About Me
Name: Jolin Tsai or Cai Yi Ling
D.O.B: Sept 15 1980 in Taiwan.
Height: 158cm
Weight: 40kg
Lives with: Parents and elder sister.
Childhood years
Jolin was an introverted and shy child. Knowing that Jolin was of scholarly material, her mother brought her to attend Japanese-style Mathematics lessons, and she completed the course more quickly than expected. In addition, she never failed to get into the top 3 positions of her class during her primary school years, other than once when she placed at the tenth position. As a result, she was caned by her mother for being too complacent in her test preparation. True enough, her scholarly material brought her to the top-ranked schools in Taiwan, such as Jingmei Girls High School, and Fu-Jen catholic University. The latter is well known for its English and English Literature courses, which Jolin majored in.
She self-studied English during her primary school years. Her interests in English are reflected when she chose to do English Literature in Fun-Jen Catholic University, a Taiwanese University popular for its English culture and foundation. She has also developed interest towards singing, as she experimented with different vocal singing techniques after listening to various popular female singers such as Teresa Teng and Faye Wong.
2006-present: Capitol Records
After the release of J-Top, her first album with Capitol, Dancing Diva was released on May 12, 2006. This album became Jolin's biggest album yet, selling over 2 million copies in Asia.[7] The album featured some of her most popular and sexiest dance songs ever, including the aforementioned title track "Dancing Diva", "Pulchritude", "Mr.Q" (the music video for this song shows a very sexy Jolin getting intimate with Hong Kong pop star Edison Chen), and the bonus track "Attraction of Sexy Lips" (a song she did as part of an endorsement deal with MaxFactor which is almost close to Anita Mui's song "Hot Red Lips"). The album also featured two of the biggest hits in Asia during the year: the fun and upbeat "A Wonder in Madrid" and the touching love ballad "Pretence". She collaborated with good friend and labelmate Stanley Huang on the song "Nice Guy", which he also helped to write. Jolin also had some writing duties on the album, writing the lyrics for the song "The Prologue", which many speculate was written about Jay. The album was re-released in July as the "Perfect Celebration Edition" with a DVD featuring music videos of all eleven of the songs on the album. She has done the same thing for Magic, Castle, and J-Game as well.During the fall of 2006, Jolin embarked on her Dancing Forever World Tour, performing concerts to sellout crowds in Asia. The huge opening concert concert in Hong Kong, which took place on her birthday, featured many special guests, including one of Hong Kong's top male artists Eason Chan, Taiwan's rising pop princess Rainie Yang, and Show. Show and Stanley also made surprise appearances in other stops of her tour, however, the most shocking moment was when she kissed fellow Taiwanese diva Elva Hsiao on the lips during one of her concerts. She was acting french that time, she is not bisexual. Jolin made guest appearances at her friend Stefanie Sun's concerts, while she and popular Singaporean male artist JJ Lin took turns appearing at each other's concerts.Jolin released another album, Dancing Forever in October 2006. It features 2 CDs and a DVD. The first disc is comprised of all-new material, including the title track and theme for her tour: "Dancing Forever". Covers of songs by Chinese divas Sandy Lam and Faye Wong and a duet called "Marry Me Today" she recorded with her idol and mentor David Tao, are also included. Furthermore, she experiments with two other dialects - Taiwanese and Cantonese (the Canto version of "Pretence" is on the album). Up to this point, she has only released music in Mandarin and English. The second disc features remixes of three dance hits from Dancing Diva, while the DVD features the LUX sponsored mini-concert she performed in the summer in Kaohsiung. It features Stanley and Taiwanese guy group Energy.A month later, Sony released another 2 CD compilation album called Jolin Favorite Live Concert Music Selection. This album consists of remixes of popular songs Jolin recorded under Sony, as well as rare live tracks.Jolin ended off the year 2006 on a high note, performing hits like "Mr.Q", "A Wonder in Madrid", "Pretence" and "Dancing Diva" at several New Year countdown parties in Taiwan. Furthermore, according to g-music, Dancing Diva became the biggest selling album of the year in Taiwan, while Dancing Forever landed at number 15 on the year-end album sales charts.[8] Dancing Diva accounted for 4.26% of all Mandarin album sales in Taiwan for the year, ahead of Jay Chou's Still Fantasy, which placed second and accounted for 3.50%. Jolin's singles also topped year-end charts [9], particularly her extremely popular duet with David Tao, which is considered by many lists to be the 1 song of the year in Taiwan. Singles like "Dancing Diva," "Pretence," and "A Wonder in Madrid" were also the winners of many song awards at the end of 2006 and the start of 2007.Jolin released The Acquired Talent (DVD, photobook and poster) on June 8, 2007, which featured performances from her latest world tour and documented her hard work and perseverance in preparing for the tour. The DVD shows footage of her performing dance sequences with concert guests Show, Stanley, and Elva. The DVD opened at the top of the Taiwanese audio/video charts and stayed there for thirdteen weeks [10]. It is said that her new album will be coming out in mid-August or September.On June 16, Jolin finally won at the most prestigious music awards show in Taiwan. She picked up the Most Favorite Female Artist and the Best Female Singer awards at the 18th Annual Golden Melody Awards.[11] [12]. Furthermore, her duet with David Tao won the Best Song award. Jolin's win for Best Female Singer has drawn some criticisms from netizens and industry critics due to her voice not being as strong as the other nominees (A-mei, Sandy, Angela Chang, and Penny Tai). However, many say that she won due to her all-round talent, hard work, and universal pop appeal.[13] Regardless of the controversy surrounding this award, her other award for Most Favorite Female Artist shows the immense popularity she has around the world as the award was voted on by the fans for a couple of months prior to the awards show. She beat out many other huge pop stars like S.H.E, Fish Leong, Stefanie, Elva, Twins, A-mei, Rainie, and others.Just a few days before the release of Jolin's new album at Capitol Records, Sony released another Jolin compilation album, Jolin's Final Wonderland. This collection is the most comprehensive, featuring almost all the songs Jolin released during her time at Sony. The album includes 3 CDs (songs are separated into dance songs, cute songs, and love ballads), as well as a DVD with 22 music videos and a 52-page photo book.Jolin's second album with Capitol Records, titled Agent J, was released on September 21, 2007. The album features eleven all-new tracks and the bonus track "Let's Move It", which was used as a promotional track in commercials for Toyota. The deluxe version of the album features a 3-part 80-minute music movie filmed in France, London, and Bangkok. The movie, costing NT 50 million to film, stars Jolin as the leather-clad Agent J and features popular Korean actor Kim Jae Won and Hong Kong stars Stephen Fung and Carl Ng. [14][15] During the filming of the movie, Jolin had to learn two new forms of dance in 10 days: aerial silk dancing and poledancing, almost paralyzing her right arm and causing her to faint in the process. [16]According to g-music Taiwan, the album accounted for 45% of album sales and over 60% of Mandarin album sales in Taiwan in its first week of release. Since its release, the album has stayed at the 1 position for two weeks.
Albums
Jolin 1019
Released: September 10 1999
Don't Stop
Released: April 26 2000
Show Your Love
Released: December 22 2000
Lucky Number
Released: July 7 2001
Remix - Together
Released: 2002
Remix 2002
Magic 72
Released: March 7 2003
Castle
Released: February 27 2004
Remix - J9 PARTY
Released: November 12 2004
J-Game
Released:April 25 2005
J-Top
Released: May 5 2006
Dancing Diva
Released: May 12 2006
Remix - Dancing Forever
Released: September 29 2006
Agent J
Released: September 21 2007
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