Record producer
A record producer or music producer oversees and manages the sound recording and production of a band or performer's music, which may range from recording one song to recording a lengthy concept album. A producer has varying roles during the recording process, they may gather musical ideas for the project, collaborate with the artists to select cover tunes or original songs by the artist/group, work with artists and help them to improve their songs, lyrics or arrangements. A producer may also: Select session musicians to play rhythm section accompaniment parts or solos Co-write Propose changes to the song arrangements Coach the singers and musicians in the studioThe producer supervises the entire process from preproduction, through to the sound recording and mixing stages, and, in some cases, all the way to the audio mastering stage; the producer may perform these roles themselves, or help select the engineer, provide suggestions to the engineer. The producer may pay session musicians and engineers and ensure that the entire project is completed within the record label's budget.
A record producer or music producer has a broad role in overseeing and managing the recording and production of a band or performer's music. A producer has many roles that may include, but are not limited to, gathering ideas for the project, composing the music for the project, selecting songs or session musicians, proposing changes to the song arrangements, coaching the artist and musicians in the studio, controlling the recording sessions, supervising the entire process through audio mixing and, in some cases, to the audio mastering stage. Producers often take on a wider entrepreneurial role, with responsibility for the budget, schedules and negotiations. Writer Chris Deville explains it, "Sometimes a producer functions like a creative consultant — someone who helps a band achieve a certain aesthetic, or who comes up with the perfect violin part to complement the vocal melody, or who insists that a chorus should be a bridge. Other times a producer will build a complete piece of music from the ground up and present the finished product to a vocalist, like Metro Boomin supplying Future with readymade beats or Jack Antonoff letting Taylor Swift add lyrics and melody to an otherwise-finished “Out Of The Woods.”The artist of an album may not be a record producer or music producer for his/her album.
While both contribute creatively, the official credit of "record producer" may depend on the record contract. Christina Aguilera, for example, did not receive record producer credits until many albums into her career. In the 2010s, the producer role is sometimes divided among up to three different individuals: executive producer, vocal producer and music producer. An executive producer oversees project finances, a vocal producers oversees the vocal production, a music producer oversees the creative process of recording and mixings; the music producer is often a competent arranger, musician or songwriter who can bring fresh ideas to a project. As well as making any songwriting and arrangement adjustments, the producer selects and/or collaborates with the mixing engineer, who takes the raw recorded tracks and edits and modifies them with hardware and software tools to create a stereo or surround sound "mix" of all the individual voices sounds and instruments, in turn given further adjustment by a mastering engineer for the various distribution media.
The producer oversees the recording engineer who concentrates on the technical aspects of recording. Noted producer Phil Ek described his role as "the person who creatively guides or directs the process of making a record", like a director would a movie. Indeed, in Bollywood music, the designation is music director; the music producer's job is to create and mold a piece of music. The scope of responsibility may be one or two songs or an artist's entire album – in which case the producer will develop an overall vision for the album and how the various songs may interrelate. At the beginning of record industry, the producer role was technically limited to record, in one shot, artists performing live; the immediate predecessors to record producers were the artists and repertoire executives of the late 1920s and 1930s who oversaw the "pop" product and led session orchestras. That was the case of Ben Selvin at Columbia Records, Nathaniel Shilkret at Victor Records and Bob Haring at Brunswick Records.
By the end of the 1930s, the first professional recording studios not owned by the major companies were established separating the roles of A&R man and producer, although it wouldn't be until the late 1940s when the term "producer" became used in the industry. The role of producers changed progressively over the 1960s due to technology; the development of multitrack recording caused a major change in the recording process. Before multitracking, all the elements of a song had to be performed simultaneously. All of these singers and musicians had to be assembled in a large studio where the performance was recorded. With multitrack recording, the "bed tracks" (rhythm section accompaniment parts such as the bassline and rhythm guitar could be recorded first, the vocals and solos could be added using as many "takes" as necessary, it was no longer necessary to get all the players in the studio at the same time. A pop band could record their backing tracks one week, a horn section could be brought in a week to add horn shots and punches, a string section could be brought in a week after that.
Multitrack recording had another pro
Girl's Dorm
Girl's Dorm is the debut studio album by Taiwanese Mandopop girl group S. H. E, released by HIM International Music on 11 September 2001; this album is the only one in which each member has her own solos: Hebe's solos were "Someone Loves You Instead of Me" and "Too Much", Selina's "Forgotten to Forget About You", Ella's was "Don't". Labelmates Power Station composed the songs "Fridge" and "Are You All Right". Three of the songs in this album would be used to endorse SoGo and Digimaster, respectively. Most of the lyrics in this album were written by Wu Hsiung; the music video for "戀人未滿" features Taiwanese actor Joseph Chang. The track "戀人未滿" is listed at number 3 on Hit Fm Taiwan's Hit Fm Annual Top 100 Singles Chart for 2001. S. H. E was nominated for Best New Artist at the 13th Golden Melody Awards in 2002 for their work on this album; the karaoke VCD included choreographed music videos for "Not Yet Lovers", "Beauty Up My Life", "Fridge", "Too Much." The videos for "Are You All Right" and "He is Him" were edited footage of S.
H. E singing those respective songs. "戀人未滿" is a story of three girls fawning over the same boy, but deciding that their friendship is evidently more valuable. S. H. E discography@HIM International Music
Taiwanese people
Taiwanese people are people from Taiwan who share a common Taiwanese culture and speak Mandarin Chinese, Hakka, or Aboriginal languages as a mother tongue. Taiwanese people may refer to individuals who either claim or are imputed cultural identity focused on Taiwan or areas under the control of the Government of the Republic of China since 1945, including Penghu and Matsu islands. At least three competing paradigms are used to identify someone as a Taiwanese person: nationalist criteria, self-identification criteria, socio-cultural criteria; these standards are fluid, result from evolving social and political issues. The complexity resulting from competing and evolving standards is compounded by a larger dispute regarding Taiwan's identity, the political status of Taiwan, its potential de jure Taiwan independence or Cross-Strait Unification. According to government figures, over 95% of Taiwan's population of 23.4 million consists of Han Chinese, while 2.3% are Austronesian Taiwanese aborigines.
The category of Han Chinese consists of the three main groups: Hoklo and mainland Chinese. However, acculturation and assimilation have resulted in some degree of mixing of the Han and Taiwanese Aborigine blood lines. Although the concept of the "four great ethnic groups" was alleged to be the deliberate attempt by the Hoklo-dominated Democratic Progressive Party to defuse ethnic tensions, this conception has become a dominant frame of reference for dealing with Taiwanese ethnic and national issues. Despite the wide use of the "four great ethnic groups" in public discourse as essentialized identities, the relationships between the peoples of Taiwan have been in a constant state of convergence and negotiation for centuries; the continuing process of cross-ethnic mixing with ethnicities from within and outside Taiwan, combined with the disappearance of ethnic barriers due to a shared socio-political experience, has led to the emergence of "Taiwanese" as a larger ethnic group, except on the island of Kinmen whose populace consider themselves as Kinmenese or Chinese, as well as inhabitant of Matsu Islands whereby they consider themselves as Matsunese or Chinese.
The word "Taiwanese people" has multiple meanings and can refer to one of the following: All citizens of the Republic of China. Those who hold the citizenship of the Republic of China, not those based in Taiwan or Penghu, but include those living in Kinmen, Matsu Islands and other ruling territory of the Republic of China; this meaning is not accepted by the people of Matsu Islands. Ancestors who before the Japanese rule of Taiwan had moved to the island of Taiwan, Penghu islands, minor islands around Taiwan; this includes Han-Chinese, Taiwanese aborigines as well as Dutch people. In addition, this includes Japanese migrants from Japan to Taiwan during the Japanese rule of Taiwan and their descendents today. People living outside Taiwan before or after 1949, but are of Taiwanese ancestry or descent, who may live in other territories including Mainland China and do not hold the nationality of the Republic of China, they may not be born or live in Taiwan. Outside Taiwan, they are known as 海外华人 or 华人 or 华裔.
Some people may wish to emphasize 台湾人, so they may use 台裔 or 台人. Besides the factors as above for consideration, whether one identify oneself as a Taiwanese, depends on how a person and another person's self-identification; the earliest notion of a Taiwanese group identity emerged in the form of a national identity following the Qing Dynasty's ceding of Taiwan to Japan in the Treaty of Shimonoseki in 1895. Prior to Japanese rule, residents of Taiwan developed relationships based on class solidarity and social connections rather than ethnic identity. Although Han cheated Aborigines, they married and supported one another against other residents of the same ethnic background. Taiwan was the site of frequent feuding based on ethnicity and place of origin. In the face of the Japanese colonial hierarchy, the people of Taiwan were faced with the unequal binary relationship between colonizer/colonized; this duality between "one" and "other" was evident in the seven years of violence between the Japanese and groups of united anti-Japanese Han and Aborigines.
Only did the Japanese attempt to incorporate Taiwanese into the Japanese identity as "loyal subjects", but the difference between the experience of the colonized and the colonizer polarized the two groups. The concept of "race" was utilized as a tool to facilitate Japanese political policies. A system of household registers based on the notion of race to separate and define groups of subjects. From within the group of "non-Japanese" the government divided Han citizens into "Han" and "Hakka" based on their perception of linguistic and cultural differences; the Japanese maintained the Qing era classification of aborigines as either "raw" or "cooked", which to the Japanese embodied the social ramification of ethnic origin and perceived loyalty to the empire. Japanese ultra-nationalist governor Shintaro Ishihara insulted the Taiwanese, referring to them as Sangokujin- I referred to the "many sangokujin who entered Japan illegally." I thought some people would not know that word so I paraphrased it and used gaikokujin, or foreigners.
But it was a newspaper holiday so the news agencies consciously picked up the sangokujin part, causing the problem.... After World War II, when Japan lost, the Chinese of
Jay Chou
Jay Chou is a Taiwanese musician, songwriter, record producer, film producer and director. In 2000, Chou released titled Jay, under the record company Alfa Music. Since his music has gained recognition throughout Asia, most notably in regions such as China, Taiwan, Southeast Asia, Japan and in the Asian communities of Western countries such as the United States and Australia, he has received numerous awards for his musical works. Chou has written songs for other artists whilst working on his albums. In 2003, he was the cover story of Time magazine, titled New King of Asian Pop, acknowledging his influence on popular culture, he has since held six world tours, performing in cities around the world to more than 10 million people. Chou debuted his acting career in the film Initial D, he has since starred in a number of films, becoming known to western audiences when he made his Hollywood debut in 2011 with The Green Hornet, starring alongside Seth Rogen and Christoph Waltz. Chou manages his own record and management company JVR Music.
In 2016, he made an appearance in the Hollywood film Now You See Me 2. Jay Chou grew up in Taiwan. Both his parents were secondary school teachers: his mother, Yeh Hui-Mei, a music teacher, taught fine arts, while his father, Chou Yao-Chung, is a biomedical researcher, his mother took him to piano lessons at the age of four. During his childhood, he was fascinated with capturing sounds and songs with his tape recorder, which he carried everywhere with him. In the third grade, he became interested in music theory and started cello lessons, he was an only child and loved to play piano, imitate TV actors, perform magic tricks. His favorite composer was, still is to this day, Chopin, his parents divorced when he was 14 and he was teased by his classmates, which caused him to become reclusive and introverted. He had no friends and preferred to be alone, listening to music and daydreaming. At Tamkang Senior High School, he minored in cello, he became fond of pop music and began to write songs. Chou was conscripted for mandatory military service after graduating from high school with inadequate grades for university.
However, severe back pain triggered by sports led to the diagnosis of ankylosing spondylitis. Meanwhile, he found himself a job as a waiter. Chou's mother inspired Chou to become a music teacher, while Chou remained clueless on what to do with his life. Without his knowledge, a friend entered both their names in a talent show called Super New Talent King in 1998. Chou played the piano accompaniment for his friend, whose singing was described as "lousy". Although they did not win, the show's host Jacky Wu – an influential character in Taiwan's entertainment business – happened to glance at the music score and was impressed with its complexity. Wu asked who wrote it, discovered Chou and hired him as a contract composer and paired him with the novice lyricist Vincent Fang. for his record company Alfa Music. Jay Chou spent most of his time in Wu's studio learning music producing, sound mixing and writing songs. Although he was trained in classical music, Chou combines Chinese and Western music styles to produce songs that fuse R&B, rock and pop genres.
However Wu told Chou that he will help Chou to release an album after he wrote 50 songs and he will pick ten from there. Chou had an arsenal of songs he wrote for others but had been rejected, so among those he chose 10 for his debut CD album Jay, released in 2000; the album established his reputation as a musically gifted singer-songwriter whose style is a fusion of R&B, classical music, yet distinctly Chinese. His fame spread in Chinese-speaking regions throughout Southeast Asia. In 2000, under the recommendation of JR Yang, Jay Chou began to sing his own songs. Chou launched his debut album Jay under Alfa Music in 2000. Chou arranged the compilation and production of all the songs; the album combines R&B, hip-hop, other musical styles. Among them, the hit song "星晴" won the 24th China Top Ten Chinese Gold Songs; the album was promoted by Jacky Wu in the entertainment shows he hosted. Chou himself appeared on a few television programs to promote the album. Chou was marketed as a talented singer-composer with a unique tune.
His collaboration with Vincent Fang and Vivian Hsu on the release brought about a few hits. After promoting his debut album, Chou returned to the studio for the next twelve months to record and produce his next album, which helped him become an established star; this album was released in September 2001 and became a big hit, selling an estimated two million copies in Taiwan alone. Fantasy helped Chou secure ten nominations and five wins at the 13th Golden Melody Awards in 2002. R&B hits such as "簡單愛" "愛在西元前", which won Chou the Best Composer award, "開不了口" are considered Chou's signature songs and are still sung in concerts today. Chou's music has been a much-discussed topic across Chinese regions, because it differed from mainstream popular Chinese music released at that time, his pieces combine ancient themes with futuristic ones, including things like space ships, all while employing graphic storytelling skills to evoke viv
Selina Jen
Selina Ren Chia-hsüan is a Taiwanese singer, television host and actress. She is a member of the Taiwanese girl group S. H. E. On June 11, 2004, she graduated from the National Taiwan Normal University with a Bachelor of Education degree, majoring in Civic Education and Leadership. On October 22, 2010, Selina was injured in an explosive accident while filming the television series I Have a Date with Spring, along with co-star Yu Haoming. Selina suffered third-degree burns on more than 54% of her body and needed to undergo skin grafting treatment/operation where her hands and back were injured, her sister is singer Lorene Ren. On August 8, 2000, HIM International Music held a'Universal 2000 Talent and Beauty Girl Contest' in search for new artists to be signed under their label, her younger sister Lorene Ren had wanted to join. Instead, Jen joined the contest in her place; the contest had about 1000 contestants and after many tiring rounds of competing, seven contestants were left for the'Cruel Stage' round.
The three members of S. H. E were formed from here. Following the competition, the record company gave all seven contestants an audition. Jen was the eventual winner of the contest, she caught the judges' attention in the first round by performing Coco Lee's "Before I Fall In Love" and entered the final round with "The Closest Stranger". She sang "Reflection" by Christina Aguilera. Due to her nervousness during the final round, Selina was called out twice, when she was announced the winner, she was doubtful because there were other contestants who had not been called out. However, all three future members of S. H. E were signed together under HIM International Music; the name Selina was chosen by her company after taking a personality test. The name had two possible spellings: Selina and Selena. Jen chose "Selina" because she would be able to dot the i. Jen collaborated with Tank, a singer-songwriter with HIM, on the song "Solo Love Song", as well as Wang Leehom, for "You Are The Song Inside My Heart".
In September 2006, Jen released Selina Loves Beading. In January 2015, Jen released her first solo album 3.1415. On 22 October 2010, Ren suffered third-degree burns on 54% of her body her back and legs, during an indoor shooting in Shanghai for musical series I Have a Date with Spring. Jen was discharged the following year on January 19, 2011, held a press conference, stating her condition and her intention to return to work. On 29 May 2010, during a concert at the Taipei Arena, Selina revealed that lawyer Richard Chang was her boyfriend, she married Chang on 31 October 2011. On 4 March 2016, through a post on her Facebook page, Selina announced that she and Chang were planning a divorce; the divorce was finalized on 27 April. Selina Jen on IMDb Selina Jen at the Hong Kong Movie DataBase Selina Jen on Facebook Selina Jen on Instagram Selina Jen on Sina Weibo Selina Jen at HIM International Music S. H. E at HIM International Music
Reaching for the Stars (TV series)
Reaching for the Stars is a 2005 Taiwanese drama broadcast by CTS. This drama casts Taiwanese girl-group S. H. E, Anthony Guo, Chen Zhi Kai, many others; the soundtrack was released in late 2005, the female leads S. H. E contributed to the soundtrack. Reaching for the Stars aired its pilot episode during the final episode of The Prince Turned Into A Frog series; the average rating of the pilot episode in Reaching for the Stars was about 1.17, while the final episode of The Prince Turned Into A Frog set a 2005 record for the highest average episode rating and the highest episode rating. Reaching for the Stars only received mediocre television ratings. However, the lead actress Ella was nominated for Best Actress at the 41st Golden Bell Awards in 2006. Ren Xiao Jie, Zhou Xin Lei and Shen Xiao Rou are three different girls who were born on the same date. On a CF commercial, they were brought together by destiny... Zhou Xin Lei is the daughter of the president of the Zhou Corporation. On the date of her birthday, her father suffered a heart attack and died.
Because of her father's death, Lei Lei stopped filming for her CF commercials. But one day, when she passed by her billboard commercial, she accidentally met Ren Jie who came to cheer her up after her father's death. Policewoman Shen Xiao Rou was an orphan who lived together with her grandmother for the past few years without seeing her mother and father. All, left for her is the necklace that her mother gave when she was still young. One day she was upset, she went to beat him to a pulp. This resulted in a confrontation by her superior, she got so angry. Ren Xiao Jieis an orphan, left by her parents together with her brother who has a heart problem, she worked on different jobs just to help her young brother cure his sickness. They accidentally met on one CF commercial starring Lei Lei and the two of them were hired by the crew to become extras in exchange for money; because of Ren Jie's hard life, she begged Xiao Rou to be on the commercial to help her get the money. After the filming of the CF commercial, they accidentally knew that the three of them were all born on the same date and year.
Because of the last will of Lei Lei's father that half of the company's shares will be given to his long-lost daughter, Zhou Xiao Nuo, Mrs. Zhou and Liu Shi Qiang compete to find Xiao Nuo. After knowing that Lei Lei was born with the same date and year as Ren Jie and Xiao Rou whom Xiao Nou was born on the same date and year, Ren Jie was hired by Liu Shi Qiang to pretend to be Xiao Nuo. At first Ren Jie rejected his request but on agreed to do the job for only a year because of health benefits for her brother. Ren Jie and Lei Lei, were both in love with Zheng Hao, in the end Ren Jie won Zheng Hao's heart, they were apart for 3 months but in those 3 months Zheg Hao Proposed to Lei Lei. Lei Lei realizes that she breaks off their engagement. After Ren Jie's one year pretending work, she hid from everyone and went to a place far away for 3 months. Xiao Rou and Yao Wei who had a cafe on the same place, went to the known five-star cafe to study its designs. Accidentally, they saw Ren Jie near that cafe, working there for three months.
At Xiao Rou and Yao Wei Cafe Lei Lei decides to show her cooking skills to be the chef at their cafe, a few days on the 3 girls 23rd birthday, Yao Wei proposed to Xiao Rou and she accepts. A few days Uncle Fu saw the necklace that Xiao Rou was wearing and her grandmother, she was declared as the official Zhou Xiao Nuo, daughter of the president of the Zhou group. On their 23rd birthday, Lei Lei and Xiao Rou went on Lei Lei's CF billboard to wait for Ren Jie and to celebrate their birthdays together whom all of them promised. After an hour, Ren Jie didn't show up but was hiding on a car nearby and cried after everything the two girls said. On Xiao Rou's wedding with Yao Wei, Ren Jie hid from behind, but after Xiao Rou threw her flowers, Ren Jie, the one who caught the flowers showed up and met Zheng Hao whom both of them promised to be together forever. The three of them promised to celebrate their birthdays together and forever. Ella Chen as Ren Xiao Jie /Imposter Zhou Xiao Nuo Hebe Tian as Shen Xiao Rou/Zhou Xiao Nuo Selina Jen as Zhou Xin Lei Anthony Guo as Liang Zheng Hao Chen Zhi Kai as Xiao Ya Wei Yu Jin as Ren Ying Zhi Deceased Hsu Nai-lin as Mr. Zhou Deceased Xu Gui Ying as Mrs. Zhou Lin Wei as Liu Shi Qiang Di Zhi Jie as Chen Kai Deceased Chen Yu Mei as Mrs. Xiao Zhang Fu Jian as Head Policeman In Episode 10 in the storyline film, there is any mistakes was filming is not complete because the film did not have opening theme song and ending song theme, film is only 17 minutes running time only.
In Episode 15 in the storyline film, there is any mistakes was filming is not complete because the film only 06 minutes running only. In S. H. E girlband taiwan, this film drama is telling about the Slice of Life of 3 girls who want to be a superstar model, they are in different lives,status and they want to become friendship to each other
Blossomy
Blossomy is the eleventh studio album by the Taiwanese Mandopop girl group S. H. E, it was released on November 16, 2012 by HIM International Music, two years and eight months after their last album, SHERO. It was their first album since member Selina Ren sustained serious burn injuries in an accident while shooting a drama; the title track, "花又開好了", was first broadcast on Hit FM on October 22, 2012. The full version was released on October 24, 2012, its accompanying music video was broadcast on seven Taiwanese news channels. The album is the sixth best-selling album in Taiwan in 2012; the tracks "花又開好了", "心還是熱的" and "像女孩的女人" are listed at number 5, 38 and 57 on Hit FM's Annual Top 100 Singles Chart for 2012
