This is something different for the guitar-centric crowd that visits this blog – songs from Asian divas.

For those who don’t understand Mandarin, fret not (no pun intended) – good music is good music. Music from the heart is what matters, music sung from the depths of the soul, scraping the barrel of the soul. Heartbreak, despair, nostalgia, yearning, longing, the sweetness of love, the bittersweetness of remembering love lost – all are universal experiences regardless of language, time and culture. Heartbreak is heartbreak. Jewish heartbreak, Russian heartbreak, American heartbreak, Chinese heartbreak – they are all the same pain. And pain is pain. Just listen with your heart.

I’ll start with Poon Sow Keng who was born in Macau and raised in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia and achieved early fame from discs cut in Singapore.

Stay tuned for more torch singers and their torch ballads to haunt your soul.

Lover’s Tears

“A lover’s tears are the most precious thing, and that is why I cry after you forsook me”

I Want To Sing For You