GEM Gloria Tang Deng Zhiqi I Am Gloria World Tour hits $424mil surpasses Madonna's Sticky & Sweet Tour; wiggles out of legal dispute with ex-record label hummingbird
Singer Gloria Tang Sze-wing (also known as GEM or Deng Zhiqi, 33) has been in a contractual dispute with her first record label hummingbird for 6 years and she says she did not receive any compensation for royalties to her songs that she herself wrote, composed and performed. GEM Gloria Tang joined "Composers and Authors Society of Hong Kong" at the age of 13 after writing her first song "Sleeping Beauty". At 15, her mother signed her contract with her first record label hummingbird on her behalf, even though her mother did not understand English well. Gloria Tang says that the rights to her songs were assigned to hummingbird and she was only paid performance fees in the contract; igniting her legal dispute with hummingbird for 6 years, which is still ongoing. A new legal expert joined her team in July 2023 and highlighted that according to mainland chinese law on artistic creations section 42-2, an artist can re-record and publicly perform and broadcast a song with...