The Journey of Finding Leo (Leon Lai, A-mei)

The first time I heard Leon Lai's "Before the Breeze (After Parting)," a few places in his enunciation suddenly reminded me of Nicholas Tse. I shared this discovery with AI. We went from enunciation to the texture of a voice, and I learned that thickness gives confession its weight, softness makes a voice feel close, and huskiness brings out a touch of weariness.

It is in conversations like this, again and again, that I think about myself. Slowly, feelings I could sense, things I could hear but had never put precisely into words, have been finding their words one by one.

And speaking of a voice's thickness and its sense of confession, one cannot leave out A-mei (Zhang Huimei). Even when some of her notes are sung very softly, we can still feel their weight. I suddenly realized that I, too, am learning how to speak with a lighter touch that still carries weight.

So the journey of finding Leo has been going on all along.

Leo's Notebook