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My Island Home (Chinese: 幸福的圖形; pinyin: Xìng Fú Dè Tú Xíng ）is a song sung by Singaporean (Taiwan based) singer, Kaira Gong. The song is the official theme music to the 2006 national day parade. The song is one of the few NDP theme songs to not mention Singapore's name in it.
In the music video, it intercedes between her singing, and an Aboriginal man deciding to drop his job as a cleaner, and start running through the city, the desert, and finally to the ocean. When he gets there, he swims to his home island and waves at his kid and wife. At the 1995 APRA Awards, "My Island Home" won Song of the Year. [4]
Kaira Gong (simplified Chinese: 龚诗嘉; traditional Chinese: 龔詩嘉; pinyin: Gǒng Shījiā, born 25 July 1981) is a Singaporean singer. She sang the theme song for Singapore's National Day Parade in 2006, titled "My Island Home".
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In June 1995 she recorded a cover version of "My Island Home", on her debut album, Stylin' Up. That version was named the APRA Song of the Year at the APRA Awards for Murray as its songwriter and Anu as performer. [15] The Anu version became an unofficial anthem and she performed it during the closing ceremony of the Sydney 2000 Olympics.
In 2000, Anu released Come My Way which peaked at number 18 on the ARIA albums chart and went gold. [5] She released the hit single "Sunshine on a Rainy Day", for which she won the ARIA Awards for both Best Female Artist and Engineer of the Year. [18] [22] In the same year, she sang the song "My Island Home" at the Sydney 2000 Olympics Closing ...
Lead singer Emile Straker's whistling is one of the most distinctive components of their sound, and often serves as the primary focus of the musical interludes in their songs. They have produced several memorable covers in this style, including versions of "Island in the Sun" (originally by Harry Belafonte ), " Jamaica Farewell ", " Hot Hot Hot ...
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 24 December 2024. 2018 Commonwealth Games opening ceremony Date 4 April 2018 (2018-04-04) Time 20:00 – 23:00 AEST Location Gold Coast, Australia Coordinates 28°00′23″S 153°22′2″E / 28.00639°S 153.36722°E / -28.00639; 153.36722 Also known as Hello Earth Filmed by NEP Australia ...