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Lin Shengxiang (Mandarin: 林生祥)(November 25, 1971–) is an independent music composer born in Meinong, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, known for his Hakka compositions that are concerned with his hometown.
Lin Sheng Xiang
林生祥
Lin Sheng Xiang (right) sings the anti-media monopoly war song at the Anti-Media Monopoly March.
Background information
Born
(1971-11-25) November 25, 1971 (age 53) Taiwan
Occupation(s)
Singer, musician, lyricist, composer
Instrument(s)
Yueqin, Singer
Musical artist
Biographic sketch
Lin Sheng Xiang performs at the 2016 Presidential and Vice Presidential Inauguration Ceremonies
Lin Sheng Xiang graduated from Tainan No. 2 High School and Tamkang University. During his college years, he founded the Kuan Tsu Music Pit (Mandarin: 觀子音樂坑) and served as guitarist and vocalist. After returning to Meinong, Kuan Tsu Music Pit reformed into "Labor Exchange Band" (Mandarin: 交工樂隊), playing guitar, Yueqin, sanxian, and vocals, and after Labor Exchange Band disbanded, Sheng Xiang and Wajao Pit 3 (Mandarin: 生祥與瓦窯坑3) formed for the release of the album "Getting Dark" (Mandarin: 臨暗), playing guitar and vocals. After that, he played guitar, Yueqin and vocals for "Sheng Xiang & Band" (Mandarin: 生祥樂隊) with an indefinite number of members.
After Labor Exchange Band disbanded in 2003, Lin Sheng Xiang continued to collaborate with Chung Yung Feng (Mandarin: 鍾永豐) on lyrics, and since the album "Planting Trees" (Mandarin: 種樹), he has been working with Japanese guitarist Ken Ohtake (Mandarin: 大竹研) on his music. Bassist Toru Hayakawa (Mandarin: 早川徹) joined the band in the spring of 2010 on Ken Ohtake's recommendation, and they have been working together since the album "The Land Is My Study" (Mandarin: 大地書房), and in the summer of 2011, percussionist Alex Wu (Mandarin: 吳政君) joined the band before they went to Japan to perform at the Fuji Rock Festival, and in July 2012, the band changed its name because their friends made a stroke of their name and thought that it would be good luck for the band to be named "Sheng Xiang & Band" (Mandarin: 生祥樂隊). In 2012, the band commissioned luthier Liu Zhi-Wei to make a six-stringed Yueqin, Kanaji Kawabaka (Mandarin: 川畑完之) to make an electric moon organ, and customized a unique moon organ.
In 2015, he recorded the anti-air pollution concept double album "Village Besieged" (Mandarin: 圍庄), including the second part "Village Besieged" and the third part "Moving On" (Mandarin: 動身) of the "I-Village Trilogy" (Mandarin: 我庄), with musicians Ken Ohtake, Toru Hayakawa, Noriaki Fukushima (Mandarin: 福島紀明), Alex Wu and Huang Po Yu (Mandarin: 黃博裕).[1] The "Village Besieged" concept double album sought to raise funds on online platforms in 2016 as it did not receive record label investment.[2] The Village Besieged double album was released on May 21, 2016, and has been on campus tour since of October 2016, eventually winning the Golden Melody Award Jury Prize.[3]
In 2017 Lin Sheng Xiang and Wang Zhao-hua (Mandarin: 王昭華) collaborated to produce the movie soundtrack of "The Great Buddha+" (Mandarin: 大佛普拉斯), which won the Golden Horse Award for Best Original Film Song and the Golden Melody Award for Best Single Producer.
Musical works
Kuan tsu music pit period
Chatting in the Village (June 1998, Lin Sheng Xiang, Chung Shing Tat, Chung Shing Fu, Chan Kwun Yu)
Touring Beautiful Island – Kuan Tsu Music Pit 98' Come and See the Land Tour (August 1998, Lin Sheng Xiang, Zhong Cheng-Da, Zhong Cheng-Hu, Guanyu Chen)
Labor exchange band period
Let Us Sing Mountain Songs (1999)
The Night March of the Chrysanthemums (2001)
Shengxiang and the wakao pit 3 period
Getting Dark (2004, Lin Sheng Xiang, Chung Yufeng, Rio Lu, Peng Jia Xi)
Sheng xiang and band period (生祥與樂團)
Planting Trees (2006, Lin Sheng Xiang, Takashi Hirayasu, Ken Ohtake)
Growing Up Wild (2009, Lin Sheng Xiang, Ken Ohtake)
The Land Is My Study (2010, Lin Sheng Xiang, Ken Ohtake, Toru Hayakawa)
Sheng xiang and band period (生祥樂隊)
I-Village (published May 2013, Lin Sheng Xiang, Ken Ohtake, Toru Hayakawa, Alex Wu)
Village Besieged (published May 2016, Lin Sheng Xiang, Ken Ohtake, Toru Hayakawa, Alex Wu, Noriaki Fukushima, Huang Po Yu)
Calling for Guidance from the Guardian of Good Healt
Nominated
Best Folk Single
The South Wind
Won
2017
The 28th Golden Melody Awards
Album of the Year
Village Besieged
Nominated
Jury Prize
Won
Best Album Binding Design
Luo Wenzen-Village Besieged
Nominated
2018
The 29th Golden Melody Awards
The Great Buddha+ movie soundtrack
Song of the Year
To Have, or Not To Have
Nominated
Best Lyricist Award
Nominated
Best Single Producer
Won
2020
The 31st Golden Melody Awards
A Sun's movie soundtrack
Song of the Year
Distant Journey
Nominated
Best Composer
Nominated
2021
The 32nd Golden Melody Awards
Water Snowflake Goes to Market
Best Band
Sheng Xiang & Band-Water Snowflake Goes to Market
Nominated
Best Album Binding Design
Luo Wenzen-Water Snowflake Goes to Market
Nominated
The 12th Golden Indie Music Awards
Best Folk Album
Water Snowflake Goes to Market
Nominated
Best Folk Single
The Tofu Guy
Nominated
2023
The 34th Golden Melody Awards
Kafka on the Rivers-and-Lakes
Best Band
Sheng Xiang & Band-Chung Yung Feng
Nominated
Best Album Binding Design
Chia-Lin Wu-Kafka on the Rivers-and-Lakes
Nominated
Other awards
In 2014, he was shortlisted for the Best Folk Artist of the Year, Best Other Dialect Album of the Year ("I-Village"), and Best Hakka Song of the Year (Yanshu/"I-Village") at the Chinese Golden Melody Awards.[8]
In August 2017, he won Best Band (Lin Sheng Xiang "Village Besieged") and Best Album Design (Luo Wenzen "Village Besieged") at the 17th Chinese Music Media Music Awards Open Awards with the double CD Village Besieged.[9]
Civic engagement
On August 14, 2013, Lin Sheng Xiang, director Ko I-Chen (Mandarin: 柯一正), writer Neil Peng(Mandarin: 馮光遠), environmental lawyer Robin Winkler, writer Nan Fang Shuo, and retired professor emeritus of National Tsing Hua University Ming-Fui-Pang (Mandarin: 彭明輝) launched the "Constitution 133 Practice Alliance" to promote the recall of legislators who are "following Ma and violating public opinion, to show that democracy is not only about elections held once every four years, and recall is not only an empty word written in Article 17 and Article 133 of the Constitution. The Alliance issued a "Statement on Citizen's Recall Campaign",[10] but because the threshold for recalling the president is too high, it will mobilize to recall Ma's legislators from each constituency.[11][12][13][14]
Anecdotes
In 2007, Lin Shengxiang was awarded the Best Hakka Album and Singer at the Golden Melody Awards.In 2007, Lin Sheng Xiang won the Golden Melody Awards for Best Hakka Album and Singer. However, he refused to accept the two awards based on language, arguing that music awards should be categorized by genre, not by language.[15][16] This was the first time since the Golden Melody Awards that someone refused to accept the awards, and caused a public debate. The prize money was donated to a Meinong voluntary tree planting team, Meinong's community newspaper, an organic farming magazine, and Yang Rumen (Mandarin: 楊儒門),[17] a rice bomber who advocates for domestic agriculture in Taiwan[28] After 2010, Lin Sheng Xiang no longer applied for the language category of the Golden Melody Awards, and in 2017, the Golden Melody Awards set up a language-neutral Album of the Year award in an attempt to transcend the language barrier.
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