“However there was this advert within the paper. It stated pilot of the airwaves,” Lance stated, including {that a} good friend working at then-Singapore Broadcasting Company – an earlier iteration of Mediacorp – urged him to present it a attempt.
Lance described the Good 10 audition course of, the place he was in an workplace full of a whole lot of hopefuls. “They provide you a quantity and also you go right into a room and browse a script. They cannot see you but when they like your voice, somebody comes out from one other door and says, ‘Okay we’d wish to get extra particulars from you’.”
He aced the interview and the written take a look at and with “no expertise, nothing” and somewhat coaching, was given the 2-5pm time slot.
It was an thrilling first job for positive. He was paid to play music, which he beloved anyway. He bought to fulfill and interview widespread singers and bands; he recounted a narrative the place he pushed open the studio door not realising Seal was behind it and dinged the Kiss From A Rose singer’s guitar, and the way Jon Bon Jovi “was a little bit of a diva”.
Lance’s life may have taken a totally completely different path. Across the similar time, he was provided one other job – with the Nationwide Productiveness Board. There have been additionally a number of moments throughout his profession the place he may have dropped out of broadcasting solely, however someway, he all the time discovered a method again.
After his 18-month stint at Good 10, he moved to tv, initially to be an leisure producer for AM Singapore, Singapore’s first ever English-language morning present on Channel 5 that launched in 1994. Nonetheless, when one of many presenters couldn’t proceed, he was requested to co-anchor the present as a substitute – with none TV expertise.
“You are nervous, however you got a possibility, and you’re taking it. And that is what I did,” Lance stated.
He didn’t totally surrender on radio although – he was nonetheless producing different music segments for Good 10 for the subsequent three years.