Raymond Lam Exclusive - Busy Recording his 2nd album
Credits: aZnangel @ asianeu
Source: Mingpao Weekly (Special Report)
Raymond Lam, recently stepped into the music industry, releasing the hit album "Love Searching You in Memory" (愛在記憶中找你), successfully selling 20,000 copies of his golden album. Last month at the Annual Hong Kong Music Awards ceremony, he was awarded "Metro's Most 'Explosive' New Male Artist" Award (新城勁爆新登場男歌手). He will be attending two of Roadshow's award ceremonies and is nominated for Newcomer Awards; In Raymond's music career road, it can be said he keeps the green light on, giving him full speed to rush into the stages of the Music Industry. Currently Raymond is busy recording for his second album, its not because of his accomplishments that he will "slowdown his footsteps". He smiles and says, "The first album lets everyone know a part of Lam Fung, the second one will have more surprises, hopefully music fans will continue to support!"
This year Raymond achieved alot, first he won "My Favorite TV Male Character Award", then in mainland he was awarded "Hong Kong's Most Popular TV Male Artiste Award". His performance has been well approved by audience. As for his music career, his first album "Love Searching You in Memory" was named Gold Album, gaining a glorious reputation for the Newcomer Awards. It is truly worth celebrating!
Pushes Work for Award
Raymond cherishes every award nomination. In the beginning when he released his album, he never thought of getting any award nominations. Turn out that once his album was released, the response was very good. But as this is his first year in the music industry, naturally he hopes he could win an award because after this year he won't be eligible for the newcomer awards. "Actually for year 2007, in mainland it can be consider a breakthrough. I generally have quite a bit of mainland jobs, but last year there were more opportunities for me. More people got to know me through the series "The Drive of Life" and after the release of my album, work has increased. The feeling is well worth it, hope I could get more award nominations in my homeland (HK). Afterall, Hong Kong is the international grand stage, the world's focus point. The market also uses this as the target. To a celebrity, an award is a 'driving force'. Audience's approval is one thing and of course I want everyone's approval!"
Surprises one after Another
The first album focused on the theme of love/romance, he owes us fast songs. In memory, during the "Our Generation Golden Songs Concert" (我們的世紀金曲演唱會) he performed hot dances. Sings and dances with the music quite well, why doesn't he choose to sing fast songs?
Raymond said, "A record company needs style and status, the next album will have arrangements, everyone will have to wait patiently. Definitely will have Surprises! "Love Searching You in Memory" allowed everyone to acknowledge a part of me, let everyone see how Lam Fung is like. Using love as the theme, the album brings a very comfortable feeling for music fans to interact with. However, this is only one part of me, the next album and all other future albums will reveal every part of me." Whether or not if your happy, there hasn't been any criticisms of you resembling like a certain singer? "Its not the first day that I entered the entertainment circle, but its the first year that I'm appearing in public with a singer status, so people won't say I seem like a certain music artist or make so and so comparisons about me. In addition, audiences or music fans already have a close feeling with me as they have seen of me on TV. Just hearing my voice, they'll know it's me. Raymond Lam is Raymond Lam!"
Music and TV: Dual Attention
Raymond being TVB's Siu Sang, will often need to go back to film series. This definitely will affect his music career more or less. Just like good friend Ron Ng, as an example, after releasing "Don't Blame Her", he started filming in mainland. Regarding this matter, Raymond Lam is not worried, he says, "I have been experiencing multiple (dual) jobs for a while now. Just as during the first album, I was filming a series on one side, while recording for my album on the other. The only thing is that I have to sacrifice my sleep time. Basically during that time I will focus on singing, truly using a singer's status to present myself, for acting use an actor's status only putting all my heart into acting. Work to do my best in both fields (acting & singing)."
No Time to Date
Speaking of his love life; Rain Li, Tavia Yeung, Sharon Chan, Fala Chan and Linda Chung, were all once rumored with Raymond. It's believed that during the time of hard work, it is difficult to date? Raymond says, "I really want to tell my friends that I want to date, but truthfully, I'm so busy that I don't even have time to spend with family, there's no time for me to go out and start a relationship. And theres no way that I can just go out and get a girl to date, even if I found one, I'm afraid that it'll be hard to maintain the relationship. The only way is to 'change hearts' and focus on my career."
Epilogue: Has Personal Connections
Mingpao invited Raymond Lam to shoot photos at the gates of "Cheung Kwan O" TV City (將軍澳電視城). From the time of make-up till the time he walked out through the doors, we only see Raymond smile at passbyers and wave 'hello' to his colleague with enthusiasm. One of the fans went up to him and wished him a Happy Birthday. As a result only within a few minutes of walking from the doors, there has been several interruptions as he was stopped by surrounding people many times. The trip back afterwards were yet the same. At the time, one of the workers was leaving the TV City with his son. Raymond spotted them, he teased the little kid saying he knew his father and took a picture with him using his cell phone for memories. A 'killer' female fan then approaches him and requested to take a picture with Raymond... the offscreen Raymond has good relationships with each one of his colleagues and socializes much with each of them. To fans, he is no different, no wonder he is so welcomed by fans. It was said that he grants every request.
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