Karyn & Sheng Li - Paya Lebar Square - 26 Feb 2025
Busking Chase Season 2 goes outside the City Area for the first time.
Season two of the Busking Chase goes outside the City Area for the first time, at Paya Lebar Square, featuring two consecutive busking performances. Karyn & Sheng Li (黄诗敏+苏晟立) is the first busking performance of the day, though Karyn performed solo for the first 1+ hour and the duet happens only later.
Karyn busking solo.
Paya Lebar Square is located at the doorstep of the East West MRT line. You alight at Exit A, the space outside Paya Lebar Square is where they'll busk. It's in the vicinity of two other malls - Paya Lebar Quarter and the SingPost Centre. It is also a walking distance to the Lifelong Learning Institute.
There are several fast-food restaurants that line up the corridor facing the MRT, e.g. 4 Fingers, J.CO Donuts, Long John Silver's, McDonald's. Buskers would usually busk either outside 4 Fingers or J.CO. Given the plethora of food options (especially other restaurants in the vicinity), you will see a lot of food delivery riders cycling by or parking their bicycles there to collect food.
As I have mentioned, Karyn was the first to begin performing, though frankly speaking she wasn't at her best while performing solo. However there were some bright spots during her solo performance - we may have finally met the Dancing Lady of Paya Lebar. And a couple more audience engagement while we wait for Sheng Li to pang gang (finish work).
Then at 6.14p.m., after performing for more than ten songs, Karyn decided to give Sheng Li a call...
6.18p.m.. Sheng Li finally arrives!
Sheng Li arrives!
Oh yes, the guy wearing black, he is Thomas Tong (@thomastongrealestate), a real estate agent who came down to watch Karyn & Sheng Li perform. They also performed a song together, and it's up on YouTube. You can go check out the YouTube video that an audience member (other than myself) filmed:
Here are more photos from this busking session:
The two songs I have picked from the busking session are:
- 总会有人 [originally performed by Xiang Sisi (向思思)]
- 我是一只小小鸟 [originally performed by Chao Chuan (赵传)]
- P.S. I picked this song with no idea that it would later go viral when the general election had us looking left and right. I was just looking for songs to warm up the new season.
总会有人 [originally performed by Xiang Sisi (向思思)]
我是一只小小鸟 [originally performed by Chao Chuan (赵传)]
Paya Lebar Square is a busking location open from Monday to Saturday.