Musicians

Chow Kwok-yin is a Hong Kong male singer-songwriter, musician and actor, the lead singer and guitarist of the band Zarahn. In 2004, he made his debut as a solo artist with the album "Zhou Guoxian's EP of the same name". In 2021, he won the "Hong Kong Film Directors Guild Annual Award for Best Actor" for his role as Chow Tin Yan in the movie "One Second Boxing Champion" and in 2022, he won the 40th Hong Kong Film Awards for Best Original Film Song for his movie theme song "The Original Intention of Time".

Zhou Tzuyu (English: TZUYU, Korean: Tzuyu, Japanese: Tzuyu, June 14, 1999 -) is a Taiwanese female singer who developed in South Korea. She is currently a member of the girl group TWICE under JYP Entertainment and serves as the lead dancer, sub-vocalist and maknae in the team. On September 6, 2024, he started his personal career with his first personal mini album "abouTZU".

Vivian Chow (English: Vivian Chow; November 10, 1967 -), Hong Kong singer-songwriter, actor, music producer, host, writer and designer. She entered the industry in the 1980s and is one of the few female artists in Hong Kong who has worked in singing, film, television and broadcasting at the same time. In the 1990s, it became popular in many Asian regions such as Hong Kong, Macao, China, Taiwan, Singapore, and Malaysia, and even went to Japan for development. She has the reputation of "the head of the jade girl".

Zhou Shen (September 29, 1992 -) is a male singer and music producer from mainland China. He was born in Shaoyang, Hunan, grew up in Guiyang, Guizhou, and graduated from the Lviv National Conservatory of Music in Ukraine. He made his official debut in "The Voice of China Season 3" in 2014. His representative songs include "Big Fish", "China Under the Lights", "Little Happy", "Light", etc. He is famous for his clear voice, changeable vocals and singing style that combines bel canto and pop.

Zhou Yangyue (English: Queen, September 25, 2007 -) Shenzhen child star, singer, child actor, child star trained by Shenzhen Star Concept, has participated in TV series and musicals, and has participated in many variety shows. In October 2017, she starred in the remake of "Dream of Red Mansions" in the Hunan TV drama channel's "Xiaoxigu" column, and attracted the attention of the audience for her role as Lin Daiyu.

Zhou Yiran (November 22, 2000 -), a male singer and actor from Mainland China, was born in Bishan, Chongqing. He once joined Yi'an Music Club (the first generation), a group under Yuanji Painting, under the name Fang Xiangrui, and is now developing as an individual.

Zhou Yixuan (Korean: Joey Shen, December 11, 1990 -), born in Shengzhou City, Shaoxing City, Zhejiang Province, China, is a Chinese male singer and actor. On October 16, 2014, he debuted with the five-member men's group UNIQ and became the captain and deputy RAPPER of China. On December 27, 2017, he released his first EP "OS".

Tang Hanxiao (February 27, 1989-), a male singer, songwriter, and music producer in mainland China.

Shi Zhaoyi (February 25, 1996 -), whose stage name is Circle 9 (referred to as Circle 9), is a female from Changde, Hunan, a Chinese singer, songwriter, and film actress. In 2016, she participated in the "Super Girl" music competition and won the annual championship, officially entering the music scene.

Saint Carlo Borromeo (Latin: Sanctus Carolus Borromeus; Italian: Santo Carlo Borromeo; 1538-1584) was a European theologian and cardinal of the Catholic Church during the Renaissance. He was canonized as a saint in 1610. He was the nephew of Pope Pius IV and served as Secretary of State from 1560 to 1565. He helped reform church music and presided over part of the Council of Trento. As Archbishop of Milan, he enforced the strict Edict of Trento and removed some of the decorations from the Milan Cathedral. He also reformed religious orders and persecuted witches and other heretics. The famous Renaissance composer Carlo Gesualdo was his nephew.

Sakamoto Ryuichi (Japanese: Sakamoto Ryuichi/Sakamoto Ryuichi, Romanized: Sakamoto Ryūichi (January 17, 1952 - March 28, 2023) was a Japanese composer, pianist, singer, record producer and actor. He was born in Nakano Ward, Tokyo. He was a member of the avant-garde music band Yellow Magic Symphony. He and band members Hosono Haruomi and Takahashi Yukihiro had a pioneering influence on the psychedelic house and synthesizer movements in the world, and influenced the electronic music genre with their pursuit of diversified styles. Sakamoto began his career as a live musician, producer and arranger while attending school in the 1970s. His first major success came in 1978 as co-founder of the Yellow Magic Orchestra. and released the experimental electronic fusion album "Firecracker". Two years later, he released the album "B-2 Unit". Among them is the track "Riot in Lagos", which was important to the development of electronic and hip-hop music. He has since gone on to produce more solo albums and collaborate with many international artists active around the world, including David Sylvian, Alvar Noto, Yusu Ndol and Feniz, among others. Sakamoto composed music for the opening ceremony of the 1992 Summer Olympics. His work "Energy Flow" (1999) was the first instrumental single in the history of Japan's Oricon Chart. As a film score composer, Sakamoto has won an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award, a Grammy Award and two Golden Globe Awards. He made his debut as an actor in the 1983 film "The Captive". His most successful film composition works include "The Captive" (1983), "The Last Emperor" (1987), "The Sheltering Sky" (1990), "The Little Buddha" (1993) and "The Vengeful Hero" (2015). In addition, Sakamoto also serves as a composer and script writer for animation and video games. In 2009, he was awarded the Order of Arts and Letters by the French Ministry of Culture for his contribution to music. In recent years, Sakamoto has actively participated in peaceful activities such as environmental protection and constitutional law, and also launched the forest regeneration conservation project "More Tree". In 2006, he established a new music brand "commmons". In February 2009, he published his first oral autobiography "Music Makes People Free" in Japan. On March 28, 2023, Ryuichi Sakamoto died of late-stage rectal cancer in Tokyo at the age of 71.

Louis-Ector Berlioz (French: Hector Louis Berlioz, December 11, 1803 - March 8, 1869) was a French Romantic composer, conductor and music critic. He is known as the "Father of Title Music" and "The Father of Modern Orchestral Music". He is famous for his "Symphony Fantasy" written in 1830.

Marshall Bruce Mathers III (English: Marshall Bruce Mathers III; October 17, 1972 -), whose stage name is Eminem (English: Eminem /ˌɛmɪˈnɛm/, personalized as EMINƎM), is an American male rapper, songwriter, record producer and actor. Eminem is one of the best-selling music artists of all time, with sales estimated at more than 220 million records. He was the best-selling music artist in the United States in the 2000s, with his albums "The Big Bad" and "The Eminem Show" and singles "Lose Yourself", "Love The Way You Lie" and "Not Afraid" all receiving Diamond certification from the Recording Industry Association of America. Eminem has also won numerous awards, including 15 Grammy Awards, 8 American Music Awards, 17 Billboard Music Awards, an Academy Award and the MTV Europe Music Global Icon Award. He has ten number one albums on the Billboard 200, all of which have consecutive number one hits on the chart, making him the only artist to achieve this feat, as well as five number one singles on the Billboard Hot 100. Billboard named him an Artist of the Decade in the 2000s. Rolling Stone also included him in its "100 Greatest Artists of All Time" and "100 Greatest Songwriters of All Time" lists. After releasing his debut album Infinite (1996) and mini-album Slim Shady EP (1997), Eminem signed with Dr. Dre's Aftermath Entertainment and subsequently achieved mainstream popularity in 1999 with the album Slightly Shady. The next two albums, "The Big Brother" (2000) and "The Eminem Show" (2002), were quite successful around the world, and both were nominated for the Grammy Award for Album of the Year. After releasing Encore (2004), Eminem took a break from releasing albums in 2005, in part due to an addiction to prescription drugs. Four years later, with "Here We Go Again" (2009)

Eric Patrick Clapton, CBE (English: Eric Patrick Clapton, born March 30, 1945), is a British male singer, musician and songwriter. Nicknamed "Guitar God". He has won 18 Grammy Awards and is one of the most successful musicians of the 20th century. He is currently the only artist to have won three Rock and Roll Hall of Fame achievements, once as a solo artist and twice with the band Yardbirds and Cream. He is one of the greatest guitarists of all time. In 2003, he was ranked 4th in Rolling Stone's Top 100 Guitarists of All Time. In 2011, he was ranked 2nd in Rolling Stone's Top 100 Guitarists. He was ranked 53rd in Rolling Stone's Top 100 Rock Artists. "Gibson Guitar" ranks 4th among the "Top 50 Guitarists of All Time". He was ranked No. 5 on Time Magazine's "Top Ten Electric Guitar Players" in 2009. He won the Outstanding Contribution Award at the Brit Awards in 1987, was awarded the Buckingham Palace CBE by the British royal family in 2004, and was awarded the Order of Arts and Letters by France in 2017. In 1998, he founded the Antigua Crossroads Center, a charity used to house alcoholics and drug addicts for treatment. Although Clapton's musical style varied, most of his compositions were based on his blues roots. He is a music reformer, and his main contributions include insisting on blues and leaving the Yardbirds, who were gradually turning to pop music. He is a pioneer of blues rock. After leaving the Yardbirds, he joined John Maya and the Blues Breakers, who mainly focused on British blues music, and later blues-based psychedelic rock during the period of Cream, and then to the Blind Faith Band. He successfully released the song "Crossroads Blues", the signature song of Delta blues pioneer Rob Johnson, during the Cream band, and later included on the album "Me and Mr. Rob Johnson". The musical style later varied from blues to blues rock to pop rock. His representative songs include "Change the World" and "Lyla", his albums include "Pilgrim" and "Lyla and Other Love Songs" and his representative reggae song "I Shot the Sheriff" in his 1974 album "461 Ocean Boulevard", which was a major success and sold out It has been certified as gold, and its reinterpretation of "I Shot the Sheriff" by the father of reggae music, Bob Marley, also achieved the number one hit single on the Billboard, helping reggae music enter the mass market. Clapton's interpretation of this song was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2003.

Keith Richards is an English musician, singer, songwriter, and one of the founding members of the British rock band The Rolling Stones. The band was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1989, and was ranked 10th on Rolling Stone's list of the 100 Greatest Guitarists in 2003 and 4th in 2011. Fourteen of the songs he collaborated with lead singer Mick Jagger were included in Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Songs.

César-Auguste-Jean-Guillaume-Hubert Franck (French: César-Auguste-Jean-Guillaume-Hubert Franck) fʁɑək]; December 10, 1822 – November 8, 1890), a Belgian-French composer, organist and music educator. Frank entered the Paris Conservatory of Music in 1835. After graduation, he returned to Belgium to perform solo, but was unsuccessful. In 1844, he returned to Paris, where he has been teaching for a living ever since. Since 1872, he was employed as organ professor at the Paris Conservatoire. Liszt once described his organ playing as "the reincarnation of Bach". In May 1890, Frank was involved in a car accident and was bedridden for several months before passing away on November 8.

Shakira Isabel Mebarak Ripoll (Spanish: Shakira Isabel Mebarak Ripoll, Spanish: [ʃaˈkiɾa isaˈβel meβaˈɾak riˈpol], English: /ʃəˈki:rə/) is a Colombian female singer who is good at singing, composing and blending songs of different styles, and has a high reputation around the world. She is also a composer, lyricist, dancer, song and record producer, businesswoman, and philanthropist. She is the most awarded Latin female singer in history, having won 4 Grammy Awards, 15 Latin Grammy Awards (including her highest honor), 7 Billboard Music Awards, 42 Latin Billboard Music Awards, 2 MTV European Music Awards, 6 MTV Video Music Awards (including her Lifetime Achievement Award - Michael Jackson Music Short Film Vanguard Award), 2 Ivor Novello Awards (British Composers, Lyricists and Writers Academy Award, one of which is a Lifetime Achievement Award), 1 Juno Award, Emmy Award and 1 Golden Globe Award nomination, leaving a star of his own on the Hollywood Walk of Fame (since 2011, in 2004 the official proposed to set up a star for Shakira but she rejected it), and was shortlisted for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2026.

Charles-François Gounod (French: Charles-François Gounod, pronounced: [ʃaʁl fʁɑəswa ɡuno]; June 17, 1818 – October 17, 1893) was a French composer whose representative work was the opera Faust. Gounod was born in Paris, his mother was a pianist and his father was a painter. Musical talent emerged early. In 1836, he entered the Paris Conservatoire and studied under Fromental Allévi. In 1839, he won first place at the Prix de Rome for his oratorio "Ferdinand". He then received the opportunity to further his studies in Italy at public expense, studying the religious music of Palestrina and others. On his way back to China in 1842, he came into contact with many famous German and Austrian writers and works, including Mendelssohn, and was deeply affected. In Paris, he served as organist and conductor of several orchestras and choirs. Gounod created his first opera "Sappho" in 1851, but the response was mediocre. The second opera, "The Cruel Nun" in 1852, also failed. The opera "Faust" adapted from Goethe's work in 1859 was a great success because of its popular melody, rich colors and soft lyrics. It created a new trend and established his worldwide status. In addition, his famous opera works include "Romeo and Juliet" (1867), which was adapted from Shakespeare's work. Gounod was a devout Christian, so he created a large number of works on religious themes. His gorgeous and simple style is also unique in religious music. His main representative works include the popular "Ave Maria" (a melody based on Bach's works), "Saint Cecile Celebration Mass", "Puppet Funeral March" and the Vatican's national anthem "Pope March", etc.

Natsukawa Rimi (October 9, 1973 -), whose real name is Tamaki Rimi (her husband's surname after marriage is Tamaki, Japanese: Tamaki, romanized: Tamaki), her surname is Kanehisa (Japanese: Kaneku), and her early stage name was Hoshimiri (Japanese: star Misato, romanized: Hosi) Misato, a singer from the aboriginal people of Ishigaki Island (Ryukyu tribe) in Okinawa Prefecture, Japan, is known as the "Spiritual Diva" in Japan. In 1987, he was praised by Ichiro Fujiyama as "a singer who only appears once in forty years". She specializes in playing Okinawa sanshin, which appears heavily in her songs.

Mari Natsuki (Japanese: Natsuki Mari, Romanized: Natsuki Mari, May 2, 1952-), Japanese female performer and singer, born in Toyoshima, Tokyo, Japan. Real name: Junko Nakajima (Junko Nakajima, Junko Nakajima). Height: 163cm. Toyoshimaoka Girls' High School is now in operation.

David Robert Jones, stage name David Bowie, is an English rock musician, songwriter, record producer and actor. He has been one of the major figures in popular music for over forty years. His works, especially his musical explorations in the 1970s, played a seminal role in the entire music scene. He is also known for his unique voice, depth of compositions and eclectic spirit.

Ōtsuka Ai (Japanese: Ōtsuka like/Otsuka love, Romanized: Ōtsuka Ai, September 9, 1982 -) is a Japanese female singer-songwriter. She belongs to the company Nippon Aibex. She was born in Suminoe District, Osaka City, Osaka Prefecture. Together with Ayumi Hamasaki, Kumi Koda, and BoA of the same company, she was one of the representatives of female singers in Japan in the 2000s. Ai Otsuka debuted in 2003, and soon became famous with her second single "Cherry". The single stayed in the top 200 on the Oricon singles weekly chart for 103 weeks, and later became one of the must-sing songs in Japanese karaoke. His representative works include "Cherry", "Happy Days", "Goldfish Fireworks", "SMILY", "Astrology", "Love Portrait", "Kissing Tulips", etc. Its composition style is funny or cheerful, but there are still some lyrical songs, and the melody often has an orchestra style; the lyrics are close to life, or there is still a funny style of its style, which can be clearly understood from the music videos of some songs. For example, in the video of "Super☆Optimistic", the song is performed wearing a nonsensical afro wig. It is not difficult to see the highly creative association in the song title. Ai Otsuka wrote lyrics and composed music under the name "Ai" until 2010. After 2012, she switched to the name "AIO" and "aio".

Sir Cliff Richard, OBE (English: Sir Cliff Richard, October 14, 1940 -), formerly known as Harry Rodger Webb, is a British pop singer, musician, performer, actor and philanthropist. He is the third best-selling singles artist in British history, with sales of over 21 million records in the UK and a reported total worldwide sales of over 250 million.

John Michael "Ozzy" Osbourne (English: John Michael "Ozzy" Osbourne, December 3, 1948 - July 22, 2025) was a British rock/heavy metal singer, songwriter, and television actor. He is famous for being the lead singer of Black Sabbath, one of the ancestors of heavy metal. The band pioneered a dark and heavy sound and had a profound influence on heavy metal music. Ozzy's achievements and evergreen music career have earned him the unofficial title of "The Godfather of Heavy Metal Music." Ozzy quit Black Sabbath in 1979 and launched a successful solo career, releasing 11 studio albums, the first seven of which were certified platinum in the United States. He also reunited with Black Sabbath several times. During his years as a member of Black Sabbath and in his solo career, his total record sales have exceeded 100 million. In the early 2000s, Osbourne became a television star when she appeared on MTV's reality show with her family. Ozzy's contribution to music has received many awards and honors, such as the Grammy Award for "Best Metal Performance", the New Music Express Music Award for "Hero of the Year Award", the British Music Hall of Fame Lifetime Member, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Lifetime Member, "The Top 100 Classic Heavy Metal Vocalists of All Time", VH1 Channel "Rock of Honor", the Classic Rock Honor Roll "Contemporary Legend Award", "Billboard" Magazine "Legendary Performance Award", the Men's Choice Award "Literary Achievement Award", etc. In 2007, 2011 and 2012, he served as a jury member of the American Independent Music Awards.