I’m finishing my Christmas Selection Box for 2022 with four
tracks from the utterly wonderful Wing Han Tsang – an artist I have regularly
featured on the World’s Worst Records radio Show, but who will be known to many
of you from her appearance on the 2005 South Park episode ‘Wing’.
I have featured Wing on the blog before, but that was way
back in 2011, so it is probably best that we have a quick recap. Wing Han Tsang,
usually known simply as Wing, is a Hong Kong-born singer, who began her career
in music after emigrating to New Zealand at the beginning of the 1990s. She began
by entertaining patients at nursing homes and hospitals in and around Auckland,
as well as busking in shopping centres (check out YouTube for some superb
footage of Wing doing the latter), and singing in hotels in the Auckland area.
Her popularity prompted suggestions that she release a CD;
the result was Musical Memories of Les Miserables and The Phantom of the
Opera Performed by Wing, released in March 2001 and recorded at the Otara
Music Arts Centre, based in the Otara Shopping Centre, Auckland. The second album,
I Could Have Danced All Night, followed six months later, and by 2015
she had released 20 albums and Eps.
In 2015, Wing announced that she retired from the music
business via her official website. A sad loss of a singularly unique talent.
Anyway, here are four Christmas-themed tracks from the
magnificent Wing; Jingle Bells and Santa Claus Is Coming To Town from
her 2007 collection Everyone Sings Carols With Wing, plus the
wonderfully daft Santa in a Helicopter and her reading of the classic Silent
Night from her 2014 EP Carols - Rap and Sing a Beautiful Christmas With
Wing.
Enjoy! And I'll see you all again after Christmas.
Download Jingle HERE
Download Town HERE
Download Helicopter HERE
Download Silent HERE
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