''Daniel 李吉漢'' is the self-titled debut album released by the winner of Malaysian Idol 2,

Daniel Lee Chee Hun Daniel Lee Chee Hun (; born 1 July 1982) is a Malaysians, Malaysian singer most notable for winning the second season of ''Malaysian Idol''. Malaysian Idol 2 Better known as Daniel throughout the show, he beat over 9,000 candidates to compete ...

. Released in November 2005, the album achieved platinum status after sales exceeded 25,000 units within six months. It included 10 songs, including seven songs in Mandarin, one in English, and his hit "Mimpi" sung in both Malay and Mandarin.

Celebration Edition

''Daniel Celebration Edition 慶功收藏版'' (''Pinyin'': ''Qìng Gōng Shōu Cáng Bǎn'') was introduced to the market in 2006 to mark the achievement of sales of the self-titled debut album of

(winner of Malaysian Idol 2), at more than 25,000 copies, which is accorded as platinum status. This celebration edition contains two discs. The first one consists of all 10 songs from Danell's first album. The second disc contains MVs of four of Danell's songs and a "Behind The Scenes" video clip showing the work of Danell's shooting of his MVs plus a personal message delivered by Daniel himself.

Track listing

#飛 (Fēi / ''Fly'') #選擇 (Xuǎn Zé / ''The Choice'') #有機 (Yǒu Jī / ''Organic Love'') #I Don't Know #現在，很想見你 (Xiàn Zài, Hěn Xiǎng Jiàn Nǐ / ''I Love To See You Now'') #無法自拔 (Wú Fǎ Zì Bá / ''Irresistible'') #幸運兒 (Xìng Yùn Ér / ''The Lucky One'') #第二次童年 (Dì Èr Cì Tóng Nián / ''Second Childhood'') #Heaven Knows #Mimpi (''Dream'')

Video CD MV listing

#飛 (Fēi / ''Fly'') #有機 (Yǒu Jī / ''Organic Love'') #現在，很想見你 (Xiàn Zài, Hěn Xiǎng Jiàn Nǐ / ''I Love To See You Now'') #幸運兒 (Xìng Yùn Ér / ''The Lucky One'')
BONUS: Behind The Scenes 幕後花絮 (Mù Hòu Huā Xù)

Background

Daniel's debut album is the first of its kind for a Malaysian Chinese singer, consisting of songs in 3 languages widely spoken in Malaysia. The first 8 songs are in Mandarin, while the 9th and last songs are in English and Malay respectively. It is believed to be the very first Mandarin album to include romanized Pinyin lyrics for those whose native tongue is not Mandarin. ''Fly 飛'' is the Mandarin version of the last and only Malay song in the album, ''Mimpi''. The latter song was sung by Daniel himself during the Grand Finale of Malaysian Idol 2. ''Heaven Knows'' is an existing English song sung by

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. It is also one of the three songs sung by Daniel during the Grand Finale of Malaysian Idol 2, aside ''Mimpi'' and ''Angin Malam'' (''Angin Malam'' is recorded in Danell's 2nd album Unavoidable 躲不過. Within six months of release of the album, it sold at more than 25,000 copies, thereby reaching platinum status, resulting in the production of a celebration edition, Daniel Celebration Edition 慶功收藏版, containing MVs of 4 of his songs and a mini photo album of himself in various dressing styles. In the MV for ''I Love To See You Now 現在，很想見你'', Daniel plays as a waiter in a modern-day ''kopitiam'' (local Chinese coffeeshop), who falls asleep, dreams of a beautiful girl and wakes up only to find the dream girl standing before him. The dream girl is played by local Malaysian artiste Stella Chung (钟晓玉 Zhōng Xiǎo Yù), who is also the younger sister of a local Malaysian singer. Stella herself starred in

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jointly produced television drama, '' The Beginning 原点'' (Yuán Diǎn), as Shí Tínglì (石婷立). The drama was broadcast via Malaysian private channel

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in October 2006 and Singaporean leading Mandarin channel, Channel 8, in May 2007. Daniel never performed an MV for "The Choice 選擇", the sole rock song from his debut album. However, he did an on-stage performance for the song by singing and dancing simultaneously for the first time at the

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, a mass concert gathering Chinese singers from

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, organized by Malaysian private channel, 8TV.

References

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