1. Jam Hsiao Ching-teng is a Taiwanese singer and actor.
35 Facts About Jam Hsiao
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Jam Hsiao signed a contract with Warner Music Taiwan in 2008 and released his debut album, Jam Hsiao, in the same year.
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In 2011, Jam Hsiao played the lead role in the action film The Killer Who Never Kills and won the Hong Kong Film Award for Best New Performer for his performance.
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Jam Hsiao later returned three years later on Singer 2020 as a solo singer, where he finished third.
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Jam Hsiao was arranged to be in a player knockout style singing match against the show's 10 best remaining contestants.
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A-Mei is known as Taiwan's Queen of Pop and she invited Jam Hsiao to sing with her in the duet "Moment of the First Sight" in her 2007 music album Star.
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In December 2007, Jam Hsiao performed a medley of four nominated original themes in the Golden Horse Award, the most significant event for film industry in Taiwan.
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In March 2008, Warner Music Taiwan and Jam Hsiao entered a four-year contract.
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Jam Hsiao then announced his first large-scale live concert, "Mr Rock Concert", in Taipei Arena scheduled in December 2009.
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Jam Hsiao had six songs in top 100 on KKBOX Digital Music Billboard, and five songs in top 100 Golden Songs of 2009 on Hit FM Radio.
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Jam Hsiao won the Best Male Singer Award in the 15th Singapore Golden Music Awards.
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Jam Hsiao's Mr Rock Concert at Taipei Arena in December 2009, was a huge success.
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Jam Hsiao incorporated his drumming and keyboard skills on stage.
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Jam Hsiao tailored each concert to the local market demands and incorporated different local elements in each of the different concert locations which was highly appreciated by fans.
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Jam Hsiao released his fourth record album Jam Wild Dreams in June 2011.
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Jam Hsiao was involved in selecting, composing, recording, mixing and background harmony production.
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Jam Hsiao had been the individual song producer since his 2009 "Princess" album but this time round, he got to take on the role of album producer, a first for Hsiao.
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Jam Hsiao was quoted saying that this album represented his music ideologies and beliefs and that this album is the most live studio recorded album as he strive to preserve the energy and appeal of an actual live performance.
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However, Jam Hsiao fell ill with influenza and laryngitis just days before the event.
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Jam Hsiao managed to run through the rehearsals but his condition worsened.
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Jam Hsiao received many more invitations to bring this concert tour to different cities including many cities in China, Sydney and Melbourne in Australia.
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In November 2012, Jam Hsiao released another Chinese album, It's All About Love.
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Jam Hsiao recorded for the first time, a disco dance rap song, "Hey, Brother", and performed dance movement in the music video.
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In 2013, Jam Hsiao assumed the role of a mentor in Beijing Television, BTV's singing competition reality show Duets alongside another three mentors.
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Jam Hsiao reprised his role as a mentor on the Season 2 of Duets.
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In June 2014, Jam Hsiao released his sixth album, The Song.
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Jam Hsiao composed six out of ten songs in this album and was the album producer.
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Jam Hsiao specially engaged a dance instructor from Korea to choreograph his dance for the song "Kiss Me" and was reported to have learned it via a video recording in just two days.
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In conjunction with the 2014 Brazil World Cup, Jam Hsiao became the World Cup Ambassador for Taiwan and his song "Let Go" was featured as the closing song during the World Cup telecast in Taiwan.
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In September 2016, Jam Hsiao formed the band Lion, together with Lee Q Wu, Tsou Chiang and Liu Chao-chu.
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Jam Hsiao doubled as a host for the first two episodes until he was replaced by his Music Partner Eliza Liang, after the show announced that subsequent episodes were to be taped remotely as part of the safety measures due to the coronavirus pandemic.
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In 2010, Jam Hsiao joined the cast of a movie, The Killer Who Never Kills, based on a series of novels by popular Taiwanese novelist Giddens Ko.
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Jam Hsiao played the lead role of as the "Master of all Geeks" in his second film, romantic-comedy movie My Geeky Nerdy Buddies, directed by Kevin Chu alongside China artistes Jiang Shuying and Xie Na.
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In June 2023, Jam Hsiao announced his engagement to his manager Summer Lin, whom he had secretly dated for 16 years.
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Since 2021, Jam Hsiao has caused controversy in Taiwan for his pro-unification views.