Agnes Monica is a Chinese Indonesian pop recording artist, dancer, actress, songwriter, and model. Her career started when she was only 6 years old.
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Ariel Lin
Ariel Lin is a Taiwanese actress and singer. Lin was first discovered in the Taiwanese variety show Guess and was the champion of the pretty subway girl contest in the show. She was immediately paired with Mike He, also a rising star, in a drama series “Love Contract.” After appearing in several television roles in Taiwanese dramas and three movies during the early 2000s, she rose to fame in 2005 for playing the role of Yuan Xiang Qin in the hit drama series It Started With a Kiss opposite Joe Cheng. She attended Taiwan’s National Chengchi University, majoring in Korean, throughout much of her early career in the entertainment business.
Ken Zhu
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.
F4
– October 29, 2009Posted in: Boyband
F4 is a popular Taiwanese boy band. The group began in the Taiwanese drama Meteor Garden as F4 with members Jerry Yan, Vanness Wu, Ken Chu, and Vic Chou. They have also attained popularity in other countries in Asia, such as Japan and the Philippines. In 2001, F4 became a boyband and signed a record deal with Sony Music Entertainment. Together they have released three albums, Meteor Rain, Fantasy 4ever, and “Waiting for You Here”. In 2002, F4 sang the Mandarin cover of “Can’t Help Falling in Love” included in the Asian version of Walt Disney’s Lilo & Stitch soundtrack. The English version of this song is sung by A*Teens, which is a cover of the 1961 Elvis Presley hit of the same title. They also made the Mandarin cover of Yo Te Amo by Chayanne.
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Cyndi Wang
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).
Jiro Wang
Jiro Wang nicknamed Da Dong is a Taiwanese actor and singer. He is currently a member of the boy band Fahrenheit, and is widely known as the male lead in the Taiwanese idol drama KO One (終極一班) and its sequel The X-Family, as Ah Jin in It Started With a Kiss and its sequel, and Jin Xiu Yi in the live-action Taiwanese drama, Hana-Kimi (花樣少年少女).
Jiro Wang was born August 24, 1981, in Taiwan. He graduated at Fu Shin Trade and Arts College with a degree in Advertising Design. After his graduation, he dedicated his life toward the entertainment business. He was first asked to join the entertainment business because he showed his talents at a singing competition. BMG, the label that signed him, planned to package him with Jay Chou and Jordan Chan to form a boy band called 3J, but, because of 9/11, BMG’s stocks crashed and the 3J plan was scrapped. Jiro then decided to continue his career in the industry by working backstage, mainly in charge of fashion designing and other designing necessities, as well as commercial modeling. He was approached again around 2004, when his acting career began.
Will Pan
Wilber Pan (born 6 August 1980), also known as Will Pan, is an American-born Taiwanese singer, rapper and drama actor, who started his career as a host of Channel V programs.
Pan was raised in West Virginia, United States and later moved to Taiwan at the age of seven. He attended Taipei American School and graduated in 1999. Because of his multicultural background, he is fluent in both Mandarin and English. However, Pan is unable to read and write Chinese. Before launching his acting and singing career, he attended Cal Poly Pomona in the United States, but left before graduating to pursue an offer from Channel V. He still retains his dual citizenship in the U.S.A. and Republic of China to avoid the mandatory military duty in Taiwan.
Vic Chou
Vic Chou
Vic Chou (traditional Chinese: 周渝民; pinyin: Zhōu Yúmín) is a Taiwanese actor, singer and commercial model. He is a member of the famous Taiwanese boy band JVKV, also known as F4, and has starred in many Taiwanese dramas. His stage name, 周渝民, literally means “a completely changed person”. It had a variation only in the middle character (from 育 to 渝) from his birth name, 周育民 (pinyin: Zhōu Yùmín), which literally means “a completely nourished or reared person”.
Shinee
Jeon Boram
Renditions of the Soul (Album)
Falling in Love (Album)