Happy Avenue Live @ Yu Yin Tang May 9, 2008

Founded in 1999, Happy Avenue has been leading the music scene with Wu HongFei, their vocalist and leader who's possibly one of the best known female rock singers in China.The group's melodies are catchy, with Wu's often pentatonic vocal melodies showing the influence of Chinese folk singing. In some songs Wu's expansive melodies extend to the highest register of her voice in a manner reminiscent of opera, while others are rather lullaby-like. The group's albums often utilize vocal overdubbing to create an angelic choral effect. While Wu's youthful-sounding vocals often show the influence of Chinese traditional music, the musical background provided by the band is more or less based in straight-ahead rock, ranging from simple flatpicked lines to all-out rocking grooves, giving each song a musical character different from the others.

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