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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.
When Lo Man's getai business becomes unable to keep up with the times, and also because of the Speak Mandarin Campaign, he decided to add English lyrics to Chinese and Hokkien songs, much to the dismay to Master Lo Man, his friends, Ah Fei and Ah Hua, and frequent getai-goers. At the same time, his poor command of the English language made it ...
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]
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).
The song was composed by Namewee, in the lyrics she tells others that she is a "Malaysian Chabor" (Malaysian girl), and not Korean which is what people assumed. [5] The word 'chabor' means girl in Hokkien. [6] The song spawned many covers and parodies. [7] The music video has since reached over 30 million views on YouTube as of 2023.
As the song was in Taiwanese Hokkien, the hosts repeatedly read the lyrics to help the students remember the pronunciation. [15] In the first half of the video, the protesting students fervently chanted, "Because of you, who defy the wind and rain, we can continue to be here, resolute in our presence.
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.
Taiwanese Hokkien (/ ... This is the case with some singers who can sing Taiwanese songs with native-like proficiency but can neither speak nor understand the language.