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Kelvin Avon aka Afreex (born 1975 in Lusaka, Zambia) is a platinum selling music producer, songwriter and mix engineer based in London and Hong Kong, he made his name working on remixes for artists such as P. Diddy, Erykah Badu, Mario, Lumidee, Jamelia and many more. He is currently managed by Stephen Budd Management, [1] Europe's largest producer management company. He spends his time working between London and Hong Kong.
Born in Zambia, but raised in Hong Kong. Kelvin started playing the trumpet from age 6, he really started to show musical promise when he was bought his first drum machine aged 12. Along with a keyboard/sequencer, Kelvin showed an ability to recreate any track he heard. He attended New England Institute of Art in Boston, MA, USA. Graduating in 1997 with a diploma in Recording Arts. He then moved to London, UK in 1998 where he began his musical career, working as a Mastering Engineer for in the London Studio of US-based promotion company, Promo Only.
Emerging from the UK music scene in the late 90s, Kelvin gained his name for his work with artists such as Shola Ama, Amp Fiddler, Jamelia, Cassius Henry, and Kele Le Roc and for creating the award-winning Union Black ('Best Compilation' Urban Music Award) that featured 20+ artists collaborating on one album. His unique sound and style led him to be managed by the renowned management company, Stephen Budd Management.
Months later Kelvin was working on the now multi-platinum debut album from N-Dubz 'Uncle B' and called back again to work on their second successful album ‘Against All Odds' In 2009, Kelvin moved to Hong Kong, where he had once lived as a teenager to expand his scope and merge his influences from the West and the East. He started his company MoFo Music Ltd and within 2 years MoFo became one of the most sought out production companies in the Greater China region producing the biggest names in Chinese Pop music such as Joey Yung (容祖兒), Van Ness Wu (吳建豪), Sandy Lam (林憶蓮), Nicholas Tse (謝霆鋒), Eason Chan (陳奕迅), and many more.
By 2016 MoFo Music had produced over 20 Number 1 hits across the region and over 8 Top Ten Albums. In 2014, MoFo expanded into management by signing their first artist Tien. In Tien, Kelvin saw the future of China Popstars, the first bi-lingual international star to come out of Greater China and to sell and perform across both markets. Tien exploded on the scene with her performances on China's Music Show ‘Singer’ coming second only to Jessie J in her first performance. Tien quickly became one of the most exciting new artists winning 'Best New Artist' (Guang`dong Radio & TV Awards) and accumulating 1.2 million fans within 3 months on Weibo. Her latest single released in November 2018 for the Hollywood (STX/Hua Yi) movie ‘Adrift’ went to number 9 on the QQ Music Chart.
In an industry that is still relatively unfamiliar to outsiders, Kelvin has become a very unique fixture in the scene, as one of the first Western Producers to 'break' the China Music scene. Having success where many labels have still not managed to break their new artists.
Building on this success, in October 2018 MoFo Music partnered with Metronumm Music from the US, the publishing company of long-term songwriting collaborator Curtis Richardson (Rihanna, J-Lo, Girls Generation, David Guetta, SHINee). MoFo and Metronumm now have one of the most exciting and diverse catalog of songs in the region as well as bringing through many new writers and producers. As a David in a land of Goliaths, Kelvin and his company MoFo Music are creating waves as trailblazers in the Greater China Music scene, breaking down musical and cultural boundaries. With many more exciting projects set for 2019, MoFo Music is set to become the first International powerhouse Music Production/Artist Management company in the Greater China region.
Samuel "Sammo" Hung Kam-bo is a Hong Kong actor, martial artist, film producer and director, known for his work in martial arts films, Hong Kong action cinema, and as a fight choreographer for other actors such as Jackie Chan.
Leslie Cheung Kwok-wing, born Cheung Fat-chung, was a Hong Kong singer and actor. One of the most influential cultural icons in the Chinese world, Cheung was known for his debonair demeanor, flamboyant screen characters, and avant-garde, androgynous stage presence. Throughout his 26-year career, he released over 40 music albums and acted in 56 films.
Cantopop is a genre of pop music sung in Cantonese. Cantopop is also used to refer to the cultural context of its production and consumption. The genre began in the 1970s and became associated with Hong Kong popular music from the middle of the decade. Cantopop then reached its height of popularity in the 1980s and 1990s before slowly declining in the 2000s and shrinking in the 2010s. The term "Cantopop" itself was coined in 1978 after "Cantorock", a term first used in 1974. In the 1980s, Cantopop reached its highest glory with fanbase and concerts all over the world, especially in Macau, Mainland China, Taiwan, Singapore, Malaysia, South Korea, and Japan. This was even more obvious with the influx of songs from Hong Kong movies during the time.
Fo Tan is an area of Sha Tin District, New Territories, Hong Kong. It was developed as a light industrial area, but this activity has declined markedly in recent years. There are residential areas to the east, alongside the MTR line, and in the foothills to the west.
Michael Tien Puk-sun is a Hong Kong politician, businessman and member of the Legislative Council for New Territories North West. He is the founder and chairman of the G2000 and U2 Clothing retail chains and former chairman of the Kowloon-Canton Railway Corporation (KCRC). He was formerly a member of the Liberal Party, which was led by his elder brother, James Tien, and a member of the New People's Party.
Hacken Lee Hak Kan (Chinese: 李克勤; Cantonese Yale: Lei5 Hak1kan4; pinyin: Lǐ Kèqín, is a Hong Kong singer, television host and actor, active since the 1980s. In 2013, Lee's song "House of Cards" swept multiple awards in many Hong Kong award ceremonies, including "World's Best Song" and "Broadcasting Index" in Metro's Awards. As of 2013, he has reached 14 times in receiving the "Outstanding Pop Singer Award" at RTHK's "Top Ten Chinese Gold Songs Awards" and has established an irreplaceable status in the music industry of Hong Kong and Asia.
Eason Chan Yick Shun is a Hong Kong singer and actor. He is one of the most popular and influential singers in both Cantopop and Mandopop. Besides holding the record for winning the "Ultimate Male Singer – Gold" award and "My Favorite Male Singer" award at the "Ultimate Song Chart Awards Presentation" in HK, he is also holding the record for being nominated for and winning prestigious Golden Melody Awards "Best Male Mandarin Singer" in Taiwan. Chan was ranked sixth in the 2013 Forbes China Celebrity Top 100 List.
Alan Tam Wing-lun is a Hong Kong singer and actor. He played a major role in developing the Cantopop scene in the 1980s as he was known for singing romantic ballads with modern arrangements. From 1983 to 1987, Alan Tam received numerous music awards and won Most Popular Male Artist and IFPI Award for successive four years, which made him the most famous superstar singer of Hong Kong in 1980s. In early 1988, he publicly quit all pop music award ceremonies and put most efforts in searching new direction for Cantopop music.
Mandopop or Mandapop refers to Mandarin popular music. The genre has its origin in the jazz-influenced popular music of 1930s Shanghai known as Shidaiqu; later influences came from Japanese enka, Hong Kong's Cantopop, Taiwan's Hokkien pop, and in particular the Campus Song folk movement of the 1970s. 'Mandopop' may be used as a general term to describe popular songs performed in Mandarin. Though Mandopop predates Cantopop, the English term was coined around 1980 after "Cantopop" became a popular term for describing popular songs in Cantonese. "Mandopop" was used to describe Mandarin-language popular songs of that time, some of which were versions of Cantopop songs sung by the same singers with different lyrics to suit the different rhyme and tonal patterns of Mandarin.
Sandy Lam, is a Hong Kong singer, actress and producer. She rose to fame in the 1980s, before expanding her fan base significantly in Asia, releasing more than 30 stylistically diverse albums in Cantonese, Mandarin, English and Japanese.
Justin Lo Ting Wei, known professionally by his stage name Tse Tien, is a Hong Kong American singer-songwriter, actor and record producer working in Hong Kong.
Michael Wong Kong Leong, also known as Guang Liang, is a Malaysian singer and composer who has sung and written many love-themed ballads and love songs, many of which have high popularity. He is popularly known in the Mandopop scene as the "Prince of Love Songs" (情歌王子).
Hong Kong English pop is a genre of music consisting of English-language songs that are made, performed and popularised in Hong Kong. It is known as simply English pop by Hong Kongers. The height of the English pop era in Hong Kong was from the 1950s to mid-1970s.
"The Moon Represents My Heart" is a song originally recorded by Taiwanese singer Chen Fen-lan for her album Dreamland, which was released through Li Ge Records in May 1973. It was then re-recorded by fellow Taiwanese recording artist Liu Guan-lin in November 1973. The song was eventually made famous throughout the Sinophone world by Taiwanese singer Teresa Teng in 1977.
Jun Kung is a drummer, singer-songwriter, producer, actor and multi-instrumentalist.
Noughts and Exes was a Hong Kong-based six-piece indie folk rock band formed by singer and guitarist Joshua Wong that also included Gideon So, Alex Bedwell, Winnie "Wizza" Lau, Winnie "Bago" Lau, and Alix Farquhar. The group released three studio albums between 2007 and 2015, two of which were mixed by double-platinum producer Kelvin Avon.
Stephen Budd is a British music industry executive based in London. He is a director of artist and producer management company Stephen Budd Music Ltd, the OneFest Festival, the Africa Express project and is the co-founder of the NH7 Weekender festivals in India. He is a recognised TV commentator on music industry issues, regularly appearing on a variety of British TV news shows. In June 2017 he completed his 3-year term as co-chairman of the MMF. He is a co-executive producer of Amnesty International and Sofar Sounds' ‘Give A Home’ global concert series. His current management roster includes the artists Dry The River and Nubiyan Twist, along with the record producers Rob Ellis, Tore Johansson, Valgeir Sigurdsson, Nick Zinner, Mike Hedges, and Arthur Verocai.
Andrew Tuason is a Hong Kong musician, record producer, composer, songwriter, arranger, conductor and musical director. He has been a producer and musical director for notable artists including Jacky Cheung, Andy Lau, Jackie Chan, Alan Tam and Coco Lee.
Tien Chong is a Hong Kong singer-songwriter who made her debut in 2017. She was one of the seven first-round competitors in Singer 2018 where she was eliminated on week five.Tien is a contralto.
Percy Phang (彭學斌) is a Malaysian musician, songwriter, producer in the Chinese music industry.
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