[Straits Times]Everyone's a winner at Hit aw …
SEP 18, 2000
Everyone's a winner at Hit awards
All the Chinese pop stars present won awards at Radio Corporation of
Singapore's annual music bash
By TEO PAU LIN
HERE is a friendly tip to all who look forward to future Singapore
Hit Awards.
To know who the winners of the Radio Corporation of Singapore's annual
Chinese music extravaganza are, you need only look at the guest list.
This year's event, held on Sept 16 at the Harbour Pavilion, was dotted
with Chinese pop luminaries including Sammi Cheng, Wu Bai, David Tao,
Power Station, Kit Chan, Tanya Chua and Jolin Tsai.
And guess what? They all won awards.
Even Stefanie Sun, Singapore's latest pop darling who was not nominated
in any category because her debut album, She Is Sun Yanzi, was released
outside the qualifying period, was honoured.
She won in a newly-created category as Most Promising Artiste.
Not that anyone was complaining, of course.
All award winners got to perform. And Sun's win gave the audience a
chance to see that the 22-year-old songbird can really carry a tune live.
The loudest cheers from the audience went to Taiwanese duo Power Station,
who was named Best Group, and Cantopop queen Sammi Cheng, who was voted
Most Popular Female Artiste.
Glaringly, the loudest -- and only -- jeers of the evening went to
homegrown actress-singer Fann Wong, who was not at the event. She came
in second after Cheng in the same category.
Surprising many in the auditorium, Cheng beat Faye Wong, Chang Huei-mei
and Sandy Lam in a category in which 50 per cent of the votes to decide
the winner came from a listeners' poll.
But without a doubt, a running theme and highlight of the evening was
Taiwanese rocker Wu Bai.
Sitting glum-faced throughout the proceedings, the famed man of few words
was the target of the show's comperes, who tried -- sometimes in vain --
to make him smile.
It was only when he won the Merit Award for special achievement that a
gush of grateful emotions broke through.
Backstage at a post-award press conference, he cut quite a different
figure as he dealt, briefly and a little reluctantly, with reporters.
The conclusion?
He actually smiles quite a lot -- at journalists, at flubbing his lines
before television cameras, and especially at fans clamouring for
photographs.
As he explains to his fans in a TV spot: ""Even though I don't talk very
much offstage, it doesn't mean I don't like you.''
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HONOUR ROLL
Best New Artiste
Jolin Tsai
Best Album Production
David Tao
(I'm OK)
Most Promising Artiste
Stefanie Sun
Best Local Lyrics
Li Feihui
(Wounded Heart, Jacky Cheung)
Best Local Music Composition
Tanya Chua
(Remember, Tanya Chua)
Best-selling SPVA Album
Only Love Strangers,
Faye Wong
Most Charismatic Stage Performer
Aaron Kwok
Best Group
Power Station
Best Local Act
Kit Chan
Song Of The Year
At Least There's You,
Sandy Lam
Best Female Vocal Artiste
Faye Wong
Best Male Vocal Artiste
David Tao
Merit Award
Wu Bai
Most Popular Male Artiste
Jeff Chang
Most Popular Female Artiste
Sammi Cheng
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