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Hokkien pop, also known as Taiwanese Hokkien popular music, T-pop (Chinese: 臺語流行音樂), Tai-pop, Minnan Pop and Taiwanese folk (Chinese: 臺語歌), is a popular music genre sung in Hokkien, especially Taiwanese Hokkien and produced mainly in Taiwan and sometimes in Fujian in Mainland China or Hong Kong or even Singapore in Southeast Asia.
[7] [8] Chiu was touched, and he decided to rewrite the lyrics of "Spring", wrote the story into Teng's music, that is "The Torment of a Flower". [9] It is the first collaborative work between Teng and Chiu. Especially, there was usually three part lyrics in Taiwanese Hokkien songs then, but there are four parts in "The Torment of a Flower ...
Bāng Chhun-hong is a Taiwanese Hokkien song composed by Teng Yu-hsien, a Hakka Taiwanese musician, and written by Lee Lin-chiu. [1] The song was one of their representative works. It was released by Columbia Records in 1933, and originally sung by several female singers at that time, such as Sun-sun, [2] Ai-ai (愛愛) or Iam-iam (豔豔).
In the early 1960s, Yang Sanlang took over as the conductor of the band at the Keelung Landmark Club for American forces in Taiwan, where he also played the trumpet. [2] [3] Keelung, known for its rainy weather, inspired Yang on one such day to compose a sad melody using natural minor and the harmonic minor to perform a sad song on the trumpet, which he called "Rain Blues" (雨的BLUES).
The Sanlih media group was founded by Lin Kun-hai, his wife Lin Chang-Hsiu, and her brother Chang Rong-hua in 1983, producing videos of Taiwanese Hokkien music and variety programs with entertainers such as Chu Ke-liang. The network's name, literally meaning "three establishments", refers to the three cofounders of the company.
Weng Li-you (Chinese: 翁立友; pinyin: Wēng Lìyǒu; born 9 May 1975), known as Only You, is a Taiwanese Hokkien pop singer. Weng is known as Only You and began singing in 1998. [1] He won the Best Taiwanese Male Singer award at the 20th Golden Melody Awards. [2] Many of Weng's compositions have been used as theme songs for Taiwanese dramas. [3]
In about 2006, with the encouragement of Lee Ming-yang (李明洋), he started writing Taiwanese Hokkien songs. Since then, he has written at least 200 such songs. [5] After the movie Internal Affairs (無間道), which included his song "Forgotten Times," aired, the production company sent him a DVD of the film. Upon hearing his music, he ...
Following the movement, Sam Yang dedicated two days to composing the song "Island's Sunrise" and another day to recording it. [7] He revealed that he was deeply moved and even shed tears while writing the song, reflecting on the tragic violence resulting from the police's eviction of the protesters at the Executive Yuan.