being very much Eason and in the recording process she imitated Eason. She let her friends hear the song and they felt it was very Eason-styled. She even told her company that she would not sell the song to anyone other than Eason, and it was through her company that Eason received a copy of the demo. Two years later there was no response and only through bumping into Eason did she find out he thought the song was good. Tanya personally felt Eason didn't really like song so she ended up using it for her own album. Thinking back, Tanya feels that it is quite funny.
Sources: sina and ent.qq.com 11.07.2007
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When it comes to her emotions Tanya Chua has always been calm and reserved and you would've never seen her take initiative, until Eason Chan came along. She says, "I don't know why Eason's voice is so captivating. It has always been the singer asking a composer for a song, but I took the initiative to write a song for him, but after two years he still didn't use it."
Originally written for Eason, 達爾文 is now a song in Tanya's album. Despite the song not being used by Eason, she says she doesn't feel rejected, saying "I've always felt this was the type of song for him, I used the feeling of his performances in my performance of this song." As for her initiative towards Eason, she says this was the first time for any star.
Source: sina (courtesy of rednet.cn) 12.07.2007
3 comments:
i think it's quite sad..to work so hard on something only for it to be rejected. but i heard the song and the first time i listened to it, it sounded okay. i liked it more the second time. hope eason will eventually choose one of her works
Oh ! A lot of ppl luv Eason'z voice ! So happi ! Hope someday Eason'll get a Tanya Chua'z song into hiz album !
are you kidding? thank goodness eason didn't like the song. tanya interprets "darwin" with so much of her soul.
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