Singapore ― Singaporean actress Chantalle Ng stars as a girl who enjoys singing but speaks with a stutter in the drama series Live Your Dreams which is now airing on Channel 8.
The show, which features stars like Qi Yuwu, Sheila Sim, Zhang Yaodong and Tasha Low is about the story of eight girls who are training to form a new girl group, Dada Dream.
Ng almost missed the chance to perform the songs in the show herself. The producer initially suggested arranging for someone to sing on her behalf.
“I offered to perform the songs myself as it is a rare opportunity after all,” the 26-year-old was quoted by Lianhe Wanbao as saying.
Ng was then taken by the producer to a well-known local musician Lee Wei Song and was asked to try singing Stefanie Sun’s Cloudy Day. Ng also took lessons from Lee.
Cloudy Day was one of the songs featured in Live Your Dreams, and Lee served as music director for the drama.
During Lee’s three lessons, Ng said she went for it “nervously and with hands trembling” before she got the nod from him, and the producer agreed to let her perform the songs herself.
The actress said she was very happy that she can play a singer and perform the songs in the show. She had long wished to become a singer as she is inspired by her idol, Malaysian singer Fish Leong, as reported by Straits Times.
“I was not nervous and very excited when I recorded the songs, as it felt like a dream come true,” said the actress who won kudos earlier this year for her role as a Vietnamese bride in the TV series My Star Bride.
According to Ng, she will follow the style of Ella Chen of Taiwanese girl group S.H.E if she has the chance to become a singer.
“I think I’m more like Ella,” says Ng, who adds that Chen is known for being funny as well as for acquitting herself well in acting roles.
Lee wrote three new songs for Live Your Dreams, as well as recorded the songs for Ng and the other cast members.
He told Wanbao that Ng is “very hardworking and her singing sounds like that of the girl next door”, adding that “everyone can feel the sunshine from her”.
Lee also disclosed that Ng’s mother, veteran actress Lin Meijiao, visited the recording studio often to give her daughter honey. /TISG