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姚謙(Yik Him oh gosh donno how to tranlate this name!), who talks Sandy in to Virgin Record, a lyrist.
He talked about the fate between song and singer. The most important part in record making is picking the right songs. He believes every song has something good in it, but sometimes, it really depends on fate and luck. We can go through tone and tones of songs, but none of them sound good enough. The best thing to do is to make part of the song and see how it sounds like, no matter we like it or not. Like Elva’s song , it was picked for Sandy at first, but he couldn’t think of anything for the lyrics, so he took it out. Years later, it came up again in Elva’s song list, but this time everything went so smoothly. Or should we say the song is meant to be for Elva? Sandy’s mega hit is a great example. Sandy did not pick this song, but at the last minute voting, it came back. And of you all know the result!?
