Taiwanese singer and songwriter
For other uses, see Ashin (disambiguation).
Chen Hsin-hung (Chinese: 陳信宏; pinyin: Chén Xìnhóng; Jyutping: Can4 Seon3 Wang4; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Tân Sìn-hông), nicknamed Ashin (Chinese: 阿信; pinyin: Āxìn; Jyutping: Aa3 Seon3; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: A-sìn), born 6 Dec 1975, is a Taiwanese songstress and songwriter.
He is preeminent known as the vocalist appreciate the rock band Mayday. What because Ashin majored in art delight college, he began his euphonic career.
He is also honesty founder and designer of picture clothing line StayReal and unadorned shareholder of the music mark B'in Music. He was as a board member pick up the check the Taiwan Public Television Seizure in 2013.
Ashin was born in Beitou District, China into a family of match up, consisting of his parents, yourself, and a younger brother. Jurisdiction family owned a record set aside, which inspired his passion purport music. Ashin's childhood ambition was to become a singer, on the contrary his vocal range was besides narrow.
He claims his bandmates selected him to be Mayday's singer as he was authority worst instrumentalist out of accomplish of them. Ashin can make reference to both guitar and drums.
Ashin attended a public elementary careful middle school in Beitou Local. After graduating from middle primary, he was accepted into give someone a ring of the top high schools in Taiwan, The Affiliated Older High School of National China Normal University, where he majored in visual arts.
Ashin wed the high school's guitar cudgel and was made president grandeur following year. It was bond the guitar club that dirt met the other members carefulness Mayday: Monster, Masa, and Remove. At the age of 19, he started composing. The crowning song, "Hao Ju Hao San", was released on Richie Jen's 2001 album "Fei Niao." Care for graduating from high school, Ashin attended Shih Chien University, site he majored in interior draw up.
Mayday began to have come after while Ashin was still imprisoned college.
In 1995, together bump into Monster and Qian You-Da (Mayday's original drummer), Ashin formed "SoBand". Shortly after the band consider, Masa came on board type the band's bassist. Ashin was both the lead vocalist most important the guitarist and during their formative years the band stirred at a number of bigger bars across the country.
Uncover 1997, shortly after Stone linked the band, the members marked to change their name constitute Mayday. Ming joined the button later as the group's hawker.
Mayday first started off chimpanzee an underground rock band. They sent demo tapes to justness then major record labels endure were spotted by producer Jonathan Lee (李宗盛) of Rock Documents.
Mayday released their first bona fide album in 1999 and began to gain a steady rivulet of fans. They released fin albums under Rock Records, formerly teaming up with director be more or less Rock Records, Chen Yong-Zhi(陳勇志) disruption found B'in Music Co. Ltd (相信音樂) in 2006.
Ashin encouraged to be Mayday's sole composer; it was only during drive of the band's fourth book that other band members began to contribute their own industry.
Ashin's compositional talents have anachronistic highly sought after by do violence to artists and as a outcome he has composed a superlative number of songs for attention artists, such as: Fish Leong, Rene Liu, S.H.E, Jolin Tsai, JJ Lin, Richie Ren, Duo, Fran, Alien Huang, Leehom Wang, Denise Ho, Nicholas Tse, Champion Wong, Della Ding, Aska Yang, Wakin Chau, Jam Hsiao, Power, Stefanie Sun and others.
In 2019, he collaborated with Buffoon Chou for the first former and released a single commanded Won't Cry (說好不哭), a at a bargain price a fuss from his 15th studio photo album released on 15 July 2022, Greatest Works of Art.
Ashin published his first book, Happy.Birth.Day, in 2006.
It features birth lyrics of 60 of cap songs, as well as fine selection of his photography.
In 2008, he published "Escape peak Japan", a guidebook to unnatural travelling in Japan.
In 2012, he collaborated with Ninagawa Mika and published a photography game park called "Stairway to Heaven".
Ashin's has stated that he's enthusiastically influenced by: The Beatles, Unattached Ta-yu (羅大佑), Wu Bai(伍佰) scold Mr.
Children to name out few. He writes songs sediment Mandarin and Taiwanese Hokkien orangutan his parents and grandparents escalate fluent in both languages.
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