Xiaohan (), is a

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an female Chinese pop music lyricist.

Biography

She published her first lyrical work ('義無反顧' performed by 阮丹青) in 1998. Ever since 2000, where she earned a nomination spot in the Singapore Hit Awards with '你抽的煙', Xiaohan has been a consistent nominee in the annual event. She became the first female to be crowned Best Local Lyricist at the Singapore Hit Awards 2002 with '紙飛機'.Xin Msn Yes 93.3FM,
Past Winners of Singapore Hit Awards
", 7 June 2012 Xiaohan reclaimed the title again in 2004, with '無底洞'. She held on to the title in 2007, 2008 and 2010 with '雨天' (Performed by

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), '達爾文' and '抛物綫' (Both performed by

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) respectively. In addition to the Singapore Hit Awards, Xiaohan's lyrical works were also recognised in Singapore Compass Awards as well as Singapore eAwards.COMPASS, Published on 10 July 2011,
16TH COMPASS AWARDS PRESENTATION – LIST OF RECIPIENTS
", 8 June 2012 '達爾文' garnered Xiaohan her first regional Best Lyricist nomination in Taiwan's

Golden Melody Awards The Golden Melody Awards (), commonly abbreviated as GMA, is an honor awarded by Taiwan's Ministry of Culture to recognize outstanding achievement in the Mandarin, Taiwanese Hokkien, Hakka, and Formosan-languages popular and traditional music ...

in 2008.The Straits Times, Published on 24 May 2008,
Trio vying for Taiwan awards
, 8 June 2012 From the Chinese pop music scene, Xiaohan expanded her scope to penning lyrics for musicals.The Theatre Practice,
Creators of Liao Zhai Rocks
", 8 June 2012 She was also involved in the

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2006, a fund-raising album "Hands United" for the

2004 tsunami On 26 December 2004, at 07:58:53 local time (UTC+7), a major earthquake with a magnitude of 9.2–9.3 struck with an epicentre off the west coast of Aceh in northern Sumatra, Indonesia. The undersea megathrust earthquake, known in the scient ...

victims and being a judge in various competitions.Promote Mandarin Council, Published on 30 October 2006,
Speak Mandarin Campaign Celebrates with Movies, Music and Metaphors
, 8 June 2012 She is currently the co-director of Funkie Monkies Productions with Eric Ng.Funkie Monkies,

, 7 June 2012 With the collaboration of Funkie Monkies Productions with Royston Tan, Xiaohan participated in the making of the soundtracks for Royston Tan's blockbusters, "881" and "12蓮花"Sinema, Published on 20 October 2007,
Eric Ng on 881 Soundtrack 2
, 7 June 2012 In 2008 and 2009, Xiaohan had the honour of penning the mandarin version of the Singapore National Day theme song, titled '晴空萬里' (performed by

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) and '就在這裡'(performed by Kelvin Tan) respectively.People's Association-Culture Shiok, Published in September 2010,
Sep 2010 Feature – Xiao Han’s lyrical `World of Words’!
, 8 June 2012

Awards and nominations

Representative lyrical works

*纖維 (林憶蓮) *偉大的渺小 (林俊傑) *紙飛機 (林憶蓮) *詞不達意 (林憶蓮) *為我好 (梁靜茹) *無底洞 (蔡健雅) *達爾文(蔡健雅) *踮起腳尖愛 (洪佩瑜) *平衡感 (Alin) *我的愛(孫燕姿) *雨天 (孫燕姿) *平常心 (張惠妹) *壞的好人 (張惠妹) *We are One (蔡健雅、那英、林憶蓮、張惠妹、楊丞琳、蕭亞軒、Alin、小S) *單 (楊丞琳) *摩天輪 (田馥甄) *一人一半 (伍家輝) *敢傷 (蕭亞軒) *寂寞先生 (曹格) *孤獨患者 (陳奕迅) *淚若雨下 (喬毓明) * 一生一事 (EXO) * 为心導航 (EXO) * 梦想发射计划 (威神V) * 天空海（威神V）

Representative literary works

*眼淚是膠囊 (2011) *無指幸福 (2013) *回不去的候車站 (2015) *幸好我不是滿分女生 (2017)

Musicals involved

*老九 (2005, 2012 & 2017) *快樂 (2005) *聊斋 (2010)

Movie soundtracks

*881 OST 1 & 2 *12蓮花 OST *小字條

References

External links

Official website

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