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半途出家音樂人──張繼聰
The Special and New Singer-Songwriter──Louis Cheung

像故事一樣
Louis(張繼聰)，一個畢業于演藝學院戲劇系的大男孩。在二十一歲時，因為失戀的沖擊，以音樂抒發內心的郁悶，因而發現音樂很能表達人的情感，并且喜歡了音樂，繼而自學結他，創作音樂。在他就讀演藝學院的最后一年，借著替師姐演唱的機會，認識了現時的經理人Joannes(林健華)。就像一個巧合的故事，在他們第一次見面那天，Joannes問他有沒有創作音樂，于是Louis便把自己所創作、隨身攜帶的兩張Demo給Joannes聆聽，怎料Joannes聽后非常欣賞，于是他便簽下Louis作為其音樂制作公司旗下的唱作人，Louis的音樂路由是展開。

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Louis has finished his study at the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts with a BA degree in Drama. He was brokenhearted with his girlfriend departing from him when he was 21 years old. He soon found that music is a best way to express personal feeling. Henceforth, he learned guitar by himself in order to write songs to express his feeling. In the last year in APA, he met Joannes Lam on one occasion helping his schoolmate. At the meeting with Louis, Joannes found that Louis has a great potential in music production after listening to his two demos. So Joannes invited Louis to join his "10 Music" production company as writer-singer.

在創作初期，Louis在音樂上遇到難題就會請教別人，或是看書尋找答案。為了打好音樂的基礎，畢業后，他跟隨老師學習鋼琴、樂理及流行曲的創作方法。由于本身常聽外語歌，為了多認識本地的音樂，故他一邊學習一邊創作，以了解香港音樂�場的運作，也跟隨Joannes學習音樂制作和�場策略。經過三年多的時間，Louis已創作了不少作品，有些更獲得一線歌手的垂青，包括陳奕迅的《防不勝防》、鄭秀文的《吉卜賽女人》和古巨基的《美雪美雪》等。Louis更于今年六月推出了首張個人創作專輯。

In the early days of writing songs, Louis would ask friends or read books to tackle the problem in music. After graduating from APA, he started to learn piano, music theory and writing method of pop music in order to strengthen his music foundation. Apart from learning, he was also writing songs at the same time for the sake of the operation of Hong Kong Music market. Also he was learning the music production and marketing strategy from Joannes. Three years later, Louis has written a lot of songs, some of them were adopted by some famous pop singers like Eason Chen, Sammi Cheng and Leo Ku, etc. Besides, Louis has released his debut album in June this year.

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