Tatler sits down with Gentle Bones to find out what it was like collaborating with his childhood idol
It’s not every day that you get to check something off your bucket list (that was so incredible it wasn’t even there in the first place), but local singer-songwriter Joel Tan, or Gentle Bones as he is more famously known, got to do just that when he released a single with his long-time idol, JJ Lin, on November 19.
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The song, At Least I Had You, is Mandopop singer Lin’s first English collaboration with a male Singaporean artiste, which makes the achievement even more significant for Tan, who is certainly a very accomplished musician in his own right.
Tan is the first Singaporean music act to be signed by the Universal Music Group and has performed at sold-out concerts, festivals and more in countries such as South Korea, London, Hong Kong, Indonesia and Malaysia.
He started out as a Youtube cover artist in 2011 before moving on to launch a full-fledged musical career in 2013. He has since gone on to make a significant name for himself with a slew of singles, EPs and local music collaborations.
Fresh off the high of releasing his first full album after eight years of making music, and seeing incredible success with the launch of his new song with Lin, Tan sat down with Tatler to talk about what it was like working with a singer he has idolised since he was a child, what the process was like and what he is planning to do next.
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