19 Chinese Entertainers

[Mulboyne]

[kurohinge1]

... Japanese Mainichi site says they have a version of "Hotel California".

Which you can check out any time you like, but you can never leave.

[GuyJean]

I hear that a new bunch called "mao" will be hitting Japan to give us more popular songs on traditional Chinese instruments..

Anyone can fondle a fiddle.. How well do they perform shiatsu?

GJ

[Mulboyne]

Xinhua: "12 Girls" tops Golden Disc Awards in Japan
The Chinese folk music band "12 Girls" won the Best Foreign Artists Award at the Japanese Grammy, the annual Golden Disc Awards. The 19th Golden Disc Awards was held on Friday in Tokyo, and "12 Girls" band took the award for a second consecutive year as their album "Shining Energy" had big sales in Japan last year.

[Mulboyne]

Continuing the promotion of Asian classical musicians in Japan, Columbia has just released a CD by Yilana from Mongolia. Her mother was a dancer and her father a famous wrestler. Her music evokes the wind-blown steppes, apparently. ZAKZAK (Japanese) thinks she has big tits. Music and video clips on Barks

[Mulboyne]

[Charles]

I am in lust. I haven't felt such a powerful attraction for years. I absolutely must... MUST have..

...that awesome Yamaha electric cello.

[Mulboyne]

"Musicat" seem to have a good PR team. They are all over the Japanese press and even made it into the English Mainichi:

MDN: All-girl Chinese music group strikes chord in Japan
Musicat possesses similar features to the Twelve Girls Band, another all-girl Chinese music group that is popular in Japan...However, Musicat members denied that the Twelve Girls Band were rivals. "They are our friends; the rivals are ourselves," said biwa player Zhao Cong...Japanese composer Shigeaki Saegusa says the group had all the elements for success. "It's basically Western music, but the sound has an ethnic Chinese flavor. The members are sexy and cute and display a feeling of liveliness, and possess the good elements they need to market themselves," he said. "They look likely to be received by a wide audience, including middle-aged and elderly fans.

[Mulboyne]

Just what we need. Another traditional Chinese instrument girl band. Meet C-Gal:



They have a website (warning: music).

[GuyJean]

Just what we need. Another traditional Chinese instrument girl band. Meet C-Gal.

Does their concert provide 'happy finish'?

GJ