Chen Hsiao-yun
Chen Hsiao-yun, real name Chen Yun Xia, is a Taiwanese Hokkien pop music singer. She graduated from the provincial Taichung Home Economics and Commercial High School and worked as an accountant. When she was young, she co-founded a coffee shop with a friend, and while working there, she was already noted for her frequent singing; she was later promoted and selected to sing in a hotel in Taichung. and it was not until she was invited by a record company that she began her career as a singer. She has now retired from singing.
Performing Experience
In 1985, Chen was invited by Jima Recording to record her debut album "Dancing Lady", which became a big hit. The hit song "Dancing Lady" was a popular song and was sung all over the streets. However, as it was still a period of martial law, the theme of the song was related to the night life in Taiwan's night markets, and depicted the sad situation of dancers in the society. The Nationalist Government's Police Headquarters and the Bureau of Information Technology of the Executive Yuan thought that these songs depicting liquor and dance halls would corrupt the social atmosphere and cause people to get into the bad habits, and therefore banned all songs with lyrics on these themes to avoid promoting the wrong trend. It was not until 1987 that Taiwan declared the lifting of martial law that songs such as 'Dancing Lady' saw the light of day, and Chen officially joined Jima Recording as a contract singer to launch her singing career. Nevertheless, it would become a factor in the revival of Taiwanese Hokkien pop music.Since then, Chen has released a number of best-selling records and albums on Jima Recording, including 1986's "Don't Lose Hope". "Don't Lose Hope" was one of the songs in the movie A Better Tomorrow. With the help of the movie, the album "A Better Tomorrow" sold even better than "Dancing Lady", and in 1990, during the presidential election, she released the album "There's Always a Chance to Become the President", the title track of which was "There's Always a Chance to Become the President", which was shortlisted for the Best Female Vocalist Award at the 2nd Golden Melody Awards, making her a big hit at the same time.
From 1991 to 1993, she released several "Taiwanese Bestsellers Compilation Albums", and in 1992, she released the album "Romance Cha Cha", for which she won the Best Female Vocalist Award for Dialect Song at the 4th Golden Melody Awards, making her the first female singer in the history of the Golden Melody Awards to win the award for a dance song, and climbed up to the peak of her career. In the following year, she won the Best Female Vocalist for Dialect Songs at the 5th Golden Melody Awards with her album "Bitter Romantic Dreams", and she is the first female singer to win the Golden Melody Awards for Individual Vocal Performance.
At the end of 1993, Chen Xiao Yun began to gradually retire from singing and stopped releasing albums. During the six years from 1993 to 1999, he usually only sang in TV programs, including the TV variety show "The Fantastic Brothers" hosted by Fei Yu-ching and Chang Fei, and "Flying to the Rainbow" hosted by Fong Fei-fei, etc. In particular, in 1995, Chen Xiao Yun did a rare impersonation of Pauline Lan's vocal performance of "My Tenderness is Only Seen by You" in the CCTV variety show "Diamond Stage". In 1999, she released her last album, "Love to Death", released by Lui Kwan Chong Records, and then officially retired from performing. She made one appearance in Singapore's "Golden Night Show", but her whereabouts are unknown.
Chen has unique singing skills and is good at singing with a melodious voice. She likes to sing with swinging dance moves and gestures, Fei Yu-ching likes to imitate Chen Xiao Yun's dance moves in the show "The Fantastic Brothers".
According to Chen's past friends such as He Yi-hang and Fang Chun, she loves practicing yoga, was a yoga instructor, and is a cleanser