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Moon Night Sorrow (Chinese: 月夜愁; pe̍h ōe jī: Goa̍t-iā Chhiû; also known in English as Moon Night Blue, Moon Light Sorrow, and Moonlight Melancholy) is a popular Taiwanese Hokkien song, which takes its tune from the music of the Plains indigenous peoples of Taiwan.
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.
Wu Bai himself was disappointed by the quality of Taiwanese Hokkien songs at this time, believing them to simply be Mandarin-based melodies sung in the Hokkien language. The creative inspiration for the album was based on a vision of what Taiwan's music scene would be like if the Kuomintang had not suppressed songs in the Hokkien language. This ...
Chen Hsiao-yun (Chinese: 陳小雲; pinyin: Chén Xiǎoyún; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Tân Sió-hûn; 1958–), real name Chen Yun Xia (陳雲霞), is a Taiwanese Hokkien pop music singer. She graduated from the provincial Taichung Home Economics and Commercial High School and worked as an accountant.
By 2001, Taiwanese languages such as Taiwanese Hokkien, Hakka, and indigenous languages were taught in all Taiwanese schools. [ 85 ] [ failed verification ] [ dubious – discuss ] Since the 2000s, elementary school students are required to take a class in either Taiwanese, Hakka or aboriginal languages.
Although Teng is a Hakka, he usually composed with Taiwanese Hokkien and not Hakka. [4] Some scholars have questioned this story about children's songs. [5] [6] In 1934, while Chiu Thiam-ōng was working at record company Taiwan Columbia (古倫美亞唱片), he once went to a nightclub and heard a sad story about a girl who worked there.
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).
Chris Hung (Chinese: 洪榮宏; born 19 March 1963) is a Taiwanese enka and Hokkien pop singer and television host. Widely known as the "king of Taiwanese pop," he has won five Golden Melody Awards and one Golden Bell Award.