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Gary Chaw (album)
Gary Chaw (; born 9 July 1979 in Kota Belud, Sabah, Malaysia), also known as Gary Cao or Cao Ge or by his alter ego Cao Xiaoge, is a Malaysian Chinese singer-songwriter based in Taiwan, who has had achieved success in Taiwan, Mainland China, Malaysia, Hong Kong, and Singapore. He is renowned for his stage presence, wide vocal range, and rich voice. In addition, he composes for himself and other singers. Biography Chaw lived with his grandfather since he was 11 months old as his parents separated when he was 9 months old. He received his early education in Canada when he was 9. He later went on to continue his studies in Engineering at the University of Auckland in New Zealand. However, he left New Zealand before completing his studies. He can speak Mandarin, Cantonese, English, French, Hakka, Hokkien & Malay fluently. Career Music In 2010 he joined BMA and has since been dubbed "Asia Best Male Singer" by the media. His most recent concert tour of Asia, "Welcome to My Wor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cao (Chinese Surname)
Cao is the pinyin romanization of the Chinese surname (''Cáo''). It is listed 26th in the Song Dynasty, Song-era ''Hundred Family Surnames'' poem. Cao is romanized as "Tsao" in Wade-Giles (Ts'ao), which is widely adopted in Taiwan, although the apostrophe is often omitted in practice. It is romanized "Cho", "Tso", and "Chaw" in Cantonese; "Chou", "Chô", and "Chháu" in Hokkien; and "Chau", "Chow" in Teochew dialect, Teochew.The Vietnamese surname based on it is now written "Tao (surname), Tào". It is romanized "Zau" or "Dzau" in Shanghainese. Distribution Cao is the list of common Chinese surnames#People's Republic, 30th-most-common surname in mainland China as of 2019 and the list of common Chinese surnames#Republic, 58th-most-common surname on Taiwan. In the United States, the romanization Cao is a fairly list of common US surnames, common surname, ranked 7,425th during the 1990 US Census, 1990 census but 2,986th during the year 2000 US census, 2000 census. It is one of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2008 Beijing Olympics
The 2008 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XXIX Olympiad () and also known as Beijing 2008 (), were an international multisport event held from 8 to 24 August 2008, in Beijing, China. A total of 10,942 athletes from 204 National Olympic Committees (NOCs) competed in 28 sports and 302 events, one event more than those scheduled for the 2004 Summer Olympics. This was the first time China had hosted the Olympic Games, and the third time the Summer Olympic Games had been held in East Asia, following the 1964 Olympics in Tokyo, Japan, and the 1988 Olympics in Seoul, South Korea. These were also the second Summer Olympic Games to be held in a communist state, the first being the 1980 Summer Olympics in the Soviet Union (with venues in Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, and Estonia). Beijing was awarded the 2008 Games over four competitors on 13 July 2001, having won a majority of votes from members of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) after two rounds of vot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A-Mei
Kulilay Amit (, born 9 August 1972), better known by her stage name A-Mei, is a Taiwanese Puyuma singer and record producer. In 1996, she made her singing debut and released her album, ''Sisters''. Her albums ''Truth'' (2001), ''Amit'' (2009), and ''Faces of Paranoia'' (2014) each won her a Golden Melody Award for Best Mandarin Female Singer and made the Taiwanese diva one of the singers who won the category the most times. Having sold over 50 million records, she has achieved success in the Mandarin-speaking world and is often referred to as the " Queen of Mandopop". Life and career 1972–1996: Early years and career beginnings A-Mei was born on 9 August 1972 in a Puyuma family in Beinan, Taitung, Taiwan. Her Puyuma-language name is Kulilay Amit, alternatively transliterated Gulilai Amit. In 1992, A-Mei moved to Taipei and took part in the Five Lights Star Singing Contest presented by the Taiwanese TV program Five Lights Awards; she made it all the way through to the fina ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stevie Wonder
Stevland Hardaway Morris ( Judkins; May 13, 1950), known professionally as Stevie Wonder, is an American singer-songwriter, who is credited as a pioneer and influence by musicians across a range of genres that include rhythm and blues, Pop music, pop, Soul music, soul, Gospel music, gospel, funk, and jazz. A virtual one-man band, Wonder's use of synthesizers and other electronic musical instruments during the 1970s reshaped the conventions of Contemporary R&B, R&B. He also helped drive such genres into the album era, crafting his LP record, LPs as cohesive and consistent, in addition to socially conscious statements with complex compositions. Visual impairment, Blind since shortly after his birth, Wonder was a child prodigy who signed with Motown's Tamla label at the age of 11, where he was given the professional name Little Stevie Wonder. Wonder's single "Fingertips" was a No. 1 hit on the Billboard Hot 100, ''Billboard'' Hot 100 in 1963, at the age of 13, making him the List o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aaron Kwok
Aaron Kwok Fu-shing (born 26 October 1965) is a Hong Kong singer, dancer and actor. Active since the 1980s, Kwok is known as one of the "Four Heavenly Kings" of Hong Kong pop music. Dubbed the "God of Dance", Kwok's onstage dancing is influenced by the late American performer Michael Jackson. He has released over 30 studio albums in Cantonese and Mandarin, mostly in the dance-pop genre, with elements of rock, R&B, soul, electronica and traditional Chinese music. Concurrently with his music career, Kwok started as an actor with a role in the TVB television drama ''Genghis Khan'' (1987), followed by ''Twilight of a Nation'' (1988), ''Man from Guangdong'' (1991), ''Heartstrings'' (1994), and '' Wars of Bribery'' (1996). He gained widespread recognition in the movie '' Saviour of the Soul'' (1991), for which he was nominated for a Hong Kong Film Award for Best Supporting Actor, before starring in a string of box-office hits, including ''Future Cops'' (1993), '' China Strike Force' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cyndi Wang
Cyndi Wang Hsin-ling (; born 5 September 1982) is a Taiwanese singer and actress. Wang debuted her musical career as she released her debut album, ''Begin...'' (2003). Besides her musical career, Wang has starred in many TV dramas, including ''The Car Is In Pursuit'' (2000), ''Westside Story'' (2003), ''Heaven's Wedding Gown'' (2004), and ''Smiling Pasta'' (2006). She started her first tour in 2016, and second in 2019. Wang has been active in the Taiwanese music scene for more than eighteen years and at one point, she was one of the top female popstars in the Mandopop industry, regularly selling over a million copies of her every album across the Asia continent. She is widely known as one of the Mandopop Princess or The Taiwanese Sweetheart. Career Wang graduated from Okazaki Arts School and completed a drama course at Hwa Kang Arts School. Her father is '' Waishengren'' from Qingdao; while her mother is Hakka. Wang is a Buddhist, and has one younger brother. After their parent ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
19th Golden Melody Awards
Ceremonies of the 19th Golden Melody Awards () were held in Taipei, Taiwan in 2008. Nominees were announced on May 22, 2008, and the award winners in 12 traditional music categories (of 47 nominees) and 23 popular music categories (of 124 nominees) were selected by a panel of 33 judges after four rounds of jury meetings. Initially, there were 10,632 submissions from 185 companies in the music industry, making it the largest submission pool in the Awards' history. Winners for artistic and traditional music categories were announced on June 21, 2008, at Taipei County Hall in a ceremony separate from that for popular music categories. It was the second consecutive year that the ceremony for this category group was held separately, and it did not attract as much media attention as the ceremony for the popular music categories. By contrast, artists from Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia, Japan, and Canada attended the awards ceremony for popular music categories, which was held at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Superwoman (Karyn White Song)
"Superwoman" is a song by R&B singer Karyn White, released as the second single from her self-titled debut album in January 1989. It was her second U.S. top ten hit, peaking at number eight, and her second U.S. R&B number-one hit, holding that position for three weeks. It also earned a gold certification from the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). Track listing ;7" vinyl single (UK) # "Superwoman (Edit)" - 4:30 # " The Way You Love Me (Edit)" - 3:45 ;12" vinyl single (UK) # "Superwoman (Long Version)" # "Superwoman (7" Version)" - 4:30 # "The Way You Love Me (New York Groove Edit)" Charts Weekly charts Year-end charts Gladys Knight version In 1996, a version by Gladys Knight featuring Dionne Warwick and Patti LaBelle was featured on Knight's '' Good Woman'' album and released as a single. It reached No. 19 on the ''Billboard'' Hot R&B Singles The Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart ranks the most popular R&B and hip hop songs in the United States and is publish ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karyn White
Karyn Layvonne White (born October 14, 1965) is an American singer who was popular during the late 1980s and early 1990s. She is known for several hit singles including "Superwoman" (1988), " Secret Rendezvous" (1989), " The Way You Love Me" (1988), and the US Hot 100 No. 1 single " Romantic" (1991). Early life White was born in Los Angeles to Vivian and Clarence White. She is the youngest of five children. She sang in a church choir and worked as a backing singer, then sang on Jeff Lorber's 1986 ''Private Passion'' single "Facts of Love", "True Confessions" and "Back in Love" before signing to Warner Bros. Records. Career White's self-titled debut album ''Karyn White'' was released in 1988. It was produced by L.A. Reid and Babyface and achieved platinum status in the US. The album contained the Hot 100 hit singles " The Way You Love Me", " Secret Rendezvous", and "Superwoman" as well as the No. 1 R&B hit "Love Saw It", a duet with Babyface himself. White was nominated in the Be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Standard Mandarin
Standard Chinese ()—in linguistics Standard Northern Mandarin or Standard Beijing Mandarin, in common speech simply Mandarin, better qualified as Standard Mandarin, Modern Standard Mandarin or Standard Mandarin Chinese—is a modern standardized form of Mandarin Chinese that was first developed during the Republican Era (1912‒1949). It is designated as the official language of mainland China and a major language in the United Nations, Singapore, and Taiwan. It is largely based on the Beijing dialect. Standard Chinese is a pluricentric language with local standards in mainland China, Taiwan and Singapore that mainly differ in their lexicon. Hong Kong written Chinese, used for formal written communication in Hong Kong and Macau, is a form of Standard Chinese that is read aloud with the Cantonese reading of characters. Like other Sinitic languages, Standard Chinese is a tonal language with topic-prominent organization and subject–verb–object (SVO) word order. Compar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
TVB8
TVB8 was a Mandarin language general entertainment television channel owned and operated by TVB International. History On December 7, 1998, TVB Satellite Broadcasting Limited was established. and is the only one to enter overseas Chinese satellite TV market. TVB8 was launched, which is mainly broadcast in Mandarin language. TVB8 and TVB Xinghe Channel belongs to TVB were approved by the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television of the People's Republic of China for the Mainland China viewers. After 20 years of broadcasting, TVB8 ceased broadcasting on 15 August 2018 in Hong Kong and 1 September 2018 in Asia-Pacific and USA. See also * TVB * TVB Xinghe Channel * TVB Anywhere TVB Anywhere is an online pay-TV and shopping platform launched by Hong Kong television station Television Broadcasts Limited (TVB) for non-Hong Kong audience in 2016. It streams content from its TV channel via set-top box and mobile application ... {{TVB, state=expanded Television stations ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tracy Zhou
Tracy, Tracey, or Tracie may refer to: People and fictional characters * Tracy (name), including a list of people and fictional characters with the given name or surname, also encompassing spelling variations Places United States * Tracy, California ** Tracy Municipal Airport (California), airport owned by the City of Tracy ** Deuel Vocational Institution, a California state prison sometimes referred to as "Tracy" ** Tracy station, a train station in southern Tracy, California * Tracy, a neighborhood in Wallingford, Connecticut * Tracy, Illinois * Tracy, Indiana * Tracy, Iowa * Tracy, Kentucky * Tracy, Minnesota * Tracy, Missouri * Tracy, Montana * Tracy, New Jersey * Tracy, Oklahoma * Tracy City, Tennessee Elsewhere * Tracy, New Brunswick, Canada * Tracy Glacier (Greenland) Music * Tracie (singer) (Tracie Young, born 1965), British singer * ''Tracie'' (album), a 1999 album by Tracie Spencer * "Tracy" (The Cuff Links song), by The Cuff Links on their first album ''T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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