Final Wonderland
''Final Wonderland'' () is a greatest hits album by Taiwanese singer Jolin Tsai. It was released on September 19, 2007, by Sony BMG. It contains 40 songs and 22 music videos previously released by Sony, and two remixed medleys. Background and release On July 23, 2002, Tsai signed a recording contract with Sony, through which she later released three studio albums—''Magic'' (2003), ''Castle'' (2004), and ''J-Game'' (2005), the three albums have sold more than 1.5 million, 1.5 million, and 1.2 million copies in Asia, respectively. In Taiwan, the three albums have sold more than 360,000, 300,000, and 260,000 copies, respectively, and each of them became the highest-selling album by a female artist and the second highest-selling album overall in their respective years of release. On February 16, 2006, Tsai signed a recording contract with EMI. On May 5, 2006, Sony BMG released for Tsai the greatest hits album, '' J-Top''. On November 3, 2006, Sony BMG released for Tsai the compila ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Jolin Tsai
Jolin Tsai (; ; born September 15, 1980) is a Taiwanese singer, songwriter, and actress. Referred to as the " Queen of C-Pop", she is considered one of the most influential figures in Chinese popular culture. She is known for her continual reinvention and versatility in musical style and visual image, and she has achieved great reputation and popularity in the Chinese-speaking world. She maintains control of every aspect of her career, and she is regarded as a key figure in popularizing dance-pop as mainstream music in Greater China. Her works, which incorporate social themes, have generated both commercial success and critical acclaim. In 1998, Tsai won a television singing competition produced by MTV Mandarin. Her debut album ''1019'' (1999) made her become an instant hit, and her first girl-next-door incarnation made her a teen idol with a huge teenage fanbase. Her album ''Magic'' (2003), which reflected her first musical reinvention, marked the beginning of her dance-orien ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Dancing Diva
''Dancing Diva'' () is the eighth studio album by Taiwanese singer Jolin Tsai. It was released on May 12, 2006, by EMI and Mars. Produced by Adia, Paul Lee, Peter Lee, Paula Ma, Yuri Chan, and Stanley Huang, its musical style is mainly based on pop and electronic music, the slick dance songs with dazzling dance moves also reveal a strong exotic atmosphere. It was well received by music critics, who commented that it is variety in content and well produced, and has an extremely high listenability and popularity, which established Tsai's representative status as a dance-pop artist in the Chinese music scene. The album sold more than 2.5 million copies in Asia. In Taiwan, it sold more than 300,000 copies, becoming the year's highest-selling album. The album earned three Golden Melody Award nominations, it was nominated for Best Mandarin Album, Tsai was nominated for Best Female Mandarin Singer, and Adia was nominated for Best Single Producer for "Dancing Diva". Eventually, she wo ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Ivana Wong
Ivana Wong Yuen Chi (Chinese: 王菀之; born 18 June 1980) is a Hong Kong female singer-songwriter who entered the music industry in 2005. In subsequent years, she swept the board of creative singer awards as well as songwriting awards. She was awarded the Singer-Songwriter Awards in Commercial Radio's Ultimate Song Chart Awards Presentation for seven consecutive years, including four times of Singer-Songwriter Gold Awards, for which she was widely acclaimed as “the Queen of Singer Songwriters (唱作皇后)”. In 2011, Ivana wrote and performed the theme song “Missed Address” for the movie “A Beautiful Life” directed by Andrew Lau Wai-keung. It was nominated as Best Original Film Song in a Movie Picture. In 2012, her song “Liu Bai” achieved the 2012 Golden Song JSG Award (Jade Solid Gold Awards Presentation) and was the only song awarded in all four music award ceremonies in the industry. Her debut concert held in the Hong Kong Coliseum in October 2011, ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Kevin Yi
Kevin Yi is a Chinese lyricist. He has been nominated for Best Lyricist in the Golden Melody Awards, and has worked alongside a number of notable artists, including Stefanie Sun, JJ Lin, Coco Lee, Chief Zhao and Yida Huang. Yi is currently employed as an exclusive writer at Warner Chappell Music. Career Early career Kevin started to write his first lyrics as a student, and would always carry a notebook with him to keep his writing ideas. In his early career in the music industry, he joined the Marketing department of Rock Records in Taiwan. Kevin's first project was Chief Zhao's “A Tiny Bird” (我是一隻小小鳥). Kevin then moved on to serving as an A&R, and later joined BMG Music as the Marketing and Promotion Director. At the same time, he published numerous lyrics that became popular tracks. Songwriting Kevin wrote the lyrics for the Chinese version of “A Love Before Time”, the theme song for the Academy Award and Golden Globe Award-winning film '' Crouchi ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Konstantin Meladze
Konstantin Shotayevich Meladze (russian: Константин Шотаевич Меладзе, ka, კონსტანტინე მელაძე) (born 11 May 1963 in Batumi) is a Ukrainian-Russian composer and producer. He is the older brother of singer Valery Meladze and co-founder and co-producer of the Ukrainian girl group Nu Virgos (russian: ВИА Гра). Biography Early life Konstantin Meladze was born on 11 May 1963 in Batumi to Shota and Nelly Meladze, who were engineers. Konstantin has a brother, Valery (1965) and a sister, Liana (1968). Career Konstantin has composed and produced songs for artists such as Valery Meladze, Nu Virgos, Yin-Yang, Vera Brezhneva, Albina Dzhanabaeva, Sofia Rotaru ("Ya zhe yego lyubila" and "Odin na svete") and Polina Gagarina. He has also composed songs for a number of films, including ''Lilya 4-ever'' and a Russian 2003 version of ''Cinderella'' (russian: Золушка, italic=yes) and '' Hipsters''. In 2016 and 2017 he was a jud ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Mads Hauge
Mads Hauge (born 10 February 1977) is a Norwegian songwriter and producer from Bergen, Norway. He has written the Natasha Bedingfield hit Soulmate and various songs for Pixie Lott including Cry Me Out, Kiss the Stars and UK #1s Mama Do and Boys and Girls. He has also written for other artists, including the Eliza Doolittle song Go Home and the Darren Hayes Darren Stanley Hayes (born 8 May 1972) is an Australian singer and songwriter. He was the frontman and singer of the pop duo Savage Garden until their disbandment. Their 1997 album ''Savage Garden (Savage Garden album), Savage Garden'' peaked a ... song Nearly Love. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Hauge, Mads Norwegian songwriters Living people 1977 births ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Wayne Wilkins
Wayne Wilkins is a British record producer, songwriter, record engineer and record mixer. He has produced and written for artists such as Rick Astley ("Cry for Help"), Natasha Bedingfield (" These Words", "Single" and " Love Like This"), Beyoncé (" Sweet Dreams"), Cheryl Cole ("Fight For This Love", and "Promise This"), and Jordin Sparks ("Battlefield"). Early life Wilkins was born in Croydon, London. He began taking piano lessons by the age of four. Wilkins earned a scholarship to a music conservatory as a child. Growing up, he played organ at cathedrals and other venues around London. Wilkins went on to Royal College of Music in London. Wilkins later graduated with a physics degree from Imperial College. While in college one of Wilkins early jobs was teaching piano. He also interned at Townhouse Studios and Olympic Studios where he received further training in engineering, mixing, and producing. Career While Wilkins was interning at Olympic Studios he got the opportun ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Savan Kotecha
Savan Harish Kotecha is an American songwriter and record producer from Austin, Texas. Kotecha is of Indian (Gujarati) descent. He was also the executive music producer of the 2020 film '' Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga'', for which he wrote and produced several songs and performed one song. Notable songs Some of the artists for whom Kotecha has co-written notable songs include: *Lizzo (" 2 Be Loved") *Ariana Grande (" Problem", " Break Free", "Love Me Harder", " One Last Time", "Focus", " Into You", "Side to Side", "Bang Bang", " No Tears Left to Cry", " God Is a Woman", " Breathin", "Break Up with Your Girlfriend, I'm Bored") *Katy Perry ("Rise") *Westlife (" Obvious", " Amazing", " Us Against the World", " Beautiful in White") *The Weeknd ("Can't Feel My Face", " In The Night") *Ellie Goulding (" Love Me like You Do", " On My Mind", " Close to Me") * Usher ("DJ Got Us Fallin' in Love") *Maroon 5 (" One More Night") *Britney Spears ("I Wanna Go", " If You See ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Vincent Fang (lyricist)
Vincent Fang (; born 26 January 1969) is a Taiwanese lyricist, best known for his collaboration with singer-songwriter Jay Chou. Fang has been nominated for multiple Golden Melody Awards, and won ''Best Lyricist'' at the 19th Golden Melody Awards for Jay Chou's "青花瓷" (Blue and White Porcelain) from ''On the Run''. He is considered to be at the forefront of China Wind music, with his works often treated as poetry of artistic merit that garners high critical regard. In 1997, he sent samples of his lyrics to record companies, hoping to find a new career that complemented his passion for writing. Record company owner Jacky Wu was impressed with his work and hired Fang to work with Chou, who had just started his songwriting career. In 2000, Chou released his first album (titled ''Jay'') and since then produced albums in which Fang contributes the majority of the lyrics. Chou's fame grew rapidly across Asia, pulling Fang into the limelight as well. Fang's lyrics are noted for ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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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]   |
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Awa Manneh
Awa Manneh (born 7 January 1982) is a Swedish R&B/soul singer. She has been the lead singer of the music group Blacknuss. As a solo singer she is known for the songs ''All yours'', "Hip Hop Ballad", "Behind Schedule" and "Say a little prayer". The song ''All yours'' she made along with Thomas Rusiak Thomas Rusiak (; born Erik Thomas Sihlberg 8 November 1976) is a Swedish rapper, hip hop producer, musician and singer. Rusiak's father was the rather prominent Polish jazz saxophonist, Alfred Banasiak. Rusiak was initially a member of the Stockho .... In 2003, she was voted "Sexiest Swedish woman of the year" by QX. Personal life Born in Sweden, Manneh is of Gambian descent. References Living people 1982 births Swedish people of Gambian descent 20th-century Swedish women singers 21st-century Swedish women singers English-language singers from Sweden {{Sweden-singer-stub ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |