Korean female idols Kara will become the first Asian girl group to place in the top 10 on Japan’s prestigious Oricon chart, according to Japanese publication Oricon Style on Tuesday.
Oricon Style reported that the Oricon chart will announce on August 23 that Kara will place at No. 5 on its weekly singles chart, making them the first Asia girl group to rank in the top 10.
Past < Future is the ninth studio album by Japanese pop singer Namie Amuro, expected to be released on December 16, 2009. The album comes over two years after her last original studio album, Play (2007). Amuro states that she sees the album as a “brand new start” following the highly successful release of the greatest hits compilation, Best Fiction (2008). Only one single, “Wild/Dr.” was released from the album.
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Nichkhun Horvejkul also known mononymously as Nichkhun, is a Thai-American pop singer active in South Korea. He is a member of the boy band 2PM.
Nichkhun was born in Rancho Cucamonga, California to Thai parents. His father is of Thai origin while his mother is a forth generation Thai Chinese. Nichkhun has one older brother and two younger sisters. At the age of two, he moved to Thailand with his family, but moved back to the United States to finish schooling in Los Osos High School in Rancho Cucamonga, California. There, he was scouted by Park Jin-young, a K-pop singer and producer of JYP Entertainment, at the Los Angeles Korean Festival.
Elva Hsiao, also known as Elva Siu, is a Taiwanese Mandarin pop singer. She speaks and writes some English, due to studying abroad at John Casablanca’s College in Vancouver, Canada. While in Vancouver, she attended the New Talent Singing Awards Vancouver Audition in 1998 with her birth name of Hsiao Ya-chih (蕭雅之). She became one of the 12 finalists but did not place in the top 5. The song she sang was CoCo Lee’s “Love Me A Little Longer (Chinese: 愛我久一點)”. Also in that competition there were 3 other Taiwanese recent singers, 183 Club member Jacky Chu 祝釩剛 (who was the winner), DJ Ruby Lu 盧春如 (1st Runner-Up) and 蜜雪薇琪 (Michelle*Vickie) member Michelle Hsu (now known as Mimi or Michelle).
Stephy Tang is a Cantopop singer and actress. She was formerly the lead singer of the pop group Cookies. She has now become a pescetarian. Tang graduated from the Buddhist Sum Heung Lam Memorial College and the Department of Fashion Design at IVE. In 2002, she joined Cookies, a music group in Hong Kong, and became the lead singer. She sang with Alex Fong in 「好心好報」, 「好好戀愛」, 「十分．愛(合唱版)」 (which won a Jade Solid Gold Award for the best duet in 2006),「我的最愛」,「重愛」 and 「七年」, with whom many rumors about their relationship have been reported by the media. She was featured on Beautiful Cooking, a TV program on cooking on TVB. She is able to speak English, Cantonese, and Mandarin.
Toby Jing-Kei Leung is a female Cantopop singer and actress from Hong Kong. She entered the music industry in 2004 when the MusicNationGroup discovered her talent. Together with Macy Chan (陳美詩), Elise Liu (廖雋嘉) and Bella Cheung (張曼伶) they formed the singing group Girl’s only Dormitory (女生宿舍) but later broke up. Her father, Tommy Leung, is also the deputy-chief director of drama in TVB, which allowed her to enter the acting career. She recently signed with TVB and became a contracted artist.
Ken Zhu was born in Taiwan on January 15, 1979 and educated in Singapore. A famous Mandopop singer and composer, he is one of the members of the famous Taiwanese boy band F4 and also a prominent Taiwanese drama actor.
Ken speaks not only Mandarin, but also English and Cantonese.
Ken was working as a waiter in a small restaurant in Taiwan when he was discovered by Cai Zhi Ping, the creator of the boy band F4. He started in showbiz working as a part time as an assistant for some artists, then acting in several idol series successfully which pushed him to the center of the stage. He starred in the famous TV series Meteor Garden and its sequel Meteor Garden II that swept Asia by storm and was the lead in the movies, Sky of Love (2003) and Tokyo Trial (2006). In January 2005, he released his most anticipated solo album, entitled On Ken’s Time. He has released his cookbook called Mei Wei Guan Xi (Delicious Relations) on January 5, 2006. It was then released in China on July 4, 2006 and in Japan on November 25, 2006 in a Japanese version. Ken is now focusing on his solo acting career and has a huge fan base in Asia.
Cyndi Wang is a Taiwanese pop singer and actress in Taiwanese dramas. Her real name is Wáng Jūnrú (Chinese: 王君如).
Wang graduated from the Okazaki Arts School in Taipei, and from the Hua Gang Arts School (臺北市私立華岡藝術學校) drama course. Her family originates from Qingdao, Shandong, China, and she is a Buddhist. Wang’s mother is a Hakka, Wang and her younger brother were raised in a single-parent family. She speaks Mandarin, Japanese, English and Hakka.
To date, Wang has released 8 personal albums, nearly all of which carries her name. These includes 6 solo albums: Begin (2003), Cyndi Loves You (2004), Honey (2005), Cyndi With U (2006), Magic Cyndi (2007) and Fly! Cyndi (2008). She also has two compilation albums—Shining Cyndi 2005 (2005) and Red Cyndi (2008)—and three Taiwanese Idol Drama Serials original soundtracks(OST).
Ding Dang is a Chinese Pop Singer. Ding Dong not only has enviable good looks, but a beautiful voice to boot. Her third album Della has 11 new songs to offer, including “Fireworks”, the romantic CM song for a beverage brand she duets with Mayday’s Ashin; the dance anthem “Night Cat”, which boasts the participation of Beyonce Knowles’s dance choreographer; and the ballad “Why Do You Lie”.
“It’s all too much / Never say die” is the fourteenth single by Japanese pop singer-songwriter Yui. The single was released on October 7, 2009. These two songs were used for a movie version of an anime, Kaiji, as a theme song and an insert song. It’s all too much / Never say die debuted at number one in the first week sales with sales of 75,047 copies and is Yui’s 5th overall number one single on the Japanese Oricon charts.
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