Steven's cherish vol 2 album available in 2 airlines

Thai Airways and Air New Zealand both feature Steven's Cherish Vol 2 in their in-flight entertainment music section. Too bad, Cathay Pacific doesn't have it.

Steven's live singing 無情雨

listen to the full-length song audio only y2b




1995 cd 浓情--新出加精选. 無情雨 is one of the earlier album songs, if not the earliest, composed and written by Steven himself.

Haha! If not for Steven pointing it out on his weibo, I (as many others) wouldn't have noticed that the left side of his shirt was not tucked inside his pants. 

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Steven's complete set music albums.

credit photo to @Torrie_恩 6月12日 23:16

note: I actually have 13 of them though unfortunately only 4 are original copies.

ETA: 1995 cd reissued; cd cover/content scans;

weibo 2013-11-12 2014 music album - planning stage

source
11月12日 15:47 2014 production of new CHERISH II album is about to commence, looking forward to good melody, good lyrics and good music! Fellow comrades-in arms, are you ready? P.S. Welcome all interested professional or amateur musicians to submit their works and contact information via the company email address posted on this weibo. Thank you!

Steven's shout-out is published in today's Singpao
Steven's company (小馬工作室/出色堂) email address: truestarhongkong@gmail.com

TN: Good luck to Steven's 2014 album.

The many versions of "Lucky t o have met you"

Steven Ma  - 幸運就是遇到你 (Lucky to have met you)


周華健 Wakin Chau - 花心 "The Flowery Heart"




Original Japanese version: すべての人の心に花を "Hana"/ 喜納昌吉
music & lyrics: 喜納昌吉 Shoukichi Kina
vocal: 喜納友子 Tomoko Kina (composer's wife)
2nd Album "BLOOD LINE", 1980
Written as an Okinawa flavor
source

ETA: variousl versions of this songs (Chinese article)

Japanese lyrics: Hana 花

Where are rivers flowing to?
(And, where are people also headed for?)
(By the time when those flows reach somewhere,)
(I want them bloom as flowers and as flowers.)
(Cry as you like, and laugh as you like.)
(Some day, and someday,)
(let us bloom flowers.)
(Where are tears flowing to?)
(And, where is love also headed for?)
(I want to welcome those flows)
(in my house, as flowers, and as flowers.)
(Cry, and laugh as you like.)
(Some day, and someday,)
(let us bloom flowers.)
(Flowers can also laugh as flowers.)
(People also teared as persons.)
(This is the song of nature.)
(Let us bloom flowers in our heart, and in our heart.)
(Cry, and laugh)
(as long as you like.)
(Let us catch flowers.)
(Cry, and laugh)
(Some day, and someday,)
(let us bloom flowers.)

Steven's 1995 music album reissued

Steven's 1995 album 濃情新曲+精選  (Steven Ma's New + Best Selections) has been reissued as part of Warner+EMI Golden Reissue Series.

Expected release date: September 17, 2013.

Cd can be preordered on yesasia.com (discounted price US$9.99 +shipping)
or HK hvm.com (standard price US$12.18+shipping or HK$95 +shipping)

Yesasia blurb: Per popular demand on its Golden Reissue Series, Warner Music has reissued 5 more new "Gold Discs" with new repackaging and special offer. Quality guarantee! Limited quantities while supplies last.

Incidentally, this is one of Steven's albums that I don't have, so some songs I've never heard or if I did I've not recollection of it.


01. 共同進退 (mv youtube)
02. 每一個今天
03. 無情雨 (cd only no mv) (music + lyrics by Steven)
04. 一朵朵春蕾
05. 陪你過開心一天
06. 幸運就是遇到你 (mv1 youtube, mv2)
07. 遙遠的心 (mv youtube)
08. 夜長夢多 (mv youtube)
09. 同相擁醉鄉裹
10. 只因愛你才傷心
11. 這刻向你衝 (mv + dance youtube)
12. 不再悲觀 (mv youtube)
13. 情人的小說 (mv youtube)
14. 不知這是愛
15. 回憶 (mv youtube)

Songs

1993 dec 1 1st Album 一生忘不了

Title: 1995 共同进退xiami link
Mandarin by music composer, 郭峰 on youtube



Title: 傻

Steven's songs vs originals vs other version comparison

reposted from 小白真二@ sm baidu
Baidu thread of Steven's songs (Cantonese) vs originals or their Mandarin counterparts. 
The song playlist in Xiami cache . 


When possible I've changed slinks to youtube site for easier access to overseas netizens.
Note: I've not listened to all of the songs yet.

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Steven《梦里的最爱》tudou
Japanese original: 伝わりますか -- ASKA  tudou
Mandarin version: 费玉清《你是我永远的乡愁》 youtube

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Steven 《从前的情人》xiami
Japanese original: 1969の片想い -- 稲垣润一 xiami

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Steven 《月满幻象》xiami
Japanese original : 黄砂に吹かれて中岛美雪 youku

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Steven Mandarin《我也曾醉过》马浚伟 xiami
Japanese original : 待ち合わせの交差点-- 长渕刚 youku
Cantonese 《交叉点》夏韶声 youtube

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Steven 《不再悲观》 youtube
original Mandarin Zhang Yu (张宇)  《情有独钟》youtube

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Steven 《情人的小说 》 ku6.com ; youtube
Original Mandarin  Lui Fong ( 吕方)《请你试着爱我》 youtube

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Steven《回忆》youtube
Japanese original 远くで见つめているよ -- 因幡晃 (no upload)

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Steven 《幸运就是遇到你》Lucky to have met you youtube
Japanese original 夏川りみ 花 youtube 
Emil Zhou Mandarin 花心 youtube

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Steven 《遙遠的心》 youtube
Japanese original  My Home Sweet Town youtube

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Steven 《共同进退》xiami
Mandarin Kwok Fung 郭峰 《不要说走就走》youtube
Mandarin 蘇芮 《不要说走就走》youtube

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Songs composed and written by Steven

Check out the list of songs composed and written by Steven in his profile link 

SONGS AND/OR LYRICS COMPOSITION
1993【反了面】 --- Lyrics
1994【相拥醉乡里】--- Lyrics
1994 【傳説勇者】 themesong 《勇者無敵》Lyrics audio; video
1995 【新鐵金剛】---Music & Lyrics audio
1995-2-01 【无情雨】--- Music & Lyrics audio live singing
1996【还好能遇见你】---Music
1996【为爱辛苦为情忙】--Music
1996【打动你的心】---Music
1997【情系这一生】---Music
1997-4-01【谁愿伴我】---Music & Lyrics TVB 南极追踪 program themesong) audio
2002【糟蹋】---Co-lyricist with 謝佩珊mv   
2008 【小故事】---Lyrics by Steven Ma
credit: link


11th album 切勿自闭,糟蹋自己 糟蹋
5th album: Honey (蜜糖) 谁愿伴我  or sm baidu music
3rd album 浓情 (新曲+精选) 无情雨 or in sm baidu music

SM baidu music cache page

completed 4/26 4/13/2013 Steven promoting album on DBC

2013/04/13 DBC (Digital Broadcasting Corporation) radio program  [大家「真」風騷]
Steven's portion starts at 6:00 @ part 5 into part 6th of the program.

Program archive - only 18 days left to listen link 
Fb link - all time happy happy   Go click on the 'like' buttons.

This is a much more enjoyable program to listen to than Wong Hei et al's program so I'm going to paraphrase this post first rather than Wong Hei's.

- hosts: Spencer Leung (梁思浩), 陳彥行、Jacqueline Chong (莊思敏), Ben張啟樂

Main host Spencer opens the show introducing himself and his co-hosts. Ms. Chan says cryptically that actually she and Xiao Ma Ge (Steven) have had a past relationship.

salient points
Talk about why he turned from singer to actor.  He was planning to quit and had even called up his ex-employee to get back his job.  And then Catherine and Tim Gor called him to audition for DOMD1998

- talk about how Catherine Tsang made him audition for Domd1998. There were many people auditioning for the role including Benny Chan. They all took turns auditioning for Emperor Hong Hei and Wai siu bo.

- What? Even tried for Wai Siu Bo,  come one, no way ba.  At the time, Steven felt he wouldn't be able to do it (cos' he was so green then) but now of course no problem.  When he looked at the playback, so cringe-worthy, so no way would he be picked.

 - To his dismay soon after his audition Tsang called him up to tell him that Tim Gor had picked him for the role. He came up with all kinds of excuses to get out of it but Catherine was someone you can get pass once her mind is made up, so with much trepidation he, like a good boy, called in for work. And to make it worse it was his first ancient tv series and just his luck a Qing dynasty at that. So the makeover crew not only shaved his head bald but also shaved off much of his eyebrows. lol! And voila, came up with a completely different eyebrow shape that he thought made him look so weird. And the make up artist worked on his whole face like making his already tall nose to look taller. Apparently, it was quite a difficult transition for Steven to go from a singer to a Qing dynasty actor.  However, Catherine and Tim gor were right, that series was the starting point of his acting career, and onto being tvb first line actor.

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Talk on indebtedness and gratitude
Spencer: But what I want to say is that based on my knowing them all these years, you were right to trust them. I've said this many times already, if one day just these three words, Tsang lai Zan, asks me to return to tvb to shoot a series, I will return, free of charge.

female voice: Zan jie, you remember that. Don't pay Spencer.

Spencer: Because she is yan si (benefactor) a human debt owe must be paid. So sentiment can't be priced. So both Catherine and Tim gor have this sentiment to call on me to do things for them.  Just shoot one series only free of charge.

Steven: Right now I'm negotiating the contract with Catherine (spencer interrupts: You can trust her) Well, what I want to say is to tell her is that Spencer won't ask for payment.

Spencer: She knows.

Steven:  Oh, really?

Spencer: I've said many times.

female: should let him shoot a 100 over episode show

Steven: This is truth -- Catherine, Tim gor, and another one -- Uncle Choi to me are my tvb benefactor -- the biggest being Catherine.  also need to thank tvb for developing me.

Spencer: So when you see Catherine, tell her that I'll shoot a series for free -- just one. The most difficult debt to repay is yan ching zai -- individual indebtedness, and if you can repay, then you'll do it.

4/24/2013 TV ET report on Steven's interview with Nancy Sit.

4/24/2013 Steven's interview with Nancy Sit on her metroInfo fm 99.7 開心家天 radio program
马浚伟电台接受专访尽诉心情
source: news 粤夜粤娱乐

source: TV ET news [2013/04/24]娛樂新聞報導

pix source: 龍劍飛 4/23 19:49
search steven ma on yue yu site

circles 2013-4-23 Steven from singer to actor back to partial singer

Circles host 梁泰來 chats with  Steven on his journey from singer to actor to partial singer now.
Talks about his early singing career, how he first entered TVB as a contract actor, why he terminated his tvb management contract, and why he agrees to shoot a tvb series in May whether as series contract or just sign contract for just that May series.  And what's his future plan.

crhk 《起來！大龍鳳！》 4/22/2013

商業電台 《起來！大龍鳳！》
過三關 送Air Time嘉賓︰馬浚偉 22.04.20130
12: 30 am -- 1:30 am
hosts: Wong Hei,  Ho Gei Yau (何基佑) Ho Fei Fung (何飛鳳)

Questions on bus lines, Jordan, Cho Cho, noodle flour, GPS, typhoon sirens, one country 2 systems, hair, USB,

Among the 5 new songs Steven wrote: a friendship song (心照), a love song, and a song for his mother. Listening to 心照, I did wonder if Steven wrong a song for Vivian, so happy for her he did.

Intro: This is a CRHK (Commercial Radio HK) program,  "起來！大龍鳳！" hosted by Wong Hei and his co-hosts 杜光庭Daryl Doo and 何飛鳳 .  The segment from 12:30 am to 1:30 am that Steven was a guest is called "Overcome 3 Obstacles, award air-time" (過三關 送 Air Time).  The participants must get over 4 points to be awarded the remaining airtime of the hour, otherwise, they can still attempt to get the airtime by exposing a hitherto unknown to the public an explosive fact of themselves.

Steven picks a host for a question
- He rolls a dice for a question,
- If rolls a 6 he can have one of the other 2 hosts to help him.
- If rolls another 6, he can bypass the question and automatically awarded a point, regardless.
- If he accumulates 5 points and over after overcoming 3 obstacles of 9 questions in all, he gets the remaining hour for his   own use.
- If the total score is below 5 points, his song is banned from airing.
- To get a second chance to have his song aired in the remaining hour, he can expose a hitherto unrevealed fact of himself that the 3 hosts considered as explosive.

Honestly, the game makes the guest seems desperate. Steven didn't do too well in the beginning, honestly I was a bit apprehensive for him, he would totally lose face had he not gotten above 4 pts.

tbc

Updated 4-22-2013 circles: 2013-4-22 Music album

How Steven's HiFi quality music come about?
He new songs are all composed recently just for the album, starting end of last year.

Opening intro: After a 10-year absence Steven returns this year to the music world to plug his new song, An Understanding.  A lapse of 10 years, Steven still persists with his love of music, in June he will release a new music album of hi fi quality.  Among the songs Steven composed and wrote five of them, so just how passionate Steven is for music, we all understand.  What make Lok Lok (hostess) curious is why made Steven decide to invest in a hi fi quality (fa siu dip)?  Let's invite Steven who put in his all into this album after a 10-year absence.

S: At first did not think to make a hi fi album, just a normal album of new songs.  But my album supervisor, Acky (?), he himself is into hi fi album, moreover, his recording studio is also adequately equipped to make one, and he himself also designs superior music.  He has experience and credential to enable me to produce an album of this superior (hi fi) standard. When the idea was proposed to the investors, they were willing to budget for it.  So that how the totally new hi fi album came about.

H: Understand that 5 of the songs in the album are composed by you. 

S: Yes, quite tough.

H: So, are some of them already composed prior to this or are they all newly composed just for this album?

S: They are all newly composed for this album.  The preparation started end of last year.

H: Wow! That's quick

S: Can be considered quick.  The album supervisor puts in most of his time producing this album, and me too. Everyday, we start at 6 pm to begin the recording.  In actuality, can't start the recording at 6 pm right away.  He has to (bo?) mike, choose the mike, and pick the mike for what I use.  It is not until around 8 pm that we can go into the studio to do the recording.  The pre-recording run-thru is like attending a class.

H: Because of high standard?

S: That, and also because I knew nothing about hi fi recording, so he had to explain details to me, not unlike attending a class.  So the actual recording usually starts around 9 pm and lasted into the night around 3-4 am everyday.  This way we can fully utilize our time.

H: After the album is out, can also publish a book on how to produce a hi-fi superior quality music album.

S: That is up to the supervisor.  For me, I can only take care of composing and writing the songs, and my own singing.  I'm grateful that the supervisor is satisfied with my vocal.  That the mike used can fully display my full vocal.  He said that all my singing broke two of his mikes.  If the song is more emotional I might have to sing a bit more aggressively, so he had to adjust the mike to accommodate the loudness.  And have to use different for different style of singing.  The process was very enjoyable.

H: The plugged song is 心照 (An Understanding) , and it is also composed and written by you? And you have a pseudonym as Yi Ngau. (2 Buffaloes). Why?

S. My friends also asked me the same question - Who is this 2 Buffaloes? I said you know him well. Who? Me?  Actually I first took on this name when I shot A Journey Called Life - just to be more low-key because it had been a long time since I wrote lyrics.  

H: Any meaning to it?

S: There is meaning to it. In mainland 'two' ( 二; er) means slightly 'dim' as in dimwitted, not as a derogative but more of an offhanded remark , and ngau (牛, niu) means 'great', 'terrific', 'amazing' etc.  Together 2 buffaloes -- amazing idiot.

H: Thank you, Steven Ma.  Best wishes.

4/17/2013 RTHK - Steven as 「星星會客室」guest

4/17/2013
Audio above if Part 1 and part 2 of Steven's segments combined
Thoroughly enjoyed listening to segment at 29:11 where si-na & popo (grandmas)  call in to gush over Steven.

credit edited audio to 雪韵飘寒 @sm baidu
Source:  RTHK 5th channel 香江暖流 「星星會客室」(Stars Talk) segment.
The whole program lasted 3 hours but Steven only appeared in the last one hour, per above audio. If accessing rthk website, skip the 1st hour, (slide the cursor to the end of 1st hr, the 2nd hr will automatically come on - the program is 3 hours in total w/ news) Steven's segment comes on at 29:49 of the 2nd hour. It continues after the report of weather and other news at 7:00 at the 3rd hour of the program and ends at 12:30 pm.

"心照" promo gift pack

sm's manager @Sandy劉玉儀:  2013-04-17 20:00: This is "An Understanding"  (心照) promo gift pack  -- a folder + cd single; practical and thoughtful @馬浚偉

Steven 2013-04-17 22:07 Must thank Micky and her husband, Mr. Chan for the idea and design, thank you!

Words on cover - An Understanding: Music of love and faith.

weibo avatar 2013-4-17

To browse Steven's avatar album goto link 
Click choice to choose view mode: 缩略图浏览thumbnail;  列表模式tiles;  阅读模式big icons;  幻灯浏览slideshow

To maximum eye candy pleasure click big icon view

another day of promoting new song

April 15 2013 - MetroInfo  FM 99.7 (Metro Radio subsidiary)

credit as labeled. torrie

Updated 4/26/2013: Steven plugging his new song in various radio stations to promote his new

Haiz! Don't understand why Steven and his HK manager are so low key in informing fans and supporters of his air time on various radio stations to promote his new song.  Unless one is a paid member, (besides Made in HK) the stations' websites don't allow listening to past programs, let alone dl them, at least I can't.

4/24/2013 metroInfo fm 99.7 開心家天

crhk circles 梁泰來 4/23/2013

--appearances on other radio stations --

Steven plugs new song on RTHK

Radio TV HK (RTHK) 2nd channel -- "Made in Hong Kong" segment starting @ 6:20 (past all that weather news etc) Steven as special guest to plug his new song “心照”. sm baidu link; tudou link 
Can't dl audio with realplayer

hosts: Alex Lee (李志剛), 區文詩Angela 洪崎峻超B

Salient points:

UPDATED 4/22/2013: Steven's new titled song for his new album

credit Sandy lau @ weibo; youku

TrueStarHongKong@youtube

Steven's demo title song "心照 " for his new album to be plugged on various radio stations on April 11 2013  Melody and lyrics all done by Steven himself.

Steven's singing for all you people out there: his friends and fans. The instrumental is so HD.
--lyrics-- more--