AFTER being accused of lying, Hong Kong actress Maria Cordero (pic) has produced proof that the late musician Wong Ka Kui had written a song for her, reported Sin Chew Daily.
Cordero, who was accused by Wong Ka Keung of riding on the coattails of his late brother, revealed to the public a demo tape to prove that Ka Kui had recorded for her.
“During a promotional event 20 years ago, he mentioned it and said the cassette tape had the words ‘Fat Mama’ on it.
“It has been so long. If this wasn’t true, how could I have remembered it so clearly?” she said.
Fat Mama is Cordero’s nickname.
Cordero uploaded a photo of the cassette tape on Facebook which had Fat Mama on one of the demo tracks.
It was reported earlier that Cordero had recorded Ka Kui’s song and was showcased during a TVB broadcast on Saturday commemorating the 30th anniversary of his death.
Cordero said Ka Keung had contacted her and told her that Ka Kui had written a song just for her before he died.
Ka Keung later refuted her claims, saying that these were all lies.
“All this about me is a lie. Even though my brother has passed away, I am still alive.
“How can she be so disrespectful?” he wrote on Facebook.
In regards to that, Cordero responded by saying that she recorded the song to honour Ka Kui, not to make money.
“Do you think I will get rich by recording this song? I did it because I respect him. He wrote it for me to sing. I don’t get any profit and I do not need to profit from it,” she said.
Ka Kui and Ka Keung were part of a Hong Kong rock band formed in 1983, namely Beyond.
Ka Kui, who was the band’s vocalist and guitarist, fell to his death during a stage performance in Japan in 1993.
The band is widely considered the most successful and influential Cantopop band from Hong Kong.
> A father in China, who will soon be reunited with his long lost son after 22 years apart, had prepared gifts for every single birthday they were unable to celebrate together, reported Sin Chew Daily.
Lei Wuze, 54 said his son was kidnapped at the age of three in October 2001.
Lei also shared the sorrows he went through amid spending most of his time searching for his beloved son all this while.
Police managed to track down a youth in Shenzhen who matched the DNA test with Lei, before confirming their biological relationship to each other.
Lei told reporters that he had been buying gifts annually on his son’s birthday, hoping that he would find his son one day.
Adding to that, Lei said during his 22 years of search, he met many parents who had the same fate as him.
“All these years, I have witnessed many who found their own children. Now, it is my turn,” he said.
● The above article is compiled from the vernacular newspapers (Bahasa Malaysia, Chinese and Tamil dailies). As such, stories are grouped according to the respective language/medium. Where a paragraph begins with this ' >'sign, it denotes a separate news item.
