Tsai Chin (singer)
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Tsai Chin 蔡琴 |
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Cover of Tsai Chin's 1991 album Back to the Future: Taiwanese Traditional Songs
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Born | 22 December 1957 | |
Origin | Taiwan | |
Genre(s) | Pop, Folk | |
Years active | 1970s-present |
Tsai Chin (Chinese: 蔡琴; pinyin: Cài Qín; Minnan: Chhoà Khîm) is a pop and folk singer from Taiwan (her ancestral home is in Hubei). She sings in both Mandarin Chinese and Taiwanese. The peak of her popularity in Taiwan was from the late 1970s to the mid-1990s but she remains popular in mainland China.
[edit] Trivia
In one scene of the 2002 hit Hong Kong thriller movie Infernal Affairs, two rivals meet in a music shop and sit to appreciate the music of Tsai Chin.