Chinese M'sian singers, Audioclip included Options

[caramel]

Penny Tai / Dai Pei Ni

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Biography
Name: Penny Tai
Date of Birth: 22 April
Horoscope: Taurus
Height: 157cm
Interests: Dancing (she has 11 years of training, including classical Chinese dance and modern dance), designing, composing and song writing

A talented singer-composer and dancer, Penny is one of the few artists who can produce both critically and commercially acclaimed albums. She started writing and composing in 1995 and has numerous awards in China, Taiwan, Malaysia and Singapore.

Penny not only composes all of her own songs, she has also written compositions for other artists such as Valen Hsu (Xu Ruyun), Miriam Yeung (Yang Qianhua), Chiang Mei Chi (Jiang Meiqi), A-Do (Du Chengyi) and Jet Li (Li Xinjie).

Easy-going, witty and strong-willed, Penny makes it a point to go for a long vacation after each album promotion, in search for more musical inspiration.

http://www.ilovemusic.com.sg/Artists/Artist66.aspx

Songs:
Ni Yao De Ai

Fish Leong / Liang Jing Ru

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Fish Leong (Chinese: 梁靜茹) is the nickname of Jasmine Leong, a Malaysian singer and is very famous in Taiwan music scene. Leong was born in Kuala Pilah, Negri Sembilan, Malaysia on 16 June 1978. Leong's real name is "Leong Chui Peng" (Chinese: 梁翠萍; pinyin: Liáng Cùipíng), started her singing career as a "cover version" singer at Hai Luo Music Cafe.

Fish participated in many local singing competitions and emerged as winner in a few of them. Veteran singer Mr. Lee Zhong Sheng ( 李宗盛 ) discovered her during a singing competition at Hai Luo. She was then singing a song called Qi Dai ( 期待 ) which was composed by her friend. She started her career in Taiwan in October 1997 after joining Rock Records of Taiwan. Her first album ( 一夜長大 ) took 2 years to release, only to encounter a earthquake on the day of the album launch promotion ( 21 September 1999 ). Her career only really took off after the launch of the album Yong Qi ( 勇氣 ).

Leong has eight solo albums under her belt since making her debut in 1999. Her best-selling album The Power Of Love ( 戀愛的力量 ) sold in excess of 1,500,000 copies in Asia and more than 40,000 copies flew off the shelves in Singapore alone. Wings Of Love, her latest and double-platinum album, not only topped Singapore’s RIAS sales chart for 2 weeks but also remained in top 15 position for more than 2 months. She won the Best Female Vocalist award at the Singapore Hits Awards 2003, Regional (Malaysia) Most Popular Singer at the Singapore Hits Awards 2004 and Most Popular Female Singer and Regional (Malaysia) Most Popular Singer again in 2005. Her latest album is Silk Road of Love ( 丝路-通往爱的路途 ).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fish_Leong

Songs:
Fen Shou Kuai Le
Yong Qi

Z Chen / Zhang Zi Chen

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THE singer from Jelebu, Negri Sembilan who has been labelled the ‘Little R&B Prince’ has been making Taipei, Taiwan, his base for the last three years.

He released his album Happiness in August and has since been on a promo tour including East Malaysia, Singapore, Hong Kong and China.

Songs:
May I Love You

Z Chen's Maxis Ad

Guang Liang / Michael Wong

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Guang Liang (Chinese: 王光良, pinyin: wáng guāng liáng), as he is more commonly known to the Chinese music market, or Michael Wong (his real name) is a Malaysian singer that has successfully made his name in the Taiwan music scene. Born on August 30, 1970, Wong specializes in composing and singing romantic and soothing love songs using his skills on the piano.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guang_Liang

Songs:
Tong Hua

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[caramel]

Nicholas Teo / Zhang Dong Liang

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Nicholas released his debut album Nicholas 1st Choice, in Malayisa last year followed by China in March this year. The song, Who Will You Think Of, made it to all the pop and ring tone charts in the Mainland. Nicholas went on a promo tour for more than 45 days, visited more than 20 cities and received great response from his fans there. Nicholas Teo First Album was later released in Taiwan this year and set an impressive record of selling more than 30,000 copies in one month.

The boyish-looking artiste has been named the Young Malaysian Movement (YMM) Youth Ambassador 04-05.

http://www.mmail.com.my/Current_News/MM/Th...icle/index_html

Songs:
Ji Mo Bian Jie

Uprising Star

Yu Heng

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She is sweet, she is cute; but she has more to offer than meet the eyes. Having played the piano since the age of 6, Yu Heng is definitely a musically talented young girl. After more than 5 years of experience singing in unplugged cafes, she finally achieved her dream to become a recording artiste. It has not been an easy path for her. In her debut album (her first release is an EP), she composed 9 out of 11 songs and wrote more than half of the lyrics. You can’t help but be amazed by the girl’s talent.

The songs in the album are quite versatile. The song structures and chord progressions are interesting. Title song “Happy Day” is one of the songs that is not composed by Yu Heng herself. It seems like a tool to market Yu Heng as a cute teen singer in the Taiwan market. But for me, she doesn’t need that at all. It surprised me at first as it doesn’t sound like her style at all, though she did it quite well.

“Deep Breath”, now a hit song in karaoke, is an uplifting ballad. The lyrics is so inspiring that it gives me strength during my hard days. “Wo Yao Wo Zi Ji Jian Qiang, Wo Zhi Dao Wo Neng Zuo Dao, Wo Jiu Yao Guo De Bi Cong Qian Geng Hao (I want myself to be strong; I know I can do it. I’ll live better than ever)”. I’m sure many people can relate themselves to it.

Duet with Fish Leong, “Reason to Smile” is simply beautiful. Their vocals blend in perfectly and the harmony is beautifully done. In fact, the two girls have been friends for years since they sing in unplugged cafes. Rockish “Everything is Fine”, oldies-feel “Question Mark”, jazzy “Realize Love” all show Yu Heng’s composing ability. Other songs in the album are all worth-listening.

http://chinesemusicblog.com/category/female-artist/yu-heng/

Songs:
Yi Ran Shi Peng You

Others worth mentioning:

Ah Niu / Ah Gu

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Victor Wong / Ping Guan (was part of Michael and Victor / Guang Ling Ping Guan)

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Zhang Ze / Zhang Jue Long

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Winnie Kok

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Daniel Lee

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[malaccan]

Thanks caramel. Out of them all, I only know Winnie Kok cos I saw her perform on RTM1 once, and Daniel, for obvious Malaysian Idol reasons. (IMG:http://www.asiafinest.com/forum/style_emoticons/default/icon_smile.gif)

[AEROFORCE1]

Winnie Kok is pretty (I heard that there are many of this lastname in Malay)

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[malaccan]

^You wanna get to know her? (IMG:http://www.asiafinest.com/forum/style_emoticons/default/naughty.gif) And Aero dude, the name of your dear neigbouring country is Malaysia lah, not Malay. (IMG:http://www.asiafinest.com/forum/style_emoticons/default/sure.gif) or you can just shorten it when writing to Msia.

[tengkuafif]

Malay is fine,actually.

[malaccan]

Oh you just gotta have the final word, don't ya? we'll agree to disagree then (IMG:http://www.asiafinest.com/forum/style_emoticons/default/shifty.gif)
Just like how some say Indo, others say Indon maybe? (IMG:http://www.asiafinest.com/forum/style_emoticons/default/eek.gif)

Back to Aeroforce1, seriously, arai gor dai, ok!
Just ignore my rantings with Afif.

[hamizao]

^You wanna get to know her? (IMG:http://www.asiafinest.com/forum/style_emoticons/default/naughty.gif) And Aero dude, the name of your dear neigbouring country is Malaysia lah, not Malay.  (IMG:http://www.asiafinest.com/forum/style_emoticons/default/sure.gif) or you can just shorten it when writing to Msia.

No wonder it is hard to understand sometimes....heheh! Do Filipinos and Thais do this too?

[EJI]

LOL its Cho Chang from harry potter

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Weird how some chinese-malaysian don't look like their counterparts in China.

[rx7boy]

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I remember she stole one of my tomatoes that I just bought from Jusco and ran back to photo shooting area and posed with that tomato.. give back my tomato!! (IMG:http://www.asiafinest.com/forum/style_emoticons/default/icon_sad.gif)

[caramel]

@malaccan: Most of them are popular in Chinese populated places such as Taiwan, China, Hong Kong and S'pore. I think the English and Malay media do not really pay much attention to them. I wouldn't have too if it wasn't for my sister who loves Chinese music.

@rx7boy: Tomato eating Alien??

[malaccan]

@caramel: This is so off-topic, but we miss you!!! How's New year in KL?!! What did you do? Any good TV programmes? Haha. I think nowadays 8TV would have more Malaysian Chinese singers in their line-up wouldn't they? Cos its primarily targetted at the Chinese segment.

[AEROFORCE1]

Do u count Fei-wong who sing "eyes on me" she is very cute and famous.
I think her parent came from Msia

[caramel]

Hehehe. I think only you missed me. (IMG:http://www.asiafinest.com/forum/style_emoticons/default/icon_redface.gif)
It was a quiet NY for me spent with some friends. (IMG:http://www.asiafinest.com/forum/style_emoticons/default/icon_smile.gif) How was yours?

I do not know if 8TV is mainly catered to the Chinese audience. I saw this interview featuring Izham the other day and he did not make it sound as if it was. 8TV does seem to have quite a lot more Chinese, Korean and Japanese shows as compared to the other stations. But anyway, I would agree if you had said that it was catered more to the younger generation. There seems to be a Japanese / Korean fever among the younger ones.

Actually I do not watch much TV. (IMG:http://www.asiafinest.com/forum/style_emoticons/default/embarassedlaugh.gif)

[rx7boy]

hehe i remember when I still in Shah Alam, I always listen to these 2 chinese songs..

Ah Niu - Dui Mian De Nu Hai Kan Guo Lai <--very funny song (IMG:http://www.asiafinest.com/forum/style_emoticons/default/embarassedlaugh.gif) and I think Angelica Lee made another version of it too.. I also sang it often with my friends while playing guitar just for fun.

Harlem Yu - Qing Fei De Yi <-- I think all chinese know this song. (IMG:http://www.asiafinest.com/forum/style_emoticons/default/icon_wink.gif)

[caramel]

Hahaha. Dui Mian De Nu Hai Kan Guo Lai must be the funniest song I've ever heard. The videoclip is so funny too. I can imagine rx7boy wearing Bata Slippers, singlet and shorts while strumming the guitar singing that song. (IMG:http://www.asiafinest.com/forum/style_emoticons/default/embarassedlaugh.gif) Many Taiwanese and Hong Kong singers made a version of that song.

Yup, Qing Fei De Yi is pretty famous. I think it is because of Meteor Garden.

[rx7boy]

Hahaha. Dui Mian De Nu Hai Kan Guo Lai must be the funniest song I've ever heard. The videoclip is so funny too. I can imagine rx7boy wearing Bata Slippers, singlet and shorts while strumming the guitar singing that song. (IMG:http://www.asiafinest.com/forum/style_emoticons/default/embarassedlaugh.gif) Many Taiwanese and Hong Kong singers made a version of that song.

Yup, Qing Fei De Yi is pretty famous. I think it is because of Meteor Garden.

^haha..you like that song too..good (IMG:http://www.asiafinest.com/forum/style_emoticons/default/biggthumpup.gif) I never knew that Ah Nui song got video clip wan.. but the description you told suits the scenario of the song.. (IMG:http://www.asiafinest.com/forum/style_emoticons/default/embarassedlaugh.gif)
and yeah I once wore Bata slippers too.. ngee..

oh Qing Fei De Yi is a theme song for Meteor Garden? I heard about that drama but I never watch it.

[caramel]

I couldn't find the video on youtube. (IMG:http://www.asiafinest.com/forum/style_emoticons/default/icon_sad.gif) I want to show it to you so badly. (IMG:http://www.asiafinest.com/forum/style_emoticons/default/embarassedlaugh.gif)

That drama is pretty famous. But I did not quite like it. The Ed song was Penny Tai's Ni Yao De Ai.

[rx7boy]

^hehe..Its ok..I tried to search it using Limewire but only got mp3..no video.

[forrestcat]

Z Chen's picture is almost on every Maxis prepaid card.

This post has been edited by forrestcat: Jan 5 2006, 10:21 PM