A new restaurant started by Singaporeans and Indonesians had invited me to play along with Helmy Andreas, who was their cook / technician / nightly musician one evening. Having grown up in Singapore, he knew many, many romantic English songs from the 70’s, which means I only had to learn a handful of new songs. We sounded pretty good!
Later in the evening we accompanied the patrons who sang folk songs from America, Singapore, Indonesia, Japan, and of course China. It was a wonderful evening I will remember forever.
