Sun-sun (singer) explained

Sun-sun
Birth Name:Lâu Chheng-hiong
Birth Date:1914
Birth Place:Taiwan under Japanese rule
Occupation:Singer
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T:純純
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Background:temporary
Genre:Taiwanese pop

Sun-sun (; kana: ジュン ジュン; romaji: junjun; 1914 - January 8, 1943), born Lâu Chheng-hiong (劉清香), was a Taiwanese popular singer.

Biography

Sun-sun was born in 1914 and joined a troupe at the age of 13.

She was active in the 1930s and early 1940s, and sang many Taiwanese or Japanese popular songs which had just been published at her time, such as "Bang Chhun Hong," "The Torment of a Flower," "", and "Tho Hoe Khi Hiat Ki" (桃花泣血記), a song used for advertising in Taiwan a Shanghai film of the same name, whose English title was The Peach Girl.[1]

She died at the age of 28 after contracting tuberculosis from her husband, a Japanese man surnamed Shiraishi.[2]

In popular culture

Her biography has been dramatized, as a main character, in the 2003 film Viva Tonal - The Dance Age (跳舞時代),[3] and a musical named April Rain (四月望雨).[4]

See also

Notes and References

  1. Web site: http://www.taiwan123.com.tw/musicface/face01.htm . zh:純純桃花泣血的一生 . 2008-08-17 . Chinese . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20141227170718/http://www.taiwan123.com.tw/musicface/face01.htm . 2014-12-27 .
  2. Web site: 2016-04-19 . 新台灣新聞週刊 - 台灣第一代女歌星 純純 桃花泣血的一生 . 2023-01-22 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160419133221/http://www.newtaiwan.com.tw/bulletinview.jsp?bulletinid=6859 . 2016-04-19 .
  3. Web site: zh:台灣唱片黃金年代-跳舞時代,從純純開始. http://www.guitarplayer.com.tw/guitarplayer/003.html. 2011-03-02. Chinese. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20120115192847/http://www.guitarplayer.com.tw/guitarplayer/003.html. 2012-01-15.
  4. Web site: zh:人物介紹 . http://aprilrain.allmusic-mag.net/role.htm . 2011-03-02 . Chinese . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110723011538/http://aprilrain.allmusic-mag.net/role.htm . 2011-07-23 .