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Jody Chiang , or Jiang Hui (江蕙) is a Taiwanese popular singer born on 1 September 1964. She is often called The Queen of Taiwanese music. She began recording in the 1980s and maintains an active career today. Her trademark ballads and folk songs are typically sung in Taiwanese. Her role in Taiwan's popular music scene is often compared to that of Teresa Teng.

江蕙（1961年9月1日－）本名江淑惠，台灣女歌手。

幼時窮苦，家中共5個小孩，與妹妹江淑娜在北投的飯店及台北的酒家走唱，磨練出深厚的表演功力及精湛的歌唱技巧，江蕙一直到15歲才小學畢業。經友人介紹到夜總會駐唱，改名為“江惠”，直到出第4張專輯，正式改名為“江蕙”。

回溯其出道時間，精確時間是1983年（民國72年）4月18日，而于2008年4月18日舉辦了她生平第一次的演唱會，名為「江蕙-初登場」。

從1981年出版第一張專輯迄今，已錄製50多張專輯，唱紅的歌曲無數，連續四屆金曲獎得主，在台語歌壇的的地位及成就無人能及。江蕙樂善好施，向家扶中心所屬的兒童福利基金會認養了20位孩童，還默默資助一間療養院，是台灣歌壇 ( 閩南語歌曲 ) 的天后。

2009年1月15日因討債集團找至經紀公司爆發破產事件轟動演藝圈，其本人因不擅理財多年來將所有錢財交由大姐江淑女打理，後來大姐迷上賭博將其所有積蓄上億元敗光，目前大姐本人已知尚欠債2800多萬台幣。事後江蕙發出聲明和大姐切割，表示感謝演藝界關心，所有錢財皆已失去一切將從零開始，所以大姐其餘欠款已無力幫忙，請各路債主勿再找她；同時並暫時推掉通告手機關機消失。

* Video: 把愛傳出去！江蕙參與賑災開金嗓災

* Video: 金曲20年回顧常勝軍歌后江蕙造型多變

金曲獎得獎記錄

1990年　第1屆：江蕙《年度最佳女演唱人》鄉城唱片股份有限公司（第一屆女演唱人未分國台語）

1993年　第5屆：江蕙／酒後的心聲《年度最佳流行音樂演唱專輯/唱片》

2000年　第11屆：江蕙／半醉半清醒《台灣金曲獎最佳方言女演唱人獎》

2001年　第12屆：江蕙／台灣紅歌《台灣金曲獎最佳方言女演唱人獎》（本屆「台灣紅歌」、「我愛過」兩張專輯同時上榜）

2002年　第13屆：江蕙／《江蕙》《台灣金曲獎最佳方言女演唱人獎》

2003年　第14屆：江蕙／《紅線》《台灣金曲獎最佳台語女演唱人獎》

至此，江蕙已創下金曲獎四連勝記錄，以鼓勵新人為由，宣佈從此放棄角逐金曲獎台語女演唱人獎。
但也因其放棄角逐金曲獎台語女演唱人獎，于是自此後得獎獎項均以專輯為主。

2005年　第16屆：江蕙/《愛著啊》《台灣金曲獎最佳台語流行演唱專輯》

2006年　第17屆：江蕙/《愛作夢的魚》《台灣金曲獎最佳台語流行演唱專輯》

2009年　第20屆：江蕙/《甲你攬牢牢》《台灣金曲獎最佳台語流行演唱專輯》

2009年　第20屆：江蕙/《家後》《台灣金曲獎-我的最愛一首歌(第十至十九屆第一名)》

專輯

皇冠唱片

1981.04 東京假期
1981.09 姑娘十八一朵花
1982.04 你不該輕視我

田園唱片

1983.05 你著忍耐
1983.08 白色的夢
1984.01 惜別的海岸
1984.06 民1-秋風夜雨
1984.09 還鄉
1984.12 無奈無奈
1985.02 民2-思想枝
1985.04 民3-海中花
1985.06 不想伊
1985.10 民4-母子鳥
1986.01 大船入港
1986.08 傷心的所在
1987.02 「知音」專輯
19xx.xx 日語專輯2
19xx.xx 日語專輯3

鄉城唱片

1987.11 褪色的戀情
1988.06 相思夢
1989.01 落山風
1989.12 心內話
1991.xx 唱過從前

揚聲唱片

1990.03 一個紅蛋
1990.04 日語金曲I
1990.10 夢中情
1991.02 愛情雨

點將唱片

1992.10 酒後的心聲
1993.05 感情放一邊
1994.03 苦酒的探戈
1994.12 悲情歌聲
1995.12 愛不對人
1996.10 等待舞伴
1997.03 江蕙精選輯

EMI

1998.12 世紀金選
2005.08 江蕙10個愛人

大信唱片

1999.01 半醉半清醒
2000.01 我愛過
2000.11 台灣紅歌
2001.06 2001江蕙
2001.09 世紀紅歌
2002.12 江蕙精選

亞律音樂

2002.12 紅線
2003.11 風吹的願望
2004.12 愛著啊
2005.12 愛作夢的魚
2006.12 博杯

阿爾發音樂

2008.11 甲你攬牢牢

* Jiang Hui to Sing Her Heart Out in Kaohsiung by culture.tw

Excerpt: Born to a poor family, Jiang Hui struggled to survive. When she was still very young, she was already singing to help support her family. Fans followed her through the years when she patiently climbed the ladder to achievement in the music world. She literally sang her way to fame.

"You Have to Be Patient," a trademark Jiang Hui song, seemed to tell the story of her life. This was also the first song which catapulted her to recognition throughout every street and alley in Taiwan. She vocalized her way to acceptance in the mainstream pop world once dominated by Mandarin song stars. Her landing in the pop charts was unprecedented for someone specializing in Taiwanese songs. .

"I Am Not Going to Think of Him," "Only You," "Fading Love," "Impatient Love," "Love in a Dream" and "Where the Heartbreak Is Felt" were some of the songs she popularized in the first phase of her successful career.

In the second phase she sang hits like "What the Heart Feels After Drinking" (video).This song became a record-breaking classic in 1992. "Heartbreak Hotel" (video), "Love Me For Only Three Minutes," "Bitter Wine Tango," "Dusk in Taipei," "Heartless Person, Please Go Away," "You and I Meet," "Song of Sad Feeling" and "Loving the Wrong Person" (video) belonged to the second phase.

In the third phase were songs like "Half Drunk, Half Awake" (video),"The Sound of Falling Rain" (video), "Song in a Dream," "Familiar Love," "I Have Loved Before" (video), "Leaving Home," "Tonight I Will Sing," "Cannot Let Go," "Cannot Go On Acting," "Will Meet Agan" and "Song to Fill the World" and "Man."

When she got to the fourth phase of her career, Jiang Hui emerged not just a singer of songs but also a producer. She continued taking off in her popularity as singer of songs like "Red Thread" (video), "Words of Love in a Dream" (video), "Thinking of Him," "Waiting Far Far Away," "Shanghai Holiday," "Aspiration Blown by the Wind," "I Love You," "A Woman's Story," "Candle in the Wind" (video), "Beautiful Exchange," "Dropping Crescent Blocks" and "Under Grandpa's Bed."

Taiwanese Pop

Taiwanese pop is a popular music genre sung in the Taiwanese language (Min Nan). It is referred to as Tai-pop and sometimes Hokkien pop. The genre is not the same as Mandarin pop music from Taiwan. However many Mandarin pop singers from Taiwan also cross over into Taiwanese pop genres as well, and there is increasingly more Mandarin pop influence in Taiwanese pop. Taiwanese music development took a setback during the years of Martial Law in Taiwan. Upon the lifting of Martial Law in Taiwan, multiple artists began to produce Taiwanese song tracks and entire albums in Taiwanese.

While Cantonese, Mandarin and Taiwanese are all derived from the same Sino-Tibetan languages family, Taiwanese pop is not classified within c-pop. The historical origin of Taiwanese pop comes from a Japanese enka base instead of a Chinese shidaiqu base. Music of this category are sometimes called "Aboriginal Taiwanese pop" to distinguish it from Mandarin pop music in Taiwan. Also, because it developing from traditional Japanese enka, it is become complicated with its varieties.

Origin: While Taiwan music have existed before the Japanese occupation of Taiwan, the "father of Taiwanese pop" or "New Music" is considered to be Chang Fu-hsing in the 1930s.

1950s: Political Interference: After the Kuomintang relocated from mainland China to Taiwan, the phase of White Terror would begin. The process started in 1949 with the proposal of a martial law. All facets of Taiwanese culture that were not of Han Chinese origin were under scrutiny. In particular, the KMT government discouraged use of the Taiwanese language, See here. As a result, native Taiwanese pop music was no longer in development.

1960s: Censorship: In the 1960s, Taiwan Television station for example could air no more than 2 Taiwanese pop songs a day.

1980s: Lifting of Martial Law: The Republic of China would lift martial law in 1987 and allow native Taiwanese culture to reintegrate into society. When Taiwanese music was no longer restricted, the gap between old enka-style Taiwanese pop and modern 1980s mandopop songs was tremendous. Because of this, Taiwanese pop was thought of as music for the older generations. This is unusual since popular music is almost globally associated with youth.

Taiwanese culture has often been overshadowed by Mandarin main-stream culture confusing outsiders with the stereotype that "Taiwanese" is "Mandarin". As far as music sales online Taiwanese pop is often clumped with "Mandarin" music and often mislabeled as such confusing many Chinese and Taiwanese Americans, and those who can't read Chinese.

Blacklist Studio would release the first native Taiwanese album in a mandopop-dominant market in 1989.

One famous male singer from the 1980s is Long-Hong Hong (洪榮宏) who is famous for his Taiwanese "One Umbrella" song (一支小雨伞; video) and also produces Taiwanese Christian song (website) albums too. Another famous male singer from the 1990s is Chen Lei (陳雷), who a nuber of famous songs such as "Hua Hee Tio Ho"(歡喜就好; video), etc.

Feng Fei-Fei (鳳飛飛) is a famous Taiwanese singer from the 1970s who is a Mandarin pop singer, but also has albums in Taiwanese too.

Jody Chiang (江蕙) is Taiwan's most famous singer and is often referred to as the Queen of Taiwanese pop music. She has many albums and compilations that date from the 1980s to the present. She can be referred to as the Taiwanese equivalent of Teresa Teng (below).

Stella Chang (張清芳) has produced albums entirely in Mandarin and entirely Taiwanese. She made her debut singing Taiwan's ming-ge (National, ROC) songs and is a Mandarin pop singer, but branched out into contemporary Mandarin and Taiwanese songs to reflect her heritage.

Teresa Teng (鄧麗君), although of mainland Chinese heritage, is also known to have songs in Taiwanese. Unfortunately, these songs have not made it to CDs like her Japanese, Mandarin, and Cantonese songs have. Although Teresa Teng is better known for her Mandarin albums, her songs were also influenced by Japanese Enka style and by older Taiwan ming-ge songs.

Chen Ying-Git (Chen Ying Jie) (陳盈潔), is a famous female singer of Taiwanese Hakka heritage, who has also produced albums from the 1980s through the 1990s like Jody Chiang. One of her famous songs is 海海人生 (video). She sings a famous duet called 酒醉黑白話 (video) with Taiwanese male singer 余天 (he also sings in Mandarin as well).

Other famous Taiwanese singers include Zhang Xiu-Qing (Jhang Shiou Ching)(張秀卿) from Pingtung, Taiwan, who is famous in the early 1990s for her song "Che Zhan" (車站; video) (Train Station).

1990s: Re-Integrate: In 1990 Lin Qiang launched the first successful Taiwanese album under Rock Records. It also broke away the tradition by having a new-ballad style instead of the old-enka style.

In 1993, Taiwan's government opened up the broadcasting of TV or radio programs to languages other than mandarin. Chang Yu-Sheng would also discover A-mei (Note: A-mei has Taiwanese aboriginal heritage, but her music is predominantly mandarin and is actually classified as Mandarin pop, not Taiwanese pop).

2000s: Recently, native Taiwanese pop have been re-integrating into c-pop. A-mei would be labeled an Asian hero worldwide for promoting cross-trait pop music representing aboriginal Taiwanese pop with mandopop success. Her popularity however was criticized by the Communist Party of China for promoting any sort of Taiwan independence.

The most popular Taiwanese female singer to date is Jody Chiang (江蕙) from Chiayi, Taiwan, who has numerous Taiwanese albums dating from the early 1980s. She is the equivalent of Teresa Teng, except for Taiwanese music. Another famous singer in Taiwan also known for her ballads is Chen Ying-Git (陳盈潔).

Current Taiwanese pop music is becoming more influenced by Mandarin pop. Artists such as Phil Chang, Jolin Tsai, Eric Moo and Mayday are known to have Taiwanese songs in their albums.

Artists

Wu Bai
Jay Chou
Show Luo
Eric Moo
Blacklist Studio
Jimmy Lin
Long-Hong Hong (洪榮宏 : 〈相思雨〉(video)、〈行船人的愛〉(video)、〈媽媽〉(video)、〈挽仙桃〉(video)、〈一支小雨傘〉(video)
Jacky Wu
Jolin Tsai (蔡依林）
Rainie Yang (楊丞琳)
Chang Hui Mei (張惠妹)
Vivian Hsu
Leehom Wang (王力宏)
Jody Chiang (Jiang Hui, Jodi Jiang 江蕙)
Chen Ying-Git (Chen Ying Jie 陳盈潔)
Chen Ya-Lan
Chang Hsiu-Ching
Fei-Fei Feng (Feng Fei-Fei 鳳飛飛)
Huang Fei (Huang Li-Hua 黄妃)
Julia Peng (彭佳慧)
Phil Chang (張宇)
Jeff Chang (張信哲)
Stella Chang (Zhang Qing-Fang 張清芳)
Mei-Feng Chen
Chen Lei (陳雷)
Rainie Yang
F.I.R
MACHI
Weng Li-You (翁立友)

* Mother Figures in Taiwanese Popular Songs：A case study of Chris Hung and Jody Chiang by Yi-Ru Wang

Excerpt: In the mid-1980s, Jody Chiang’s songs often spoke from the mother’s point of view, recounting stories of a discontented wife’s laments about marrying the wrong man or of a single mother raising her children by herself with much difficulty. In the songs, women built their hopes on men, which represented the fact that women tended to believe in destiny after they were married. However, after the 1990s, the motif of Jody Chiang’s mother songs shifted to that of a wandering child with unspecified gender who missed his/her mother in the hometown. The shift of motif in Jody Chiang’s mother songs seemed to reflect the fact that with increased economic independence and labor force participation, women were not necessarily in a passive position any more. The women audience of the 1990s no longer identified with the pathetic mother image presented in the songs of the 1980s. However, women still had not replaced men in the mission of glorifying the family. The mother was still a sacrificer and tender caregiver of the family while the image of father was a strong, tough man.

Nancy J. Chodorow, a psychoanalyst, pointed out that in the pre-Oedipal period, the boy must repress his attachment to the mother and is induced to identify with the father, while the daughter does not feel the need to suppress hers. However, in Chris Hung’s (洪榮宏) and Jody Chiang’s songs it can be discerned that both genders do not suppress their love for the mother; instead, they both express their feelings via songs. Through singers’ and listeners’ expressing feelings through songs, the traditional image of a sacrificing and devoted mother is sung again and again, and such meanings of motherhood are bequeathed from generation to generation by way of repeated production and reception of popular texts.

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