Man Weeps For Finding a Song After 20 Years of Searching

[Spooky]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3tOOHq4lik

Okay, I'll describe what's going on here: This man is from the Congo. One day he and his mother went to a Chinese grocer there and heard a song playing over the PA system. The mother liked it so much she asked the owner about it and the owner gave her the tape. The mother would listen to the song a lot and the man came to associate it with her (but of course, since it was all in Chinese they didn't know what it was called, who sang it, or anything about it). Later, the mother and the man emigrated to South Africa, and somewhere in the process, the tape was lost. Soon after, the mother died. The man was heartbroken that he had lost the song which always reminded him of his mother.
For 20 years he has worked as cab driver, and every time he got an Asian person in his cab, he would hum the song to see if the person could tell him what it was, but no one ever knew. Finally, one day, he had his first ever Taiwanese passengers; it turns out the song was Taiwanese, and they knew it immediately. What you see in the video is him reacting after hearing the song again after 20 years. Cool story.

https://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/3jcyfn/man_weeps_for_finding_a_song_after_20_years_of/cuo4ti3

[Phyll33]

 Neat story. The person singing it doesn't look that old unless it is a very old video. Did they have those 20 years ago?

[Spooky]

Neat story. The person singing it doesn't look that old unless it is a very old video. Did they have those 20 years ago?

Yep.  I think there were even more music videos 20 years ago than there are today, at least MTV still played music videos back them.

[Eric]

Here's the music video from 1990: 

https://youtu.be/qkCQxD-oe9s

[Phyll33]

 I saw that but didn't realize it was 25 years old. I was never a big video watcher. That is a nice story.