Videos of Hacken at RTHK: in progress (more being uploaded!)
(above) opening song sung by hacken, andy, leo and eason
(above) hacken wins a gold award for 'tin sui wai sing'!
(above) hacken and joey win highest selling artist!! and sing their duet
(above) by request - montage of hacken scenes from the entire ceremony
(l: hacken's acceptance speech for "City Surrounded by the Sky and Water", r: as one of the 10 'most outstanding popular artist')
Sina coverage:
Eason, Hacken and Andy Lau received three awards each. Although Eason lost the "Media Award", he received the "Most Outstanding Male Artist" award. Hacken, on the other hand, received the "Highest Selling Male Artist Award".
(l: hacken sings "Tin Sui Wai Sing"; r: the two highest selling artists Joey and Hacken sing their duet)
January 28, 2007 - Sina and rthk.org.hk
Popular TVB talent show "Minutes to Fame" created a following after its release and TVB have confirmed the show will return in March, with even better prizes. TVB has also announced the show will travel to different places. The hosts are confirmed to be Miriam Yeung and either Hacken Lee or Joey Leung. Producer Chin Kwok Wai has confirmed that "Minutes to Fame" will be returning at the end of March and Hacken and Joey have been in negotiations, but details have not yet been confirmed with their company.
January 27, 2007 - http://the-sun.on.cc/channels/ent/20070127/
TVB grand production, entitled "The Drive of Life", will be aired across South East Asia on 1st of July. Hacken Lee has been confirmed to be singing the themesong, which will be written by prolific composer Joseph Koo.
January 26, 2007 - The Sun Newspaper HK
Last night Hacken, Yumiko, Alex Fong, Krusty and others were recording for a JSG show where Hacken's "Princess Prince" was the most popular song for the week. When asked if he was better after being forced to lip sync due to illness last week, Hacken replied that due to the filming of Beautiful Cooking he has been unable to rest properly and is still ill, but his voice is better and he was able to sing live at JSG.
Hoping to be normal by Saturday
Hacken said: "Although tonight I'm still not at my best, it's still better than last week, which sounded like an old cow with Parkinsons (note: I think that's the right translation..!), and was horrible to listen to! I hope this Saturday in the RTHK awards, the normal Hacken returns!"
Reporters then asked about allegations that in the filming of Beautiful Cooking, Charmaine worse a short skirt to flirt with him, Hacken clearly stated: "I am a family man now! Readers know that they can't believe everything they read. During the filming, I felt Charmaine was a very professional and punctual actress. The short skirt was a costume for the movie, and everything that the reports 'suggested' were false, I totally did not feel like she was flirting!". Reporters persisted and asked if he needed to explain this to Emily (his wife), to which he replied: "No one believes the reports, so I don't need to explain things like this to her."
Yumiko's 'desperate woman' role
Yumiko's response to the flirting Charmaine rumors were that if anything, Charmaine would not be flirting with Hacken and Yumiko would be! "My character in the movie is a desperate woman called May: she loves money, beauty, and even wears a blonde wig! This is my first New Years movie and it's also my first time playing someone this desperate!" After participating in this movie, singer Yumiko has actually requested her company to find her more acting roles, and her company has complied, finding her work for 5 months filming.
January 26, 2007 - http://www.takungpao.com.hk/news/07/01/26/UL-683834.htm.
http://the-sun.on.cc/channels/ent/20070126/
Hacken Lee performing at MCI 2007 - he sang three songs in total
(1) heart debt (originally by anita mui) (心債 - 梅艷芳原唱)
(2) who could change (originally by alan tam) (誰可改變 - 譚詠麟原唱)
(3) princess prince (公主太子)
Picture: Hacken Lee and Charmaine Sheh enter the 2007 MCI red carpet
At last night's Miss Chinese International finals, guest performer Hacken Lee appeared suffering from a heavy flu. As he was sick, his singing capabilities were reduced to 60%, and of the three songs he was to sing, he could only do two live, having to lip sync the difficult-to-sing "Princess Prince". He expressed his regret over this.
Sick because of filming
Hacken stated: "Last night when I arrived at Qingyuan I had lost my voice totally as well, and before that I had rung the producer to say that if I did not recover my voice, my songs would be cut in half. (Were you worried about your performance standard?) Of course! So I saw the doctor as well as a qigong doctor, and brought chinese medicines to drink, but with the flu the most important thing is to rest. I will be returning to HK straight after this show."Hacken believes that he is very sick because of the hard work involved in his latest movie, <
When talking about this year's MCI contest, Hacken says that he has met them all before and hopes that HK representative Aimee Chan will make it into the top three to win some acclaim for HK, but beacuse the contest is not being held in HK, this makes it more difficult. As his wife Emily Lo was the runner-up in the 1993 contest, Hacken was asked if he had talked about this year's contest with her. He replied that nowadays the contest is very different, it used to be very strict and followed protocol, but lately the contests have thrown in a lot of "gimmicks". He also said that when Emily participated, she had the advantage of the contest being held in HK.
January 12, 2007
http://www.takungpao.com.hk/news/07/01/21/UL-681517.htm
A new Chinese New Year movie 
January 19, 2007
http://www.tungstar.com/hotspot_bag.do?bagId=35080&cateId=0
Hacken Lee commented that at the TVB JSG awards ceremony, the atmosphere was very relaxed, with MC Eric Tsang saying many interesting comments, but the best moment of the whole show was when general manager of TVB Stephen Chan told Eric to shake hands with singer Joey Yung (Eric had previously made hurtful comments towards Joey).
As to the loss of the best male singer award, Hacken conceded he was a bit disappointed, and said all he could do was hope for a better result next year. However, he was happy for the winner Eason Chan, who is from the same record company as him. Hacken said: "Each year the best person in the entertainment industry will always be Andy Lau, and those who lose in their plans are the record companies, not the singers. I hope that everybody can fight for the awards with not what they say, but with the amount of work they put in and the results they get."
As to losing the award to Eason, Hacken replied: "This year Eason has really done very well. Of course I am a bit disappointed, but the music industry is about long-term results, so I hope 2007 I can do even better. Once again, Hacken reiterated that he felt winning awards should be each singer's individual capabilities, and hoped singer's would not fight for awards through a war of words.
January 15, 2007 - Mingpao
