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Greg Han (album)
''Greg Han'' is the self-titled debut studio album by Taiwanese singer Greg Han. It was released on December 7, 2021, through Pourquoi Pas Music. Release and promotion ''Greg Han'' was released on December 7, 2021 to digital music. The CD was released on December 17, 2021. Singles "Yesterday No More", Greg Han's debut single, was released on October 27, 2020. Its music video premiered on November 17, 2020. It was directed by DJ Chen and stars Ivy Yin, Greg Han and Hsu Huachien. "Soufflé" was released as the second single on November 5, 2021, along with its music video, directed by Han-soul. The third single, "I Couldn't Care Less", was released on November 19, 2021. Its music video was released on November 23, directed by Kidding Hsu. The fourth single, "One Day at a Time", was released alongside the album on December 7, 2021. The song's music video premiered on the same day at noon. It was directed by Remii Huang and stars Greg Han, Bai Runyi and Derek Chang. The fifth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Greg Hsu
Hsu Kuang-han ( zh, c=, poj=Khó͘ Kong-hàn, p=Xǔ Guānghàn, t=許光漢; born October 31, 1990), known professionally as Greg Hsu and Greg Han, is a Taiwanese actor and singer. He was nominated for two Golden Bell Awards for his roles in the television series ''Have You ever Fallen in Love, Miss Jiang?'' (2016) and '' Someday or One Day'' (2019–2020). He also appeared in the television series ''Love of Sandstorm'' (2016) and '' Nowhere Man'' (2019), as well as the films '' A Sun'' (2019) and '' My Love'' (2021). In 2020, he entered the ''Forbes'' China Celebrity 100 list for the first time, ranking 69th. Hsu released his debut single "Yesterday No More" in 2020 and the next year he released his self-titled debut studio album. In 2022, he was nominated for Best New Artist at the 33rd Golden Melody Awards. Early life and education Hsu was born in Taiwan on October 31, 1990, and spent his early education at Zhongzheng Elementary School in New Taipei City, Taipei Municipa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hito Music Awards
The Hito Music Awards ( zh, t=Hito流行音樂獎) is an annual Mandopop music awards show, presented by Hit FM in Taiwan. Unlike the Golden Melody Awards, which are awarded on the basis of votes by members of the jury, the Hito Music Awards are determined by a poll of the public and fans, who can vote through the official website. American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift Taylor Alison Swift (born December 13, 1989) is an American singer-songwriter. Known for her autobiographical songwriting, artistic versatility, and Cultural impact of Taylor Swift, cultural impact, Swift is one of the Best selling artists, w ... is one of the most celebrated western artists at the awards ceremony, having won six awards as of 2021. Categories * Top Ten Chinese Songs of the Year * Western Songs of the Year * Best Lyricist * Best Composer * Best Arranger * Best Producer * Best Newcomer * Best TV Theme Song * Best Movie Theme Song * Best Duet Song * Best Female Singer * Best Male Singer * B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eslite Bookstore
Eslite Bookstore () is one of the largest retail bookstore chains in Taiwan. It also offers one of the largest selections of English-language publications and translation materials in Taiwan. Headquartered in Xinyi District, Taipei, the chain has 38 branches in Taiwan—mostly in urban areas, such as Taipei, New Taipei, Keelung, Yilan, Zhongli, Hsinchu, Taichung, Chiayi, Tainan, Kaohsiung, and Pingtung—and several overseas branches. History Eslite was established in 1989 by Robert Wu Ching-yu. The first shop opened on 12 March 1989 on Dunhua South Road, Daan District, Taipei, with a focus and emphasis on art and humanities-related books. Since then, the company has expanded and set up more shops and increased its range of titles on offer. On the store's tenth anniversary, the flagship Dunhua South Road store began operating 24 hours a day—Taiwan's first all-night bookstore. In 2006, Eslite opened a store in Taipei's Xinyi District. It became the chain's fla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Online Music Stores
A digital music store is a business that sells digital audio files of music recordings over the Internet. Customers gain ownership of a license to use the files, in contrast to a music streaming service, where they listen to recordings without gaining ownership. Customers pay either for each recording or on a subscription basis. Online music stores generally also offer partial streaming previews of songs, with some songs even available for full length listening. They typically show a picture of the album art or of the performer or band for each song. Some online music stores also sell recorded speech files, such as podcasts, and video files of movies. History Early years The first free, high-fidelity online music archive of downloadable songs on the Internet was the Internet Underground Music Archive (IUMA), which was started by Rob Lord, Jeff Patterson and Jon Luini from the University of California, Santa Cruz in 1993. Sony Music Entertainment Japan launched the first digita ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Record Shops
A record, recording or records may refer to: An item or collection of data Computing * Record (computer science), a data structure ** Record, or row (database), a set of fields in a database related to one entity ** Boot sector or boot record, record used to start an operating system ** Storage record, a basic input/output structure Documents * Record, a document for administrative use ** Business record, of economic transactions ** Criminal record, a list of a person's criminal convictions ** Docket (court), the summary of proceedings in a court (US) ** Medical record, of a person's medical history and treatments ** Minutes, a summary of the proceedings at a meeting ** Public records, information that has been filed or recorded by public agencies ** Recording (real estate), the act of documenting real estate transactions ** Service record, usually associated with military service ** Transcript (law), a verbatim ''record'' of some proceedings, in particular a court transcript is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Evan Yo
Tsai Min-you (born 12 November 1986), better known as Evan Yo, is a Taiwanese Mandopop singer-songwriter. He was signed by his management company at 14 and has been signed by Sony Music Taiwan since 2006. He has released four albums and was nominated for ''Best New Artist'' in 2007 at the 18th Golden Melody Awards, Taiwan. Sina.co18th Golden Melody Awards nomination list5 June 2007. Retrieved 19 April 2011 Tsai graduated from the Music Department of National Taiwan Normal University National Taiwan Normal University (NTNU) is a National university, national comprehensive university in Taipei and New Taipei City, Taiwan. The university enrolls approximately 17,000 students each year. Approximately 1,600 students are Intern .... He majored in the violin. Filmography Television series Commercials * (2004) La New Freshmen Air Shoes * (2006) KFC French Salmon Roll * (2008) "A Sa Mu" Milk Tea Discography Studio albums Soundtrack Contributions Awards and nominations Refe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Wei
Wei Li-an (; born 5 March 1987), known professionally as WeiBird, is a Taiwanese singer-songwriter. He has released six studio albums, one live album and two extended plays. Wei won the Golden Melody Award for Best New Singer in 2011 and Best Composer in 2015. Wei gained media attention as the winner of the first season of the reality television singing competition '':zh:快樂星期天, Happy Sunday'' in 2007. He released his eponymous debut album ''William Wei (album), William Wei'' in 2010, which received 4 nominations at the 22nd Golden Melody Awards and subsequently won him the Best New Artist award. His third studio album Journey into the Night (album) , ''Journey into The Night'' received 2 nominations at the 26th Golden Melody Awards and the lead single "Wolves" (狼) won him the Best Composer award. In 2021, Wei was nominated in four categories at the 32nd Golden Melody Awards for the album ''Sounds of My Life''. Wei also received a nomination at the 58th Golden Hors ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
JerryC
JerryC (; born 31 August 1981), also known by his English name Jerry Chang, is a Taiwanese guitarist and composer. He is known for arranging and playing "Canon Rock", a rock arrangement of Johann Pachelbel's Canon in D. He began playing the guitar at the age of 17, and the piano before age 15. His style is influenced by classical music, neoclassical guitarists, as well as metal bands such as Helloween and Metallica and Japanese rock bands such as B'z and L'Arc-en-Ciel. Canon Rock His most famous work, "Canon Rock", was made popular only after South Korean guitarist Lim Jeong-hyun, also known as funtwo, performed a cover version in 2005. The song has garnered much media attention; both renditions have been featured on newspapers such as ''The New York Times'', blogs, television shows and radios worldwide. Chang was featured in the profiles section of the January 2007 issue of ''Guitar World'' magazine, along with a tab transcription of "Canon Rock" in the featured songs secti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Liner Notes
Liner notes (also sleeve notes or album notes) are the writings found on the sleeves of LP record albums and in booklets that come inserted into the compact disc jewel case or cassette j-cards. Origin Liner notes are descended from the program notes for musical concerts, and developed into notes that were printed on the outer album jacket or the inner sleeve used to protect a traditional 12-inch vinyl record, i.e., long playing or gramophone record album. The term descends from the name "record liner" or "album liner". Album liner notes survived format changes from vinyl LP to cassette to CD. These notes can be sources of information about the contents of the recording as well as broader cultural topics. Contents Common material Such notes often contained a mix of factual and anecdotal material, and occasionally a discography for the artist or the issuing record label. Liner notes were also an occasion for thoughtful signed essays on the artist by another party, often a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 industry. The GMAs are awarded on the basis of votes by members of jury, and it has constantly been recognized as the equivalent to the Grammy Award The Grammy Awards, stylized as GRAMMY, and often referred to as The Grammys, are awards presented by The Recording Academy of the United States to recognize outstanding achievements in music. They are regarded by many as the most prestigious ...s in Chinese-speaking world. It shares recognition of the music industry as that of the other performance awards such as the Golden Bell Awards (television) and the Golden Horse Awards (motion pictures). The 1st Golden Melody Awards was held on January 6, 1990, to honor the popular music production by performers. Following the 1996 ceremony ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joanna Wang
Joanna Wang (; born 1 August 1988), is a Taiwanese-American singer-songwriter, daughter of music producer (王治平). Born in Taipei but raised in Los Angeles, California, Wang dropped out from Gabrielino High School when she was 16. Her debut album, '' Start from Here'', was released in January 2008 as a double-disc set, one in English and the other in Chinese. The album reached No.1 in Taiwan and has been popular throughout Southeast Asia. In June 2008, it was released in Japan. Her second album, ''Joanna & Wang Ruo-lin'', which includes her all-original endeavor, '' The Adult Storybook'', was released in January 2009. Career As she was raised in the United States, Wang was exposed to many pop music acts, including The Beatles, Queen, and Oingo Boingo. Among her major influences are Danny Elfman, Yoeko Kurahashi, Paul McCartney, and video game music, most notably those from the Castlevania, Zelda, and Mario series. She has stated in her YouTube videos and in interviews ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New Taipei City
New Taipei City is a Special municipality (Taiwan), special municipality located in regions of Taiwan, northern Taiwan. The city is home to an estimated population of 4,004,367 as of January 2023, making it the most populous city in Taiwan, and also the second largest special municipality by area, behind Kaohsiung. The top-level Administrative divisions of Taiwan, administrative divisions bordering New Taipei City are Keelung to the northeast, Yilan County, Taiwan, Yilan County to the southeast, and Taoyuan City, Taoyuan to the southwest, and it completely encloses the city of Taipei. Banqiao District is its municipal seat and biggest commercial area. Before the establishment of Spanish Formosa, Spanish and Dutch Formosa, Dutch outposts in Tamsui in 1626, the area of present-day New Taipei City was mostly inhabited by Taiwanese indigenous peoples, mainly the Ketagalan people. From the Taiwan under Qing rule, late Qing era, the Tamsui Customs Wharf, port of Tamsui was opened u ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
