HUBBY SPENT FIVE YEARS IN TAIWAN PURSUING HIS MANDOPOP CAREER

XL spent five years in Taiwan’s Mandopop scene under a Taiwanese label. He even appeared in Mediacorp’s talent show Superband in 2016 and Taiwan’s Super Idol in 2010; where he signed with a leading producer and toured with Taiwanese artists such as MC Hotdog.

“Just as I was about to release an album, the producer told me that the economy was not doing well in Taiwan and suggested I go to China to continue my career instead,” he recalled. “But at that time I was already 31 years old and in China. The music industry was a completely different game. I decided to return to Singapore as I knew it would take at least another three to four years to achieve this,” he explained.

These days, XL scratches his creative itch by singing Mandopop songs every Friday at Jyu Lae Bistro, a Taiwanese restaurant in Suntec. When she’s not on stage or at Jo Ju Bang, she’s busy running a media production company and 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 smiled proudly.