[TheStraitsTimes] Sandy sizzles
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Sandy sizzles
Pop diva breaks her popularity record with four encores
By Samuel Lee
WHEN Sandy Lam last performed here two years
ago, she had to beg the crowd to go home after
two encores.
Last Saturday, the Hongkong pop diva broke her
own record when she delivered four encores.
While her 2000 gig at the University Cultural
Centre was an acoustic set for the Singapore
Music Festival, the Singapore Indoor Stadium
show was a glorious, full-blown affair.
The concert's impact was boosted by a snazzily-
designed four-cornered stage as well as simple
but striking clothes and choreography.
But it was her enigmatic appeal ultimately which
made audiences fall head over heels for her.
Most 36-year-old women would not be caught dead
mimicking the girly impishness she projects. But
it is not a persona Lam puts on consciously.
Rather, it stems from a youthful vigour which
comes through naturally in the way she communicates
with the crowd, through her singing and sincere
banter.
Having honed her craft for almost two decades
now, her ultra-feminine voice is unparallelled
in its crystalline clarity.
Its beauty came through in all forms - the two
rock-flavoured opening numbers Existence and
Clanging Rose, the infectiously uplifting and
clubby Mardi Gras medley, and the stark folk-pop
acoustica of Paper Plane.
Radiating an all-woman aura, she is living proof
that you do not need huge deep-set eyes, big
breasts and revealing clothes to be sexy.
Of course, baring her well-scrubbed back to the
audience ever so often did help generate some
excitement.
Still, what shone through at the end of her 2 3/4-hour
set of old and new songs was the feeling of love
she conveyed and, in turn, got from the 8,000-strong
audience.
'I feel so much love from you,' she gushed after
singing her hit song, Scar, in the third encore.
The emotional outpouring crystallised an evening
made up of the two elements best summed up in her
surname:
L-A-M = Love and Magic.
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LOVE AND MAGIC:
Lam sums up the elements of the night
last Saturday. -- WANG HUI FEN
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