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French Mandopop
French Mandopop () is a category of mandopop that appeared at the beginning of the 21st century. As the name implies, French Mandopop features songs performed mainly in Mandarin Chinese with a French style or a French touch. Consumers of the music include fans, especially Mandarin speakers and Chinese people attracted by French culture, in China, France and other countries. Characteristics French Mandopop is characterized by the following features: French speaking singers who perform in Mandarin Chinese, with a French accent or not, a non-Chinese style melody, French style mix and mastering. Chinese lyrics and themes are inspired by France and French imaginary. French Mandopop is also characterized by a French way (or western way) of performing on stage, not or almost not influenced by Chinese aesthetics. History 2000s The pioneer of French Mandopop, Dantès Dailiang, was the first French singer songwriter who writes his songs and sings in Mandarin Chinese signed by a Chinese reco ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mandopop
Mandopop or Mandapop refers to Mandarin popular music. The genre has its origin in the jazz-influenced popular music of 1930s Shanghai known as Shidaiqu; later influences came from Japanese enka, Hong Kong's Cantopop, Taiwan's Hokkien pop, and in particular the campus folk song folk movement of the 1970s. "Mandopop" may be used as a general term to describe popular songs performed in Mandarin. Though Mandopop predates Cantopop, the English term was coined around 1980 after " Cantopop" became a popular term for describing popular songs in Cantonese. "Mandopop" was used to describe Mandarin-language popular songs of that time, some of which were versions of Cantopop songs sung by the same singers with different lyrics to suit the different rhyme and tonal patterns of Mandarin. Mandopop is categorized as a subgenre of commercial Chinese-language music within C-pop. Popular music sung in Mandarin was the first variety of popular music in Chinese to establish itself as a v ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mandarin Chinese
Mandarin ( ; zh, s=, t=, p=Guānhuà, l=Mandarin (bureaucrat), officials' speech) is the largest branch of the Sinitic languages. Mandarin varieties are spoken by 70 percent of all Chinese speakers over a large geographical area that stretches from Yunnan in the southwest to Xinjiang in the northwest and Heilongjiang in the northeast. Its spread is generally attributed to the greater ease of travel and communication in the North China Plain compared to the more mountainous south, combined with the relatively recent spread of Mandarin to frontier areas. Many varieties of Mandarin, such as Southwestern Mandarin, those of the Southwest (including Sichuanese dialects, Sichuanese) and the Lower Yangtze Mandarin, Lower Yangtze, are not mutually intelligible with the Beijing dialect (or are only partially intelligible). Nevertheless, Mandarin as a group is often placed first in lists of languages by number of native speakers (with nearly one billion). Because Mandarin originated in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
China
China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. With population of China, a population exceeding 1.4 billion, it is the list of countries by population (United Nations), second-most populous country after India, representing 17.4% of the world population. China spans the equivalent of five time zones and Borders of China, borders fourteen countries by land across an area of nearly , making it the list of countries and dependencies by area, third-largest country by land area. The country is divided into 33 Province-level divisions of China, province-level divisions: 22 provinces of China, provinces, 5 autonomous regions of China, autonomous regions, 4 direct-administered municipalities of China, municipalities, and 2 semi-autonomous special administrative regions. Beijing is the country's capital, while Shanghai is List of cities in China by population, its most populous city by urban area and largest financial center. Considered one of six ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
France
France, officially the French Republic, is a country located primarily in Western Europe. Overseas France, Its overseas regions and territories include French Guiana in South America, Saint Pierre and Miquelon in the Atlantic Ocean#North Atlantic, North Atlantic, the French West Indies, and List of islands of France, many islands in Oceania and the Indian Ocean, giving it Exclusive economic zone of France, one of the largest discontiguous exclusive economic zones in the world. Metropolitan France shares borders with Belgium and Luxembourg to the north; Germany to the northeast; Switzerland to the east; Italy and Monaco to the southeast; Andorra and Spain to the south; and a maritime border with the United Kingdom to the northwest. Its metropolitan area extends from the Rhine to the Atlantic Ocean and from the Mediterranean Sea to the English Channel and the North Sea. Its Regions of France, eighteen integral regions—five of which are overseas—span a combined area of and hav ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dantès Dailiang
Dantès, or Dai Liang is a French singer-songwriter. He is also a trilingual host (French, Chinese, English) and a writer. Dantès is an intercultural artist who intertwines Chinese language, the French way of thinking and pop rock. Dantès' LP, One of a Kind, allowed the French singer and pioneer of the French Mandopop to be invited several times to the most prestigious and popular TV shows in China. Biography 2005-2011 In 2006 he released a double album entitled '' Parfums d’extrêmes'' or ''Wo jide ni 我记得你'' in mandarin Chinese. The same year, the album was distributed in China. In 2007, Dantès was signed and distributed by Jiesheng Record Company. The Chinese media readily welcomed the sinologist. Since 2006 several media have considered Dantès as the first foreigner who writes and sings his own songs in Chinese. In April and May 2007, various press conferences were organized for Dantès in Suzhou and Hangzhou, and the artist was mentioned during the televisio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Parfums D'extrêmes
''Parfums d'Extrêmes'' () is the first solo album of Dantès Dailiang. The French-Chinese double album was released in 2006 with Kexue Records and distributed in China in 2007 with Jiesheng Records. The double album was noted by both Chinese media and French media as the first album written and performed in Mandarin Chinese by a Frenchman and then distributed throughout China China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. With population of China, a population exceeding 1.4 billion, it is the list of countries by population (United Nations), second-most populous country after .... Track listing Source: CD1 CD2 References {{DEFAULTSORT:Parfums d'extremes 2006 albums ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dailiang
''Dailiang'' () is the second solo album of Dantès Dailiang. The double Chinese-French album was released in 2009 and distributed in China by Jiesheng Records and with Mosaic A mosaic () is a pattern or image made of small regular or irregular pieces of colored stone, glass or ceramic, held in place by plaster/Mortar (masonry), mortar, and covering a surface. Mosaics are often used as floor and wall decoration, and ... Label in France.Dailiang, New French-chinese double album of Dantès Dailiang, http://www.chine-informations.com/actualite/dailiang-nouvel-album-sino-francais-de-dantes_12989.html,2009 18 May Track listing CD1 CD2 References {{Authority control 2009 albums ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Editions Universitaires Européennes
Omniscriptum Publishing Group, formerly known as VDM Verlag Dr. Müller, is a German publishing group headquartered in Riga, Latvia. Founded in 2002 in Düsseldorf, its book production is based on print-to-order technology. The company publishes theses, research notes, and dissertations through its e-commerce bookstores. OmniScriptum is designated as non-academic by the Norwegian Scientific Index, and its subsidiary Lambert Academic Publishing has been described as a predatory vanity press which does "not apply the basic standards of academic publishing such as peer-review, editorial or proof-reading processes." The company also offers print-to order publishing for fiction authors. It previously specialized in publishing and selling Wikipedia articles, but has stated that the practice of publishing Wikipedia content ended in 2013. History The group's first publishing house was founded in Düsseldorf in 2002 by Wolfgang Philipp Müller and relocated to Saarbrücken in Augus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shanghai
Shanghai, Shanghainese: , Standard Chinese pronunciation: is a direct-administered municipality and the most populous urban area in China. The city is located on the Chinese shoreline on the southern estuary of the Yangtze River, with the Huangpu River flowing through it. The population of the city proper is the List of largest cities, second largest in the world after Chongqing, with around 24.87 million inhabitants in 2023, while the urban area is the List of cities in China by population, most populous in China, with 29.87 million residents. As of 2022, the Greater Shanghai metropolitan area was estimated to produce a gross metropolitan product (GDP (nominal), nominal) of nearly 13 trillion Renminbi, RMB ($1.9 trillion). Shanghai is one of the world's major centers for finance, #Economy, business and economics, research, science and technology, manufacturing, transportation, List of tourist attractions in Shanghai, tourism, and Culture of Shanghai, culture. The Port of Sh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Warner Records
Warner Records Inc. (known as Warner Bros. Records Inc. until 2019) is an American record label. A subsidiary of Warner Music Group, it is headquartered in Los Angeles, California. It was founded on March 19, 1958, as the recorded music division of the American film studio Warner Bros. History Founding At the end of the silent movie period, Warner Bros. Pictures decided to expand into Music publisher (popular music), publishing and Sound recording and reproduction, recording so that it could access low-cost music content for its films. In 1928, the studio acquired several smaller music publishing firms which included M. Witmark & Sons, Harms Inc., and a partial interest in New World Music Corp., and merged them to form the Music Publishers Holding Company. This new group controlled valuable copyrights on Standard (music), standards by George Gershwin, George and Ira Gershwin and Jerome Kern, and the new division was soon earning solid profits of up to US$2 million every year. In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jil Caplan
Jil Caplan (born Valentine Guilen; 23 October 1968 in Paris, France) is a French singer and songwriter. Biography Paris-born Valentine Guilen studied modern literature at the Sorbonne and theatre at the Cours Florent, where she met Jay Alanski, producer and composer of the most influential pop songs of the 1980s. In August 1986, she met her friends Les Innocents, then unknown by the general public, in a recording studio, where the group recorded their first single "Jodie", under the leadership of Alanski, who quickly offered her the chance to sing. Success and consecration Valentine Guilen, who adopted the pseudonym "Jil Caplan", accepted and released in 1987 her first album, ''À peine 21''.Elia Habib, ''Muz hit. tubes'', pp. 208–209; Its single "Oh! Tous les soirs" was a success, entering the French Top 40. Other singles from this album, like "Comme sur une balançoire", "Cette fille n'est pas pour toi", etc. received public attention and radio airplay in 1988/89. Jil and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joyce Jonathan
Joyce Jonathan (born 3 November 1989) is a French singer and songwriter. Her first album ''Sur mes gardes'' went gold in May 2010 only five months after its release, and was certified platinum less than a year later. On 23 January 2011 she received the NRJ Music Awards for Francophone Breakthrough of the Year. Early life Joyce was born in Levallois-Perret, the youngest of a family of three girls. Her mother is the director of a travel agency and her father is an architect. She was educated at the École alsacienne in Paris, and studied psychology at the university level. At the age of seven, she learned to play the piano and began composing her first songs secretly. She pursued her musical interests with voice and piano lessons, being influenced by artists such as Teri Moses and Tracy Chapman. At the age of 16, Joyce Jonathan posted three of her compositions on the site MySpace, promoting them to Michael Goldman, co-founder of the new label ''My Major Company ''. In December ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
