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Hins Cheung King-hin

Hins Cheung King-hin, is Guangzhou-born singer who started his Cantopop career in Hong Kong. He talks to Jan Leung about being a mainlander in Hong Kong.

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Hins Cheung King-hin

I was born in 1980 in Guangzhou to a family of three.

My father is a government official. From him, I learned to be concerned about social issues. My mother, thanks to her traumatic childhood, can easily come up with the worst-case scenario for everything.

My albums have been doing better ever since I stopped writing my own songs.

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Ending the day with only a “thank you” is really hard. My prayers usually consist of a wish list I want God to deliver.

A career is like insurance – you pay, pay, pay without getting anything back for a long time.

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If my song “Ardently Love” came out a few years earlier, people would have thought, “Why is that pathetic virgin singing about sex?”

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