Ting Fung aka the Chinese rock KING…model of a new generation, his music simply speaks up his mind, his thoughts and his vision of LIFE. True feelings, deep meanings, beautiful concepts can be found in his movie clips (“Candle Light”), read in his lyrics (“Without Me”) and felt in the rhythm (“Not a Rule”).

Nic’s not a common artist. Something special hits you when you hear him singing. It’s like he was in a middle area…between Chinese pop (which is different from American pop) and ROCK. The heaviest he gets, the heaviest my heart pops up.

Modest, honest, Nic is not easy to understand. He is like a book that never ends, full of passion and new discoveries. Maybe this power, this strong sense comes from his ability of dealing with his emotions. This is what I personally admire in him. Nic is not the type of person who would get a depression that easily. So often criticized by the HK Medias, so often put in the wrong category, he still succeeds in ignoring them, proving them wrong, knowing he is RIGHT, knowing that one must be strong enough to achieve an aim, he is convinced that one must NEVER GIVE UP…and THIS is shown in his music (ex: “The Brave Song”). Although he sometimes seems to be in a stuck condition, as the people around him ask for typical hit songs, pop songs (like when he makes songs for other people), Nic still speaks his mind and doesn’t care about what people think of him. It depends on what he wants to achieve. As long as it moves the heart then the music is good.

His influence can be HUGE. His kindness is a precious thing, no wonder he has so many friends, including of course in the HK entertainment (Eason Chan, Edison Chen, Stephen Fung etc etc etc). Nic is open-minded, he is friendly, and he likes to collaborate with different culture people in order to produce a new style of music, a new genre never done before. The best album that shows this team work is definitely Released (2005) (description of different human relationships), where Nic worked with talented artists such as Wu Bai or Mayday. Still my favourite collaboration song is “Today’s Your Birthday”, where the guitar background is simply one of the strongest of all Nic’s songs. As a Japan lover (he studied music there…and I think Japan can offer more to Nic than China because of the more opened music strategies), Ting Fung worked on this song with his close friend Sugizo (famous Japanese guitarist). It can be found in Jade Butterfly (Track 3 - Today Is Ur Birthday), my favourite Nic’s album as it is the one that reflects him the best, where his vocal structure is so powerful.

So many people are important in Nic’s music background, like Carl Wong, Veegay, Eric Kwok, Joseph Hwang etc…. Eric Kwok is definitely the one I admire the most, he composed “Wolf” and I LOVE this one so much, I feel Nic is so much powerful in it, even aggressive…everyone has a wolf inside and it can burst when time of injustice comes.

Still Nic is not stuck in Asian music, on the contrary, he likes the American Metal band Metallica (it gives an idea about what music taste Ting Fung has and what kind of spirit he can adopt), not to mention that he considers Steve Vai and other great western guitarists as his IDOLS: yes, Tse Ting Fung loves GUITARS.

Up till now, Nicholas Tse has something like 80 guitars, a huge collection by a rock star who never claimed himself as a guitarist. His skills need some improvement, but his playing is decent, as he showed them during his greatest concert ever, the Viva Live concert (CD/VCD/DVD released 2001), doing solo after solo and setting the crowd in uproar. Such excitement, such madness and passion in his attitude on stage, Ting Fung made already an enormous achievement.

With his great talent of musician, Nicholas Tse is definitely RISING. All of his albums (with different concepts and ideas, Cantonese or Mandarin, Nic is rarely repetitive) made his fans admire him even more…and he is not over yet.