#taiwanese singer

Give You All My Love (讓我一次愛個夠) by Harlem Yu (庾澄慶). 1989.

Harlem Yu (庾澄慶) was born in 1961 and is a Taiwanese singer, songwriter, television host, and actor. He is perhaps best known for writing the theme song for the 2001 television series Meteor Garden. 

Give You All My Love is part of an album by the same name. Having sold over 400,000 copies, the album is one of Harlem Yu’s most successful. Additionally, well-known Cantopop singer Jacky Cheung (張學友) later did a remake of this song in Cantonese, further spreading reach of the song and earning it a spot on the 1989 Top Ten Chinese Gold Songs list put together by Radio Television Hong Kong. 

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Maybe in Winter (大约在冬季) by Chyi Chin (齐秦). 1987.

Chyi Chin, born in 1960, is a prominent Taiwanese singer and songwriter. His music is self grouped into two categories: the Wolf period and the Deer period, the transition between the two marked by his conversion to Buddhism in 1992. Maybe in Winter was released with Chyi’s fifth album, Winter Rain (冬雨), part of his Wolf period. The song has since received much recognition, including the Top Ten Chinese Gold Songs Award (十大中文金曲奖) in 1988. 

The inspiration behind Maybe in Winter was Chyi’s then lover whom he did not get to see frequently, hence the song’s theme of separation. The song’s title itself is a response to the recurring question “You ask me, when will I return home?” 

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