Music was what connected Hong Kong musicians like Yip Sai Wing and Nepalese band -Zero.
Not only did Rock ‘n’ Roll make possible the crossing and exchange between two distinctly different cultural groups, it also provided a common platform for these very different lives to share personal stories about life’s struggles, toil and hardships.
-Zero was formed five years ago, with its members comprising of the pre-1997 Hong Kong Gurkhas. These are sons of fathers and grandfathers who had also served the military defense of Hong Kong since 1948.
Today, most of the -Zero members work as construction workers, while the lead singer Limbu Roshan, works as a window cleaner of high-rise buildings. Each of these members can’t help but admit that it is difficult to find work in Hong Kong.
However, their beliefs go that regardless of where people live, in truth life is never easy, and it is to their fortune that they have found music to be their source of positive energy. Thanks to Beyond’s music being their inspiration, such positivity is possible. The songs of Beyond are not only original and passionate, their deep expressions also represent and echo the voices and outcries of a specific era. It is precisely such Rock ‘n’ Roll spirit that has inspired every -Zero member to stay put in Hong Kong, to dream on and hope ahead for a better future.
These friends would join together and muse about what might have been Beyond’s struggles in life both before and after their rising to fame. “What were their difficulties? What would they do to overcome them?” these are questions that -Zero members would ask themselves from pure imagination, for they never had the chance to meet any one of the Beyond members. Nevertheless, such positive imagination in the end becomes the very source of strength and determination for each -Zero member to keep living and seeking for fun and a life of fulfilling music in Hong Kong.
