GMA 28 Specials on Taiwan Television Company today interview nominees for Best Male and Female Vocalist - Mandarin, Crowd Lu, Naiwen Yang and Jia Jia. Lu is very grateful to the nomination. He mentions that he didn’t think he had a good voice for a long time, after being eliminated in a contest in the first around when he was ten years old with his performance Kiss Goodbye. “With this nomination, I start to believe maybe I have a good voice,” says Lu. “I’ve watched the ceremony many times at home as viewer. It will be a new experience to see myself in one of those nominee boxes on screen.” Even though this is her third nomination, Jia Jia still feels quite nervous. “It’s very competitive in my category,” says Jia Jia, “but I really hope to win. I hope our efforts in this album after three years of preparation will be recognized.” Yang has won this category in the 11th Golden Melody Awards, and she stays as cool as always. “I am glad to be nominated,” Yang says, “but I hope I can treat everything with the same composure, without being influenced by the results.”
The host Dennis is every impressed by Lu’s sophisticated guitar skills, and surprised how one guitar can perform so many layers in a score. “It’s actually a survival skill,” Lu smiles. “When I was a student, I thought it’s too plain only with basic chord, so I add something more to highlight my vocal.” Lu is obsessed with guitars that he didn’t realize he owned 32 of them until a recent move. He also insisted to use all original instruments with very simple programming. Lu says it’s inspired by Pink Moon by Nick Drake. “You don’t really need a huge group of instruments to reach people deep inside.” In this album Still Missing that receives the third GMA nomination, Jia Jia invited Masa from the band Mayday as music director, “because I’m more comfortable working with someone I know”. Her wonderful voice is widely appreciated by fans as well as other musicians. In two pre-production meetings, renowned producer and songwriter Jonathan Lee (李宗盛) reminded the team that this album should stay simple as Jia Jia was. Because of her introvert personality, she almost missed the chance to perform on Mayday’s concerts. “I was a bit resistant before knowing what they were doing, but enjoy music with them after knowing the band personally.” Over the years, Yang has maintained her distinctive styles. “I always choose what I like into my albums, with some inputs from my label,” says Yang. “Each album speaks about how I feel in those years.”In the latest album Centrifugal Force, Yang put a slower song in the first place. “I really like this song. Unlike other slower music, it offers multiple perspectives to listeners for various scenarios. The lyricist does a wonderful job.” GMA 28 Specials will invite experienced judge Yongxing Yuan and three other music critics to analyze 15 key categories and predict potential winners. Starting from June 10th, the show will broadcast on TTV from 3pm to 5pm each Saturday and Sunday for three weeks.
To offer more services to viewers at home and around the world, GMA has developed a new mobile application for download. Users can stream the ceremony on their mobile devices and enjoy exclusive contents happening at five other locations on demand, including red carpet, host interview area at red carpet, media interview zone at red carpet, panorama at ceremony, winner interview area backstage. All latest information will be available at your fingertip.
The 28th Golden Melody Awards ceremony will be grandly held at Taipei Arena on June 24th. Taiwan Television Company will broadcast live at the red carpet at 5PM and ceremony from 7PM on TTV channel. It will also be available live on TOUCH TTV, TTV YouTube channel, MOD, CHTVideo, Hami Concerts, UFOradio, StarHub in Singapore, and Astro in Malaysia. Audience can also review this important annual music event in Taiwan later on TTV and USTV.
