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Joanna Wang (王若琳) is a Taiwanese singer-songwriter born in Taipei but raised in Los Angeles. Her debut album, Start From Here, was released in January 2008 as a double-disc set, one in English and the other in Chinese. Her debut album reached #1 in Taiwan and has been popular throughout the Southeast Asian region.

I first heard about her sometime last year when Rock Corner was doing a promotion on her debut CD. From the moment I listened to her, I knew she was going to be something big and true enough, she became exactly just that. Needless to say, I bought that album and from then on, I’ve been influencing my friends about her.

Her second album features a double CD with the first disc, which mainly consist of Chinese songs, is titled “Joanna & 王若琳” and the second disc titled “New York Terror: The Adult Storybook” which is in English.

Here are the track listings for both CDs:

CD1 - Joanna & 王若琳

1. Tikiville (English)
2. Maybe Some Other Time (English)
3. Vincent" (Don McLean)
4. 一种念头
5. 我的爱
6. Times of Your Life (Roger Nichols, Bill Lane)
7. Tikiville (Chinese)
8. Aubrey" (David Gates)
9. Maybe Some Other Time (Chinese)
10. 玫瑰玫瑰我爱你" (Chen Gexin, Wu Cun)

CD2 – The New York Terror: The Adult Storybook

1. Adult Crap
2. I Guess I’m Paranoid
3. Longing For Romance
4. His Remedy
5. Nobody’s A Nun
6. Even If We Did
7. How I Feel About Businessmen
8. Man
9. Palpitation
10. I’m Pathetic Enough

I must say I am a tad disappointed with this album only because of the Chinese songs that she sings. I think she should just stick to singing in English, because having grown up outside of Taiwan, she sings in a very thick American accent which irritates the hell out of me. It’s like asking Diana Krall to sing in Chinese! Seriously…it’s that bad. However, “The Adult Storybook” in contrast is very good. It consists of lot of original songs making it a worthwhile album to get since it only comes as a double CD package.

My rating: 3.5/5 – The Chinese CD kinda spoiled it for me. 
Sounds similar to: Corrinne May, Diana Krall

“I wrote this song to inspire people that anything is possible. Tonight I think we believe that, a whole lot more. This is for everybody out there with a dream, and of course, I have to dedicate it to our new president.”

That was Mariah’s dedication to U.S. President Barack Obama last night (January 20, 2008) as she took the stage at the first ever Neighborhood Inaugural Ball at the Washington Convention Center in Washington D.C. Mariah proceeded to sing her inspirational 1994 # 1 platinum selling song “Hero” in front of millions of attendees and TV viewers of the historic event. – Source: Mariah Carey Facebook page

Honestly, I don’t know if she was having a bad day, her once known “powerful” voice isn’t as “powerful” as 15 years ago when she first perform the song. But nevertheless….it’s still Mariah and she still makes it sound good. =)

As mentioned in previous post, my friends and I went to watch Diana Krall perform at the Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre on the second day of the Hari Raya holidays. Here are some picture which I took discreetly (we weren’t suppose to take pictures, but I did anyway…without flash of course).

The stage, prior to the start of the concert

Eager fans of Diana Krall

Diana Krall and her band

While Diana Krall was…well Diana Krall, which was excellent, overall the concert was kind of a let down. All of us felt a bit short changed when the concert only lasted about 1 hour 30 mins. To make it worse, I think the venue was not made to hold acoustic events such as this as I personally feel the sound could have been better. Oh well, it certainly was an experience nevertheless.

After the concert, we adjourned across the street at Sevenatenine for drinks and to chill out.

Ee Lin, Suzanne & Evie

Zara & Evie

Evie & I

This last pic was purely for fun ya…so don’t get any stupid ideas! It wasn’t meant to be up, but since my friend decided to post it up on Facebook…so I thought WTH…just let the whole world see it too! Hahaha.. :p

Who is she? Well, I just came across a video of hers by accident on YouTube today when I saw this cute girl performing a cover of Jason Mraz’s "Lucky". The first thing that struck me was….she is cute! She performed it with another guy named Aj Rafael (Jason Mraz’z song is a duet with Colbie Caillat) in a bathroom because it supposedly gives them a "more acoustic" sound. And MY GOD…that voice!!! She is not only cute but this girl can also sing!….it was like a "love at first sight" moment!

So after being mesmerized by her voice, I Googled her up in search of more tracks of hers. I eventually stumbled upon her MySpace profile and guess what…I loved all her songs. She does mostly covers but they still sound good anyway. My favorite track at the moment is "Getting Stronger". I’m trying to search for more of her tracks everywhere but it seems she isn’t really well known yet outside the US. She is like one of those independent artistes that are currently not attached to any recording label. But hey…that’s how Marie Digby first got discovered too…on YouTube.

Being so in love with her voice and cuteness, I then manage to find the lyrics to my favorite song…

Getting Stronger

Listen to me I’m feeling afraid
Of something in my life that is wrong
And your trying to tell me that I’m okay
Don’t worry because I am strong

Life is about all the meaningful things that we get to share with each other
So leave the past behind in each other we’ll find our love is strong again

Pretty meaningful right? But just don’t take my word for it, go check out her songs and also watch how cute she is in those videos and tell me what you think? Oh btw, if you come across any of her CDs or songs in mp3 format…please, please, PLEASE let me know ya… :)

Woohoo! Diana Krall is coming to Kuala Lumpur…and I just got tickets to watch her perform on 2nd October at KL Convention Centre. I managed to gather a few friends to go watch it with me, and in total…I had to buy like 11 tickets during my lunch break today. The cheapest tickets were going for RM288 and if you’re a Visa card holder, you get it at RM262.20. Quite pricey for a concert ticket if you ask me, considering it’s like the cheapest and the farthest from the stage…but hey…it’s Diana Krall wei! So you can imagine the guy at the ticket counter asking me for a second time if he had heard correctly that I wanted 11 tickets. According to him, at most people buy 3 at a time…because it’s expensive…and I’m the first person who wanted more than 10 tickets at one go! Well, that’s what you get when you got to be the one who buys for a bunch of jazz lovers.

can you count how many tix there are?…hehehe

Anyway, for the price I’m paying, it better not be a disappointment.