People Mountain People Sea (Chinese

Chinese language

The Chinese language is a language or language family consisting of varieties which are mutually intelligible to varying degrees. Originally the indigenous languages spoken by the Han Chinese in China, it forms one of the branches of Sino-Tibetan family of languages...

: 人山人海, idiomatically "huge crowds of people") , is a Hong Kong

Hong Kong

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 music production company established by renowned singer-songwriter Anthony Wong Yiu Ming

Anthony Wong Yiu Ming

Anthony Wong is a Hong Kong alternative singer, composer and producer. He is well-known for his role as the vocal of renowned duo Tat Ming Pair in the 1980’s and as the current director for music production company People Mountain People Sea.-Biography:...

 with a team of artists and musicians on 16 June 1999.

About PMPS

The name of the company originated from one of Wong’s best selling albums released in 1997 under the same name. PMPS was born rather artistically oriented, despite majority of the giant music production companies in Hong Kong are heavily commercial-oriented. All founding members of PMPS have extensive experience in the creative or music industry prior founding the company, including producers, singers, songwriters, sound engineers, musicians, etc.

Although being an independent production company, PMPS does from time to time handle the production of albums for top-of-the-line singers such as Leslie Cheung

Leslie Cheung

Leslie Cheung Kwok-Wing , nicknamed elder brother , was a film actor and musician from Hong Kong. Cheung was considered as "one of the founding fathers of Cantopop", and "combining a hugely successful film and music career".In 2000, Cheung was named Asian Biggest Superstar by China Central...

, Faye Wong

Faye Wong

Faye Wong is a highly successful and influential Chinese singer-songwriter and actress who is usually referred to as a diva . Early in her career she briefly used the stage name Shirley Wong . Born in Beijing, she moved to Hong Kong in 1987 and rose to stardom in the early 1990s by singing...

, Eason Chan

Eason Chan

Eason Chan Yik-shun is a prominent male singer in Hong Kong's music industry. Undoubtedly one of the most dominant male singers in the post-1997 era of Hong Kong music industry. Eason Chan has been praised by Time magazine as a front runner in the next generation of Cantopop...

, Andy Hui

Andy Hui

Andy Hui Chi-On is a Hong Kong singer and film actor. Hui was the First Runner-up in the 5th Annual New Talent Singing Awards in 1986. Hui has appeared in about 25 films....

 and Miriam Yeung

Miriam Yeung

Miriam Yeung, RN, is a Hong Kong actress and Cantopop singer. Before entering the entertainment business, she was a registered nurse at the Princess Margaret Hospital in Hong Kong. She studied at the Holy Family Canossian College Kowloon...

. Their services mainly focus on song-writing, lyric-writing, musical arrangement, producing, sound engineering etc. Furthermore, PMPS also participates in movie scoring, theatre anddance music production.

Since 2002, PMPS started to sign in singers under their own label. Their first singers signed was at17

At17

at17 , consist of Eman Lam and Ellen Joyce Loo, is a Hong Kong based Cantopop and folktronica girl band managed under production company People Mountain People Sea.-Biography:...

, a Folktronica

Folktronica

Folktronica or electrofolk is a genre of music comprising various elements of folk music and electronica, often featuring samplings of acoustic instruments—especially stringed instruments—and incorporating hip hop rhythms...

 music group. The group soon received positive response form the public audiences and critics. Their success led the company to sign another group, PixelToy.

Founding Members

• Anthony Wong Yiu Ming
  Anthony Wong Yiu Ming
  Anthony Wong is a Hong Kong alternative singer, composer and producer. He is well-known for his role as the vocal of renowned duo Tat Ming Pair in the 1980’s and as the current director for music production company People Mountain People Sea.-Biography:...
  
   (黃耀明) - Company Director
• Arion (亞里安) - editor/critic in music and film
• Keith Leung(Gaybird) (梁基爵) - Songwriter
• Jason Choi (蔡德才) - Songwriter, Producer
• Veronica Lee (VeeGay) (李端嫻) - Sound engineer, producer.
• Yu Yat Yiu (于逸堯) - songwriter, film score writer.
• Cedric chan (陳浩峰) - lyricist, singer.
• Pia Ho (何秀萍) - lyricist

Studio PMPS

In 2006, PMPS established their own studio named Studio PMPS to facilitates musical and multiedia productions, as well as the possible expansion to the TV commercial production business in Hong Kong.

External links

• People Mountain People Sea's Official website
• PixelToy 's second album (interview sound & video)
• http://www21.sbs.com.au/alchemy/index.php?pg=ct&ct=1&sc=2&id=597Pixel Toy Interview with Alchemy SBS Radio
  SBS Radio
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