His name is Dinmukhamed (Dimash) Kanatuly Kudaibergen.  He is known as Di Ma Xi ( 迪玛希) in China where he now commands a huge fan base. The Kazakh native, who was a relatively unknown singer, shot to instant fame when he won the first round of China’s Singer 2017 competition with his performance of the French pop song S.O.S. D’un ...

I was in Imperial Mall yesterday when I dropped by Merry Cassette & CD Centre to browse around. Nothing caught my fancy and I was about to leave the store when I suddenly thought of Demis Roussos. I asked the sales clerk whether they have any of Demis Roussos’ CDs. She was not sure but she called her boss and ...

I have a pen, I have a kompia Uh! Kompia-Pen! I have a pen, I have youcharkway Uh! Youcharkway-Pen! Kompia-Pen, Youcharkway-Pen Uh! Pen-Youcharkway-Kompia-Pen Pen-Youcharkway-Kompia-Pen I should get one of my Foochow friends to record this in Foochow. That would be fun!  

There are songs that initially grab you because of their catchiness but when you get too exposed to these songs, you start to find them annoying. One man’s  trash is another man’s treasure so I am sure a lot of you out there will disagree with my choices.  But that is perfectly okay as everyone’s taste is different.   So ...

Prince Rogers Nelson, Purple Rain accelerated his ascent, One of the greatest artists of all time, Dead at 57 while still at his prime.  

I seldom buy original CDs as they are way too expensive. But once in a blue moon, I allow myself the luxury of forking out RM40 to RM50 for a CD that really caught my fancy. Adele’s third album “25” is one such CD. When I saw the CDs hitting the Speedy Video store in Miri recently, I immediately grabbed ...

I would rank “Stairway To Heaven” by English rock band Led Zepellin as my No.1 favorite rock song. It was released in late 1971 when I was in Form 2 at Kai Chung Middle School in Binatang but I was not a fan of rock music at that time. The song became my favourite when I was in Canada as ...

Meet Dami Im. Some of you may not know her now but she is definitely a singer that you will be hearing a lot of in the near future. I got to know about Dami Im from my wife who has been raving about her for the past few weeks. Dami Im (Korean: 임다미, born 17 October 1988), a South ...

I watched the Psy live concert at the Seoul World Cup Staduim on YouTube earlier this evening. Psy gave a very energetic performance and I chuckled at his parody of Beyonce. The highlight of the concert was the unveiling of the music video for Psy’s latest single “Gentleman”.     "Gentleman", the long-awaited follow-up to "Gangnam Style", hit online stores ...

Where making movies in Singapore is concerned, you can bank on Jack Neo. His latest movie Ah Boys to Men (新兵正傳) has broken local box-office records by earning more than $1.5 million over its opening weekend, in the process beating the James Bond movie Skyfall, which was in its second week of release. The coming-of-age film about youths stepping out ...