How Paula Tsui defined an era in polka dots and contralto

What BBN said about it

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorPaula Tsui is the subject of the eighty-eighth instalment in a series on Hong Kong pop figures, the South China Morning Post reports, and folks, I have questions about the math.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorPoint one. Her contralto voice defied the high-pitched norms of her era. She was told to sing higher, and she just didn't.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorThat's the whole career plan, and it worked.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorPoint two. Between nineteen seventy-eight and nineteen eighty-one she released five albums, and twenty-five of the fifty songs were covers of Japanese hits.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorHalf of it was borrowed. Half. I've seen group projects like that.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorPoint three. Nineteen ninety-two. Forty-three concerts in thirty-seven days. Do the arithmetic, folks.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorThat means some days she did two shows. Two. I get tired when the elevator has a second stop.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorGuinness World Records says that's still the Asian record for most single-event concerts in a continuous period. A record.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorFor working through what any reasonable person calls a long weekend and then some.

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    Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorAnd her reward? Fourteen platinum albums and a Golden Needle. Half the songs were borrowed, and they still gave her a needle.

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    Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorFor the woman who sang for thirty-seven straight days.

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    Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorMeanwhile, the polka dot dress. The umbrella skirt.

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    Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorForty-three nights in that umbrella skirt. Somebody had to fit through the stage door. Nobody thanks that person.

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    Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorSo here's what I'm demanding. A day off for every concert. That's forty-three days, and I'll be taking mine starting with a nap.

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    Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorForty-three concerts in thirty-seven days. I once called in sick for a sneeze.