1) Twins is a canto-pop duo from Hong Kong created in 2001 by mogul Albert Yeung's Emperor Entertainment Group (EEG). Twins consists of Charlene Choi Cheuk-Yin and Gillian Chung Yan-Tung.
They are one of the hottest groups in Hong Kong, and are wildly popular across China and Asia, and are known throughout the world.
BIO
Charlene Choi was born in Vancouver, Canada on November 22, 1982. Gillian Chung was born in Hong Kong on January 21, 1981.
Twins started their career in the summer of 2001, and are best known for the song "Girls' School, Boy Classmate" (女校男生) from their first EP.
Before signing with Emperor Entertainment Group, Chung studied at Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology in Melbourne, Australia. Chung had also worked as a part-time model during one of her summer vacations in Hong Kong.
Similar to Chung, Choi was also a part-time model who had appeared in several advertisements. She became famous after her participation in the television program Y2K, organised by Radio Television Hong Kong (RTHK).
Choi and Chung were introduced to each other by their agents. They subsequently auditioned for and later formed the band today known as Twins.
The Hong Kong musical industry has shown, many pop group bands break-up after they acquire a considerable level of popularity. The Twins are not immune to this and there have been rumors that Twins is also facing the same fate. It has been suggested by EEG that their concerts due for early 2006 may be their last. However these rumours have been around before and have proved unfounded and purely for entertainment purposes in generating gossip for tabloids.
At the 2006 Hong Kong Entertainment Awards ceremony Choi tearfully acknowledged that there have been criticisms of the Twins' singing abilities and that she hoped that they could better improve in the coming year.
Twins' fate in the coming future
Twins overcame rumours of splitting up when they attended the May 2006 MTV Asia Awards in Thailand together. They were nominated for and won the Hong Kong Most Popular Singer Award. Twins garnered many more votes than Andy Lau, who was predicted to take home this award. This is arguably the best award for Twins.
(February 2007) They have also recently celebrated their sixth year together in the Hong Kong music industry and with this the release of a special sixth anniversary new+best selection CD/DVD. Most rumours of a split have ceased and they have reaffirmed to their fans they will celebrate in another six years time.
Twins announced its "temporary" dissolution in July 2008, four months after Gillian was caught up in the Edison Chen photo scandal. Charlene said she was highly optimistic that they will reunite "some day"
2) In 1980, Sven Dohrow and Ronny Schreinzer decided to put a new band together, after they had played in various bands as a guitar-player and a drummer. In the beginning they were inspired by bands like Tubeway Army, Gary Numan, OMD and Depeche Mode.
The name "TWINS" might sound a bit funny for english speaking fans because Sven and Ronny are definitely no twins (you guessed it, Einstein) and the name itself isn't very ingenious. The idea behind the name was to describe the way of working when they put their music together. In fact, there are no other persons involved during the process of making a TWINS record. Sven and Ronny are the composers, arrangers, musicians and producers and they are also responsible for mixing and mastering of the final product.
Their first single "The Desert Place" turned out to be a real dancefloor-smasher in Germany and the remixed long-version of this song entered the US-Billboard-Dance-Charts in 1981. The big European breakthrough came when they entered the Italian charts with their song "Face To Face" and it was one of the best-selling singles in Italy 1983.
After "Face To Face" they hit the Italian charts a few more times with songs like "Not the loving kind" and "Ballet Dancer". Due to the success in many European countries, some of the German radiostations started playing their songs and all of a sudden the TWINS had a chart-hit with "Ballet Dancer". During these days it was very unusual for a German dancefloor-band to have success in their own country. However, they next titles to hit the German charts were "Love System" and "Love in the Dark".
Due to their big success, Sven and Ronny had to put together a live-band because the fans wanted to see them on stage as well. The TWINS had the chance to prove that they were no "one-hit-wonder"
and according to their fans, their live-act was worth the money. They did many tours throughout Europe with their new five piece band, including a drummer who turned every show into an exciting event due to his powerful support for every TWINS song. A bit later the band set-up was changed again. The fact that Ronny had played drums for many years, enabled the TWINS to add more excitement to the bands live-shows by adding a few parts for two drummers.
By the end of 1987 after the TWINS had released their album "Hold on to your dreams" they were offered to do a tour in the Soviet Union which brought them to Moskow and Leningrad. During these 10 concerts the had the opportunity to play in front of a 120.000 people audience.
After the tour was finished Sven and Ronny decided to take a break and to produce some other artists in their own studios. In 1991 the TWINS had their "comeback" when they released a remix album of their greatest hits which was called "The ClassicsRemixed". The success of this CD was overwhelming and they thought that it's about time to put together a new album as well.
It took them nearly two years to finish this next album because they wanted to make the album as good as possible. The album was called "The Impossible Dream" and the song "Tonight" which was also featured on the album, made them hit the charts once again.
To complete their line of greatest hits CD's, they released the "12inch Classics"-CD in '94, which features many long-versions and mixes based on their greatest hits. In recent years the TWINS played a few concerts in Germany with their new live-band. Ronny and Sven are currently working on a new album.
3) Serbian dance-pop gruop
4) Noise musician James Raymond of California
5) Little is known about Twins the demoscene musician, beyond the fact that (s)he/they were in the demogroup Phenomena, and active in the late 1980s/early 1990s. Some songs that should still be easy to find on various demoscene archives include "The Seventh Sea," "Starter," "Brilliance," "Digital Dream," and "Speedometer."
6) A french shoegaze band from Lyon
7) TWINS (the acronym from which the album derives its title, if one’s curious about the order of origin) is the mutant machine-pop project of Atlantan producer, label operator, and all-around aesthete-visionary Matt Weiner. Having spent the better part of a decade reveling in a moody murk that intersects seductive synth-pop with Featureless Ghost and grotesque industrial-dance grooves in his own right as TWINS, Weiner has more than proved his sincerely sinister and auspiciously artful finesse of synth-based music. Operating from his home studio, arrayed with various tools of the trade, Weiner tempers his subtle scourges of sound with an unending sense of bold exploration, processing tracks of pulse-heavy aural catharsis. When performing these songs live, he brings an array of hardware to back up his flooring vocal performances, using his entire being to work the audience into a frenzied trance. When not making music as TWINS, Weiner also runs the CGI Records label and co-runs the DKA label, between the two releasing music from Boy Harsher, Profligate, Alex Falk, High-Functioning Flesh, VALIS, Scott Fraser, Beau Wanzer, Featureless Ghost, Golden Donna, and more. Weiner also performs in the duo Pyramid Club with Chris Daresta, and produces music in the studio with Stefan Ringer as SM42 and with the esteemed CH Rom as Wo.
Summer Vacation
TWINS Lyrics
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Chung mei sam hok fung sung
Kwan geuk piu piu faat si fei mo yue jau dat yin sat chung
Gwa nim nei jan dik bat hing sung
Waan lau ha nei dik sun
Mo yuen foo chung jau fong hoi sau
Yeung maang fung hui chui sung
Do liu si san mooi goh dung tin
Ya wooi jing jing gwo hui
Jeuk seung leung haai daai seung cho mo
Woh chu dai foo lui
Piu leung diu daai kwan bat ying goi soh yue yi gawi lui
Jeuk chut hui
To yan mong kei sat ngoh do gwoh dak hui
Nei yi lei cheung ngoh gei yik jung
Nei keuk sang joi na lui
Dui na si kei taai gwoh yi luen yuen loi han lui jui
Yim yim ha gwai gau yue yung
Bat yiu boon chui
Kei sat je tin hei ying go do hoi taan hui
Ngoh man moon gai yeung gwong foo gon ga lui
Wai liu dang sui dang sui joi dang hoh yau choi
Bai jeuk ngaan ting yat ting hoi fung chung mei sam hok fung sung
Kwan geuk piu piu faat si fei mo yue jau dat yin sat chung
joi jue gei yik dik boh lei jun yau chiu long hui tui jun
Woon woon dong heung ha gwai dik hoi jik do siu sat gaau ngoh muk sung (siu siu muk sung)
Na jui waai jui ho wooi yik
Jaap yat jaap ngaan yik gwoh hui
Ming yat keuk joi ngoh sau lui
Bai jeuk ngaan ting yat ting hoi fung chung mei sam hok fung sung
Kwan geuk fa bin faan bei je yue jau dat yin sat chung
joi jue gei yik dik boh lei jun yau chiu long hui tui jun
Woon woon dong heung ha gwai dik hoi jik do siu sat gaau ngoh muk sung (siu siu muk sung)
Ting yat ting hoi fung
Chung mei sam hok fung sung
Faat gok san tai sing hei
Je yue jau dat yin sat chung
joi jue gei yik dik boh lei jun yau chiu long hui tui jun
Woon woon dong heung ha gwai dik hoi jik do siu sat gaau ngoh muk sung (siu siu muk sung)
chiu sui laam yeung gwong maang pei foo hung hung yuen dik yuen waan dik waan yu sang mo kung
The lyrics of the song "Summer Vacation" by Twins speaks about a trip taken during the summer vacation season. From the very beginning, the lyrics paint a picture of the beauty of nature with the opening lines, "Bai jeuk ngaan ting yat ting hoi fung Chung mei sam hok fung sung" which translates to "White waves touch the red horizon, The sunshine colors where the three rivers meet." The song then moves on to describe the fun and adventure that the two friends had while on their trip.
The lyrics then take on a romantic tone as the two friends explore the scenery and begin to reflect on themselves and their lives. Their journey leads them to contemplate their past, present, and future, and the song is not without its melancholic moments. However, the overall message of "Summer Vacation" is a message of hope, friendship, and adventure, and the lyrics encourage listeners to take risks and embrace all that life has to offer.
Overall, the song "Summer Vacation" by Twins is a celebration of life and friendship which encourages listeners to live in the moment and embrace new experiences. It has become a classic summer song loved by fans of Chinese pop culture for its romantic tone and its message of adventure and hope.
Line by Line Meaning
Bai jeuk ngaan ting yat ting hoi fung
By listening carefully to a sound, I can hear the melody
Chung mei sam hok fung sung
In the middle of the three-note chord, there is a powerful energy
Kwan geuk piu piu faat si fei mo yue jau dat yin sat chung
Swirling dreams and reality meet at an endless point in time
Gwa nim nei jan dik bat hing sung
I don't know where you are
Waan lau ha nei dik sun
Watching the sunset with you
Mo yuen foo chung jau fong hoi sau
The reflection of the sunset shines on the sea
Yeung maang fung hui chui sung
The ocean breeze is blowing
chiu sui laam yeung gwong maang pei foo hung hung yuen dik yuen waan dik waan yu sang mo kung
The four seasons and the universe are all in my heart
Do liu si san mooi goh dung tin
The island scenery is beautiful and breathtaking
Ya wooi jing jing gwo hui
Nightfall is approaching
Jeuk seung leung haai daai seung cho mo
The moon is shining brightly and illuminating the seashore
Woh chu dai foo lui
I will spend the summer with you
Piu leung diu daai kwan bat ying goi soh yue yi gawi lui
Flying kites and enjoying the summer breeze together
To yan mong kei sat ngoh do gwoh dak hui
Talking about the stars in the sky, I can't help but think of you
Nei yi lei cheung ngoh gei yik jung
You are my companion during the summer
Nei keuk sang joi na lui
You are the one I want to go with
Dui na si kei taai gwoh yi luen yuen loi han lui jui
Watching the sunset and taking a walk together, enjoying the summer scenery
Yim yim ha gwai gau yue yung
The moonlight reflects on the sea
Bat yiu boon chui
Don't need a reason
Kei sat je tin hei ying go do hoi taan hui
Whether it is the sun or the stars, it will shine brightly
Ngoh man moon gai yeung gwong foo gon ga lui
I appreciate the beauty of the universe
Wai liu dang sui dang sui joi dang hoh yau choi
In every season, there is a different kind of beauty to enjoy
Na jui waai jui ho wooi yik
The sound of laughter is the most beautiful
Jaap yat jaap ngaan yik gwoh hui
Meeting and chatting every day
Ming yat keuk joi ngoh sau lui
Every look from you is attractive to me
Kwan geuk fa bin faan bei je yue jau dat yin sat chung
Swirling dreams and the ordinary world meet at an endless point in time
joi jue gei yik dik boh lei jun yau chiu long hui tui jun
If we follow our heart, we will never lose the way back
Woon woon dong heung ha gwai dik hoi jik do siu sat gaau ngoh muk sung (siu siu muk sung)
Every ray of light that shines on the earth fills me with warmth and happiness
Ting yat ting hoi fung
By listening carefully to a sound, I can hear the melody
Chung mei sam hok fung sung
In the middle of the three-note chord, there is a powerful energy
Faat gok san tai sing hei
The vibrant sunshine is warm and bright
Je yue jau dat yin sat chung
Swirling dreams and reality meet at an endless point in time
Contributed by Lucy D. Suggest a correction in the comments below.