Wendy Chung (lyricist)

Wendy Chung (Chinese: 鍾晴) is an award-winning Hong Kong pop and C-Pop lyricist, who was born in Hong Kong.[1]

Wendy Chung
鍾晴
Born21 September 1986
NationalityNew Zealand
Occupationlyricist
Years active1986-present

This is a Chinese name; the family name is Chung (鍾).

Biography

Chung attended Hennessy Road State primary school and True Light Middle School of Hong Kong, obtaining a B.Sc. in Statistics from the University of Auckland, New Zealand.[1][2]

In 2006, Cheung worked with a number of friends, including Hong Kong writer Ray Leung, to organise a concert in the Hong Kong Science Museum.[1]

Later in her career, Chung was invited by the producer of boyband C AllStar to collaborate on their singles 我們的電車上 (Our Tram) and 天梯 (Ladder).[2] Ladder was in the top 5 of the RTHK Top 10 Gold Songs,[3] CASH Golden Sail Music Awards, and IFPI Top Ten digital best-selling songs, along with other nominations and awards. As of November 2017, the original MV YouTube video for Ladder has over 17 million views,[4] making it the original Hong Kong Cantonese video with the most YouTube hits. During her career, Chung has also written lyrics for a number of Hong Kong musicians, including Julian Cheung, William So, Twins, Vincy Chan, Shirley Kwan, Jason Chan, Pakho Chau and Kate Tsui.

gollark: It was hot this morning.
gollark: It's not """pleasant and sunny""", it's searingly hot æææ.
gollark: I'm sure I read about some accursed workaround for such devices.
gollark: Which is probably not that much worse than the real GPT-3.
gollark: Assuming they haven't trained their own model, which I'm fairly confident in, the most powerful thing they could be using is the 20-billion-parameter GPT-NeoX.

References
  1. "UNPLUG EP04 網上樂壇啟動! 作曲人HANGMAN與 天梯 作詞人鍾晴" [Online music start! Composer HANGMAN and ladder music producer Wendy Chung]. theclassifiedsplus.com. May 29, 2013.
  2. "《天梯》填詞人鍾晴的創作世界" ["Ladder" lyrics writer Wendy Chung] (in Cantonese). 881903.com. June 4, 2015.
  3. "第三十三屆 (2010)" [Thirty-third (2010)] (in Chinese). RTHK. 2011.
  4. "天梯 C AllStar 原裝MV (1080P HD)". KingdomCmusic – via YouTube.KingdomCMusic's channel on YouTube
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