Yau Yiu Ting (; born 26 December 1988), better known by his stage name Zight, is an electronic dance music (EDM) producer and

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from Hong Kong. Zight landed his first international collaboration "Fly Away" with British singer Sonna Rele in 2021. During a radio interview, Zight revealed that his stage name was derived from his middle name "light". He first applied his alias Zight on

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because the user-name "light" has been registered by another user.

Early life

Zight was born and raised in

British Hong Kong Hong Kong was a colony and later a dependent territory of the British Empire from 1841 to 1997, apart from a period of occupation under the Japanese Empire from 1941 to 1945 during the Pacific War. The colonial period began with the Briti ...

. During a live interview, he mentioned a huge vinyl and CD cabinet of his father, which contains very diverse genres of Western music. Among the many genres of music,

Eurodance Euro-Dance (sometimes referred to as Euro-NRG, Euro-electronica or Euro) is a genre of electronic dance music that originated in the late 1980s in Europe. It combines many elements of hip hop, techno, Hi-NRG, house music, and Euro-Disco. This ...

was his particular favorite. He was a fan of Eurodance groups such as

Vengaboys Vengaboys () are a Dutch Eurodance music group based in Rotterdam. The group was the creation of Dutch producers Wessel van Diepen and Dennis van den Driesschen (known as Danski and Delmundo). It consists of lead vocalist Kim Sasabone, female vo ...

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and

2 Unlimited 2 Unlimited are a Belgian/Dutch dance music act, founded by Belgian producers/songwriters Jean-Paul De Coster and Phil Wilde in 1991 in Antwerp, Belgium. From 1991 to 1996, Dutch rapper Ray Slijngaard and Dutch vocalist Anita Doth fronted the a ...

. He explained that his childhood interest in Eurodance music lead him to become an electronic music producer after his graduation from music school. Zight studied creative media and music production at the

City University of Hong Kong City University of Hong Kong (CityU) is a world-class public research university located in Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong. It was founded in 1984 as City Polytechnic of Hong Kong and became a fully accredited university in 1994. Currently, CityU is ...

. During his college days, he started selling beats and rhythms to hip hop artists on

, where he first applied Zight as his stage name.

Career

After his graduation from college, Zight spent several years to make music behind the scenes for local musicians and

Japanese hip hop Japanese hip hop is hip hop music from Japan. It is said to have begun when Hiroshi Fujiwara returned to Japan and started playing hip hop records in the early 1980s. Japanese hip hop tends to be most directly influenced by old school hip hop, ...

groups. In 2018, he visited

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to further study

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. Later in 2020, he released his first electronic music single, "Paradise". In 2021, he landed his first international collaboration, "Fly Away" with British singer Sonna Rele. The song was published by U-NXT, a subdivision of

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to empower new electronic music artists. The music video was shot in Ukraine, which has gained over 1.7 million views on

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as of November 2022. On 1 October 2021, Zight released his third single, "Everybody Keep Running" with Canadian singer Peter Forest. The music video took place in

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, featuring Sibusiso Madikizela, a national

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athlete from South Africa. The song was later nominated and selected into the Asian electronic music compilation ''Billboard Electric Asia Vol. 5''. In 2022, Zight released his sixth single, "Number One" with American singer Adam Christopher. The music video was shot at

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, a motor racing track near

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, Australia. In July 2022, Zight released his seventh single, "Work It Harder" with American pop singer

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and Italian DJ duo Maximals. During an interview, Zight revealed that the music video was an implication to support Ukraine in the

Russo-Ukrainian War The Russo-Ukrainian War; uk, російсько-українська війна, rosiisko-ukrainska viina. has been ongoing between Russia (alongside Russian separatist forces in Donbas, Russian separatists in Ukraine) and Ukraine since Feb ...

Singles

;As lead artist ;As featured artist

References

External links

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Zight Living people 1988 births Alumni of the City University of Hong Kong Hong Kong songwriters Hong Kong record producers Hong Kong DJs 21st-century Hong Kong musicians Chinese electronic musicians Electronic dance music DJs Electro house musicians Progressive house musicians Future house musicians Universal Music Group artists