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Elva Hsiao (album)
''Elva First Album'' () is the debut album by Taiwanese singer Elva Hsiao Elva Hsiao (, born 24 August 1979) is a Taiwanese singer, dancer, actress and businesswoman. Since being signed to a record deal in 1998 after competing in a singing competition, Hsiao has gone on to release fourteen studio albums and has achie ..., released on 17 November 1999 by Virgin Records Taiwan. Gold Typhoo''Elva Hsiao Self-Titled Album'' info 17 November 1999. Retrieved 2011-04-27 Track listing References External links * 1999 debut albums Elva Hsiao albums {{Taiwan-album-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elva Hsiao
Elva Hsiao (, born 24 August 1979) is a Taiwanese singer, dancer, actress and businesswoman. Since being signed to a record deal in 1998 after competing in a singing competition, Hsiao has gone on to release fourteen studio albums and has achieved great commercial success within the Chinese pop music industry. Known for her R&B influenced ballads, the artist's first album, '' Elva First Album'' (1999), was considered one of the first to incorporate R&B in the Chinese market. Her most recent album ''Naked Truth'' was released in 2020. Hsiao was recognized as one of four of the most popular female singers in the Chinese music scene among her contemporaries. As a result, she has also been brand ambassadors to various brand names such as, Motorola, Sprite, De Beers, Avon, Pantene and Ford. Hsiao was named one of Taiwan's top earning singers in 2014, with more than US$18 million earned. Life and career Hsiao was signed to EMI Virgin Records in 1998, as their first artist, afte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pop Music
Pop music is a genre of popular music that originated in its modern form during the mid-1950s in the United States and the United Kingdom. The terms ''popular music'' and ''pop music'' are often used interchangeably, although the former describes all music that is popular and includes many disparate styles. During the 1950s and 1960s, pop music encompassed rock and roll and the youth-oriented styles it influenced. ''Rock'' and ''pop'' music remained roughly synonymous until the late 1960s, after which ''pop'' became associated with music that was more commercial, ephemeral, and accessible. Although much of the music that appears on record charts is considered to be pop music, the genre is distinguished from chart music. Identifying factors usually include repeated choruses and hooks, short to medium-length songs written in a basic format (often the verse-chorus structure), and rhythms or tempos that can be easily danced to. Much pop music also borrows elements from other styles ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chinese Language
Chinese (, especially when referring to written Chinese) is a group of languages spoken natively by the ethnic Han Chinese majority and many minority ethnic groups in Greater China. About 1.3 billion people (or approximately 16% of the world's population) speak a variety of Chinese as their first language. Chinese languages form the Sinitic branch of the Sino-Tibetan languages family. The spoken varieties of Chinese are usually considered by native speakers to be variants of a single language. However, their lack of mutual intelligibility means they are sometimes considered separate languages in a family. Investigation of the historical relationships among the varieties of Chinese is ongoing. Currently, most classifications posit 7 to 13 main regional groups based on phonetic developments from Middle Chinese, of which the most spoken by far is Mandarin (with about 800 million speakers, or 66%), followed by Min (75 million, e.g. Southern Min), Wu (74 million, e.g. Shangh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Virgin Records
Virgin Records is a record label owned by Universal Music Group. It originally founded as a British independent record label in 1972 by entrepreneurs Richard Branson, Simon Draper, Nik Powell, and musician Tom Newman. It grew to be a worldwide success over time, with the success of platinum performers Paula Abdul, Janet Jackson, Devo, Tangerine Dream, Genesis, Phil Collins, OMD, the Human League, Culture Club, Simple Minds, Lenny Kravitz, the Sex Pistols, and Mike Oldfield among others, meaning that by the time it was sold, it was regarded as a major label, alongside other large international independents such as A&M and Island Records. Virgin Records was sold to EMI in 1992. EMI was in turn taken over by Universal Music Group (UMG) in 2012 with UMG creating the Virgin EMI Records division. The Virgin Records name continues to be used by UMG in certain markets such as Germany and Japan. Virgin Records America Virgin Records America, Inc. was the company's North American ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jae Chong
Jae Chong (born January 8, 1972) is a musician and producer known for his works in the Asian music scene. He has written and produced for many artists such as L.A. Boyz, Stanley Huang, and more recently Aziatix and Royal Pirates. Career Chong's professional music career started in Los Angeles during the early 1990s, producing local rap groups such as Baby G, The Funky Few, and Soul Selection. He is one of the three members of the group, Solid (as well as the writer and producer), which was the first R&B group in South Korea with record sales exceeding 4 million. Chong then shifted his focus to the Asian music scene by writing and producing songs for various artists in Asia. He went on to write and produce for many international artists like Coco Lee, Kim Gun-mo, Shin Seung-hun, Stanley Huang and L.A. Boyz. In 2003 he also took part in launching the first hip hop entertainment company in Taiwan, MACHI Entertainment. He was also the first Korean American ever to be nominated f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Red Rose (album)
''Red Rose'' () is the second studio album by Taiwanese singer Elva Hsiao Elva Hsiao (, born 24 August 1979) is a Taiwanese singer, dancer, actress and businesswoman. Since being signed to a record deal in 1998 after competing in a singing competition, Hsiao has gone on to release fourteen studio albums and has achie ..., released on 15 August 2000 by Virgin Records Taiwan. The songs, "My Exciting Solitary Life" and "Rose", reached number fifteen and forty-three respectively on Hit FM Annual Top 100 Singles in 2000. HITO Radi''Hit Fm Annual Top 100 Singles Chart'' - 2000 (#1 to 50)Retrieved 2011-06-29 Track listing References External links * 2000 albums Elva Hsiao albums {{Taiwan-album-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
J (singer)
Chung Jae-young (; born May 2, 1977), better known by the stage names J and J.ae (), is a Korean-American singer based in South Korea. She debuted in 1998 with the album, ''J: Gold''. Early life J grew up in San Francisco, California, and later Springfield, Virginia, where she attended West Springfield High School. She was discovered when she won the local title in a regional Miss Korea beauty pageant in Washington, D.C. Career In 2002, J was invited to contribute her talent to the FIFA World Cup's official album. Her song "Gotta Get Love" was featured on ''The Official Album of the 2002 FIFA World Cup'' Korea/Japan Edition. In 2007, she released a contemporary Christian Contemporary history, in English-language historiography, is a subset of modern history that describes the historical period from approximately 1945 to the present. Contemporary history is either a subset of the late modern period, or it is o ... album ''In My Lifetime''. The album had a more R&B/hip- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chien Yao
Chien Yao (born June 21, 1961 in Taiwan) is a Taiwanese lyricist and author, known for supporting and beginning the careers of many artists. Yao is known to write about female sentiments He has supported the careers of many A-list singers. Yao had served in Dian Jiang Records and Sony Music Taiwan, and had been the GM of EMI Records Taiwan, Virgin Records Taiwan, and Music Nation Group Taiwan. Yao is currently retired from executive positions and serves as an exclusive writer for Warner Chappell Music, Hong Kong Limited Taiwan Branch. Early life Yao grew up in a veteran family from Tainan. From a very young age, his love for arts has developed and he was very active in participating in all kinds of arts contest. Although he never received any recognition then, the contests allowed him to reinforce his passion for arts and develop his own perspective. With Industrial Design as his major, Yao studied in Tainan Kunshan College (now Kunshan Technology University), he started his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Albert Leung
Albert Leung (born 7 December 1961, ) is a lyricist and writer based in Hong Kong. Education Leung attended all-boy secondary schools at Chan Sui Ki (La Salle) College and La Salle College. He received a bachelor of arts in translation from the University of Hong Kong in 1984. Songwriting career He has been a Cantopop lyricist since 1985, using the pen name Lam Chik. The Chinese characters for this name, 林夕, written vertically, look like the compound (simplified) character (jyutping: mung6, pinyin: mèng), meaning "dream". He has written over 3500 song lyrics. He is well known for composing lyrics very quickly. On TVB's show '' Be My Guest'', he admitted that his fastest record for writing the complete lyrics to a song is 45 minutes. His most noted songwriting partnership is with composer Zhang Yadong for Faye Wong, but he has also written with Leslie Cheung, Andy Lau, [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francis Lee (lyricist)
Francis Lee or Zhuoxiong Li, ( 李焯雄 in Chinese) is a critically acclaimed and prolific Chinese-pop lyricist, who has won 2 "Best Lyricist Awards" ( 14th for Karen Mok'"Love"or 莫文蔚br> 愛 and 26th for Karen Mok'"Departures/ BuSan,BuJian"or 莫文蔚br> 不散，不見 in Taiwan’s reputable "Golden Melody Awards"（ 金曲奬）. He has also written many theme songs for movies and TV drama as well as commercials, including John Woo’s ( 吳宇森) "Red Cliff:Part 1" 赤壁．上心·戰 ～RED CLIFF～ or "Heart,War～RED CLIFF～"）Red Cliff (film) 赤壁 (电影) and "Red Cliff:Part 2" 赤壁．下赤壁 〜大江東去〜 or "Red Cliff 〜River Of No Return". His other international projects include the Chinese version of the theme song "Wavin' Flag" to 2010 FIFA World Cup sung by Jacky Cheung ( 張學友, Zhang Xue-you), Jane Zhang ( 張靚穎 Zhang Liang Ying) and K'naan. Francis Lee is also a writer. His most recent publication i同名同姓的人http ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Martine McCutcheon
Martine Kimberley Sherrie McCutcheon (formerly Ponting, born 14 May 1976) is an English actress and singer. She began appearing in television commercials at an early age and made her television debut in the children's television drama ''Bluebirds'' in 1989. In the early 1990s, she had minor success as one third of the pop group Milan, but it was her role as Tiffany Mitchell in the BBC's soap opera ''EastEnders'' and her role in the 2003 romantic comedy ''Love Actually'' that brought her stardom. For the former she won the National Television Award, while the latter earned her the Empire and MTV Movie awards. She was written out of ''EastEnders'' at the end of 1998 and then embarked on a pop career, this time as a solo artist. McCutcheon's debut studio album, '' You Me & Us'' (1999), peaked at number two in the UK, and spawned the UK number one single " Perfect Moment" and two UK top 10 entries, "I've Got You" and the double-sided " Talking in Your Sleep/" Love Me". Its follow-u ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jason Hazeley And Joel Morris
Jason Hazeley and Joel Morris are a British comedy writing duo. Their work includes a collection of parody Ladybird books, and they have written scripts for many British comedy series and films, including ''That Mitchell and Webb Look'', Charlie Brooker's '' Screenwipe'' and the ''Paddington'' films. Early lives Hazeley (then known as Jason Smith) and Morris met at King Edward VI Grammar School in Chelmsford, Essex. Whilst at school they produced a parody newsletter, and at sixth form received their first paid work after selling a joke to the Russ Abbott show. Career Television and film Hazeley and Morris have written for a number of British TV shows and films. These include ''That Mitchell and Webb Look'', '' A Touch of Cloth'', Charlie Brooker's '' Screenwipe'', ''Electionwipe'' and '' Newswipe'' programmes, and several Philomena Cunk series. The pair are regular contributors to the British adult comic '' Viz''. The 2016 Electionwipe won the BAFTA award for best Comedy and ente ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
