Tsai Chin (singer)

Tsai Chin is a Taiwanese pop and folk musician. Tsai sings in both Mandarin Chinese and Taiwanese Hokkien.

Music career

Tsai's hits include "Forgotten Times", "Just Like Your Tenderness", "The Last Night", "Reading You" and "The Spirit of Your Eyes". 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 both recognized with a "Top-10-Selling Mandarin Albums of the Year" award at the 2007 IFPI Hong Kong Album Sales Awards, presented by the Hong Kong branch of IFPI.

Personal life

Tsai was married to Taiwanese director Edward Yang from 1985 to 1995. Tsai was featured alongside Hou Hsiao-Hsien in Yang's 1985 film Taipei Story. She is the granddaughter of Cai Hanqing.

In popular culture

Tsai's song "Forgotten Times" is featured prominently in the 2002 hit Hong Kong film Infernal Affairs as a recurring element of its story line, and also in its sequels. Besides serving to elucidate the theme of the films, the song plays an important plot function in chronologically connecting various elements of the story.