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Matthew Tan
Matthew Tan is a Singaporean musician and bandleader. He has led Matthew and the Mandarins in its various forms since the 1960s. He is also the co-composer of the hit songs "Singapore Cowboy" and " Let's Put The Sing In Singapore". Background Tan leads the band Matthew and the Mandarins, formed in 1961. Tan was the first Asian to ever perform at the Grand Ole Opry.'' Today'', 18 January 2013 "Celebrating Matthew Tan and Singapore Country", by Christopher Toh/ref> Career 1960s to 1970s By the mid-1960s his band was playing in hotels.Mothership.sg, December 22, 2014 "8 Pop acts you boogied to if you were alive in the 60s", by Joshua Lee/ref> In 1975, Tan flew to Nashville, Tennessee, United States, where the country and western action was. There, he performed at the Grand Ole Opry and did a duet with Skeeter Davis. He spent 18 months there before returning to Singapore. By the 1970s his group had achieved a large following. Following their signing to EMI Singapore in 1978, hi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Country Music
Country (also called country and western) is a genre of popular music that originated in the Southern and Southwestern United States in the early 1920s. It primarily derives from blues, church music such as Southern gospel and spirituals, old-time, and American folk music forms including Appalachian, Cajun, Creole, and the cowboy Western music styles of Hawaiian, New Mexico, Red Dirt, Tejano, and Texas country. Country music often consists of ballads and honky-tonk dance tunes with generally simple form, folk lyrics, and harmonies often accompanied by string instruments such as electric and acoustic guitars, steel guitars (such as pedal steels and dobros), banjos, and fiddles as well as harmonicas. Blues modes have been used extensively throughout its recorded history. The term ''country music'' gained popularity in the 1940s in preference to '' hillbilly music'', with "country music" being used today to describe many styles and subgenres. It came to encomp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
