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Coco Lee
Chinese-American singer (–)
Coco Lee (Chinese: 李玟; 17 January – 5 July ) was a Chinese-American singer, songwriter and actress. She is widely regarded as a significant figure and a Diva. Her career marked the modernization of pop music in Asia and influenced many other artists. Her career began in in Hong Kong, and she gained early fame in Taiwan through a series of successful albums, establishing herself as an icon in Asia. During her life, she lived in Hong Kong, Taiwan, the United States and Mainland China. Her diverse cultural experiences shaped her background and laid the foundation for her success in the entertainment industry. She released 18 studio albums, two live albums, and five compilation albums.
Lee has been described as 'Asian Mariah Carey' and "enormously influential". She was also noted for her Americanized dance routines. She voiced the lead character Fa Mulan in the Mandarin version of the Disney Film Mulan, and sang its theme song "Reflection".
She was the first Asian singer to have music released globally, making her the first Chinese singer to break into the western market. Her album Just No Other Way, released in , was the first ever English-language album recorded by an Asian singer. Her globally-released single "Do You Want My Love" received international success, appearing on the US Billboard Hot Dance Breakouts Chart at No. 4 and entered Top 50 of the US Billboard Dance Club Songs Chart while also peaking at No. 14 on the Official Australian Singles Chart and No. 20 on the Official Chart in New Zealand.
Lee’s song "A Love Before Time" was nominated by the Academy Award for Best Original Song of the movie Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, she also performed the song at the 73rd Academy Awards, becoming the first, and so far only, Chinese performer to perform at the BBC News, Taiwan "I shouted his [William Lai's] name so much on the night of the election, I lost my voice the next day," says Nancy Yang, who flies home to Taiwan from San Francisco every four years so she can vote. William Lai Ching-te won Taiwan's presidential election on Saturday, giving his ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) a third, unprecedented term. And Ms Yang is one of a few thousand Taiwanese living overseas who returned last week to vote in an election that China had framed as a choice between war and peace. In Taiwan, where voters must cast their ballots in person, many travelled to their hometowns - even Mr Lai went to Tainan in southern Taiwan to vote. Others, like Ms Yang, flew across the world. "The rallies, the noise - you feel the excitement being here," she says. "You feel like you're making a difference on the ground." It's unclear how many of the voters were Taiwanese Americans, but some 4, citizens living abroad registered to vote, according to the Central Election Commission. Relations with China were a major factor for the Taiwanese watching from afar, and especially those who live in the US, which has long been Taipei's most powerful ally. "China thinks it owns Taiwan. We don't think so. We don't belong to you," Ms Yang had declared the night before the election, when the BBC had met her while she was volunteering at a DPP rally. Clad in the party's green varsity-like sweater and surrounded by green and pink flags, she was all smiles, talking to voters and other volunteers. The former IT manager has lived in the Bay Area for 40 years. She said this election felt different, compared to the last one in "This time we had three parties, and it was a close race." The DPP was battling dissatisfaction over poor wages and high cost of living Taiwanese director, actor (born ) In this Chinese name, the family name is Hou. Hou Hsiao-hsien (Chinese: 侯孝賢; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Hâu Hàu-hiân; born 8 April ) is a retired Mainland Chinese-born Taiwanese film director, screenwriter, producer and actor. He is a leading figure in world cinema and in Taiwan's New Wave cinema movement. He won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival in for his film A City of Sadness (), and the Best Director award at the Cannes Film Festival in for The Assassin (). Other highly regarded works of his include The Puppetmaster () and Flowers of Shanghai (). Hou was voted "Director of the Decade" for the s in a poll of American and international critics by The Village Voice and Film Comment. In a New York Film Festival worldwide critics' poll, Hou was named "one of the three directors most crucial to the future of cinema."A City of Sadness ranked th in the British Film Institute's Sight & Sound critics' poll of the greatest films ever made. In , Metacritic ranked Hsiao-hsien 16th on its list of the 25 best film directors of the 21st century. Hou Hsiao-hsien was born in Meixian District, Guangdong in to a Hakka family. Later that same year, Hou's father took a job as Head Secretary for the Mayor of Taichung City. The rest of the family joined him in Taiwan the following year and in he was made Supervisor of the Taipei Educational Bureau. Hou was educated at the National Taiwan Academy of the Arts. Internationally, Hou is known for his austere and aesthetically rigorous dramas dealing with the upheavals of Taiwanese (and occasionally larger Chinese) history of the past century by viewing its impacts on individuals or small groups of characters. A City of Sadness (), for example, portrays a family caught in conflicts between the local Taiwanese and ♬ Give Me a Kiss of Love / 給我愛的吻 My first introduction to Yao Su Yong / 姚蘇蓉 (also seen Yao Su Rong, Yao Surong, Thu Su Yung, Yao Soa Yong and Yiu So Yung) was the Q.D.K. Media compilation entitled Asian Takeaways. Yao Su Yong was born in Taiwan on December 5th, Her first recording was a cover of Nancy Sinatra and Lee Hazelwood&#;s &#;Summer Wine&#; in Her first major hit was a Mandarin-language rewrite of a Japanese popular song, &#;負心的人&#; / &#;Cruel-Hearted Lover&#; the following year. At the height of her popularity many of her songs were banned by the Taiwanese government &#; which was under martial law that was imposed by Chiang Kai-Shek &#; for stirring up &#;unhealthy morals&#; amongst the youth because many of her songs were about love and romance. On August 18th, , at a performance in Kaohsiung, the audience begged Yao Su Yong to sing some of her banned songs. Initially she declined, saying that she was not permitted to perform those songs, and that she hoped the audience would forgive her. However, the requests wouldn&#;t stop and eventually she sang &#;負心的人&#; hoping the popular appeal of her song would override any official censorship. Unfortunately, the police guards stationed at the theater didn&#;t agree. They called her offstage and questioned her and asked her to make an official confession. Failing to do so, her singer&#;s license was revoked. Since she was no longer allowed to perform in Taiwan, she turned to Hong Kong and Southeast Asia to continue her career. Her backing band on the album above was The Telstar Combo – or as they are credited on the cover as The Telstars Combo &#; which have been covered here previously. When I posted their debut album on the first iteration of this blog back in &#;06, it was picked up by a number of other sites. The increased traffic caused that site to crash. 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Why these Taiwanese Americans flew home to vote
Hou Hsiao-hsien
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