Winners of the 20th Taiwan Golden Melody Awards…
Song of the Year: Jay Chou, “Fragrant of Rice”
Best album: Eason Chan, “Don’t Want to Let Go”
Best Mandarin male singer: Jay Chou, “Capricorn”
Best Mandarin female singer: Sandee Chan, “If There’s One Important Thing”
Best band: Mayday, “Poems of Post-Adolescence”
Best producer: Purdur, “Nanwan Sisters”
Best composer: Crowd Lu, “100 Types of Lives”
Best lyricist: Wu Yu-Hsuan, “Inside the Tram”
Best music video: Jay Chou, “Mr Magic”
Best performing group: Nanwan Sisters, “Nanwan Sisters”
Best newcomer: Crowd Lu, “100 Types of Lives”
[incomplete list, only the pop categories are listed; via Cfensi]
Music video of “I Love You”, an English song by Taiwanese singer Joanna Wang from her debut album “Start From Here”, released in early 2008. It’s a cover of David Tao’s mandarin song, “Love is Simple”…
Joanna’s unique voice has been a revolution to Chinese music market; the album was quite a hit and if not mistaken, among the top five best selling albums of the year in both Hong Kong and Taiwan.
Despite the success, the singer has in a few occasions mentioned that she’s not a fan of the album, because it was not showing her true self.
Her subsequent album, “Joanna & Wang Ruo Lin”, which was released in January 2009 is supposedly showing more of her capability not just as a singer, but also a songwriter with her own ideas; will share something about in future.
Mandarin music video, “Meaning of Travel” by Taiwanese artist Cheer Chen from her “Peripeteia” album in 2005. Some of the scenes were filmed in Okinawa, Japan…
The song is about a fading relationship; the girl was wondering what’s the purpose of her boyfriend’s frequent travel, only to one day realised that it’s because he wanted to leave her but unsure of breaking up officially.
Cantonese music video of “If I Can See You Again” by Leon Lai, featuring Korean actress Jun Ji-hyun as the MV model. The song was released in 1999 when Jun Ji-hyun was virtually unknown; the MV was filmed in China’s Tianshan… beautiful ain’t so?
International Chinese star Jackie Chan is going to hold a charity concert at Beijing National Stadium, the main Beijing Olympic venue which is popularly known as the Bird’s Nest.
Jackie Chan at the press conference (Image from
Baidu (Cn))
Jackie and the concert promoter held a press conference on April 1st to announce the news; the concert is scheduled to run on May 1st and would be the first major non-sport event to be held at the stadium.
Themed as “Descendant of the Dragon: Jackie Chan and Friends”, it’s expected that a few big names will be invited for the concert, with Jackie Chan taking the lead.
[Update] Among the confirmed invited guests are Korean star Rain, pop group Suju-M and Zhang Liyin. Other
Taiwanese singer Huang Yan Lin, popular known as Ah-Sang (or Ah-Sun), passed away on Monday morning (Apr 6) because of breast cancer. She was 34.
Sharing one of her hit songs below, “Leaf”, released in 2003. I’ve always love her singing; she will be missed, rest in peace…
Chinese music video “Compromise” (妥协) from Taiwanese diva Jolin Tsai’s latest album, “Butterfly”. Popular actor Ethan Ruan co-starred in the MV…
The song is about how the girl compromised on almost everything to keep her lover, but still ended up losing him… and probably losing her inner self.
Happy Chinese New Year, Happy Seollal (Korean) and Happy New Year to everyone who celebrates the Lunar New Year. For others, well… best wishes to you too :)
Sharing an old CNY song by Sam Hui, “God of Wealth has Arrived” (財神到)…
