Yoko Shimomura is a Japanese composer and pianist primarily known for her work in video games such as the Kingdom Hearts series. She graduated from the Osaka College of Music in 1988 and began working in the video game industry by joining Capcom the same year. She wrote music for several games there, including Final Fight, Street Fighter II, and The King of Dragons.
Jolin Tsai is a Taiwanese singer, songwriter, and actress. Known as the "Queen of C-Pop", she is one of the most influential pop cultural figures in the Chinese-speaking world. Recognized for her continual reinvention and versatility in musical style and visual image, she is a key figure of popularizing dance-pop as mainstream music in Greater China. She maintains control over every aspects of her career, her works, which incorporate social themes and ideological connotations, have achieved both commercial success and critical acclaim.
Jesper Kyd Jakobson is a Danish composer and sound designer who has worked on various video game, television, and film projects. He has composed soundtracks for the Hitman series, Assassin's Creed series, Borderlands series, Darksiders II and State of Decay, among many others. His scores use orchestra, choir, acoustic manipulations and electronic soundscapes.
The National Chinese Orchestra, Taiwan is a national-level Chinese orchestra of Taiwan. It is currently a dispatched unit of the National Center for Traditional Arts under the Ministry of Culture. The orchestra is stationed at the Taiwan Traditional Theatre Center in Taipei City.
Charlie Chin Hsiang-lin is a Taiwanese actor, born on May 19, 1948 in Nanking and grew up in Hong Kong. Throughout the twenty-four years of his acting career, Chin had participated in over one hundred films. As a member of the "Two Qins, Two Lins" (二秦二林), Charlie Chin is known for portraying the romantic interest of the female lead in a love triangle in Literary Romantic Films (愛情文藝片) in the 1970s. He received two Golden Horse Awards for his performance as best leading actor.
Alien Huang, also known as Xiao Gui, was a Taiwanese singer, actor, television presenter, illustrator and fashion designer.
Assassin's Creed is an open-world, action-adventure, and stealth game franchise published by Ubisoft and developed mainly by its studio Ubisoft Montreal using the game engine Anvil and its more advanced derivatives. Created by Patrice Désilets, Jade Raymond, and Corey May, the Assassin's Creed video game series depicts a fictional millennia-old struggle between the Order of Assassins, who fight for peace and free will, and the Knights Templar, who desire peace through order and control. The series features historical fiction, science fiction, and fictional characters intertwined with real-world historical events and historical figures. In most games, players control a historical Assassin while also playing as an Assassin Initiate or someone caught in the Assassin–Templar conflict in the present-day framing story. Considered a spiritual successor to the Prince of Persia series, Assassin's Creed took inspiration from the novel Alamut by the Slovenian writer Vladimir Bartol, based on the historical Hashashin sect of the medieval Middle East.
Samantha Lam Chi-mei is a Hong Kong singer and songwriter. In 1982, the television station RTHK awarded one of her songs, "Feelings of a Passage" (感情的段落), later heard from her 1983 self-titled debut album, as one of top ten gold songs of 1981–82. In 1983, Lam sang a radio hit Cantonese rendition of the well-known Mandarin song "Into Your Eyes" (你的眼神), originally sung in 1981 by Tsai Chin, for her debut album. In 1984–85, another of her songs, "ngau yu" (偶遇), a theme song for the 1984 film A Certain Romance (少女日記), was awarded as one of top ten gold songs of 1983–84 by RTHK, the seventh place of the Jade Solid Gold Best Ten Music Awards by another station TVB, and the Hong Kong Film Award for the Best Movie Song (最佳電影歌曲) of 1984. Lam sang also "ouyu" (偶遇), a Mandarin version of "ngau yu", for the titled 1984 album. Since then, later singers have rendered both versions of "ngau yu", like Sammi Cheng and Zhou Xun.
Play is the thirteenth studio album by Taiwanese singer Jolin Tsai. It was released on November 15, 2014, by Warner and Eternal. Produced by Starr Chen, Andrew Chen, Tiger Chung, JJ Lin, and Michael Lin, it broke away from the framework of traditional Chinese albums with rich musical contents and all-encompassing themes.
Ugly Beauty is the fourteenth studio album by Taiwanese singer Jolin Tsai. It was released on December 26, 2018, by Sony and Eternal. It was produced by Tsai with Razor Chiang, Starr Chen, Howe Chen, and Øzi. Musically, it is a pop record which merged 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, and Tsai wants to "uncover the ugliness hidden behind the perfect surface, and peek into the emotions that try the best to be buried" through the album.
Phil Lam Yik-hong is a Canadian-born Hong Kong artist and sing-songwriter. Born in Nanaimo and raised in Qualicum Beach, he signed a contract with Sony Music Hong Kong in 2009. He rose to fame in Hong Kong in 2014 with the song Hills and Valleys, which earned him a Top 20 Gold Song Award in the 2014 Jade Solid Gold Best Ten Music Awards Presentation.
The 2022–23 P. League+ season is the 3rd season of the P. League+ (PLG). The regular season began on November 5, 2022, and ended on May 14, 2023. The playoffs started on May 19, 2023 and ended on June 14, 2023 after the Taipei Fubon Braves clinched their third consecutive champion.
The 2022–23 Kaohsiung 17LIVE Steelers season will be the franchise's 2nd season, its second season in the P. LEAGUE+ (PLG), its 2nd in Kaohsiung City. The Steelers promoted Slavoljub Gorunovic, the head assistant coach for their previous season, to the head coach. The Steelers also hired Cheng Chih-Lung as their COO of the Basketball Affairs. The Steelers named Kenny Kao, former Hsinchu JKO Lioneers general manager, as their new general manager.
Steven Lin is a Taiwanese American classical pianist. Described by the New York Times for playing that is “...immaculately voiced and enhanced by admirable subtleties of shading and dynamics.” Lin has been awarded in several international piano competitions including the top prize winner of the Arthur Rubinstein International Piano Master Competition in 2014, 3rd prize at the 2012 William Kapell International Competition, the 1st prize at the 2012 Juilliard School’s Gina Bachauer Piano Scholarship Competition and International Tang Dynasty Piano Competition in New York in 2008. He performed with such orchestras as Kansas City Symphony, Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra, National Symphony Orchestra of Mexico, Western Australian Symphony Orchestra, Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, Costa Rica National Symphony, Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, and Baltimore Symphony.
Chen Chu-Shui (1942-1986) was a Taiwanese composer and violinist born in Dashu district, Kaohsiung. He was the recipient of the 5th Kaohsiung Culture & Arts Award in the music category in 1986. Chen served as the head of the music department at the Private Tainan Junior College of Home Economics, a board of Directors of the Kaohsiung Music Association, and a member of the Asian Composers League Taiwan National Committee. He and his wife, pianist Liu Fu-Mei, were known for their efforts to promote music education and art activities in southern Taiwan.
"The Great Artist" (大藝術家) is a song by Taiwanese singer Jolin Tsai, from Jolin's 12th original studio album Muse. The song was composed by Robin Jessen, Anne Judith Wik, Nermin Harambasic, Ronny Svendsen, Charite Viken Reinas, Eirik Johansen, Alexander Puntervold, and lyrics by Matthew Yen (嚴云農)and produced by Michael Lin (林邁可). The song was released on August 15, 2012, as a single from the album by Warner Music Taiwan and Mars Entertainment (天熹娛樂). The song and its music video were shortlisted for the Best Song of the Year and Best Music Video awards at the 24th Golden Melody Awards, and the song eventually won the Best Song of the Year award.
The Golden Melody Awards for Traditional Arts and Music (GMATAM) honors individuals and groups engaged in traditional arts, music, and opera performance in Taiwan. Initially organized by the Government Information Office, Executive Yuan, it transitioned to the jurisdiction of the Bureau of Audiovisual and Music Industry Development, Ministry of Culture. It's now overseen by the National Center for Traditional Arts, a division of the Ministry of Culture.
Kuo Hsueh-hu, born Kuo Chin-huo, was a pioneering Taiwanese gouache painter. He was born in Taipei's Dadaocheng, which was then part of Taiwan's Taipei Prefecture, during the Japanese colonial period. Along with Chen Chin and Lin Yu-shan, Kuo was one of the "Three Youths of Taiwan Fine Art Exhibition" and one of the major founders of the Taiwan Provincial Fine Arts Exhibition after World War II.
Shien-Ta Su is a Taiwanese violinist. After earning his diploma from the École normale de musique de Paris Alfred Cortot in 1985, he returned to Taiwan to engage in both performing and teaching. He currently teaches at Taipei National University of the Arts and National Taiwan Normal University, and he serves as the Dean of the College of Music at Taipei National University of the Arts. In 2002 he received the Best Performance Award at the 13th Golden Melody Awards.
