Kulilay Amit, better known by her stage name A-Mei, is a Taiwanese Puyuma singer and record producer. In 1996, she made her singing debut and released her album, Sisters. Her albums Truth (2001), Amit (2009), and Faces of Paranoia (2014) each won her a Golden Melody Award for Best Mandarin Female Singer and made the Taiwanese diva one of the singers who won the category the most times. Having sold over 50 million records, she has achieved success in the Mandarin-speaking world and is often referred to as the "Queen of Mandopop".
Mayday is a Taiwanese band that released their first album in 1999 with five members, Monster, Ashin (vocal), Stone, Masa (bass) and Ming (drums).
Hebe Tien is a Taiwanese singer and actress. She rose to fame in the early 2000s as a member of Taiwanese girl group S.H.E. The release of her debut album, To Hebe (2010), established her as a solo artist. Tien's song "A Little Happiness", the theme song of the 2015 Taiwanese film Our Times, was a major hit in most Mandarin-speaking parts of Asia.
Penny Tai is a Malaysian singer, songwriter, producer and director. Since her debut in 2000, she has achieved many successes in her music career, including winning 5 Golden Melody Awards.
Lala Hsu is a Taiwanese singer-songwriter. Hsu was born in Hualien County, Taiwan, and grew up in Taichung.
Jeannie Hsieh is a Taiwanese singer-songwriter, dancer, actress, and model. She is known for writing and performing electronic dance music which combines techno and hip-hop, as well as synth-pop, house, bubblegum with slow sentimental ballads, often in Taiwanese Hokkien, but sometimes mixed with Mandarin, Cantonese and English. She become an idol to fans both Taiwan and mainland China. The music video for Hsieh's 2013 single Sister (姐姐) has been viewed over 33 million times on YouTube.
Recording Industry Foundation in Taiwan, also known as IFPI Taiwan, formerly IFPI Members Foundation in Taiwan, is the organization that represents the interests of the music industry in Taiwan, and a member of the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI).
The 27th Golden Melody Awards was held in Taipei, Taiwan in 2016. The award ceremony for the popular music categories was hosted by Mickey Huang and broadcast on TTV on 25 June. The award ceremony for the traditional music categories was held at the National Center for Traditional Arts on 13 August.
The 28th Golden Melody Awards took place in Taipei, Taiwan in 2017. The award ceremony for the popular music categories was hosted by Mickey Huang and broadcast on TTV on 24 June.
The Golden Melody Award for Best Female Mandarin Singer is a Golden Melody Award recognizing outstanding vocal performance by a female in the Mandopop category, the first of which was presented in 1991.
The Golden Melody Award for Best Mandarin Album is an honor presented at the Golden Melody Awards, a ceremony that was established in 1990, to recording artists for quality Mandopop music albums.
The Golden Melody Award for Album of the Year is presented by the Ministry of Culture of Taiwan to honor quality vocal or instrumental recording albums in the pop music genre. The honor was first presented in the 2nd Golden Melody Awards. The award was discontinued in 2005 and was separated into Best Mandarin Album, Best Taiwanese Album, Best Hakka Album, and Best Aboriginal Album. In 2017, the award was revived and albums in different languages are eligible for this award. Particular awards for Best Mandarin Album, Best Taiwanese Album, Best Hakka Album, and Best Aboriginal Album remained.
Eve Ai Yi-liang is a Taiwanese singer-songwriter. She was crowned the winner of Super Idol 5 in 2010.
Ugly Beauty is the fourteenth studio album by Taiwanese singer Jolin Tsai. It was released on December 26, 2018, by Sony Music Taiwan. Production was done by Tsai with Razor Chiang, Starr Chen, Howe Chen, and Øzi, alongside a variety of collaborators including Rhys Fletcher, Richard Craker, Hayley Aitken, Jeff Bova, and Alex Sypes. Musically, it is a pop record which merges a series of genres such as trap, house, reggae, and gothic rock. Thematically, it tends to break through the traditional aesthetic criterion and explore the bipolarity of human feeling.
Fire Ex. is a punk rock band from Kaohsiung, Taiwan, founded in 2000, which sings in both Taiwanese Hokkien and Mandarin Chinese. The group consists of Sam (vocals), Orio (guitar), Pipi (bass), and Wu Ti (drums). The band is known for their social activism supporting Taiwanese independence and same-sex marriage.
Sunset Rollercoaster is a 5-piece jazz-influenced synth-pop band from Taipei, Taiwan consisting of Kuo-Hung Tseng, Hung-Li Chen (bass), Shao-Hsuan Wang (keyboard), Tsun-Lung Lo (drums), Hao-Ting Huang (saxophone), and former member Shih-Wei Huang (percussion). The name originated from a Photo Booth picture the group had taken for their MySpace profile in the 2009, which had a rollercoaster in front of a sunset as the background. The band mostly sings in English, despite being based in a Mandarin-speaking country, which, according to lead singer Kuo Kuo, is to allow them to speak indirectly and allow audiences to discern their own meaning.
The 32nd Golden Melody Awards take place in Taipei, Taiwan in 2021. The ceremony was scheduled for 26 June 2021 in Taipei Arena, but rescheduled to 21 August, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and moved to the Taipei Music Center. This marked the second time GMA was held in the midst of COVID-19 pandemic after the 31st edition, both of which was held at the same location.
The 33rd Golden Melody Awards took place in Kaohsiung Arena, Kaohsiung, Taiwan in 2022. The award ceremony for the popular music categories was hosted by Daniel Lo and broadcast on TTV on 2 July 2022.
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