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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.
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 ...
Henry Hsu (Chinese: 許富凱; born 17 September 1987) is a Taiwanese singer of Hokkien pop. Hsu albums include Most Loved (2011), [1] [2] Writing Your Song (2012), [3] and Yicunzhenxin [An Inch of True Heart] (2014). [4] [5] [6] Hsu's subsequent Hokkien albums have been shortlisted for Golden Melody Awards.
Also: Taiwan: People: By occupation: Pop singers: Hokkien pop singers Pages in category "Taiwanese Hokkien pop singers" The following 50 pages are in this category, out of 50 total.
Taiwanese Hokkien is a variety ... of their relevance to modern society and popular culture. ... who can sing Taiwanese songs with native-like proficiency but can ...
In 1997, she recorded 猜心 (Guess the Heart) of popular pop songs, the Spring/CNY albums 春语 (Spring Language), and her solo albums (Hokkien) 恋梦 (Love dream), with the first also known as 少女之情怀 (The love feeling of a young girl) and the second known as 伸手等你牵 (Stretch my hands waiting for you to hold).
Mayday's songs are written mostly in Mandarin with some Taiwanese Hokkien tracks by Ashin, who speaks fluent Hokkien in addition to Mandarin. They are popular for their student band roots, and their ability to capture the zeitgeist of Taiwanese youth in the mid to late 1990s. [27]
The best-studied element of traditional Bunun music is improvised polyphonic song. Folk instruments include pestles, five-stringed zithers and the jaw harp. In modern times, David Darling, an American cellist, created a project to combine cello and Bunun traditional music, resulting in an album titled Mudanin Kata.