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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.
Nanguan (Chinese: 南管; pinyin: Nánguǎn; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Lâm-kóan; lit. 'southern pipes'; also nanyin, nanyue, xianguan, or nanqu) is a style of Chinese classical music from the southern Chinese province of Fujian. [1] It is also popular in Taiwan, particularly Lukang on west coast, as well as among Overseas Chinese in Southeast Asia. [2]
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.
The Chinese pop song "Drizzle" was composed by Li Jinhui around 1927 and sung by his daughter Li Minghui. [6] [7] [8] The song exemplifies the early shidaiqu in its fusion of jazz and Chinese folk music – the tune is in the style of a traditional pentatonic folk melody, but the instrumentation is similar to that of an American jazz orchestra. [9]
Hokkien media is the mass media produced in Hokkien. Taiwan is by far the largest producer of Hokkien-language media. [1] The "golden age" of both Hokkien popular music and film in Asia was the mid-1950s through to the mid-1960s. [1]
[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 ...
Mandopop or Mandapop refers to Mandarin popular music.The genre has its origin in the jazz-influenced popular music of 1930s Shanghai known as Shidaiqu; later influences came from Japanese enka, Hong Kong's Cantopop, Taiwan's Hokkien pop, and in particular the campus folk song folk movement of the 1970s. [1] "
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]