Tsai Chin is a pop

Popular music

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 and folk

Folk music

Folk music is an English term encompassing both traditional folk music and contemporary folk music. The term originated in the 19th century. Traditional folk music has been defined in several ways: as music transmitted by mouth, as music of the lower classes, and as music with unknown composers....

 singer from Taiwan

Taiwan Province

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 (her ancestral home is in Hubei

Hubei

' Hupeh) is a province in Central China. The name of the province means "north of the lake", referring to its position north of Lake Dongting...

). She sings in both Mandarin Chinese and Taiwanese Hokkien and is known for her naturally magnetic rich vocals and witty persona.

Music career

Her well-known hits include Bei yiwang de shiguang (《被遺忘的時光》, The Forgotten Time), Qiashi ni de wenrou (《恰似你的温柔》, Just Like Your Tenderness), Zuihou yi ye (《最後一夜》, The Last Night), Du ni (《讀你》, Reading You), and Ni de yanshen (《你的眼神》, The Spirit of Your Eyes). The peak of her popularity in Taiwan was from the late 1970s to the mid-1990s but she remains popular in China

China

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.

Tsai Chin's song Lost Time features prominently in the 2002 hit Hong Kong

Hong Kong

Hong Kong is one of two Special Administrative Regions of the People's Republic of China , the other being Macau. A city-state situated on China's south coast and enclosed by the Pearl River Delta and South China Sea, it is renowned for its expansive skyline and deep natural harbour...

 film Infernal Affairs

Infernal Affairs

Infernal Affairs is a 2002 Hong Kong crime-thriller film directed by Andrew Lau and Alan Mak. It tells the story of a police officer who infiltrates the triads, and a police officer secretly working for the same gang. The Chinese title means "the non-stop path", a reference to Avici, the lowest...

as a key theme to its plotline, and its sequels. As well as serving to elucidate the theme of the films, the song plays an important plot function in chronologically connecting various elements of the story.

Chin's albums Tsai Chin Live 2007 and Golden Voice were both awarded one of the Top 10 Selling Mandarin Albums of the Year at the 2007 IFPI Hong Kong Album Sales Awards, presented by the Hong Kong branch of IFPI.

Personal life

She was once married to Taiwanese Director Edward Yang

Edward Yang

Edward Yang , along with Hou Hsiao-Hsien and Tsai Ming Liang, was one of the leading filmmakers of the Taiwanese New Wave and Taiwanese Cinema. He won the Best Director Award at Cannes for his 2000 film Yi Yi .-Biography:...

. She starred, together with filmmaker Hou Hsiao-hsien

Hou Hsiao-Hsien

Hou Hsiao-Hsien is an award-winning film director and a leading figure of Taiwan's New Wave cinema movement.-Biography:...

, in Yang's 1984 film Taipei Story

Taipei Story

Taipei Story is a 1985 film by Taiwanese filmmaker Edward Yang.The film stars Yang's fellow filmmaker Hou Hsiao-hsien, and singer Tsai Chin, who Yang subsequently married.It is one of the earliest films of the New Taiwan Cinema.-Synopsis:...

.

Discography

Year	Album	Label	Remarks
April 1979	《出塞曲》	HAI SHAN
May 1981	《秋瑾》	HAI SHAN
Sept 1981	《你的眼神》	HAI SHAN
Sept 1982	《一千個春天》	四海
Sept 1982	《再愛我一次》	HAI SHAN
Nov 1982	《藍色的夢》	HAI SHAN
March 1983	《不了情》	HAI SHAN
May 1983	《昨夜之燈》	HAI SHAN
Nov 1983	《世界名曲專輯》	HAI SHAN
April 1984	《此情可待》
July 1985	《癡癡的等》(TO WAIT DEVOTEDLY)	UFO GROUP
1986	《蔡琴個人演唱會精選》		Oct 14-16, 1983 HK AC Hall Concert
March 1986	《傷心小站》(HEARTBREAK STATION)
Oct 1986	《人生就是戲》(LIFE IS A SHOW)	UFO GROUP
Dec 1986	《飛向未來》	UFO GROUP
Sept 1987	《第一種聲音》	UFO GROUP
Nov 1987	《時間的河》	UFO GROUP
Dec 1987	《美就是心中有愛》	UFO GROUP	中華民國小姐選拔特別專輯
June 1988	《火舞》(DANCE OF FIRE)	UFO GROUP
Oct 1989	《談心》(ABOUNT HEARTS)	UFO GROUP
Dec 1990	《回到未來》~國語懷念老歌	UFO GROUP
Dec 1990	《回到未來》~台語懷念老歌	UFO GROUP
Dec 1991	《太陽出來了》	UFO GROUP
July 1992	《你不要那樣看著我的眼睛》	波麗佳音
Sept 1993	《一曲成名-輝煌時代》	UFO GROUP
Jan 1994	《新感情舊回憶》	DIEN JIANG
July 1995	《Late Night Show》	DIEN JIANG
Jan 1996	《民歌蔡琴》	DIEN JIANG
Feb 1996	《情歌蔡琴》	EMI
Junt 1996	《飄浪之女》台語專輯	DIEN JIANG
July 1997	《Rush》	DIEN JIANG
Feb 1998	《答案》	滾石	與萬芳合唱單曲
Sept 1998	《原聲帶》	WARNER
Feb 1999	《音樂大世紀-歌癮十五年》	UFO GROUP	UFO ARTISTS
Sept 1999	《精選蔡琴》	EMI
Sept 1999	《沒有男人的房子不算家》	WARNER	【天使不夜城】歌舞劇原聲帶
March 2000	《機遇》	GODOT THEATRE	【淡水小鎮】原聲帶
June 2000	《To Encounter》	ZRUDEN
Sept 2000	《花天走地》	UNIVERSAL
Feb 2001	金片子【壹】- 天涯歌女	ZRUDEN
Feb 2001	金片子【貳】- 魂縈舊夢	ZRUDEN
July 2001	《橘子紅了》	ZRUDEN
Sept 2001	《Continue》	ZRUDEN
Jan 2002	《蔡琴一起走來香港演唱會Live》	BETTER
Aug 2002	《Mesmerized》蔡琴懷舊精選	WARNER
Sept 2003	《情盡夜上海回憶錄》	GODOT THEATRE	【情盡夜上海】雋永老歌歌舞劇
Feb 2004	《Best of The Best》	WARNER
March 2004	《抒琴時間》	WARNER
July 2004	《Under The Moon Light 2004》	廣州天藝
May 2005	《一千個春天》【經典復刻版】	music543.com
April 2007	《不了情2007經典歌曲香港演唱會》	UNIVERSAL
Oct 2007	蔡琴《金聲演奏廳》	UNIVERSAL

External links

Official website: Tsai Chin