SINGAPORE - When we say Alfred Sim cannot wait to show you everything he’s got, we mean it quite literally. Just take a look at his debut eponymous EP, and you will see the singer in various states of undress.

“I am not a teen idol, and I don’t have a pretty face, so I can only rely on my body,” Sim quipped, during our interview at Switch By Timbre.

The 34-year-old, who is also an athletics coach, said he underwent two months of physical training for the shoot.

“When we were discussing the concept of the shoot, we talked about how we were going to show the process of what I have been through,” said the 2014 Project Superstar winner, who is releasing his first record after 10 years in the music business. “We decided that I could show scars on my body to represent what I have experienced since the start of my career.”

He explained why, despite not making it to the finals in the first two seasons of Project Superstar, he never gave up. “Because I love singing. I think that is what’s most important - you have to love what you do. If you don’t have passion, you won’t have any goals, and without goals, it is very difficult to carry on living. I am quite glad I have managed to turn my passions into my career.”

Naturally, Sim’s wife, the singer-songwriter Tay Kewei, was consulted during the making of the record.

“She was very involved in the process, from the choice of songs, to the concept of the album, to the choice of outfits. We discussed everything,” he said, joking that Tay, with four albums under her belt, had the upper hand in terms of their music careers.

Sim plans to spend the next few months going to Malaysia, Hong Kong, Taiwan and China to promote his new record. Although he knows that, with the music industry the way it currently is, it will be difficult to make a profit from album sales, he is content with the knowledge that he has finally produced an album of his own.

“I feel quite nervous. I don’t usually feel so nervous when I perform, or even when I take part in competitions. But this time, I am releasing something of my own, and it feels like, wow, I have finally arrived at this day,” he said. “I’d really thought it was impossible.”