Name: [INTERVIEW] Henry Lau dives deep into his musical journey, his new single 'Moonlight,' and more
Uploaded: 2025-03-17T04:54:47.000Z
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Hey all Kpop, it's Henry here and I just released my new single called Moonlight.

Moonlight is one song from an album that I've been working on for a very, very long time, about one year.

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And Moonlight was a song that I first started off, started when I was writing.

I wanted to write a song just for, you know, people around me.

And I noticed that people, most people around me were at that time were very, very stressed.

From their work or from, you know, they're just fed up with a bunch of things, especially that we're just coming out of COVID.

So I wanted to write a song that once they hear it, they're just, everyone just, you know, just forget about all their stresses.

And just, you know, a song for everyone to party to, to have a good time, to chill to.

So when I first started Moonlight, I had this melody in my head.

But what I had was not like, it wasn't like a beautiful one person singing this melody.

It was like all your friends and like, or everybody at the club screaming.

And then slowly from there, came up with the chords and, you know, new melodies came.

But that's basically how it really started.

And sound wise, I purposely picked a lot of very natural sounding instruments.

If you listen to the drums, those are actually all, a lot of them are all real recorded drums, just processed in a way.

But I'm very happy with the way it turned out.

And I think a lot of the times when you first start a song, you have this emotion.

And then when you work on it, sometimes it changes into something totally different.

It started off with very careless melodies.

It's exactly the way it was when it first started.

Well, I first started music when I was very young, about five or six, with classical music.

And that's where my music journey started.

And through junior high, I started to learn how to, you know, I started to learn how to pop, dance.

And one thing led to another, I started singing.

And then later on, I got the opportunity to act in movies, dramas.

Next thing you know, I was, I started painting.

And I think these are all just, all these art forms are just expressions of emotion.

And I think it's different for everybody.

Everyone expresses themselves differently.

This is just my way of expressing myself.

So I will continue to do my best to express all of my emotions to all of you guys.

I've been doing this for quite some time now.

And like I said, I started when I was very, very young.

So I don't even remember when I didn't do music.

But I think it's safe to say that I didn't really necessarily like music when I first started.

Because it was very difficult, you know, practicing every day and training, going through all that.

But I think the first time I started, I was like, whoa, this is kind of cool.

One of the first times I played in front of people, I remember I was about 10 or something, I think 10 years old.

And I always thought it was like, I really hated it and everything.

But then after I performed, everyone started clapping.

And then I was like, whoa, this is kind of cool.

And then that's when my love for music really started.

And then now I'm just in love with the feeling of being up on stage.

I think there were a lot of driving factors.

There's a lot of people around me that kept me going, especially all my fans.

If it wasn't for my fans, I definitely wouldn't be here today.

A lot of times when I've thought of giving up or times when I thought I can't make it through this.

And then sometimes I would look at some things my fans write or some of their comments or stuff.

And I'd just like to say thank you to you all.

I don't think there's anything that's like, you could say, oh, this is the most important thing when you work on music.

But for this time, especially for Moonlight and the album that I'm working on.

Before, it was more like, okay, you have three weeks to finish an album.

Or sometimes it's crazier, it's like you have two weeks to finish an album or something like that.

But since I do so many things, it'd be like, oh, you have to go somewhere to film a movie or something at this time.

So you've got to finish between this time.

I avoided that this time with Moonlight and the album.

I actually need to take time and rediscover myself, rediscover myself musically as well.

So I took about close to a year, I would say, of doing just music.

I went to a lot of different places, purposely met a variety of producers and other singers and collaborated with them.

I went to Nashville to really see what country music was about.

And since a lot of my songs have violin, the story why I actually went to Nashville was because I really wanted to see how they incorporated violin in country music so well.

And then next thing you know, I'm in a room in the house of where OneRepublic members live and working with the producers.

And I worked with so many amazing producers this time.

I think the most important thing for music creation is just doing, it sounds simple, but just doing what you want.

And I felt like that's what I really did this time.

I'm very excited to show everybody all the different things I've come up with.

I mean, I'm constantly looking for ways to improve myself, to learn new things.

But I would say the making of this song, this album, was actually one of the big changes in my life, I feel.

I really feel through the last year, that's where I've grown the most and really discovered a lot of things about myself.

I think language is one of the most important things in the world, because language is like a key to another world.

If you can speak another language, it allows you to access so many different things, information, people.

And it's just amazing how a language could change your life.

So I'm always open to learn new languages, and I love learning new languages, because I just love connecting with people.

I love learning languages, and I've been pretty lucky to be able to be in so many different places and be surrounded by different languages and culture.

But I think the one thing that I would suggest is that you can't be shy.