Wong's debut album features a musical menagerie
LIKE the Chinese zodiac, there are more than enough animals in Dawn Wong's debut album Marco Lopo to fill a mini-zoo.
They are all part of her songwriting craft and something which she has been doing since young when she would give characters to stuffed toys.
The animals on the 10-track album have human traits and journey through life like us, complete with jobs sometimes. They include stargazing elephants, a shy hedgehog, a city-dwelling rat and a little hummingbird with a zest for life.
"With each tune, I think of a little story," says the former bank executive whose musical journey started when she joined the second season of reality singing show Project Superstar…
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