Lion Studios, Singapore

Sometimes credited as 寶麗金獅子錄音室. Lion Studios was set-up by Gramophone in 1958, and made popular by PolyGram Records in 1980 to serve the needs of the company's regional production projects. During the PolyGram era, the studio worked with artists such as Teresa Teng, Alan Tam (Hong Kong), Tracy Huang (Singapore/Taiwan), "Search", "Headwind", M. Nasir (Malaysia), Sho Jo Tai (Japan). In 1990, the studio went independent. They established a Mastering Suite. Projects entrusted include albums by "Funk Section" & "Andre Hehanusa" (Indonesia), "Nittaya" (Thailand) as well as "Kit Chan" from Singapore. Today it's one of the few studios in South East Asia that, while being one of the first studios in the region to embrace digital technology in 1985, has also chosen to retain it's analogue capabilities. Today, artists and producers come to the studio not only from Singapore, but also from Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Japan and Australia, as well as from Europe and the USA. With acoustics by studio architect Jeff Cooper, Studio 1 is seen as a first class 'live' recording facility across all genres of music. Divided into three sections for different acoustic treatments, the studio is intentionally designed. As well as the artists listed above, Lion Studios hosted Jazz musicians Charlie Haden, Al Foster, Emily Saxe, Grammy award winners Ernie Watts & Bob James, Greg Chako & Ernie Ranglin (both guitarists) from the USA. as well as vocalist Yvonne Walter & Baritone Saxophonist Pim Dijkstra from Europe and pianist Bubi Chen from Indonesia. Singapore's jazz musician Jeremy Monteiro has recorded at least a dozen of his albums at Lion Studios in addition to playing session piano on many of the pop albums recorded here by artists like Teresa Teng, Tracy Huang, The Alleycats, Headwind and M.Nasir. Among the Classical music artists who used the studio are Swiss composer Heinrich Schweizer, Singapore based composer conductor & educator Dr Robert Casteels, The National Youth Orchestra of Singapore, The Symphonic Wind Orchestra, The New Festival Orchestra, concert pianist Tedd Joselson, Guitarists Hucky Eichelmann and Guiliano Belotti, and the Singapore combination known as "Emis IV" and Singapore pianist Clare Yeo. Local Singapore productions include the Sound Track for the 1998 movie "Forever Fever", as well as albums for many local Singapore groups including "The Sugarflies", "Lilac Saints", "Humpback Oak", "White Eagle", "Cosmic Spiders", and "Heritage". Lion Studios remains standing as the longest running studio in Singapore.