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Chinese name
  
蕭孋珠 (traditional)

Pinyin
  
Xiāo Lìzhū (Mandarin)

Birth name
  
Shiao Lih-ju (蕭麗珠)

Chinese name
  
萧㛤珠 (simplified)

Pe̍h-ōe-jī
  
Siau Lê-chu (Hokkien)

Born
  
1955 (age 61–62)
Chiayi, Taiwan

Occupation
  
singer, television presenter

Alma mater
  
Chinese Culture University

Genres
  
Mandopop, Hokkien pop, J-pop

Shiao Lih-ju (born 1955) is a retired Taiwanese singer and TV presenter who released more than 30 albums in the 1970s and 1980s. She sang in Mandarin, Hokkien, and Japanese.

Shiao rose to fame after singing the theme songs of many popular films based on Chiung Yao's novels, like Fantasies Behind the Pearly Curtain (1975), Everywhere Birds Are Singing (1978), and Love Under a Rosy Sky (1979). She also sang the theme songs of many TV series, like the Singaporean historical drama The Sword and the Song (1986). In the mid-1980s, she moved to Singapore, and retired after marrying a Singaporean man in 1990.

Awards

1984 Golden Bell Awards

  • Won—Best Female Singer
  • References

    Shiao Lih-ju Wikipedia