FIN

“You can call me the worst teacher. The worst cop. The worst anything really and I could take it, maybe. But

to call me I’m the worst singer-songwriter would have me laughing back for that is the core of my being.

I have been writing songs with ease because I know what I’m doing.

It is how this spirit expresses itself and how I have kept my soul alive”

- FIN -

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Fin

1989 - 1991

■Drummer of the defunct Singapore band “A.W.O.L” (Artistes Without License)

シンガポールバンド“A.W.O.L” のドラマーとして活躍

■Recording Artiste as part of A.W.O.L. signed to BMG (S)

シンガポールバンド“A.W.O.L” のアーティストとして活躍BMG（Bertelsmann Music Group www.bmg.com ）に登録

■Played at Bryan Adam’s New Year’s Gig 1993.(Opening Band)

ブライアンアダムのニューイヤーイベント1993年にオープニングバンドとして演奏

1992 - 2012

■20-year hiatus except for very occasional gigs as a solo singer-guitarist

20年ぶりにコンサートやライブでソロのシンガーギターリストとして活躍

Fin

2012

■Joined Flamenco Sin Front eras for small/charity shows as Cajon player

フラメンコ界を代表するアントニオバルガス氏が率いるシンガポールフラメンコグループにて音響やカホンプレイヤーとして様々なショーやイベントにて活躍

Fin

June 2013

■Worked on a self-produced debut single “Dark-Hued Little Devil” with music

video. Slated for release in Feb 2014

“Dark-Hued Little Devil” を作詞作曲し、ミュージックビデオの作成プロデュースを全て独自で編集。2014年2月リリース予定 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5n4L22EEek

FinMusic Video production FOR

“Dark –Hued Little Devil” 撮影シーン

FinWith finger-style guitarist Pukichi Edajima

フィンガースタイルギターリスト プキチエダジマ氏と

Recording and arranging in Sonic Studios-Singapore and Free People Studio-Osaka, Japan

レコーディング＆アレンジング－ソニックスタジオ(シンガポール） ＆ フリーピープルスタジオ(大阪）

Mix and Master @ Morg Studio Nara Japan ミックス＆マスタ－ モーグスタジオ（奈良）

Fin

Dec 2012 present –

■ Played regularly when visiting Osaka City @ Dublin Bay Irish Pub in

Doutonbori, Osaka City, Japan

日本滞在中は、Dublin Bay Irish Pub (大阪道頓堀)にてレギュラー演奏

Fin in Japan

Fin in Singapore

Fin starting writing his own songs at 15, from wishy-washy love songs teenagers would pen to the social issues

narrative that would be responsible for his first published work ‘Someday” (1992). Under record label BMG.

He would consider that a wide range of influences had been responsible for his current new age fusion and progressive

pop/rock, if his music needs to be categorized. Scottish band Big Country (Mark Brezezicki’s drumming and Stuart

Adamson’s unique anthemic guitars) along with Simple Minds and solo artist Midge Ure, Swedish Rock Group Europe

with particular admiration for Joey Tempest and Kee Marcello, Norway’s A-ha, Englishman Sting, as a solo artist will

be credited for their influences. Later on, U2 and Bono took centre-stage in influencing Fin’s musical directions. U.S.

charts would have Neil Sedaka as an early influence, with names like Bryan Adams, Richard Marx, Jude Cole and

Michael Penn, Van Halen to be pivotal in shaping Fin’s song-writer’s attributes. Don Mclean and Dan Fogelberg joins

the list of folk artist Fin looks up to. He admires the prowess of the vocals of Steve Perry, John Farnham. (considered

as the best singer alive), and Lou Gramm and Rick Price, who is also an excellent song-writer in their prime. As for

producers, he is amazed at how Peter Wolf handled Big Country’s Peace In Our Time (1988) and Lou Gramm’s Long

Hard Look (1989). Richard Marx is an all-time favorite singer-songwriter/producer.

Fin views songwriting as a spiritual experience hence had issues with stardom or the glamour infused elements that

over-ride the core purpose of songwriting, which is to reach out to people. The intention to reach out to like-minded

souls should be the reason why a popular singer-songwriter would want to have a little bit of fun with the appropriate

imaging and packaging to attract the attention of the target audience. This is opposed to the core of wanting attention

and the desperation of stardom which leads to one wanting to become a songwriter/pop star which leads to a flaky

ideal of reaching out to a random population that would become an audience. Fin believes that such glamour-junkie

approaches are the reason why some artist are always hallow inside while others are more content with their careers.

Fin almost always writes and produced his own work. Plays his own instrumentation in his songs, but is aolways

excited when he finds fantastic musicians he could work with. Fin knows he is far from competent as a musician. This

is because he was never formally trained. He has been a self-taught musician from aged 15 until recently where he

took classes in a Clinique/sharing session type class in Flamenco Sin Frontiers in Singapore.

He is part of Flamenco Sin Frontiers (Flamenco without Frontiers) as a “musician” and would not dare to take the

inverted commas until he is good enough. He would consider himself the worst musician there.

“ When I play/listen to/watch Flamenco, it feels like being in a familiar territory. It speaks to my heart and soul. The

combination of the soulful guitar riffs, the seemingly offbeat but well-timed coordination from the musicians and the

dancers and singers is something I am just hypnotized with. I have cried simply watching a flamenco singer’s

performance, And I have no idea what she was singing. She could be singing about what she had for breakfast for all I

care. But how she sang it touched my soul. Everything else is irrelevant.”

Having said that, he has full confidence in his song-writing and music producing skills, especially his own compositions.

FIN