HUBBY SPENT FIVE YEARS IN TAIWAN PURSUING MANDOPOP CAREER
XL spent five years in Taiwan’s Mandopop scene under a Taiwanese label. He even appeared on Mediacorp’s talent show Superband in 2016 and Taiwan’s Super Idol in 2010, where he signed with a prominent producer, touring with Taiwanese artistes like MC Hotdog.
“Just as I was about to release an album, the producer said that the economy was not doing well in Taiwan and suggested I go to China to continue my career instead,” he recalled. “But I was already 31 by then, and China’s music industry was a whole different ball game. Knowing it would take another three to four years at least to make it, I decided to return to Singapore,” he explained.
These days, XL scratches his creative itch by singing Mandopop tunes every Friday at Jyu Lae Bistro, a Taiwanese restaurant in Suntec. When he’s not on stage or at Jo Ju Bang, he’s busy running a media production company, producing videos for popular local YouTubers like Zermatt Neo and Annette Lee.
“If you see the name XL at the end of their videos, it was produced by me!” XL proudly beamed.