Asian Artist Introduction: Sandy Lam

I have started to listen to Sandy Lam's music since the mid 80s. She started her career doing upbeat bubbly Canto-Pop, then transitioned to something called City Rhythm, faster western dance songs about city life. In the mid 90s, she collaborated with Singapore producer Dick Lee which masterfully combined Chinese traditional instruments with a beat which create modern song with a rich oriental flavor that is unique. From then on, she focused on utilizing her soft, richly feminine voice for some of her best ballads.

What I love about her the most is her voice. Whenever I hear her doing ballads, it makes me feel like I'm submerged into clouds of big soft pillows. Everything she sings seems to be effortless with the best female qualities. Her Chinese name literally means "Forest reminisces about lotus flower" which is probably the most poetic Chinese name I've ever heard of. She had done an entire album about flowers entitle "Wildflower" and she has taken over the symbol of "The Wild Rose." She's a gay icon in her own right and surrounds herself with the good gays all the time.

"Let her dream for she's a lady,
let her cry for she'a a child,
let the rain fall down upon her,
she's a free and gentle flower growing wild." - from Wildflower.


A sample of her soft, "pillowy" and extremely feminine voice. And oh, you know how they make fun of the Chinese about their small, slanted eyes? Even we make fun of her eyes, so you can say that she's the epidemy of slanted eyes.


"Love from the past lifetime" - Collaboration with Dick Lee which fuses Chinese Opera, Asian instruments with a modern beat. Excuse the low budget music video, it's not that high quality and it's done in the late 80s. "Words cannot describe, no one can alter, we have gone beyond all limits of space and time."


"If I Let You Kiss Me" - one of my favorite songs of hers. It's not related to the background picture of "Scandal" - a terrific Korean movie, but it's the only version of the song I can find on YouTube.