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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.
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).
Chiang Yu-man (born 30 July 1961), better known by her stage name Long Qianyu, is a Taiwanese Hokkien pop singer. She has released 55 albums. She has released 55 albums. External links
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.
[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 ...
The album also ranked in the Top 20 Music Videos on television's Channel [V] and was nominated by MTV for the best music video of the year. In January 1998, Wu released his first album in Taiwanese Hokkien, Lonely Tree, Lonely Bird , to critical acclaim.
Lee E-jun (Chinese: 李翊君; pinyin: Lǐ Yìjūn, born 27 April 1969) is a Taiwanese singer.. Lee has released over thirty albums in Cantonese, Mandarin and Hokkien.She is best known for singing the theme songs for many television dramas adapted from Chiung Yao's novels, [1] such as My Fair Princess (1998).
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]