A-mei Chang

A-mei Chang

Born: August 9th 1972

Origin: Taitung, Taiwan

Instruments: Guitar & Drums

Years Active: 1996-present

Company: EMI Taiwan

She is commonly named as a diva of Mandopop and known as the "Pride of Taiwan"

A-mei is a descendent of one of the Puyuma people one of the largest tribal groups in Taiwan. A-mei was interested in music since a young age and enjoyed performing in public. She was later discovered by Chang Yu Sheng who started her career as a singer.

In the beginning in 1996 many were attracted to this new singer who had begun her career singing with established artistes Chang Yu Sheng singing "The One I Love THe Most Hurts Me The Most" aswell as the theme song for UFO Radio Station. Her debut album "Sisters" attracted a lot of attention and immediately became a succes topping th Taiwan IFPI for 9 weeks and selling in excess of 1 million copies in Taiwan.

In June the next year she released her second album Bad Boy which emulated her debut albums success by topping the IFPI for 9 weeks and overselling it's predecessor, reaching 1.38 million copies in Taiwan, this amount of sales led A-mei to achieve the second highest selling album in Taiwanese history (Just a year into her career).

In 1998 she began her tour and later in the year was invited by Japanese TV NHK to perform in the prestigious annual ceremony "Asia Live Dream". She released her third album "Holding Hands" in October which was also well received by the public. Her next album "Can I Hug You, Lover" also became a hit seller winning many awards.

In 2002 A-mei released the album "Truth" with this album she finally won the award of "Best Female Vocalist of the Year" award at the "Golden Melody Awards" after being nominated for four years the win boosted her efforts into returning to the market.

In 2004 she again won the Favourite Artist: Taiwan at the MTV Asia Awards.

A-mei in 2005 was also the ambassafor of World Vision Taiwan. Later in the year she was invited to the Golden Horse Awards as a guest performer, at the event she amazed everyone with her rendition of classical film tunes.

In 2006 she released "I Want Happiness" which was an immediate success. In September at the MTV Mandarin Awards she was honoured with the title of MTV's Legendary Diva's.

Her latest album "Star" sold over 1 million copies emmulating the success of her most recent albums. She will be holding another Tour later expected to go on until 2009.