28 August 2016

Mandopop: Jolin Tsai


It's funny how most of the products we buy and use on a daily basis are produced in China while none of the music we listen to is. Of course their large internal market makes it less necessary to promote their music abroad, making it difficult to find. Luckily everything can be found on YouTube and thus, a couple of years ago, I came across Jolin Tsai. Jolin is a Mandopop singer (pop music sung in Mandarin) born in Taiwan and arguably one of the bestselling female singers in the Greater China Region. The first music videos of Jolin I stumbled upon were Mr.Q and Agent J, dating from 2006 and 2007 respectively. Both pop songs were catchy enough for me to become a fan of Jolin. Since then Jolin has improved and diversified her sound more. Her latest album Play was released in 2014. Besides the upbeat title song Play it also features ballads like The ThirdPerson And I and even a collaboration with J-Pop singer Namie Amuro in I'm Not Yours. Lately she's been busy doing other things besides music like being a voice-actress in the Disney movie Zootopia. Work on her new album has been scheduled to start in the second half of 2016.


Watch more of her videos on her Official YouTube Channel

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