Singapore composer Julian Wong was in secondary school when he fell in love with the music of Malay entertainment icon P. Ramlee.
A schoolmate, who was from the late singer, actor and director's birth state of Penang, was always singing one of his most famous songs, Getaran Jiwa (Soul Vibration).
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