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Asignment 3:Types of singers in Taiwan

For the past few years, a great many varieties of music genres, such as hip-hop, soul music, R&B, and other new forms of music have been adopted by the audiences. Alone with it, the rapid proliferation of singers has grown amazingly, as if anyone who was just singing at the KTV with his crowd last night can be right on the stage tomorrow. Basically, singers in Taiwan, regardless of the genres of their music, roughly can be sorted into three groups: those that (who are) so-called megastars, those who enjoy less fame, and those that (who) are not so familiar to the audiences.

The megastars are veterans that have lasted in the showbiz for a long period of time. They have developed specialties of their own, not fearing to be influenced by the mainstream, as a matter of fact, they sometimes lead it. Coco Lee, for instance, is the certain singer with very powerful and mindblowing voice, who has gained international recognition by her performance at the Academy Award, 2001. She already has firmly established a substantial number of fans. Despite her present pause, they still look forward to receiving her next hit.

Singers at the second position are the ones that worth most observation. If lucky and hardworking enough, they get good result in selling CDs, popping into the mainstream and being embraced by the crowd. If not, they usually end up fading away without attention and heart-broken. Jay Chou, a R&B wunderkind* now amazingly popular in Taiwan, is a typical and rather successful singer in this group. Not only dose he have the gift of singing, he usually writes and composes songs on his own. In addition, his music, alone with his new movies, is introduced outside Taiwan, broadcast in the mainland China, Singapore and Malaysia. Step by step, he is elevating to the level of megastars.

The last group is singers that have not yet shown up on the real stages, including under training rookies, underground bands, or part-time restaurant singers. They may be talented in music, but little famous; therefore, they have to spare no effort impressing people( audiences in the training agencies, night clubs or restaurants) just for the same goal – publishing their own music. It is the most fundamental and realistic way to being (be) a singer, the typical example of youngsters now in Taiwan pursuing fame.

It goes without saying that music is an essential amusement of human life. It can bring us joy, remove our sorrow, and sometimes even heal us mentally and physically. I am willing to see new singers as well as uncharted music forms coming out, providing us new choices of recreation and making our life more fun.
*wunderkind:
http://tw.dictionary.yahoo.com/search?ei=UTF-8&p=wunderkind

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