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| Birth Name(s) : e依林 |
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Single
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| Profession:
Singer, dancer |
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Full Jolin Tsai Biography
Jolin Tsai (Chinese: 蔡依林; pinyin: Cài Yīlín; Wade-Giles: Ts'ai I-lin) is a Golden Melody Award winning Taiwanese Mandopop singer. To date, Tsai is one of the most successful and popular singers in the Mandarin music market.
Though Jolin was introverted and shy as a child, her mother realized early on that Jolin was of scholarly material, so her mother brought her to attend Japanese-style mathematics lessons, which she completed more rapidly than anyone expected she would. During her primary school years, her excellent scores meant that she failed to rank in the top three of her class only once, a class in which she placed tenth. Eventually, her scholastic abilities enabled her to enroll at Jingmei Girls High School and later, Fu Jen Catholic University.
Jolin devoted her youth to studying the English language, self-studying English in her primary school years. She eventually majored in English Literature at Fu Jen Catholic University, a Taiwanese university that is popular for its English culture, is regarded for its Department of English Language and Literature, and includes in its ranks of alumni a number of Taiwanese entertainers. Jolin expressed interest in recording an album of songs entirely in English, though lamenting such an album would be unprofitable.
Jolin first started out by taking part in a MTV singing competition at the age of 18. She won the top prize at the competition with her rendition of Whitney Houston's #1 hit "Greatest Love of All". She was then signed by Universal Music.
Late in 2005, Jolin released her J1 Live Concert DVD, featuring performances from a concert she did in Taipei in late 2004. Her biggest hits from her first two albums with Sony are performed. Show makes a guest appearance in the performance of "Prove It". The concert also had a guest appearance by Jay, in which he danced together with Jolin, however this portion was not included in the DVD. It was later placed in the DVD for her greatest hits compilation, J-Top.
In May, 2006, Sony released a greatest hits compilation album called J-Top, which included 2 CDs and a DVD with new and previously unreleased music videos and a 70 minute documentary on Jolin's time at Sony. The compilation featured many of the best songs from the albums she released under Sony. There were two new songs included on the album, one of which featured a music video where Jolin looks back on all her old music videos.
A month later, Sony released another 2 CD compilation album called Jolin Favorite Live Concert Music Selection. This album consists of remixes of popular songs Jolin recorded under Sony, as well as rare live tracks.
On June 16, Jolin finally won at the most prestigious music awards show in Taiwan. She picked up the Most Favorite Female Artist and the Best Female Singer awards at the 18th Annual Golden Melody Awards. Furthermore, her duet with David Tao won the Best Song award. Jolin's win for Best Female Singer has drawn some criticisms from netizens and industry critics due to her voice not being as strong as the other nominees (A-mei, Sandy, Angela Chang, and Penny Tai). However, many say that she won due to her all-round talent, hard work, and universal pop appeal. Regardless of the controversy surrounding this award, her other award for Most Favorite Female Artist shows the immense popularity she has around the world as the award was voted on by the fans for a couple of months prior to the awards show. She beat out many other huge pop stars like S.H.E, Fish Leong, Stefanie, Elva, Twins, A-mei, Rainie, and others.
Jolin's second album with Capitol Records, titled Agent J(特務J), was released on September 21, 2007. The album features eleven all-new tracks and the bonus track "Let's Move It", which was used as a promotional track in commercials for Toyota. The deluxe version of the album features a 3-part 70-minute music movie filmed in France, London, and Bangkok. The movie, costing NT 50 million to film, stars Jolin as the leather-clad Agent J and features popular Korean actor Kim Jae Won and Hong Kong stars Stephen Fung and Carl Ng. During the filming of the movie, Jolin had to learn two new forms of dance in 10 days: aerial silk dancing and poledancing, almost paralyzing her right arm and causing her to faint in the process.
According to g-music Taiwan, the album accounted for 45% of album sales and over 65% of Mandarin album sales in Taiwan in its first week of release. Since its release, the album has only stayed at the #1 position for two weeks.
City Mandarin Music Award
- The Best Mandarin Female Singer, Stage Performance Award, The Best Mandarin Song ("Pirate")
Channel V Awarding Prize Ceremony
- The Most Popular Female Singer Award, The Best Musical Video Award ("Pirate")
HIT FM Award Prize Ceremony (HITO Pop Music Awards)
- The Best Female Singer, Most Popular Female Singer, Top 10 Songs of the Year ("Dancing Diva"), Longest Running Album (Dancing Diva), Most Popular Online Star; also shared Most Popular Song and Top 10 Songs of the Year awards with David Tao ("Marry Me Today")
KKBox Awards
- Top 20 Songs of the Year ("Dancing Diva", "Pretence," and "A Wonder in Madrid"), Top 10 Albums of the Year (Dancing Diva), Best Female Artist |
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