Vivian Hsu Profile

Name: Vivian Hsu

Birth name: Hsu Shu Juan
DOB: March 19, 1975
Place of birth: Taichung, Taiwan
Height: 161cm
Blood type: A
Profession: Actress, model and singer

Vivian Hsu Biography

Vivian Hsu is Taiwan famous artist that’s quite popular in Japan as well. Vivian made her fame posing nude for magazines and movies, but is now recognized for her music talent instead.

Vivian Hsu started her entertainment career in 1990 after winning a talent contest; she was selected as a member of female trio Shao Nu Dui (means ‘Young Girls’ in Chinese).

The group released their debut album in 1991 and another album in 1992, but didn’t achieve expected success and was disbanded.

Vivian Hsu started modelling then, and made her acting debut in movie Shaolin Kid (1994).

Vivian’s breakthrough came in 1995, where she released a nude book Angel Heart, which achieves huge sales in Taiwan, Hong Kong and Japan.

Vivian Hsu capitalized on the rising fame, starring in nude movies Evil Angel and Angel Hearts, and again achieves great success.

Vivian Hsu produced another 2 nude books Venus and Devil Angel in 1996 before decided to change her approach with her entertainment career; Vivian decided not to be naked anymore.

Vivian Hsu went back to singing and released her first solo single in August 1995 in Taiwan, followed by a single in Japan.

Vivian Hsu released her first album, Angel Dreaming in April 1996, and surprised everyone by releasing a Korean version of the album, Cheonsa Misonyeo in October despite only learning Korean Language for just a week or two.

That’s Vivian’s only album in Korean, she was getting more popularity in Japan and spent more time expanding her career in Tokyo than her homeland Taiwan.

During 2001/2002, Vivian guest hosted Japan variety shows, formed a Japanese band and was pretty well received by Japanese fans. Vivian also played as voice actress for a few popular Japanese anime series.

Vivian Hsu is quite talented in lyrics writing. She wrote some lyrics for Taiwan singers, including a lyric in Taiwan superstar Jay Chou’s debut album in 2000.

Vivian Hsu still managed to release some singles and album in Taiwan during her stay in Japan. It was in 2003 that she decided to focus her career back to her homeland Taiwan.

It’s pity that other than her nude production, Vivian’s only movie hit was Accidental Spy in 2001, with most credits given to her co-star, action superstar Jackie Chan.

Vivian Hsu achieve better success with her music career though, she has released her 4th album in 2006 since shifting her career back to Taiwan in 2003, and are enjoying decent success in sales and popularity.

Cyndi Wang Profile

Name: Wang Xin Ling, Cyndi
Birth name: Wang Jun Ru
DOB: September 5, 1982
Place of birth: Hsinchu, Taiwan
Height: 158cm
Blood type: O
Religion: Buddhism
Language spoken: Mandarin and Hakka
Profession: Actress and singer

Favourite actors: Mel Gibson, Sean Penn
Favourite actresses: Maggie Cheung
Favourite singers: Faye Wong, Suzanne Vega

Cyndi Wang Biography

Cyndi Wang is one of the most popular artists in Taiwan and Asia. Started her career as a singer, Cyndi is now a recognized actress as well.

Cyndi Wang was signed by Avex and trained for 3 months in Japan before recording her debut album, Cyndi: Begin in 2003. Her debut album did pretty well, but was criticized for imitating on popular singer Jolin Tsai.

Those critics didn’t hurt though, as Cyndi released her 2nd album, Cyndi Loves You, in 2004, which also achieved good results. Cyndi

also starred in popular TV drama La robe de Mariee des cieux in

2004. The combination of success made Cyndi the hottest rising star in Taiwan.

Cyndi Wang released her 3rd album, Honey, in 2005. Cyndi was already one

of the most popular stars in Taiwan by then, and gaining reputation across China and other Asia region as well.

2006 was another good year for Cyndi, thanks to TV drama Sonria Pasta (or Smiling Pasta), co-starring Nicholas Teo. Sonria Pasta was one of the top rated dramas in Taiwan for 2006, and was popular in other Asian countries as well.

Crystal Liu Profile

Name: Liu Yifei, Crystal
DOB: August 25, 1987
Place of birth: Wuhan, China
Height: 170cm
Blood Type: B
Education: Beijing Film Academy (graduated 2006)
Language spoken: Mandarin and English
Profession: Actress and singer

Favourite sports: Golf and tennis
Favourite actresses: Audrey Hepburn and Vivian Leigh

Crystal Liu Biography

Crystal Liu is currently one of China’s most popular artists, and very popular in some other Asia region as well. Crystal Liu is most famous with TV drama Return of the Condor Heroes, which was arguably the most viewed TV drama in Asia for 2006.

Crystal Liu moved to USA with her mother (parents divorced) when she was around 10 years old. She was back to China when she was 15 to enroll in the prestigious Beijing Film Academy; Crystal is one of the youngest ever students to make it into the academy.

It was in the same year that Crystal was offered her debut TV appearance in Story of a Noble Family as supporting role. The drama was quite a hit and people were noticing the young Crystal Liu.

Crystal Liu then starred in the highly acclaimed Demi Gods, Semi Devils as one of the leading actress. The success of the TV drama also prompted Crystal to star in a couple of movies, Love of May and The Love Winner.

TV drama Chinese Paladin in 2004 was probably Crystal’s breakthrough, where she’s recognized as one of China’s most popular young actresses. Chinese Paladin also gained wide notice from other nation countries, and Crystal started to gain international fame.

However it’s in 2006 that makes Crystal Liu an international superstar, with Return of the Condor Heroes (ROCH). ROCH was a superhit in China, and arguably the most popular Asian production in 2006.

Crystal Liu also started singing, releasing her debut single Mayonaka no Door (Japanese) in July 2006, followed by a full Japanese album and Chinese album in September.

Crystal Liu will be starring in movie Forbidden Kingdom in 2007, which features Jackie Chan and Jet Li. This girl is set to become an international superstar.

Gwon Boa Profile

English & Korean Names: Boa Kwon, BoA Kwon, Kwon BoA, kwonboa
Also known as: Gwon Bo-a, Gwon Boa
Commonly known as: BoA
Name Pronounced As: Bo Ah Kwon, Kwon Bo Ah
Birthdate: November 5, 1986

Note: BoA is 18, turning 19, by conventional American standards. However, rather than the standard aging system that we all are familiar with, Koreans use a system unique to their country. While we count how many years we have lived, Koreans count the number of years we have been alive. Therefore, the year in which you are born is your first year, the next is your second year, and so on. Once you are born, you are automatically considered a year old. Birthdays are still celebrated in Korea, however, you are not considered any older. Koreans are the same age throughout the year, and are officially a year older when the new year comes around. For example, if you were to be born in December, you would be considered two years old once the new year arrives. Thus, everyone born in the same year as you is the same age as you. If you wish to figure out your Korean age, simply add a year to your age if you have had your birthday this year, or add two years if you have not. She's 20 in Korea and will turn 21 once the new year comes. In the US, she'll be turning 19 this coming birthday.

Place of Birth: South Korea
Raised In: Kyungkido Goorisi, South Korea
Height: 5'4" or 160 cm
Weight: 99 lbs or 45 kg
Shoe size: 23.5 cm
Blood Type: AB
Currently resides in: Korea
Languages Spoken: Korean, Japanese, English
Religion: Catholic
Hobbies: listening to music, singing, watching movies, dancing, hip-hop dancing, acting, cross stitching, making accessories for her friends, speaking Japanese & English
Horoscope: Scorpio

Family and Education
Family Members: parents, 2 older brothers, 1 sister
Family pet: Sarah (cat)
Childhood dream: to be a singer
Date of showbiz debut: August 25, 2000 when she was 13 years young
Education Level:
Yangjung elementary school
Sahmyook middle school (junior high)
Korean Kent Foreign School (KKFS), Seoul, South Korea
Cellular phone melody: Kim Hyun Jung's "Nuh Jung Mal"
Cellphone window message: a magician blowing fire out of his mouth, and the flames turn into a heart shape.
How she relieves stress: turn up the music and dance, listening to loud music, singing songs, sleeping, eating, shopping, watching movies.

Favorites
Favorite Singers:
Whitney Houston
Jodeci
Kim Hyun Jung
Kim Johan
Seo Taiji
Nelly
Favorite Music: Rap, Dance, Hip-Hop, R&B
Favorite song: "Hot In Here" by Nelly & The Neptunes
Favorite movie: Men In Black 2 (Men In Black II, MIIB)
Favorite Colors: Beige, Grey, Black, White, Gold, Brown, Dark Colors
What she looks for in a guy: Responsible, intelligent, not too big, not too tall, generousity
Favorite cartoon character: Winnie the Pooh
Favorite drink/beverage: Bubble Tea
Favorite Perfumes: Samurai, NiNa Ricci
Favorite Saying / Proverb: Work hard toward your goals

Times
Before her debut, the most happiest time: Going into recording
Before debut, the most hardest time: Middle of recording
After debut, most happiest moment: When she reached number 1 in Oricon chart
After debut, hardest time: The loneliness she felt when she was in Japan

Mosts
Most happiest birthday party: Partied with Fans in 2000
Most phone calls received: Her Friends
Most phone calls made: Her Friends
Most important item in her room: Clothes
Most memorable song in her album: No.1

Fans
Something she always wants to do for a fan: Fan meeting
The time when she felt most thankful toward her fans: Always waiting for her
The time when she felt most sorry toward her fans: For making them wait so long

Misc
Dream: Have her first private concert.
Habits and Routines: She turns up music very loudly and always stretches before rehearsing.
Superstitions: If her ssang kka pul (double eyelid) comes out, the things she has to do that day won't work out well
Person She Respects: Her Mother
What She Thinks Are Her Attractive Points: eyes, nose, and lips
Where is she most often: besides home, or on location via her work schedule, she can also be found at the beauty salon
How she likes to dress: Hip-Hop Style and Casual Style
What she thinks when she sees students around her with school uniforms: Ahh, I want to go to school
One thing you must have in your pocket: Cell Phone
One thing she can't memorize well: People's names
Place she wants to go for her honey moon Hawaii
Promise she can't really keep: I'll call you back later

Koda Kumi Profile

Koda Kumi made her debut in late 2000, but it wasn't until 2002 that her debut album, affection, made its way onto the scene. She has only recently started to gain some more wide-spread popularity, thanks to reasons such as her appearing on the Japanese soundtrack of Final Fantasy X-2, her fresh Urban music style, her revealing photo-shoots as well as her "12 Days of Christmas" wide-scale releases of one single every week starting in December 2005.

She is misono's older sister.

Profile

• Stage name: Koda Kumi (倖田來未)
• Birth name: Kouda Kumiko (神田來未子 - こうだ くみこ)
• Nickname: Kuu-chan, Kuu-tan
• Birthplace: Kyoto, Japan
• Birth date: November 13, 1982
• Height: 154 cm / 5'0"
• Blood Type: A
• Favorite singers: Christina Aguilera & Ja Rule
• Favorite music genre Rock, R&B
• People she respects: Her parents
• Sibling(s): misono (younger sister; ex-vocalist of day after tomorrow)

Biography

Koda Kumi was the first girl born into her family in a number of generations. She dreamed of becoming a singer since she was in elementary school. She auditioned alongside Goto Maki for the 3rd generation of Morning Musume when she was seventeen, but it is not clear whether she made it but turned it down due to the fact that Avex signed a contract with her as a solo artist on a different genre because she won another contest around the same time, or actually didn't make it. In any case, she was signed to Avex Trax and started to release music of the J-Urban genre.

Her debut single, TAKE BACK, was released in December 2000. After a few more fairly successful singles, she released her debut album, affection in 2002. But with the release of real Emotion / 1000 no Kotoba, the single that was chosen for Final Fantasy, Koda's career finally found success and a real large fan base.

As she matured, her imaged changed. She adopted long flowing streaky platinum blonde hair and dressed a little more on the wild side. She released three more albums: grow into one, feel my mind, and secret. With the release of each album, her fan base grew and grew.

BEST ~first things~ could be considered Kumi's breakthrough album. It is her first single collection, sold nearly 2 million copies, and remained on th e charts for a good four months. It became the highest selling female album of 2005 and reached #17 on the top albums of 2006.

Cherry Girl / Unmei and the follow up fifth studio album, Black Cherry, were both released in December 2006 and sold very well. Oricon reports that Black Cherry is the first female studio album to stay at number one for four weeks in four years, selling 802,000 copies. The last female studio album to have done that was Hamasaki Ayumi's 2000 album, Duty.

She released a third compilation album, BEST ~BOUNCE & LOVERS~. It charted at #2 on both the Oricon daily and weekly charts with first week sales of 161,458 copies. This is a big significant difference of first week sales, compared to Koda Kumi's last two BEST albums, BEST ~first things~ and BEST ~second session~, which each sold about 558,916 and 983,359 copies in their first weeks, respectively.

On July 7th, 2007, Koda played at Makuhari Messe, Tokyo, one of Japan's Live Earth concert venues.

On September 12th, 2007, Ai no Uta (愛のうた Love Song), Koda's 37th single was released.

She will release her 38th single on November 7th, 2007. Entitled LAST ANGEL, which will be a collaboration with Korean/Japanese boyband TOHOSHINKI (Tong Vfang Xien Qi, 東方神起, TVXQ).

Discography

• Koda Kumi in BEST ~first things~ (2005)
• Koda Kumi in BEST ~first things~ (2005)
• Koda Kumi in BEST ~second session~ (2006)
• Koda Kumi in BEST ~second session~ (2006)

Note: All singles containing a Image:Headphone.jpg within the link have a 20 second audio sample.

Original Studio Albums

• [2002.03.27] affection #12
• [2003.03.19] grow into one #9
• [2004.02.18] feel my mind #7
• [2005.02.09] secret #3
• [2006.12.20] Black Cherry #1

Compilation Albums

• [2005.09.21] BEST ~first things~ #1
• [2006.03.08] BEST ~second session~ #1
• [2007.03.14] BEST ~BOUNCE & LOVERS~ #2

Singles

• [2000.12.06] TAKE BACK #59
• [2001.05.09] Trust Your Love #18
• [2001.10.03] COLOR OF SOUL #29
• [2002.03.13] So Into You #50
• [2002.07.24] love across the ocean #19
• [2002.12.11] m・a・z・e #25
• [2003.03.05] real Emotion / 1000 no Kotoba (1000の言葉; 1000 Words) #3
• [2003.08.27] COME WITH ME #14
• [2003.12.10] Gentle Words #15
• [2004.01.15] Crazy 4 U #12
• [2004.05.26] LOVE & HONEY #4
• [2004.07.28] Chase #18
• [2004.09.08] Kiseki (奇跡; Miracle) #7
• [2005.01.19] hands #7
• [2005.04.13] Hot Stuff feat. KM-MARKIT #10
• [2005.06.22] Butterfly #2
• [2005.08.10] flower #4
• [2005.09.07] Promise / Star #4

• [2005.12.07] you #1
• [2005.12.14] Birthday Eve #6
• [2005.12.21] D.D.D. feat.SOULHEAD #5
• [2005.12.28] Shake It Up #6
• [2006.01.04] Lies #7
• [2006.01.11] feel #1
• [2006.01.18] Candy feat.Mr.Blistah #3
• [2006.01.25] No Regret #4
• [2006.02.01] Ima Sugu Hoshii (今すぐ欲しい; I Want You Now) #5
• [2006.02.08] KAMEN (仮面; Mask) feat. Ishii Tatsuya (石井竜也) #3
• [2006.02.15] WIND #3
• [2006.02.22] Someday / Boys♡Girls #3
• [2006.05.24] Koi no Tsubomi (恋のつぼみ; Bud of Love) #2
• [2006.07.26] 4 hot wave #2 - Koda's highest selling single to date 489,000 copies sold
• [2006.10.18] Yume no Uta / Futari de... (夢のうた / ふたりで...; Dream Song / Together...) #1
• [2006.12.06] Cherry Girl / Unmei (運命; Fate) #3
• [2007.03.14] BUT / Aishou (愛証; Proof of Love) #2
• [2007.06.27] FREAKY #1
• [2007.09.12] Ai no Uta (愛のうた; Love Song) #2
• [2007.11.07] LAST ANGEL feat.TOHOSHINKI

US Singles (as Koda)

• [2001.05.12] Take Back (#18 Billboard Hot Dance Music/Maxi-Singles Sales)
• [2002.11.02] Trust Your Love (#19 on Billboard Hot 100 Sales Chart, #1 Billboard's Hot Dance Music/Maxi-Singles Sales Chart)

DVD

• [2003.03.19] 7SPIRITS
• [2004.03.24] feel...
• [2004.11.25] girls ~Selfish~
• [2005.09.21] secret ~FIRST CLASS LIMITED LIVE~
• [2006.09.13] LIVE TOUR 2005 ~first things~ deluxe edition
• [2007.03.28] KODA KUMI LIVE TOUR 2006~2007 ~second session~

Collectibles

• [2006.07.27] 1st Photo book - MAROC
• [2006.10.14] 2007 Calendar
• [2006.12.28] Koda-Shiki
• [2006.01.29] Special Photo Album Box

Compilation / Other

• [2001.12.19] BoA & Koda Kumi - the meaning of peace #12
• [2002.01.23] VARIOUS ARTISTS FEATURING songnation
• [2004.04.21] LISA - SWITCH feat.Koda Kumi & Heartsdales
• [2004.06.30] LISA - GRATITUDE (SWITCH)
• [2005.03.24] JHETT aka YAKKO for AQUARIUS - JHETT (Ju st Go)
• [2005.04.20] KM-MARKIT - VIVID (RAINY DAY)
• [2006.02.01] SOULHEAD - Pray/XXX
• [2006.03.01] The Japan Gold Disc Award 2006 (Butterfly)
• [2006.07.27] SMAP - PopUp!SMAP (everybody)
• [2006.11.22] EXILE & Koda Kumi - WON'T BE LONG #2
• [2006.12.06] Amazing Nuts! (Twinkle)
• [2007.03.28] m-flo - COSMICOLOR (Simple & Lovely)

Awards

Japan Gold Record Grand Prix

• [2006] Artist of the Year
• [2006] Pop Album of the Year
• [2006] Music Video of the Year
• [2006] Triple Crown

Non-Music Related

Awards

• [2006] Best Jeanist (Woman)
• [2007] Best Jeanist (Woman)

BoA Receives Young Contemporary Artist Award 2007

BoA, who was hand selected by the South Korean and Japanese governments, humbly received the Young contemporary artist award given only to the most highly achieved individuals from South Korea and Japan in their 20's and 30's.

This excellence of honor was derived from her golden standard of achievement through hard work and dedication.

At Boajjang, we gladly congratulate BoA for her fine leadership not only in entertainment, but for leading the world in great humility and growth; setting new standards for today.

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