Monster or Wen Shang-yi (; born 28 November 1976, in

Hsinchu County Hsinchu County (Wade–Giles: ''Hsin¹-chu²'') is a county in north-western Taiwan. The population of the county is mainly Hakka; with a Taiwanese aboriginal minority in the southeastern part of the county. Zhubei is the county capital, where ...

, Taiwan), is one of the two guitarists and leader of the Taiwanese rock band,

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. Monster became interested in music and the guitar while studying at the Affiliated Senior High School of National Taiwan Normal University where he also met three other Mayday members

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, Stone and Masa. He later became vice-president of the guitar society in high school and president of the Rock and Roll society at National Taiwan University during his university days.http://ent.people.com.cn/GB/80644/5682622.html(Chinese) An accomplished guitarist, he has also dabbled in album production, producing albums for Fish Leong, Della Ding, Alien Huang, Energy, Victor Wong, Jia Jia, Maggie Chiang, Fahrenheit,

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, Xiao Bing Chih and others. He also composed songs for many singers such as Jam Hsiao,

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and Stefanie Sun. Monster was given his own Signature Model

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from

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in 2014. He was added to the Gibson signature artist club as the second guitarist from Asia. Monster's admired guitarist is Matsumoto Takahiro, who are the leader and guitarist of the famous Japanese band B'z.

References

1976 births Living people Taiwanese people of Hakka descent Taiwanese guitarists People from Hsinchu Taiwanese Mandopop singers Taiwanese rock musicians National Taiwan University alumni Hakka musicians Taiwanese idols 21st-century Taiwanese male singers 21st-century guitarists {{Taiwan-musician-stub