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Khalil Fong Posthumously Honored With Jury Award at 2025 Golden Melody Awards
The 2025 Golden Melody Awards at Taipei Arena honored Khalil Fong with a posthumous Jury Award for his final album 'Dreamer.'
Throughout his career, he was celebrated for challenging musical conventions – fusing Mandarin lyrics with Western soul and R&B sensibilities – and for writing hits for the likes of Eason Chan, Andy Lau, and Jacky Cheung. “In an era when singers and idol groups were all vying to deliver high-energy dance hits, his soft, reserved, fuzzy voice felt like the gentlest form of resistance to the world around him.” “Those delicate, and occasionally eerie string sections, silky acoustic guitars, tight and dry sounding drums, and the sparkling Fender Rhodes piano – these were his personal form of ‘protest’ against the conventions of Mandarin pop music.”
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