If you like my music add me to your facebook (Li James Xu and Gong Wu) as I run all our events from there! (as Myspace is lame for setting up events!)
Music is endless, everlasting and a window to the soul.
Life is too short to let opportunities pass you by, no matter what the risk.
Without courage, life is meaningless. If you do not follow your heart, in my opinion, you are already dead..
I search for inspiration through life in everything that surrounds me. Music is my main emotion mover.
A good line in a song and the right melody on the right beat can change your entire day and maybe even your life.
The glint in a passing persons' eye, the smile on their face or a brief conversation with someone you may never meet again, can change your mindset in an instant, but also change your life forever. I love the idea that a butterfly flapping it's wings can cause tornados on the other side of the world. I love the chaos and spontanaety of life. Alive today, or maybe dead tomorrow. Life is just so beautiful that it is finite and has an ending. Just like reading a good story, you go through the many chapters, some good, some bad, some boring and everyone wants to know what happens at the end.. One problem with people is that some get more fixated on what happens after the end and fear it, these people miss out on the enjoyment and the entire point of the story. Don't be one of these people, being afraid of death will lead you to be afraid of life and you will miss out all the good bits in between. Make friends with your ffears and embrace them, challenge them! Whatever you do just never let fear of the unknown hold you back!I think we have our own choices, if there's no such thing as fate, then you can't take life for granted and we should feel privelidged to be able to choose our own destinies.. I Live for the moment, but I strive for the future. :)
If you want to know what makes me feel alive, all you have to do is listen to my music. I also have a lot of alternative stuff to listen to with my new band in Hong Kong at www.myspace.com/gongwu
Thanks for all the great comments I'm getting from everyone! It really makes me feel high on the low days and inspires me to keep on writing through uninspiring times.One thing I realised recently is that dreams rarely come true unless you make them. I also realised that with dreams as big as mine you can rarely do it alone and I appreciate any help I get!
Thanks to all the people who are showing me support right now by adding me to their top friends lists, spamming their friends and helping to promote my music!
Your belief in me gives me the strength to carry on believing and pushing forward through one of the toughest industries on the planet! :)
For people new to me and my music, I was born and raised in the council estates of Leicester, England, with the most amazing mother in the world..
She fought the world to protect me through my youth alone without any help. I love her more than anything and she has single handedly had the biggest positive input in my life.
My absent father is Chinese and has always lived in Hong Kong and through the years from visiting the Chinese side of my family, I discovered a different way of life and fell in love with Asia.
After years of playing in various bands and living a life I was never content with, in mid 2007 I finally emigrated to Hong Kong and China. I had almost given up on music when out of knowwhere it seemed fate interviened and here I am back in 2008 with a new band and solo career starting up!
Even though I am now a Hong Kong citizen, I am still 100% proud to be British, proud of my humble roots, proud of my mum, all of which has made me who I am today, and the extra privelidge of being blessed with an oriental heritage too!
Hey thanks for the friend request! Hope you're enjoying the music. Your music is great man! My personal favorites are Truth and Wonder really nice melodies!