Christmas Cavalcade 2022: Part Three, the Wing Wing

Ho! Ho! Ho! (again) and welcome to the third and final instalment of this year’s Christmas Cavalcade.

 

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.

 

Following her ‘discovery’ by South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone, Wing toured the US,  appearing in San Francisco, at the famous Birdland jazz club in New York and at the 2008 South by Southwest festival. In May 2008, she performed on the BBC Introducing stage at Radio 1's Big Weekend, in Maidstone, singing songs written by Abba and Elton John. She has since made many more television and radio appearances around the globe.

 

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