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Fang Wen (Hong Kong)

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Astor Fong (born March 3) is a Hong Kong female singer, singer-songwriter, audiophile music producer, columnist, music program host, vocal coach, manager, and entrepreneur. She is known as the "Asian Karen Carpenter" and hailed as the Queen of Audiophile Music.[1][2][3][4]

Biography

Astor Fong is a third-generation Malaysian Chinese. She graduated from the University of Salford in the UK, majoring in Psychology, and also completed vocal and music therapy courses at Berklee College of Music in the United States. She studied drama under Grace Yan and Jim Chim.

She won the 9th CASH Pop Song Composition Competition. Other participants that year included Raymond Cho, Thomas Cheung, Wilfred Lau, Nancy Wu, and Wong Tsui Shan.

In 2008, she released her self-titled English audiophile debut album “ASTOR (ERSTE)” in Asia, including the movie version insert song “When I Dream” from the film "Dragon Squad".[5]

In 2013, she collaborated with musicians from Hong Kong, Singapore, and Malaysia including Fung Tim Chi, Keith Chan, Sam Hui, Wu Ching Lung, and Terence Teo, to produce her first original Cantonese album "Sincere ‧ Game ‧ Close To You". Sam Hui composed the new song “Thinking ‧ Not Thinking of You” for her, while “Forget” was composed by Fung Tim Chi.[6][7] The album also includes songs composed and performed by Astor herself such as “Sincere ‧ Game”, “Ambiguous”, and her award-winning song “Acting” from the CASH competition.

On October 20, 2013, she held the "Carpenters Once More" memorial concert at Star Hall, Kowloonbay International Trade & Exhibition Centre with renowned producer Danny Chung, commemorating the 30th anniversary of Karen Carpenter's death.[1]

In 2014, she was invited to perform at the Malaysian “I Am an Audiophile Singer” HiFi Live Concert on July 28 at KLCC Plenary Theatre in Kuala Lumpur, followed by a signing event.[8]

In 2017, she released two MQ Gold CDs: “forever young ‧ forever love” and “Theatre”.

In 2018, she was granted permission to record the Carpenters classic “I Need To Be In Love” at the renowned Abbey Road Studios in the UK,[9] becoming the first Asian female audiophile recording artist to do so.

In 2022, she hosted a music program with singer friends including Angela Pang, Lee Lok Sze, Cheung Ka Tim, Dominic Tang, To Tak Chi, Vivian Lai, Cheung Wai Man, Choi Lap Yi, Au Yeung Tak Fan, and Lee Wai. Together they launched two seasons of a global livestream music series titled “Singing with Astor”. That same year, she also became the Greater China ambassador for Aroma Audio’s flagship earphone model "ACE Wushuang".

In October 2023, she was invited to attend a charity fundraising private party jointly organized by the Haifeng Environmental Education and Hong Kong Parrot Rescue Conservation Association and Yipin Musang King. Celebrities present included Pansy Kwok and her family, musician Ukulelist Eddie Chu, Liu Kin Chung, Chan Wai Kong from Black Box, Johnny Fong from D'Spectacles, and Middle-Aged Voice contestants Roy Tang, Ada Lui, and Samuel Hui. Astor served as the evening's guest MC and performed acoustic duets of classic Chinese and English songs with other musicians.[4][10]

Music Works

Studio Albums

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 http://hk.apple.nextmedia.com/realtime/supplement/20130908/51708751/
  2. ↑ Astor Fong and Danny Chung commemorate Carpenter's vocalist with first collaboration
  3. ↑ https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%96%B9%E6%96%87_(%E9%A6%99%E6%B8%AF)#cite_ref-3
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%96%B9%E6%96%87_(%E9%A6%99%E6%B8%AF)#cite_ref-%E5%90%8D%E4%BA%BA%E9%BD%8A%E6%92%90%E7%92%B0%E4%BF%9D%E6%95%99%E8%82%B2%E6%85%88%E5%96%84%E7%A7%81%E4%BA%BA%E6%B4%BE%E5%B0%8D_4-0
  5. ↑ Interpretation in the style of Karen Carpenter
  6. ↑ https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%96%B9%E6%96%87_(%E9%A6%99%E6%B8%AF)#cite_ref-6
  7. ↑ https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%96%B9%E6%96%87_(%E9%A6%99%E6%B8%AF)#cite_ref-7
  8. ↑ https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%96%B9%E6%96%87_(%E9%A6%99%E6%B8%AF)#cite_ref-8
  9. ↑ https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%96%B9%E6%96%87_(%E9%A6%99%E6%B8%AF)#cite_ref-9
  10. ↑ https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%96%B9%E6%96%87_(%E9%A6%99%E6%B8%AF)#cite_ref-10

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