Being Faye Wong
Being Faye Wong
Full concert stage with about 10,000 people at HK stadium. It was a nice white wrap-around stage with the band in the middle, and a large monitor screen hanging from the domed ceiling. A sound tech handed me a mic, and I stepped out into the glaring lights.
But I was Faye Wong, meaning I was the top female Chinese singer, and my mic wasn't on. "Can you hear me?" I asked the crowd in Japanese for some unknown reason. "If you can hear me, show me one finger, if not, show me four!" Since no one could hear me, and if they could, they wouldn't understand Japanese, so I was wondering why I even asked that question. Then I pointed to the mixing console and gave him a penetrating I-am-a-top-female-superstar-and-you-better-get-this-damned-thing-working-now-asshole look, and eventually some sound came on. The band immediately started our first number, but since I was not really Faye Wong, I didn't know the song, and I was curious if I could even sing, let alone speak in Chinese. "Thanks for coming tonight!" I beamed at the crowd in perfect Faye Wong Beijing Chinese. "You all mean so much to me. Tonight will be something special...I promise!"
Then I just started singing in her beautiful clear perfect voice, making up a melody to a song I didn't know. And I sang in English, which completely shocked the audience, and freaked out the band, who had no idea what to expect, so I kept making up lyrics, and a new melody, and kept going because I could. I was Faye Wong. This was my dream, and I was making some awesome music in front of 10,000 people.
I've never figured out whether it's pronounced "Moe's (like owned by one of three stooges) or Moss (like that guy out of Bonanza), but the one down the hill from me is open until 2am most days, which means that if I get out of the club early enough, I can catch the best burger in town, the muo si la bao or the Spicy Mos Burger. They have lots of jalapenos and 
