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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 ...
After the First Sino-Japanese War, due to military defeat to the Japanese, the Qing dynasty ceded Taiwan to Japan, causing contact with the Hokkien-speaking regions of mainland China to stop. During Japanese rule, Japanese became an official language in Taiwan, and Taiwanese began to absorb a large number of Japanese loanwords into its language.
Tsai's song "Forgotten Times" (《被遺忘的時光》) is featured prominently in the 2002 hit Hong Kong film Infernal Affairs as a recurring element of its story line, and also in its sequels. Besides serving to elucidate the theme of the films, the song plays an important plot function in chronologically connecting various elements of the ...
In 1990, she released a series of Hokkien classical songs 歌坛小公主 (The Singing Princess), featuring her playing the piano or guitar as she was singing or dancing. A famous release was the 黄金九岁山歌黄梅调 (Golden 9 years: Huang mei diao Chinese opera) at the age of 9, in which she starred as both boy and girl singing mandarin ...
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.
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]
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.