Singaporean Music Producer George Leong Calls Out Industry's 'Juicy' Side

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Singaporean Music Producer George Leong Calls Out Industry's 'Juicy' Side
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George Leong, a renowned Singaporean music producer, recently expressed his disillusionment with the music industry, publicly criticizing its practices and calling out fellow musician Dick Lee for forgetting Leong's involvement in the hit song 'Chase'.

Singaporean composer and musician George Leong has worked on some of the biggest hits of Mandopop and Cantopop, but in an impassioned Facebook post, the 54-year-old seemed to have thrown it all away. He even started a feud with fellow local musician Dick Lee. On Jan 6, Leong posted photos of Hong Kong singer Sandy Lam's album Love, Sandy and the late Hong Kong star Leslie Cheung's album Most Beloved in the trash, saying he was tossing both works.

He wrote: 'Despite the passion I've poured into music and a portfolio boasting over 2,000 works and countless awards, I've come to realise these accomplishments mean little in the grand scheme of things.' Leong, once a producer under Taiwan-based music label Rock Records, has arranged music for hits such as Cheung's Chase from Most Beloved, and Lam's I Heard That Love Had Returned from Love, Sandy. The veteran lamented that music, which once brought him joy, now leaves him with disappointment, frustration and sadness. He called his skills and experience 'undervalued'. Clients want only a cheap deal, he commented, and some question his abilities. He added that despite compliments from people in the industry, he is often left out of projects. He also called out Lee, the Singaporean composer of Chase, for forgetting Leong's arrangement of the piece. The song first appeared as the theme song of the 1994 romantic-comedy film He's A Woman, She's A Man, which starred Cheung as one of the leads. 'Even Dick Lee, whose royalties from Chase could fill bank accounts for years, didn't realise I was the arranger behind the version. I had to remind him in 2016,' he sai

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