Biography

Liew Ceng Teng is a Malaysian, now living in Norway as a filmmaker, composer, sound engineer and musician in Oslo. Best known for his Winter Song. Liew has mastered a wide array of musical genres reflected in many different styles such as pop, rock, blues, jazz, fusion, soul, folk, New Age, classical, country and western. Liew was born in Malaysia, Perak, Taiping. The eldest son of the 3 children in a working class family who lived in a 1-room house which also functioned as his father's workshop. Liew has always loved music, according to his mother already from he was a baby. Liew started to learn playing guitar influenced by his parents. That created a unique environment for his childhood caused by the father's passion for 60/70's western music and the mother's favorite music, Hong Kong and Taiwanese pop songs. Later however, the communication between Liew and his father become difficult, from the age of 15 they hardly spoke to each other. Even today, they don't talk much together. "it doesn't mean our relation is bad, we simply don't feel to talk to each other", Liew used to say.

Spring 2009, Liew fell in love with a Norwegian man and the love gave him the strength to come out as gay. But the family did not accept it. They tried hard to brain wash him telling him what was right to do and what was not. Liew wanted to change himself in order to please the family, but he knew it was impossible. "How can you change a man who likes women to suddenly like men ?" said Liew. After a while he moved to Norway and is now married to his man.

2010, Liew started running his own studio in Oslo, Norway, and he is still composing and recording music.

In 2015 he got his Bachelor in Audio Engineering. He also started with film production making his first documentary film Trio-Trio (a music documentary) released in 2016 and premiered at the New York Jazz Film Festival.

2019, he is making a documentary about the Norwegian gay rights movement through 60 years with Kim Friele, a pioneer and activist, and Wenche Lowzow, a member of Parliament.
- IMDb mini biography by: Liu Ray