Reviews: CD

City Love

Young Chinese model-cum-singer Yuan Jiale has released his first album City Love. The 10 new songs on the album show of a surprising variety of sound. Yuan almost sounds as good as he looks. The young star jumps from R&B to electric dance music and throws in pop tunes and hip-hop beats. Yuan hasn't spared any expensive to create a fresh sound for his growing army of fans. The production team includes first-line producers in Asia, such as Lin Zhemin, Alext Y. Sok, Tan Yizhe and Hong Dian.

The good-looking youngster, born in Changsha of Central China's Hunan Province, has been signed by Happy Asian Culture Development Co.

Yuan was originally a model and sang songs at a variety of gala shows, such as those held by the Ministry of Culture, CCTV and Hong Kong's TVB.

Ye Jun

(China Daily 02/16/2007 page20)