Someone Like You (Remastered) Susan Wong

• 1 You've Got A Friend 04:01
• 2 True Love Ways 03:13
• 3 Over The Rainbow 03:28
• 4 What a Difference a Day Made 03:18
• 5 When You Say Nothing At All 04:10
• 6 The Other Side Of the Sun 03:40
• 7 Come Softly to Me 02:35
• 8 Make It With You 04:05
• 9 This Girl's In Love With You 04:26
• 10 How Deep is Your Love 04:25
• 11 Someone Like You 03:48
• 12 You Send Me 02:46
• 13 Goodnight 02:29
• Total Runtime 46:24

Info for Someone Like You (Remastered)

2007 release from the jazz/pop vocalist. The album features songs from the 1940's standard "Over The Rainbow" to 1990's hit love song "When You Say Nothing At All" and also includes covers of songs from Van Morrison, Buddy Holly and Burt Bacharach. Susan says "When choosing the repertoire for this album I have stepped away from my usual choice of songs as I wanted to try a more daring selection, covering a wider spectrum of the music that I enjoy."

Susan Wong, vocals

Susan Wong
was born in Hong Kong and immigrated to Sydney, Australia with her family at the age of seven. Musically inclined from a young age, she learned to play the piano at age five and later she also learned the violin. At Kambala in Sydney, she sang alto in the choir and appeared in the school dramas (Gilbert & Sullivan & the like) and entered a number of piano competitions. She received an associate diploma (ATCL) in piano from Trinity College London.

Her first break in the music world was at the age of sixteen when her parents entered her for a singing contest in Sydney. It was organized by TVB with the winner to be offered a recording contract with one of the big music companies in Hong Kong. She won the competition and went to Hong Kong, where she met with the TVB producers who wanted her to sign with one of the music labels. After much deliberation she decided that a music career wasn’t right for her at that time and instead returned to Australia to study at University.

After graduating from university, she returned to Hong Kong in 1997 to help run her family’s accounting business; at this time, she gained her CPA certification. One of her students, who she was teaching piano, was working for a Hong Kong independent label, and Wong asked the boss if they wanted a singer. Wong started recording her favourite English songs and made the album Close To You (2002).

In early 2007, Susan Wong signed a new recording agreement with Hong Kong-based Evolution Music Group and released her first album under evosound in August 2007.

The first release under this agreement, Someone Like You, was recorded in Nashville, USA and won critical and commercial success throughout South East Asia.

Wong recorded her second album, 511, for the evosound label in Geneva Switzerland with producer Adrien Zerbini.] It contained bossa nova influenced versions of songs such as Michael Jackson’s Billie Jean and Everytime You Go Away by Hall & Oates. Billie Jean received extensive airplay throughout South East Asia and a version on YouTube received over 450,000 views.

Returning to Geneva in 2010, Wong started work again with producer Adrien Zerbini along with guitarist Ignacio Lamas. The recordings mostly concentrated on sparse acoustic new interpretations of classic pop songs from the late 1960s and early 1970s including California Dreamin’, The Sound of Silence and Have You Ever Seen the Rain?. The ‘studio master’ download of the album peaked at No. 1 on the Linn Records ‘studio master’ download chart and spent over six months in the Top 10.

Five years on from her first visit Susan Wong returned to Nashville to record at Ocean Way Studio. The live in the studio project My Live Storieswas released on CD, SACD, and HQCD in December 2012 with the live DVD/Blu-ray released in 2013.

In 2014, Wong released her fifth studio album, Woman in Love, which is a tribute to great female ballad singers. Susan Wong is currently recording a new album, set for release in 2018.

This album contains no booklet.