Jolin Tsai is a Taiwanese singer, songwriter, and actress.
146 Facts About Jolin Tsai
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Jolin Tsai is known for her continual reinvention and versatility in musical style and visual image, and she has achieved great reputation and popularity in the Chinese-speaking world.
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Jolin Tsai maintains control of every aspect of her career, and she is regarded as a key figure in popularizing dance-pop as mainstream music in Greater China.
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In 1998, Tsai won a television singing competition produced by MTV Mandarin.
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In 2009, Jolin Tsai founded the company Eternal and began to be completely in charge of her career.
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Jolin Tsai has received a total of seven Golden Melody Awards, making her the female dance-pop artist with the most wins.
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Jolin Tsai is one of the highest-paid Taiwanese female artists, and she has featured multiple times on the Forbes China Celebrity 100 list.
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Jolin Tsai was born in Hsinchuang City, Taipei County, Taiwan on September 15,1980.
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Jolin Tsai's father is of Han Chinese descent, and her mother is half Han Chinese and half Taiwanese indigenous Papora.
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Jolin Tsai's father worked as an accountant before opening a factory in Thailand, and her mother raised their two daughters in Taiwan on her own.
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Jolin Tsai attended Hsinchuang Elementary School, Hsinchuang Junior High School, and Chingmei Girls' High School.
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Jolin Tsai has learned to practice Chinese calligraphy and play piano since elementary school, and she has passed the grade 9 piano exam.
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Jolin Tsai has been interested into participating in extracurricular activities since elementary school.
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Jolin Tsai joined the track and field team of her elementary school, but she later quit due to an ankle injury.
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Jolin Tsai joined the volleyball team of her high school, and she formed a band named Twister with classmates, the band later broke up because their performance was not as good as expected.
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Jolin Tsai performed the Cranberries' "Zombie" at a welcome party of her high school's popular music association in her sophomore year, and she performed Bette Midler's "The Rose" at another high school event in the sophomore year.
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Jolin Tsai has taken part in singing competitions since high school, and she won in a singing competition organized by her high school and placed second in another competition organized by Broadcasting Corporation of China.
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In June 1999, Jolin Tsai was admitted to the English literature major of Fu Jen Catholic University after winning first place in the recommendation and screening test, and she started her four-year career as a "student singer".
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On July 16,1999, Jolin Tsai released her debut single "Living with the World" and announced the release of her debut album in early September 1999.
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On September 10,1999, Jolin Tsai released her debut studio album, 1019.
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On December 4,1999, Jolin Tsai held the 1019 I Can Concert in Taipei, Taiwan.
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On March 16,2000, Jolin Tsai released the live video album, 1019 I Can Concert, which chronicled the 1019 I Can Concert.
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Jolin Tsai's singing skills on the album were better than before, and her ballad performance became more emotional and delicate, while her dance song performance became more free and easy.
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On July 10,2000, Jolin Tsai held the Examinee Night Concert in Taipei, Taiwan.
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On May 5,2020, Jolin Tsai released the photo book, Nineteen Years, which sold more than 60,000 copies in Taiwan.
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On December 22,2000, Jolin Tsai released her third studio album, Show Your Love.
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On February 25,2001, Jolin Tsai held the Show Your Love Concert in Panchiao, Taiwan.
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On March 4,2001, Jolin Tsai held another Show Your Love Concert in Taichung, Taiwan.
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On May 10,2001, Jolin Tsai released the live video album, Show Your Love Concert, which chronicled the Show Your Love Concert in Panchiao, Taiwan.
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On June 28,2001, Jolin Tsai released the Mandarin version of the theme song "Where the Dream Takes You" of the 2001 Disney film, Atlantis: The Lost Empire.
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On July 7,2001, Jolin Tsai released her fourth studio album, Lucky Number.
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On July 14,2001, Jolin Tsai held the Lucky Number Concert in Taipei, Taiwan.
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Subsequently, D Sound held a press conference to declare Jolin Tsai's unilateral early termination of the contract was a breach of contract, but they said they would not file a lawsuit against her for the time being.
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In early November 2001, Jolin Tsai signed a contract with Angie Chai's company Comic Ritz, and subsequently D Sound filed a criminal lawsuit against her.
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On June 4,2002, the Chinese Arbitration Association Taipei ruled Jolin Tsai must pay a compensation of NT$9 million for the early termination of the contract with D Sound.
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On July 23,2002, Jolin Tsai signed a recording contract with Sony.
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On March 7,2003, Jolin Tsai released her fifth studio album, Magic.
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The album earned three Golden Melody Award nominations, it was nominated for Album of the Year, Jolin Tsai was nominated for Best Female Mandarin Singer, and Baby Chung was nominated for Best Music Arrangement for the track, "Prague Square".
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On March 9,2003, the Taiwanese television series Hi Working Girl, where Jolin Tsai played the leading role of Fu I-ling, was aired on China TV.
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On June 14,2003, Jolin Tsai graduated from Fu Jen Catholic University with a bachelor's degree in English literature.
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On September 15,2003, Jolin Tsai translated the book The English Roses into Chinese for Madonna, and later she translated another five Madonna's books.
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On September 10,2003, Jolin Tsai released the theme song "Warriors in Peace" of the 2003 Chinese film, Warriors of Heaven and Earth.
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On February 27,2004, Jolin Tsai released her sixth studio album, Castle.
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On November 12,2004, Jolin Tsai released the compilation album, J9.
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On February 8,2005, Jolin Tsai performed the song "36 Tricks of Love" at the CCTV New Year's Gala.
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On March 9,2004, Tsai released the book, Jolin's English Diary Book.
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On June 18,2005, Jolin Tsai held the Exclusive Asia Concert in Taichung, Taiwan.
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On September 9,2005, Jolin Tsai released the Mandarin version of the song "Under the Sea" from the 1989 Disney film, The Little Mermaid.
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On September 23,2005, Jolin Tsai released the live video album, J1 Live Concert, which chronicled her J1 World Tour in Taipei, Taiwan.
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On September 28,2005, Taiwanese singer Show Lo released the duet "Destined Guy" with Jolin Tsai, which was included on Lo's album, Hypnosis Show.
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On December 30,2005, Tsai released the book, Jolin's Party.
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On February 16,2006, Jolin Tsai signed a recording contract with EMI.
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On May 6,2006, Jolin Tsai won an MTV Asia Award for the Style Award.
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On May 12,2006, Jolin Tsai released her eighth studio album, Dancing Diva.
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The album earned three Golden Melody Award nominations, it was nominated for Best Mandarin Album, Jolin Tsai was nominated for Best Female Mandarin Singer, and Adia Chang was nominated for Best Single Producer for the track, "Dancing Diva".
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On July 1,2006, Jolin Tsai held the Pulchritude Concert in Kaohsiung, Taiwan.
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On September 15,2006, Jolin Tsai embarked on her second concert tour Dancing Forever World Tour in Hong Kong, China.
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On September 29,2006, Jolin Tsai released the compilation album, Dancing Forever.
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On February 17,2007, Jolin Tsai performed the song "Marry Me Today" with David Tao at the CCTV New Year's Gala.
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On September 21,2007, Jolin Tsai released her ninth studio album, Agent J, which was produced by Adia Chang, Paul Lee, Michael Lin, Jamie Hsueh, Paula Ma, Lars Quang, Nik Quang, Rene Prang, and Gabriel Ssezibwa.
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On October 21,2007, Jolin Tsai held the Agent J Concert in Tamsui, Taiwan.
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On July 18,2008, Jolin Tsai received a Butterfly Award from Taiwan's Ministry of Labor for her outstanding achievement in the entertainment industry.
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On October 31,2008, Jolin Tsai released the book as well as cover album, Love Exercise, which was produced by Peter Lee, Paul Lee, Adia Chang, Daniel Bi, Paula Ma, and Jim Lee.
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On December 16,2008, Jolin Tsai signed a recording contract with Warner.
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On March 27,2009, Jolin Tsai released her tenth studio album, Butterfly, which was produced by Adia Chang, Paul Lee, Peter Lee, and Paula Ma.
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On March 28,2009, Jolin Tsai embarked on the Butterfly Campus Tour in Hsinchu, Taiwan.
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On May 9,2009, Jolin Tsai held the Butterfly Concert in Taichung, Taiwan.
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On May 24,2009, Jolin Tsai held the Slow Life Concert in Taipei, Taiwan.
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On October 15,2009, Jolin Tsai founded the company Eternal with her manager Ke Fu-hung to manage her day-to-day business affairs and coordinate the production and enforcement of copyright for her sound recordings and music concerts.
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On December 24,2010, Jolin Tsai embarked on her third concert tour Myself World Tour in Taipei, Taiwan.
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On July 12,2012, Jolin Tsai released the book, Living Slim, which sold more than 120,000 copies in Taiwan.
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On September 14,2012, Jolin Tsai released her twelfth studio album, Muse.
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The album earned four Golden Melody Award nominations, it was nominated for Best Mandarin Album, Jolin Tsai was nominated for Best Female Mandarin Singer, the track "The Great Artist" was nominated for Song of the Year, and the music video of the track "The Great Artist" was nominated for Best Music Video.
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On October 19,2013, Jolin Tsai released the live video album, Myself World Tour, which chronicled her tour of the same name in Taipei, Taiwan.
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On May 19,2014, Jolin Tsai released the song "Now Is the Time", which was included on the album, Pepsi Beats of the Beautiful Game.
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On June 13,2014, Jolin Tsai released the theme song "Kaleidoscope" of the 2014 Chinese film, Tiny Times 3.
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On October 31,2014, Jolin Tsai became one of the judges for the Chinese television singing competition show, Rising Star.
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On November 15,2014, Jolin Tsai released her thirteenth studio album, Play.
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On May 22,2015, Jolin Tsai embarked on her fourth concert tour Play World Tour in Taipei, Taiwan.
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On December 2,2015, Jolin Tsai won an Mnet Asian Music Award for Best Asian Artist.
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On February 26,2016, Jolin Tsai voiced Judy Hopps in the Taiwan's dubbed version of the 2016 Disney film, Zootopia.
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On September 30,2016, Jolin Tsai collaborated with Swedish DJ Alesso to release the single, "I Wanna Know".
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On October 31,2016, Jolin Tsai collaborated with Taiwanese producer Starr Chen to release the single, "Ego-Holic".
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On May 12,2017, Jolin Tsai released the single "Give Love" for a Mother's Day campaign by Da Ai Television.
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On June 20,2017, Jolin Tsai collaborated with Dutch DJ Hardwell to release the single, "We Are One".
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On November 20,2017, Jolin Tsai released the theme song "On Happiness Road" of the 2017 Taiwanese film of the same name.
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On December 29,2017, Jolin Tsai released the theme song "Stand Up" of the 2018 Chinese film, Monster Hunt 2.
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On January 30,2018, Jolin Tsai released the live video album, Play World Tour, which chronicled her tour of the same name in Taipei, Taiwan.
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On December 26,2018, Jolin Tsai released her fourteenth studio album, Ugly Beauty.
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On January 21,2019, Jolin Tsai became one of the mentors for the Chinese boy group survival web show, Youth with You.
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On January 24,2019, Jolin Tsai released the single "Happy New Year Do Re Mi" with Chinese singer Liu Yuning and other TikTok personalities for a Chinese New Year campaign by TikTok.
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On November 1,2019, Jolin Tsai released the single "Gravity" with Chinese singer Karry Wang.
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On December 30,2019, Jolin Tsai embarked on her fifth concert tour Ugly Beauty World Tour in Taipei, Taiwan.
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On March 21,2021, Jolin Tsai released the theme song "Stars Align" with Dutch DJ R3hab of the video game, PUBG Mobile.
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On October 21,2021, Jolin Tsai released the single "Equal in the Darkness" with Steve Aoki and MAX.
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On December 9,2022, Jolin Tsai released the theme song "Untitled" of the 2023 Taiwanese film, Marry My Dead Body.
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Jolin Tsai has been continuously experimenting with new musical ideas throughout her career.
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Jolin Tsai's album J-Game features a number of dance tracks heavily influenced by electronic music, and the track "Exclusive Myth" is a hybrid of hip-hop and Chinese style.
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Jolin Tsai continued to explore Eurodance on her album, Agent J, which established her representative status as a dance-pop artist in the Chinese music scene.
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In May 1998, Jolin Tsai took part in the singing competition held by MTV Mandarin.
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Jolin Tsai won the competition by performing songs of Whitney Houston, Mariah Carey, and LeAnn Rimes, and it proved that she has good singing skills.
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Jolin Tsai's voice is very recognizable, but she has been criticized for singing skills since her debut, including thin singing voice and limited vocal range.
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Jolin Tsai has been nominated for Golden Melody Award for Best Female Mandarin Singer several times, and she won the award for her 2006 album, Dancing Diva.
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Jolin Tsai was nominated for 10 Golden Melody Awards for her 2014 album, Play, but was only not nominated for Best Female Mandarin Singer, because some judge pointed out that the album has problem with excessive pitch correction, so that influenced the voting of other judges.
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In November 2017, Jolin Tsai performed at the 54th Golden Horse Awards, she appeared out of tune when she sang the first song "Tian mi mi", and the later problem was due to a series of songs were dominated by low pitch, she, whose voice is roughly the mezzo-soprano range, didn't sing these songs as well as expected.
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The performance was criticized by some people, and Jolin Tsai readily admitted that it was a mess.
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However, Jolin Tsai's singing skills have been recognized by the general public in recent years, and her live performance skills have been highly recognized.
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Jolin Tsai has cited Madonna, Whitney Houston, Mariah Carey, and Destiny's Child as her major influence on her career.
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In May 1998, Jolin Tsai took part in the singing competition produced by MTV Mandarin, and she emerged championship by performing songs of Whitney Houston and Mariah Carey.
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Jolin Tsai said that these two singers with high-pitched voices had a great influence on her during her student years.
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In May 2006, Jolin Tsai received an MTV Asia Award for the Style Award.
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In recent years, Jolin Tsai gradually transformed into a more avant-garde style.
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Jolin Tsai has always been a singer with great commercial value, and she has received huge commercial benefits since her debut.
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Jolin Tsai has been ranked top 20 six times on the "Forbes China Celebrity 100" list in ten years, and three of which she was even ranked top 10.
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In January 2001, Jolin Tsai met Taiwanese singer Jay Chou on the Taiwanese television show, Guess.
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In June 2010, Jolin Tsai was invited to be a special guest at Chou's concert in Taipei, Taiwan, and they seem to be back to normal friends.
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The name Jolin Tsai can be said to have accompanied generations of young people through the entire twenty years.
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Jolin Tsai was ranked second in both fields of gender issues and life attitude.
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Jolin Tsai has exerted positive influence on social issues using her influence in Chinese popular culture.
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Jolin Tsai has been nominated for a total of 15 Golden Melody Awards, the equivalent to the Grammy Awards in the Chinese-speaking world, including two Album of the Year, four Song of the Year, four Best Mandarin Album, four Best Female Mandarin Singer, and one Best Single Producer.
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Jolin Tsai is the dance-pop artist with the most wins and nominations on the Golden Melody Awards, and the Guinness World Records acknowledged her as the artist with the most wins for Song of the Year on the awards.
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Jolin Tsai has received awards at international music awards shows, including one MTV Video Music Award for International Viewer's Choice for her music video of "Fall in Love with a Street", one MTV Asia Award for the Style Award, and one Mnet Asian Music Award for Best Asian Artist.
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Jolin Tsai has received four MTV Asia Award nominations for Favorite Artist Taiwan, one MTV Video Music Award Japan nomination for Best Buzz Asia, one MTV Europe Music Award nomination for Best Asian Act, and one MTV Europe Music award nomination for Best Taiwanese Act.
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In 2008, Jolin Tsai received the Butterfly Award from Taiwan's Ministry of Labor to praise her outstanding performance in the entertainment industry.
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Jolin Tsai has cooperated with some of the brands to launch collaborative products.
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In December 2018, Pony announced that Jolin Tsai had designed a limited edition of the M100 sneakers, which premiered on December 22,2018.
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In July 2019, Gap announced that Jolin Tsai had designed six limited edition t-shirts, which premiered on July 25,2019 and were inspired by the six tracks from her album, Ugly Beauty.
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Jolin Tsai designed 100 pieces of clothing in the first year, making the brand earned about US$1 million.
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Jolin Tsai designed a total of 400 pieces of clothing in the second year, making the brand earned about $4 million.
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Jolin Tsai has been actively participating in charitable activities and providing assistance through donations and other means whenever disasters occur in the neighboring countries.
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In September 1999, Taiwan was hit by the 921 earthquake, Jolin Tsai donated all the proceeds from the signing session of her 1999 album 1019 for the earthquake relief, and the music video of the track "Living with the World" features the video clips of the relief work after the earthquake and expressed her gratitude for the assistance from all walks of life.
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In December 2004, Jolin Tsai donated anonymously to several charities for the Indian Ocean tsunami relief.
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In January 2005, Jolin Tsai participated in a disaster relief fundraising event organized by Azio TV, where she donated again.
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In July 2008, Jolin Tsai partnered with the World Vision to endorse the 30 Hour Famine events, and she visited Guangyuan, Sichuan, China to express sympathies to the earthquake victims.
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In February 2018, Jolin Tsai donated NT$1 million for the Hualien earthquake relief.
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In May 2021, the COVID-19 pandemic broke out in Taiwan, Jolin Tsai donated NT$1 million to help the Wanhua Welfare Services Center to purchase the first smart constant temperature bento box vending machine in Taiwan.
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Jolin Tsai has been enthusiastic about participating in social welfare activities.
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In June 2004, Jolin Tsai donated the RM50,000 proceeds from the signing session of her 2004 album Castle in Kuching, Malaysia to Batu Kawa Min Lit Secondary School for school funding.
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In November 2004, Jolin Tsai donated all the proceeds from the first 100 tickets and NT$50 from each other ticket sold of her J1 World Tour in Taipei, Taiwan to the Ronald McDonald House Charities.
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In November 2006, Jolin Tsai donated NT$50 from each ticket sold of three shows of her Dancing Forecver World Tour in Taipei, Taiwan to the Ronald McDonald House Charities, eventually donating more than NT$10 million.
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In May 2015, Jolin Tsai designed bandages for charity sale, and all the proceeds were donated to the Taiwan Alliance to Promote Civil Partnership Rights.
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In October 2015, Jolin Tsai designed 1,000 fondant cakes for charity sale, and all the proceeds were donated to the Taiwan Alliance to Promote Civil Partnership Rights.
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In May 2017, Jolin Tsai drew the painting You for charity sale, and the NT$200,000 proceeds were donated to the Taiwan Alliance to Promote Civil Partnership Rights.
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In October 2017, Jolin Tsai partnered with Fendi's "Hong Kong Peekaboo Project" to design a handbag for charity sale, and all the proceeds were donated to the Prader-Willi Syndrome Association in Taiwan.
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In December 2017, Jolin Tsai donated NT$1 million to the Huashan Social Welfare Foundation.
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In October 2018, Jolin Tsai participated in the One Night for Children Charity Concert, and all the proceeds were donated to the organization.