The Alan Parsons Project were a British rock band active between 1975 and 1990, whose core membership consisted of producer, audio engineer, musician and composer Alan Parsons and singer, songwriter and pianist Eric Woolfson. They were accompanied by varying session musicians and some relatively consistent session players such as guitarist Ian Bairnson, arranger Andrew Powell, bassist and vocalist David Paton, drummer Stuart Elliott, and vocalists Lenny Zakatek and Chris Rainbow. Parsons and Woolfson shared writing credits on almost all of the Project's songs, with Parsons producing or co-producing all of the band's recordings.
The United Kingdom held a televised national pre-selection broadcast on BBC1 to choose the song that would go to the Eurovision Song Contest 1969 with Scottish singer Lulu chosen to represent the UK.
Anthony Wong Yiu-ming is a Hong Kong singer, songwriter, actor, record producer and political activist. He rose to prominence as the vocalist for the Cantopop duo Tat Ming Pair during the 1980s before embarking on a solo career. He also performed and collaborated with the theatre group Zuni Icosahedron. Wong is the director for music production company People Mountain People Sea. He also co-founded the LGBT rights organization Big Love Alliance and the non-profit charitable organization Renaissance Foundation.
Wakin Chau, better known by his stage name Emil Chau during the 1980s and 1990s, is a Hong Kong-born Taiwanese singer and actor, popular throughout Taiwan, Hong Kong, Mainland China, and parts of Southeast Asia. As of 2007, he has released more than 40 albums.
Richie Jen Hsien-chi is a Taiwanese singer and actor. He graduated from the Chinese Culture University's physical education department.
Raymond Lam is a Hong Kong actor and singer who is best known for roles in the television dramas A Step into the Past, Twin of Brothers, Moonlight Resonance, Highs and Lows and Line Walker and was dubbed the King of Chok after his role in The Mysteries of Love.
The Storys were a Welsh rock band from Swansea, Wales, which formed in 2003. Their main influence was 1970s US West Coast bands in the country rock genre. The band currently consists of Steve Balsamo, Andy Collins, Rob Thompson, Brian Thomas, and Alan Thomas and formerly included Dai Smith, who sang and played guitar until August 2008, when he left. He was replaced by Rosalie Deighton.
Alex To (born Alejandro Delfino on 10 February 1962) is a Hong Kong and Taiwan-based singer and actor. He is the winner of the 4th annual New Talent Singing Awards in 1985. He has released numerous albums throughout his career and mainly has R&B influenced songs.
Yida Huang is a Singaporean singer and songwriter. The capitalization of his birth name is Yida Huang, as the previous form of "YiDA" was used as a logo by Sony Music Taiwan. He has since stopped using the "YiDA" name form upon the end of his contract with the company. He has released four major albums with Sony Taiwan. His song "Chou Nan Ren" (Jerk) was the opening theme for the Taiwanese drama Devil Beside You. Another song of his, "Set Me Free", was the theme song for the Chinese version of the movie Stealth. He graduated from the Lee Wei Song School of Music.
Huang Bo is a Chinese actor, film director, singer and the current vice-chairman of China Film Association. He is the winner of multiple Chinese film awards, and ranked 34th on Forbes China Celebrity 100 list in 2013, 62nd in 2014, 22nd in 2015, 30th in 2017, 2nd in 2019, 52nd in 2020.
Eric Woolfson sings The Alan Parsons Project That Never Was is an album by the progressive rock musician Eric Woolfson, co-creator with Alan Parsons of The Alan Parsons Project, as well as main songwriter and manager of the band. Released in 2009, this was Woolfson's final album before he died of cancer in December of that year. The album includes songs that remained unreleased since the Project time for various reasons; however, as Woolfson himself remarks in the booklet, Parsons' dislike for some of Woolfson's compositions would have often caused them to be excluded from a Project album in its very early stages - such as, for example, "Steal Your Heart Away", an "unashamedly commercial" song with a conventionally sentimental lyric, which Parsons, in Woolfson's words, would have absolutely detested. "Somewhere in the Audience" and "Immortal" are slightly re-arranged and re-recorded versions of two of Woolfson's demos for his 2003 musical about Edgar Allan Poe; the final versions of these songs, sung by the musical's protagonist Steve Balsamo, are featured on the album Poe: More Tales of Mystery and Imagination. "Train to Wuxi" was the original version of "Train to Freedom", which is also included in the Poe musical and features Woolfson's one and only guitar solo.
Poe: More Tales of Mystery and Imagination is an album by Eric Woolfson. It contains some, but not all, of the songs from his musical Edgar Allan Poe.
Jesus Christ Superstar is a soundtrack album released in 1996. Jesus Christ Superstar is a rock opera created by Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber in 1970. This is the 1996 revival version supervised by Lloyd Webber himself.
Huang Zitao, also known as Tao, is a Chinese rapper, singer and songwriter. He is a former member of the South Korean-Chinese boy band Exo and its Chinese sub-unit, Exo-M. After leaving Exo, he made his solo debut in China in 2015 with the mini-album TAO, under the new stage name Z.Tao. Huang made his acting debut in the romantic movie You Are My Sunshine and later received recognition for his leading roles in Negotiator and The Brightest Star in the Sky.
Hua Chenyu is a Chinese Pop singer and songwriter. He gained widespread recognition for his music talent, strong vocal ability and stage performance after participating in Singer 2018. One of the critics from the show states that Hua Chenyu has brought the Chinese pop music to a new level of art after his cover performance of 《Fake Monk》(假行僧). Many songs he composed contain his thoughts to the world or imply his own story that he would like to share with his fans. Songs like 《Qi Tian齊天》, 《Madhouse 瘋人院》, 《Seven Personalities 七重人格》, 《Bull Fight 鬥牛》,and more are all stamped with his unique creation and deep messages. In his 2022 interview with Bazaar Man Magazine, he states that rock spirit is the base color of this life and is also the root of his music. In a music market dominated by ballad style of Chinese pop songs, he refuses to be limited and be defined in a framed genre.
Peng Yuchang is a Chinese actor and singer, who gained recognition after appearing in Our Shining Days and Hu Bo's award-winning film An Elephant Sitting Still. He was chosen by CCTV-6's China Movie Report as one of the "New Generation Four Young Actors Skilled in Acting" on 2019, along with Liu Haoran, Leo Wu, and Hu Xianxu.
Hu Yitian is a Chinese actor. He made his acting debut in the television drama A Rush to Dead Summer (2017), and subsequently starred in the 2017 hit web series A Love So Beautiful which brought him wider recognition and several newcomer awards. He later gained fame from around the world in The drama he starred with Xing Fei that aired in 2022 during the Winter Olympics, their drama was liked by around the world by many fans, and the drama gained popularity
Mao Buyi, born Wang Weijia, is a Chinese singer and songwriter. Mao Buyi rose to prominence for winning the all-male singing competition The Coming One (明日之子) in 2017. Mao is a self-taught pop song artist recognized for his authentic and insightful portrayal of everyday life experiences. His portfolio includes three albums for which he has autonomously crafted both the lyrics and musical compositions. Additionally, Mao has lent his voice to over 15 original soundtracks (OSTs) for a range of media, including television dramas, movies, and video games.
Heaven Official's Blessing is a Chinese novel series written by Mo Xiang Tong Xiu. A donghua series adaptation was first released on Bilibili and Funimation on 31 October 2020 and received a positive review and recommendation by CBR. The novel was first published in 2017 on Jinjiang Literature City, a popular Chinese website for publishing and serializing online fiction. It consists of 244 chapters and an additional five stories in eight chapters that take place post-canon. The last novel number 6, was published on 7 March 2022. There also exists a manhua based on the novel, illustrated by STARember and published by Bilibili, with 89 chapters as of 1 March 2023. It has been collected into 2 published volumes as of 18 July 2022.
Yin Yue, is a Chinese songwriter, producer, and the writer and editor in chief of the talk show, Morning Call. With her work Blue Parachute, Yin Yue won the Best Lyricist Award of the 25th Oriental Billboard. Yin Yue is also a recipient of Forbes China 30 Under 30 List, Class of 2019. On December 11, 2020, Xiao Juan, lyrics written by Yin Yue, was released. Other award-winning songs written by Yin Yue include "Silence".
