Sydney Tan: The four national songs were about nation-building. The three interviews have been edited and condensed for length and clarity.ĭick Lee: was to sort of build a Singapore song repertoire.ĭr. Sydney Tan about the song’s journey, why it is so loved, and what the song means to them in their own musical careers. To mark the 20th anniversary of ‘Home’’s debut at the National Day Parade in 1998, Hear65 spoke to Dick Lee, Kit Chan and Dr. Many local musicians have uploaded YouTube covers with their own spin on it: The Sam Willows’ 2014 rendition with violinist Josh Wei, for instance, was praised by Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong. In light of the upbeat, martial-like qualities of previous national songs like ‘Count On Me, Singapore’ and ‘We Are Singapore’, how could a meditative, melancholic song like ‘Home’ be a national song?īut the song has endured and taken different forms over the years: from a remixed version, performed by JJ Lin, at the 2004 NDP to a 2011 MINDEF remake that involved 39 Singaporean vocalists, including Vernon Cornelius, Ramli Sarip, Stefanie Sun and more. When ‘Home’ was presented to the committee of the Sing Singapore festival, which it was written for in 1997, committee members were skeptical. But ‘Home’ wasn’t even written as a National Day song, per se, and its pride of place in Singaporean hearts might make some incredulous to learn that when it was first written, the initial reaction to the song was doubt. Sydney Tan, is now one of Singapore’s most beloved national songs – National Day isn’t complete without it. ‘Home’, written by Dick Lee and produced by Dr. Twenty years ago this National Day, a beautiful, bright-eyed singer named Kit Chan stepped out in front of thousands of people to perform a song that is now universally acknowledged as a Singaporean classic: ‘Home’.
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