Fala Chen’s (陳法拉) debut music album, Beautiful Life <美麗人生>, will be released on July 31, 2012 under Stars Shine International’s sister label, Rising Star Music. The first two plugs of the album, One Half <一半> and Atonement <贖罪>, were released last month.
Fala grew up in a musical environment, and has been singing in choirs and playing the piano since a young age. Six years ago, Fala took vocal lessons from a famous vocal trainer, Christine Samson, who inspired her to pursue her dreams in singing. Fala said, “I really like to sing! I have always wanted to be a singer! I was part of a choir in high school and college. I always went out to perform, and enjoyed the experience very much!
Fala’s album, Beautiful Life consists of 10 singles, one of which was produced by famous TVB music producer, Tang Chi Wai (鄧智偉), who has helmed many of TVB’s recent musical hits. Fala also invited her friend, Queenie Chan (陳莉敏), to write the lyrics for one of her Mandarin songs.
Although Beautiful Life will be Fala’s first music album release, she has had previous professional recording experiences before. In 2005, Fala stepped into a recording studio for the first time to film a commercial song for TVB. She also sang the theme songs for TVB dramas, The Stew of Life <有營煮婦>, Links to Temptation <誘情轉駁>, and Queens of Hearts and Diamonds <東西宮略>.
Fala Denies Special Treatment
For the past few months, Fala was claimed to have been receiving special treatment by the Stars Shine International production crew and marketing staff due to her relationship with the label’s major shareholder, Sit Sai Hang (薛世恒), who is Fala’s longtime boyfriend. Fala said, “I have publicly denied those claims many times, but the press still likes to exaggerate them.”
Fala revealed that it took her almost two years for her music dreams to be realized. She explained, “The press has made a big mistake by calling me ‘the boss’ wife.’ When I signed with Stars Shine, it was almost two years ago. I have known Herman Ho (何哲圖, CEO of Stars Shine) for some time now. Ms. Lok (Virginia Lok 樂易玲) also heard about his new company. TVB had tried to find a record label for me, so they recommended me to Herman for an audition. I signed with Stars Shine about a month before the new company was established. If I was really the boss’ wife, why would it take me two years to release an album? I’ve explained this many times before, but everyone still likes to focus on that title.”
Fala Learns From JSG Mistake
Fala debuted her first live performance of One Half on Jade Solid Gold (JSG) earlier in June 2012. She performed nervously and sang off-key, garnering much harsh criticism from critics and netizens. Fala admitted that she was disappointed with her own performance, but she did not feel too saddened by the criticism.
Fala said, “I usually have no problem with singing live. During the rehearsal, I also performed okay. But once the official recording began, the studio was filled with reporters. The studio was originally quiet, but now I could hear many cameras snapping and flashing lights, and I got distracted. I thought I was fine, but when my voice was heard through the microphone, I realized that I was actually shaking.”
“I have learned a valuable lesson at JSG,” Fala continued. “I have learned that I must be 100 percent prepared before any performance. Therefore, I want to thank everyone for their constructive criticism. Your criticism has become my driving force! You think I can’t do it? I will prove to everyone that I can! Criticism brings upon improvement!”
Fala Finds Cantonese Songs Difficult to Sing
A native of Sichuan, China and born to Mandarin-speaking parents, Fala finds Cantonese songs extremely difficult and stressful to sing. “Cantonese songs are difficult to sing because enunciation is very important. The first two plugs of my album are love songs, but I actually like other genres more. I can be a little more rock-ish. I know some of my fans want to see me dance. I hope to take things slowly. Sometimes, I imagine how I will be if I was to sing Kate Tsui’s (徐子珊) Hit Me. Haha!”
No Plans for Marriage Yet
When asked if she had plans for marriage, Fala responded, “If that time comes, I will let everyone know. But marriage is also a marriage of two families. It involves the right time, the right place, and the right people. At the moment, I don’t think I have enough maturity to engage in a marriage, but I do really want to have children. I think I will be a good mother. I will be one hundred percent involved in taking care of my children.”
Source: ihktv.com
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I think Fala should just stick to trying to improve her acting instead of trying to sing. Her singing is not good at all…
YA BAD..BUT TOO BAD THEY ALWAYS OVER PROMOTE THE NOT SO TALENTED PPL..
I agree that so many untalented people just get overpromoted. It seems like these artists that have no talent are making easy money…
If you think they are talentless but they still can gain many fans, it means your taste is different to the fans. Just that. They might not good actor/actress, not good singer, etc. but they have the star light and they can shine. The talented on might lack this factors, therefore they stay in the dark forever.
agreed, its ok but not that great.
Oh, you are so right……..do you guys really think anyone would record an album or even a song for her, if not for her relationship with her boyfriend’s family?……Of course not?….She has absolutely no talent in singing and her acting is only average. What she does have is a decent face and body and she should just leave it at that. If she thinks she can still cut it as a singer at her age and with her lack of singing talents, she must be dumber than she looks. Just stick to acting and maybe later on into pornographic work if your boyfriend dumps you…..that’s where you can excel with your face and body that you do have…….NOT YOUR SINGING!
With the help of TVB, anything is possible. Isn’t that obvious with Myolie, Linda and Kate’s singing careers?
620 and her boyfriend are quite close. He attends her party
I’m just join this web not too long, but this is the most DISGUSTING comment I have ever read about Fala!
So, Myolie, Linda and Kate aren’t close with 620? Right…
Well if Fala joined the industry back when Kate, Linda, and Myolie did, no one would say this much about how she sucks because Kate and Linda weren’t so good either. The only one with even the ability to sing was Myolie, who at the time wasn’t a superb singer, but has gotten very good. I believe she deserves to be a singer. As for the rest of them, Linda has improved too, just not to the par of a singer.Maybe Fala will get better with time? And what about Bosco and Ron? Terrible singers, aren’t they? Why bash only Fala?
If comparing Fala to Bosco and Ron, in my opinion, Fala can sing next to them. Bosco simply can’t keep the key and Ron can’t sing any higher not than Son and lower than Mi.
She’s not even fluent in pronouncing Cantonese, and now she’s singing. Sigh.
LOL, so true well in HK music industry impossible in nothing. Soon Aimee and her broken cantonese friends will launch their singing career…
Aimee and Christine are what I’m afraid of.
Aimee is next to sing? YUCK.
The current TVB fadans and siu sangs want to make easy money by doing as many things as possible to gain their popularity.
I agree.. I guess they want to make as much dough as they can while they can… once they fall from the pedestal, they will not be able to do so anymore…
Something about her voice that i dislike
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nr_Zpz4EpLU
Is this the video? It’s not THAT bad.
Fala is pretty face with mediocre acting and cant sing LOL
I cast my vote for her.
“why would it take me two years to release an album?”
Because it takes 2 years to produce an album, normally unless in HK who churns out junks every 1 month.
“She performed nervously and sang off-key, garnering much harsh criticism from critics and netizens. ”
There are other more professional singers who sang off key so don’t feel beat up about it.
“Sometimes, I imagine how I will be if I was to sing Kate Tsui’s (徐子珊) Hit Me.”
Probably no problem? There is always those auto tunes.
She need to focus on acting 1st or just concentrate on singing not both at once.
Agree. Her acting is not too bad vs. the other TVB fadans. She still needs to improve her Cantonese pronunciation. If she spends time on her singing, she will be like another Linda Chung ….. not good in either one.
Linda is a very good actress. You jealous!
Fala’s acting still need lots of improvement. She’s a weak female lead.
I personally do not think Fala looks that great and her looks are overrated as well. However, she is not a model but is an actress and trying to be a singer. She honestly needs to improve if she wants to be successful. I think she has a lot more to learn about singing and acting. She should learn a lesson or 2 from Felix Wong. I clearly remember Felix saying that he did not want to join the circle of singers because he felt that he just did not have the talent to sing well. He did not want to embarrass himself just for money. I think Fala will quit sooner or later since I have better singers then her that also did not survive in the music world.
She’s prettiest among the 5 but zero charisma, mediocre acting, bad singing but top notch hogh speed cable LOL
all shes got is looks, money and a boy toy.
Her looks won’t last forever
I thought Fala was alraedy secretly married in 2008? Why the heck is she saying “she’s still not considering marriage”
what jealousy or hatred? Where the fck did you get that from? I just thought she was already married and that’s why I’m questioning why she’s saying she’s still not considering marriage because they’re inconsistent stories.
You’re just a shallow bast*rd who cares too much about looks and not enough about personality, evident when you say that her pretty face automatically makes her good at everything she does and that Bosco has the right to cheat on Myolie because she’s not “beautiful” and there are people out there that are “prettier” than she is. I admitted that Fala’s a beautiful woman, just that that’s not enough for her to sustain the career she chose. I don’t hate Fala, in fact i defended her saying that if given time she can improve her singing and I don’t see why people are jumping at her saying she sucks and that she wouldn’t get as much criticism if she debuted in singing the same time as Linda Kate and Myolie. I don’t know what the fck you’re reading, but if you’re going to say things like that about me, at least show some evidence, dumbass.
and in proper grammar, your message should be
Almost all of the messages that you’ve written are full of either gross hatred or grave jealousy.
Learn your English and maybe some manners while you’re at it.
Hm. I recalled reading an article about Fala wanting to sing to earn extra income. As your age is catching up to you, especially for actresses, you have to make as much as possible while you’re young. Since Fala is currently popular, I see why she expanded to music.
Her singing is bad. But then, she’s not the only bad singers in the industry. There’s potential in her acting, but her latest performances aren’t up to par. Hope to see changes in TITS2.
Fala’s singing is bad and her acting still needs heaps of improvement. Dating or marrying an heir sure helps.
Oh really? Then who were Kate, Linda, Myolie married/dating that helped their singing “careers”. Face it, TVB helps their artistes with their singing – whether it can be sustained or not, who knows.
Now Fala is evidently taking a shot at it. Imo, she really should focus on her acting instead which is getting a bit stale. But it does seem like her album hasn’t been a rush job like the other TVB fa dans. I feel like she’s been talking about releasing an album for ages, and she just getting one out today.
@advo – Myolie has singing talents. That’s why TVB prop her up. Kate and Linda can’t sing but TVB just need to promote them. Fala suddenly become top fadan after she’s revealed dating Sit Sai Hang and get all lead roles and want to make an album.
@lol
Talents or not, TVB will promote them.
Linda and Myolie can sing, can act and pretty. Tavia and Kate can’t sing, can’t act to save their life and ugly. Linda and Myolie is the best and Fala follows them. What are reasons for Tavia and Kate to stay in TVB? They are horrible.
I like Fala and enjoy her acting. I do think, however, that she should just focus on that and skip the singing. Not sure why actresses feel the need to sing as well, unless it is just their company trying to get more out of them while they can.
If it benefits TVB, TVB will go for it.
Fala can’t lead yet. Her acting in HOG and Steps was sooo much more fresh and better than what she is doing nowadays. She seems very confused. She’s only been first lead in 3 series, and her acting wasn’t up to par in any of those. Maybe the scripts she gets are bad too, like that Links to Temptation series was SO bad.
Links to Temptation must be one of the worst series to date because of the script. That series totally did not make any sense especially how she she just blindly helped Yoyo in her revenge against her dad without questioning her intentions. Sure, Yoyo had manipulated her but even the idea of Yoyo plotting her revenge was silly, unconvincing and totally far-fetched. Arghhhh….terrible script!!!
Yes, it was terrible! Even Steven ma can’t save it! In LOO, her madam jo was unconvincing, like when she cried about not being able to fire the gun.. I laughed.
But Fala did so well in her earlier roles, it’s a pity. Even the fox spirit role was cute, and she was cute in can’t buy me love. but as a lead she needs more, and no one knew how she won best supporting actress with Ching Ching. So stop the singing and work on your acting!!!!
Yoyo is great. Fala in LOO is a joke.
Links to Temptation is terrible because hell boring Steven acts. He is unconvincing and wooden like a tree.
I agree. Fala can’t lead yet. She’s better in her supporting roles where she showed potential but become confused vase when she stepped to be a lead actress and overpromoted at that.
Horrible acting? Nevermind. When she smiles, all the prospective negative impressions we have on her will be all gone.
correction: the prospective negative impressions YOU have on her will all be gone. She’s incredibly beautiful, but to us non-shallow people, beauty doesn’t make up for lack of talent in other fields. If she wants to depend on only her looks, maybe modelling suits her more. But if she wants to stick with acting and singing, she better focus and improve herself a lot.
@ Tony:
You really have to go beyond looks, that in itself can only bring one so far. A beautiful empty shell with no substance is not going to cut it.
I agree. Fala’s beauty won’t last. She looks like a vase most of the time.
She is not even that great looking. Did you not see her without make up??? Different story…
jackie said “to us non shallow people”
I’m sorry… so if we happen to enjoy Fala’s acting we are “shallow” because we don’t share your opinion?
lol… whatever. Different people will have different tastes. It’s too bad for many they seem to believe that if you don’t share my view, you are wrong -.-
I’m not saying that you can’t enjoy her acting, all I said was “beauty doesn’t make up for lack of talent for other fields” this doesn’t necessarily apply to her… I was directing this towards Tony’s comment that being beautiful makes up for the supposed “horrible acting” that someone else commented on.
Tony, you need to go beyond looks and she is NOT a model but is an actress and trying to be singer.
Please Fala.. do us all a favor and just get married and be a siu-nai-nai. Your acting is sub-par at most and don’t get me started about your singing..
If she wins some awards in JSG… then, this industry is collapsing.
Yes. It almost collapse already when she was pitted against Myolie last year for Best Actress. Thank god TVB keep our insanity.
Haha, TVB wouldn’t give the award to non-biological daughters. And, Madam Jo was quite popular. So, it made sense to pit her against Myolie. Fala was used to create noise just like how Myolie is pit against Tavia for this year.
Fala is biological daughter?
And sheren isnt biological daughter.
Fala Chen is not great yet in acting 1st lead roles, but she has tons of potentials. Her pretty face allows her to act modern and ancient drama series, but she needs to improve her Cantonese more in ancient drama series. However, among the top 5 fadans, she is the prettiest one and has the most potentials to be a good actress. She is very versatile.
However, I don’t think she will be a good singer. None of the top 5 fadans can sing well.
I beg to differ on none of the 5 fadans can sing. Myolie’s singing to me is awesome, and not just because I’m her fan but because she can perform challenging songs (like I Will Always Love You by Whitney Houston), but I don’t find Linda half bad either. Fala , Kate and Tavia though… need some work.
I think Fala is not bad at acting compared to the four other fa dans. It’s just she lacks the experience that Tavia and Myolie have. She has the potential to act, she just needs to work on it. All five are pretty mediocre when compared to people like Ada, Gigi, Maggie, and Jessica though, eek.
Only Myolie can sing well out of the 5. I’m her fan but this is the fact.
Sorry Fala your boyfriend may have to buy most of your albums so that you can get the 15000 gold disc
Fala showed potential when she was supporting but she become bland and confused once she become a fadan.
Tavia also showed better acting in supporting roles but become boring and stagnant in leading roles.
I don’t think any one of the top 5 fadans can sing.
Linda Chung has a chicken voice. Myolie Wu sings a bit better, but not a lot. Kate Tse is no good in singing or acting. Fala has potentials in acting, but not yet in singing. Tavia Yeung just cannot sing.
Myolie and Linda can sing, can act. Fala can act, need more practice for singing. Kate and Tavia needs to leave TVB ASAP! They’re good for nothing.
Kate can win Fala can.
most hong kong singers cant sing **** with the exception of a few. fala is one of those that can’t sing, she should just work on her acting, cus she needs alot of work if she want to lead.
never heard her sing…
Do you like to try some clips?