Chinese name 蔡琴 Official website tsai-chin.com Pinyin Name Tsai Chin | Ancestry Hubei, China Role Singer Years active 1970s–present Siblings Tsai Fei | |
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Movies Taipei Story, Love unto Waste Albums 機遇, 遇見, Golden Voice 1, Tsai Chin 2010 Hai Shang Li, Tsai Chin Concert Hall Similar People Edward Yang, Chris Babida, Hou Hsiao‑Hsien, Lam Manyee, Kwok‑Kong Cheng | ||
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Tsai Chin (Chinese: 蔡琴; pinyin: Cài Qín; Wade–Giles: Ts'ai4 Ch'in2; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Chhoà Khîm) is a pop and folk singer from Taiwan. Tsai sings in both Mandarin Chinese and Taiwanese Hokkien, and is known for her naturally magnetic, rich vocals and witty persona.
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Music career
Tsai's hits include "Forgotten Times" (《被遺忘的時光》), "Just Like Your Tenderness" (《恰似你的温柔》), "The Last Night" (《最後一夜》), "Reading You" (《讀你》), and "The Spirit of Your Eyes" (《你的眼神》). The peak of her popularity in Taiwan was from the late 1970s to the mid-1990s but she remains popular in Mainland China.
Tsai's albums Tsai Chin Live 2007 and Golden Voice were recognised with a "Top-10-Selling Mandarin Albums of the Year" award each at the 2007 IFPI Hong Kong Album Sales Awards, presented by the Hong Kong branch of IFPI.
Personal life
From 1985 to 1995, Tsai was married to Taiwanese director Edward Yang, in whose 1984 film Taipei Story she featured alongside Hou Hsiao-hsien.
In popular culture
Tsai's song "Forgotten Times" (《被遺忘的時光》) features prominently in the 2002 hit Hong Kong film Infernal Affairs as a recurring element of its storyline, and also in 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.