jam hsiao -- more for his voice...found his debut album a little disappointing
wang leehom -- great composer, love his chinked-out style
yoga lin -- nice songs he has in his album, not to mention the concept!
jay chou -- a talent in a 1000 years. what can i say?
jj lin -- pretty nice, many songs, but no album?!?!
SODAGREEN!!! -- love them!!!! hope they stick indie and retain their special aura!!!
KHALIL FONG!!! -- talented adorable guy! love his songs, can never get tired of them
VITAS LU!!! 盧廣仲 -- most popular taiwan online discussion singer thingy. and his songs are great.
joanna wang -- love her soothing voice that promotes PEACE!!!

just some people that i find them really great!

WANG LEEHOM <3- My favorite C-pop artist Homeboy
Jay Chou - First introduction to cpop, very talented young man. Sometimes his music can get a bit repetitive but always good to listen to.
Elva Hsiao - Lovely voice, I always feel surprised by her music.
Deserts Chang - Nice acoustic beats her music is very relaxing to listen to,
Ken Zhu - Nice to fall asleep to..
Fish Leong - Beautiful, powerful voice, I love her.
Cyndi Wang - I like her music beats and and of course, her voice.

蘇打錄 (sodagreen) - LOVE THEM. they are simply amazing~~ favorite song is 小情歌, but all their songs are wonderful. honestly, i think they are the only mainstream taiwanese band worth listening to.. (besides mayday)
盧廣仲 (crowd lu) - his songs are pretty good (i got to see him perform live and it was great!)

although i love the singers coming out from a million stars (yoga lin, aska yang, jam hsiao), their debut albums weren't that satisfying to me. =\ just my opinion though. i know plenty of people who love yoga lin's first album.

Thank goodness you mentioned my favorites; Mayday, Shin, and JJ Lin~~ Hmm.. I think 吴克群(Wu Ke Qun) and 李圣杰(Li Sheng Jie) deserves to be up there too.

some at the top of my head:

Deep White
Xiao Yu
Eason Chan
Eugene Yip
Carrachy
Nan Quan Mama
JJ Lin
Jay Chou
Hoho (Hou Xian) (he's very simliar to Jay Chou!)

Evan Yo~ Yo YO~

[sarcasm]Lollipop came out with another group, Lollipop 2! YAY!!![/sarcasm]

I'm not even gonna bother trying their music.

jolin different with Rainie lolz.....

I think "Agent J" was good album from her....

her dance, etc, not so so......

I'm currently addicted to Van Fan...
I love his album. It doesn't put me to sleep and isn't very poppy either.
My fav. tracks: Love Story & 放生

I can't find my old post, but my other favs:
Zhang Li Yin - "I Will" is an awesome album
Gary Cao- "Superwoman" song
David Tao - he's my fav. I haven't listened to him for a while... "Only friends", "Twenty Two", "Spring Wind" (i think that's feat. Tension)
Tension - " My Story" good album
Quincy Tan - 片尾曲 (very emotional)

周柏豪 my alltime favorite

GEM TANG (17 yr old with potential..def. can sing better than some other singers, composes and writes her own lyrics )
EVA CHAN (her voice reminds me of Denise Ho, she's actually in the business for awhile now..writing lyrics/composing songs for other artists, but this time she's debuting as a singer )

^ these 2 are 08 newcomers in HK.

I think the problem with C-Pop is that the talent pool is relatively small compared to K-Pop and definitely J-Pop. Basically, 99% of the C-Pop singers come from HK and Taiwan, a total population of less than 30 million. South Korea itself has much bigger population that that. And C-Pop caters to a disportionately large audience of not only HK and Taiwan but also Mainland China. I think with a larger audience, a lot of the songs will get generic. K-Pop and J-Pop doesn't have that problem. There are so many talented singers in Mainland but due to the restrictive government, it's hard for them to get success out of Mainland. That's just my two cents.

Zhang Li Yin (chinese Boa)
Anson Hu Yan Bin
JJ Lin
Hins Cheung

OMG! though I'm not Chinese...

I love JAY CHOU especially his voice!
He's multi-talented and so poetic.
People have said that he mumbles a lot
but I actually like it.
I get goose bumps reading his lyrics,
that's just shows how awesome he is!

><'' i definitely disagree with some above mentioned BUT its all subjective so..=)

anyways i've come back with yet another few:
-Landy Wen: seriously I don't know why I didn't try her music until now, she's got such a beautiful voice and all the lovely heart warming (or breaking) hits from the late 90s on.
-BY2: Quality music for teens..they're 16 but very talented. **New group**
-Y2J: I would describe them as JS meet FIR plus a rock feel, normally i wouldn't go for that but their voices actually blend together so well...and the music isnt what typical rock is...i cant describe it but...just not all about the intruments and loudness but it's got a lot of passion. **New group**

I think Claire Guo/Guo Jing and Fan Fan/Fan Wei Qi are really good singers...
I really like their songs such as:
1. Claire Guo : Xia Yi Ge Tian Liang, Wo Bu Xiang Wang Ji Ni, and so on...
Her previous & latest album were great...
2. Fan Fan : Hei Bai Pei, Yi Ge Xing De Ju Li, Shi Fei Ti, Na Xie Hua Er, Wo Men Ji Nian Ri, Yi Ge Xiang Xia Tian, Yi Ge Xiang Qiu Tian, and so on...
I really like her the best... Her songs either she composed herself or not were AWESOME...

Then there're Fish Leung and Elva Hsiao... They're really good singers too...

For the males, I still think Lee Hom & Jay Zhou are the BEST one... hehehehe...

@Jnn

Yeah I really like Y2J too. Their voices blend REALLY well. :]

I also recommend A-Lin. Beautiful voice.

...F.I.R is not Chinese....o_o"
and a lot of the singers you've mentioned here aren't either.
unless you're talking about the language they're singing in

You went there. =o

But ya, most of the famous ones come from Taiwan. If you consider it to be "Chinese" or not, that's up to you. Chinese music refers to music in Chinese. That's why we consider music from Singapore and Malaysia to be C-Pop as well when they're sung in Chinese.

You really wanna drag politics into this?

And while most of the Supergirl winners/contestants have produced garbage music with equally garbage voices, Jane Zhang is one of the most talented singers I've heard in a very long time.

^uhh....no....o_o"

i was just kinda confused.
but i understand if you guys mean that they're singing in chinese

^ uh, the thread is about c-pop--> "quality chinese music". and you know, many people consider taiwan part of china even if you and others do not agree.

HAY KIDS CALM DOWN
it'll only turn into politics mini cooper if you guys want to blow it up out of proportion

anyway, how about older generation (kinda)?
HARLEM YU! loool i love harlem yu

i actually have huge long lists but i'm listening to 蛋炒飯 right now loool

can anyone recommend some good hk/canto singers.. if there are any >.>
not stephy, alex etc

KAY TSE.
I'm in love with her at the moment. lol.
Her husband, Louise Cheung, is pretty good too. x]

MY FAVORITES:
1) FIR. A definate yes! My favorite song is 我们的爱 (Our Love), the lyrics, and the vocals are just beau-ti-ful. Ah! Makes me cry!
2) Jay Chou. Hhahha, Mr. Musical-Genious. I LOVE how he incorporates chinese culture into his songs, a must listen!
3) Lee Hom. Typically, your average asian singer's english will never get any better than him--he grew up in the US, and started to learn chinese @ age 18!!!
4) EVONNE HSU. I JUST CANNOT BELIVE HOW LITTLE PEOPLE KNOW HER! She was born in Texas, and raised in the US. A beautiful girl, with a beautiful voice! Her song SUDDENLY I MISS YOU is great, and it was sung by a korean singer first.
5) SUPERBOYS. I know some people didn't like the Supergirls (I am not such a big fan either), but what about the SUPERBOYS?!?!? I LOVE 'EM! The summer 2007 competition was great (they didn't have one this year 'cause of the Olympics), and ALLEN SU (苏醒) is my personal fav. He grew up in China, but went abroad to Australia for college. Wei Chen (魏晨) is my second fav. HOTTIE! alert, hahha! ^^ He also has great vocals. The partnering performance with supergirl He Jie was ahh-mazing.
6) Guang Liang. Oh! His MV 'Fairytale' (Tong Hua) is a must watch. It made me cry so hard thoughh...
7) Zhang Li Yin. As people already said, she is the chinese boa. Her 'Timeless' with Xiah Junsu of DBSK is TIMELESS~!!! ^^ (at least in my dicitonary!) Her vocals are unbelievable, and she's only 19 (debuted when she was 16)! She's ma idol!

Hhehh hehh, hope ya'll will try some of these artists!!!

Insufficient Love
By Raymond Lam.
Gotta love that song xD

Raymond Lam, he has a very warm, deep voice...haha and he can sing!

Faye Wong (older generation), Miriam Yeung, Eason Chan

can ppl supply links to their youtube mvs or something? it's a bit hard finding some of them without their chinese name or album titles ><''

When it comes to foreign music, I'm very picky. I tried to search for Chinese artists and couldn't find

very many quality Chinese female artists. But, today I found Alicia Pan through Paul Kim's (American idol

contestant) myspace. Her voice is strong and smooth!!! And she sings Rnb music!!!

I love both her English and Chinese songs.

Unfortunately, she seems inactive. Her latest album released was in 2006. Anyone has anymore info on her?

She's Taiwanese right? Her profile says Taiwan.... She speaks good English.

Oh, here's the link to her myspace: Alicia Pan's Myspace

Not really South Korea's pretty tiny. They've got around 40 million, not much more than HK and Taiwan.

The mainland singers are great, and I don't see why they need to promote themselves in anywhere but Hk and Taiwan. Why go to Korea where Korean artists are struggling with dropping sales and a flood of boybands who eat up any market potential? Why go to Japan and compete with the bands that couldn't cut it in America?

If you're famous in all of China, do you really need to ask others to know who you are?

The Chinese population enjoys their songs and so who cares?

Some mainland Chinese singer recs:

Zhang Jie http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CD-9ZB5Tn3Q Best olympics song ever! Dislike the guy but he is extremely talented, maybe the most talented of China's crop of new young singers.
Zhaxi Dunzhu: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNpzwbvKorY voice is like rich butter, and extremely hot
Chen Chusheng: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8LCoASVrjF4 MV does remind me of Maroon 5, even though he's not really part of a band
Peng Tan - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOCjUi_P9DQ Indie type singer. Hot, and writes his own music! Used to be part of a band.
Hou Xian: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0hsTlIIhk3c Sounds a bit like Jay Chou, but with Zhong Guo Feng maxed out. Very talented songwriter
Anson Hu: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKnKy5M0oDc Voice is dead sexy
Qiao Renliang: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BvnAdP_rHXc Just sexy. So sexy. Why so sexy Kimi?
BOBO - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hSzkrbeK8w boy group that can actually sing. Plus they're so cute, and squishable.

I pay less attention to female singers, but...
Cao Fang - Her song was in the GE commercials
Jade Liu - Her voice is so clear and crisp and soothing. I don't know why people hate on the Supergirls. They can all sing. And their songs are great. I love Li Yuchun's new EP. Very Zhong Guo Feng.

taiwan- A-lin
china- jane zhang

all i cna think of

i say jj lin songs are annoying...his songs are like a combination of upbeat and then slow paced song
pretty much all his songs sound the same....no offense or anything
people should listen to justin lo and hins cheung songs....<3
Jade have pretty good songs too

^ jj lin's songs aren't similar sounding o_O

how strange.

Justin's voice ain't that great.

I've been listening to Amber Guo, and although I know next to nothing about her...I find her voice and music extremely beautiful. Her English is also really good...ermmm her music has a bit of Clair Guo feel to it, very pure.

Also Kary Ng is pretty nice.

Quality Chinese music isn't pop music, end of story.

I disagree that C-pop is inferior to K-pop and J-pop, C-pop is slower at copying American music but you've got to be pretty limited in your music collection to think most pop singers are good singers at all.

i just discovered a rapper from taiwan that i have never heard about and his name is 宋岳庭. Aparetnly he died a young age (23?) of bone cancer. Oh. He lived an angsty life. I like three of his songs (the only ones on youtube?) which are "Life's a struggle", "let me fly" and "daydream". T___T his bio seems so sad.

well, generally speaking, if talking about great chinese music quality, it will be a battle between wang lee hom vs jay chou. both of them are the top nowadays. i personally wang lee hom is better because he always tried different, thus, he is more versatile, whereas jay chou's songs all sound the same. nevertheless, there are lots of singers out there who have good music. singers who can really catch my attention and i consider them as very great singers are sam lee and gary cao. go listen to ca jian er guo ( sam lee ). i think it is one of the best chinese song ever. and gary cao has bei pan and superwoman, which i think wonderful songs as well. jj lin? he has very good singing skill, but his songs are not that great, but not bad also. there are a lots of good singers also, like tank, nicholas teo, david tao, guang liang, eason chan. but their songs are not that good yet. they only have very few songs that made them great. jacky cheung? he is the best chinese singer ever. seriously, he has the greatest vocal in the world. and his music is the best during 90's. however, his songs nowadays ( "by your side" album )couldn't catch teenagers' attention(which i think the music is still good though). so,here i rate them(my personal thoughts) :
from music quality : wang lee hom, jay chou, sam lee, gary cao, jj lin. those are my top 5.
from singing skill : jacky cheung, jj lin, eason chan, wang lee hom, sam lee.

i loveeeee FIR!!<33

btw, I'm kinda bummed that chinese music arent
as popular as korean/japanese. Because most of the
songs are slow and kind of have the same style....

but FIR is famous/well known because of their own style.

so can anyone reccomend me some songs that are not
slow and sounds really good?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Udf_m3RPwhw
^ something like those are okay.

Listen to Khalil Fong , Gary Cao , Jam Hsiao , JJ Lin , MayDay, SHIN , Crowd Lu , MC Hot Dog, Anson Hu, Xiao Yu . You just gotta look a bit harder .

Cantonese:
- 謝安琪 (Kay Tse), I still love her 鍾無艷 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQlLB-HVd5o)
- 林峰 (Raymond Lam) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-PWhD5FgKfY...feature=related)
- 古巨基 (Leo Ku) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4rG19XecUA)
- 泳兒 (Vincy Chan) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=em3oTPw0aWE...feature=related)
- 張敬軒 (Hins Cheung) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YAT7wm83Tuc)
'the older generation' - Jacky Cheung, Andy Lau, Alan Tam, Faye Wong(They all have great vocals!)
uhm.. and Miriam Yeung, Janice Wei
Manderin:
- 張力尹 (Zhang Li Yin) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCBN32N3MOU)
- 周杰倫 (Jay Chou) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KrMBhPhMnF8...feature=related)

Hmm this is all I can think of..

I can't believe I didn't mention A-mei through the multiple tmes i posted here! She is simply the queen...her voice, omg I don't know how she does it. It is filled with emotion, and she has hands down the best techniques/vocals in Taiwan, not many singers can do both the technical part and bring out such beautiful passion simultaneously in such a flawless way, even ones I recommanded, she takes singing to a whole new level..!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ce0uO_Mge2k...feature=related (Live version of I Want Happiness)

Super Girls are horrible?

................

have you been listening to the wrong people? because I can't really imagine anyone not liking someone from the Super Girls...

I mean, how can you put Jane Zhang, or Bibi, or Tan Weiwei, or even He Jie, in a sentence with boybands/girlbands/Jolin/Rainie?

They are like polar opposites.

I mean, there are some Super Girls that go on the cutesy looks side (ie Baby Zhang).

But some are amazing singers with tons of potential.

There's a reason why Super Girls basically cover every major mandarin music-producing company, and it's not for their looks.

My Favourite C-Pop Singer has to be Rene Liu (Liu Ruoying) - She has an assortment of amazing ballads, including some covers of Kiroro songs, two of which are called Hou Lai and Hen Ai Hen Ai Ni, i have posted Youtube links to them below.

Hou Lai - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJaHg0NjVTg
Hen ai Hen ai ni - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CptoiwQ_v_4

p.s - I don't know if anyone has posted her before as the search engine doesn't work??

I absolutely love Khalil Fong, Jam Hsiao, Wang Leehom
Khalil is different from most of the HK scene; I tend to avoid HK music.
I also like Tank, NQMM, & Soda Green , FIR is nice as well.
i used to like Jay Chou but not as much.

From the old generation singers, I think Jacky Cheung is the best.

Hmm... with the exception of MC Hot Dog and Khalil Fong (sorta), it looks like those artists you listed mostly have slower songs under their belts..

But yeah.. just like xvampirenight, I'm trying to look for some upbeat Chinese music too, but I haven't really been able to find any.

Anyways... it seems to me that the Chinese music industry is mostly dominated by slow ballads; artists rarely try to step out of this genre. What's everyone's thoughts about this?

Really? Those artists actually have quite a few upbeat songs ...

Especially Xiao Yu, Mayday, SHIN ... JJ Lin, Gary Cao, and Jam Hsiao also have upbeat songs too.

Kary Ng is really bad at singing live tho even tho her studio songs are nice. She sounds like an old lady when she's singing live.

just wondering if NQMM a taiwanese band/group or mainland? Just wondering, cause I'm trying to find some more mainland bands...
it's also the first time that i listened to tank's songs, very nice



can you post a youtube link of SHIN? cause all i find is the cartoon -___-"

I'm starting to listen more and more to chinese songs these days.
Can someone recommend some Chinese rock bands? with real rock music (preferably with a vocalist who has a nice deep voice (like those j-rock singers)) I haven't really found a rock band with real rock music...

btw what happend to FIR? I haven't heard of them anymore. Have they release another album yet?

Jam Hsiao <3
Leehom<3
Sam Li [李聖傑] <3
張智成<3 I absolutely love this one http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7y3munkRFVI

G.E.M. 鄧紫棋(canto) sings pretty good

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahxMIeSn-rs