Pianist started learning jazz to impress the girls

‘I encountered jazz while walking by an old record store in Malacca that was playing Antonio Carlos Jobim’s Corcovado sung by Astrud Gilberto,’ says Tay about his first encounter with jazz as a teenager. Photo: Tay Cher Siang

Dreaming big is an understatement. Jazz musician and composer Tay Cher Siang wants to reach for the stars.

He has already performed in various music festivals – local and abroad – with his band WVC, arranged and composed the music for local musicals such as Yao Lee – The Legendary Rose (2012) and Xuan Zang, The Journey To The West Musical (2014) and scored the film The New Village (2012).