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High and low notes in music lover's life
While the pioneer leaders were the original architects of Singapore, everyday heroes helped build local society. This is another story about such people in the series The Lives They Live.
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Rahimah Rashith
These days, pirated copies of music albums are called illegal downloads and they can be squeezed into a mobile phone.
Mr Ronnie Loh, 71, remembers a different time. In 1978, he was a sales manager with record label Warner Music and often accompanied police officers on raids that targeted the illicit business of producing and distributing pirated music cassettes. Vinyl was on the decline and the compact disc was still a few years away.
