George Lam Chi-cheung, the veteran Canto-pop singer and actor, last month performed a members-only private gig at the Galaxy Macau. Lam (right), who sings in Cantonese and English, celebrated 35 years in the pop game last year. As a vocalist, he is capable of reaching the very highest tenor notes, but his major asset is his excellent pencil moustache, which, he has revealed, he not only trims but plucks every day. Sadly, his wife, the singer Sally Yeh Chen-ven - with whom he is said to have a "rocky" relationship - dislikes it and says she has begged him to shave it off. Lam has recorded two versions - both in Cantonese - of
Uptown Girl, a hit in 1983 for Billy Joel …
Estrin, now 90, was taught piano by one Vera Maurina-Press, herself a student of Italian composer Ferruccio Busoni, and is therefore able to claim pedagogical lineage going back to Franz Liszt, Ludwig van Beethoven and even Franz Joseph Haydn. Instructed in the Russian tradition, Estrin has been acclaimed for his interpretations, in recordings and in concert, of the music of Sergei Rachmaninoff …
