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Current Events 2008
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WWS Entrance Wakin 20 Anniversary Concerts in 2006-2007
Wakin 20 Concert Pictorial Reports:
    • And several other beautiful Niagara Falls images are displayed in Gallery Tu

The Ni Men Project
Stars Ferry Jacket

ROUND TEN

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Stars Ferry jacket!


Have a look at the Round 9 result  [Babel-Fished English]      

Emil Chau and Jonathan Lee Zong Sheng J & W Anthology 2005 Taipei

Warrior Wakin
  • Wakin Chau Charms a Jam-Packed Stadium in Shenzhen, China on Sunday, November 21, 2004 — and Jonathan Lee showed up as the Special Guest! (Photo Gallery)

  • Setting the Night on Fire on June 12, 2004 in Shenyang, China! (PDF Photos) The concert was sponsored by TIENS, a healthcare products brand for which Wakin has served as a spokesperson. Here is one of the cute Shockwave Flash cartoon animations of the special song that Wakin had sung at his concerts for his mainland China fans, titled The Northeast Man Is a Live Example of a Chinese Soldier. A few other versions are located here (the website is Big 5 encoded)

Wakin's Kitchen


Getting It Right in the Restaurant Biz  [日文]


The ribbon-cutting ceremony took place on Friday, 17 June 2005 for Wakin Chau's new Hong Kong-style restaurant Chao Lou, his fourth self-owned eatery in Taipei.

Chao Lou Ai MaiA second Chao Lou branch was opened in December 2005 on the first floor of the shopping center "愛買 Ai Mai" adjacent to Taipei's Miramar Entertainment Park.


Miramar Entertainment ParkIn spring 2006, the first of the Chao Lou restaurants (忠孝) regrettably closed its doors, but this second one is doing great!

mooncakes at Wakin's Kitchen
Chao Lou & Wakin's Kitchen Mooncakes 2005


  • The Keyboard Kings: Two renowned keyboardist colleagues of Emil Chau Wakin came from Taiwan to Japan for the F1 Grand Prix Race, and their trip proved to be a great opportunity for a meeting of musical minds on 10 October 2005
    ★  LOCAL LIVE Photo Journal: 大泉学園 Oizumi-Gakuen 「In "F"」 (05/29/2007)
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Guo Zong Shao 郭宗韶

 
Year 2007




Wakin Chau Coverage in Japanese Media

「中国語ジャーナル:スペースアルク」2月号, 9 January 2007 発売
月刊聴く中国語」2月号, 9 January 2007 発売
Asian Wave」Vol. 005, 12 December 2006 発売
周華健インタビュー「やっぱり、音楽って偉大だなぁ」(searchina.ne.jp, 27 November 2006)
11月9日に横浜で開かれた「中華年記念音楽祭」に出演するため、中華ミュージックシーンのリーダー的存在の周華健(エミール・チョウ)が来日。(Yahoo News, 27 November 2006)
Wakin in 「Asian Paradise」, 12 November 2006
台流スター」No. 7, 30 October 2006 発売

Emil Chau in Pop Asia Magazine, April 2004
Wakin Chau: The front-runner of Taiwan pop, still unshakably popular throughout the Chinese world, talks about his career and further ambitions (Pop Asia No. 50, April 2004)  Hmmm — but I don't agree with something that he said





Year 2006

 
Year 2005

Wakin Chau & Jonathan Lee in KL 2005

  • 2005 National Kidney Foundation Event in Singapore:

    * Wakin performed his new song "Ai Zai Tian Di Jian / Love Between Heaven and Earth" live at the NKF Charity Show on April 10th [Download the 20.6 MB zipped .wmv file] — He debuted this song as the eighth one he sang at his 12 June 2004 concert in Shenyang, China, an even more exceptional performance!

    * Here are samples of the promotional E-mails under Emil's name that were sent out as an appeal before and as a thank you after the NKF event — Thanks a lot for these three items, PY!

  • Blast to the Past: A lively pictorial account of a guided pilgrimage to Wakin Chau's childhood home, courtesy of the Malaysian fan club (8 March 2005)

  • Fishing for a Wife: Love was in the air at Fish Leong's concert where she and Emil Chau helped a Singaporean man propose to his girlfriend (The Electric New Paper Web Exclusive, 7 March 2005 — Thanks, SH!)

 
Year 2004


19 December 2004

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THE 2004 WAKIN WORLD PARTY!

A handmade International Fans' Songbook with MP3 CD compiled with the creative and heartfelt contributions of 19 people around the world were presented to Wakin during this special event — he and his family appeared to be genuinely impressed!




Wakin listens to an explanation about the project as he looks inside the Songbook that was his 2004 birthday gift from the international fans (Thanks, JW!)

And there is a first-hand, detailed account written by one American Wakin fan, who with her better half had traveled all the way to Taipei from Texas! (PDF report)

The Taiwan Baiyou have some of their own World Party photos posted at their Stars Ferry's Friends website too~!


Toyota
  • Wakin sings in the Mainland for Toyota Corolla, and it's a silky, Sino-fied version of American songwriter Burt Bacharach's late '60s megahit What the World Needs Now Is Love

  • There are quite a few great shots of Wakin's Corolla project promo activities (click to view the full-size images) at www.tom.com and www.sina.com (23 February 2004), and Wakin geared up to help Toyota promote China's first-ever hosting of the Formula One Grand Prix, as reported in pix and text by the Shanghai Hotline (12 March 2004, courtesy of wakinchau.com), which took place in Shanghai on September 24~26, 2004

    * Plus there is an admirable English translation of one of Wakin's Toyota project interviews that was kindly provided by JF (Xie xie ne!) 

Year 2003



 
Year 2002

  • The 1 min. 15 sec. giant tortoise preservation commercial (15.8 MB MPEG4 / WWS) that Wakin made in his shorter-hair days has been shown periodically on SkyPerfecTV! Japan's Animal Planet channel

  • Blast from the past: High-resolution photos of Wakin Chau's World Tour 2002 stopover in Auckland, New Zealand, courtesy of Chinatown Entertainment (Thanks for the 04/15/2004 heads-up, AF!)
Wakin Is a Rock Climber
  • WAKIN IS A ROCK CLIMBER: And it's not only in the biz sense of "gaining seniority at his record company" but also in the sense of outdoor sports! Summer 2002 photos courtesy of Taiwan's Climber's Network

  • A great pictorial report about the 2002 charity show for Singapore's National Kidney Foundation, where Wakin set a record for getting phone pledges, courtesy of Mediacorp TV 

 
Year 2001



WWS 周華健

More worthy articles edited and updated for the enjoyment of the newest Wakin fans 

The EFI Archive


 

 
Prior Years

  • Cruising along in a lower gear (12/08/2000, The Electric New Paper, Singapore)

  • A well-rounded profile article on Wakin in English (scroll down the page a bit to access) from The South China Morning Post (published 26 February 1999), courtesy of wakinchau.com

  • E-MILLION DOLLAR SMILE: Why be a Heavenly King when you can be Emil Chau? (Illustrated; 8 Days Magazine Singapore, 1997)

  • Emil & Friends A chat with the local press about his album, his family, and the opportunity for a new singing star to shine from Singapore (Teen Magazine, 1997)
 

Profile  [日文]

Born in Hong Kong on December 22, 1960, Emil Chau Wakin (pronounced Zhou Hua Jian in Mandarin) has been one of the best-loved entertainers in Asia and internationally for more than two decades.

Growing up as the fourth son in a family of seven, Wakin picked up a guitar and learned to play when he was about 13 years old. In 1979, he set off to major in math at National Taiwan University in Taipei, where he became enthusiastically involved in the popular campus tradition among students, singing and playing original folk songs in local coffeeshops. During this period Wakin learned to sing in Mandarin, and this would be key to his future as a music-maker in Taiwan.

With his hopes high for a successful career as a recording artist, Wakin sought out contacts in the music industry, but he met discouragement at every turn. That finally led him to set his sights on a seemingly more practical alternative: becoming a record producer. So he gave up his dream of being a performer and joined Rock Records as an assistant producer, writing wonderful songs for other artists.

But finally, opportunity knocked at Rock. Wakin was encouraged by Chyi Yu to sing some jingles for commercial advertising spots. One of these tunes was for a car commercial, and it happened to catch the attention of Wakin's boss. Almost as an afterthought he remarked, "Is that your voice? Why don't you release an album?" BINGO!

So Wakin recorded and released his first Mandarin album under the Rock Records label in 1987. In an interesting twist of fate, Wakin had struggled to become a singer, had settled on being a record producer, and while working as a producer he became a singer! A dream come true by detour.

And it was a detour of particular good fortune. While working diligently at Rock as a producer, Wakin met an American girl named Constance Woods, whose father was in Taiwan as a Fulbright scholar. Having plenty in common — including birthdays only one day apart — Wakin and Constance began to date, got engaged and then on November 16, 1986, they were married in Taipei. (Four months later there was another ceremony with family and friends in the U.S. on March 14, 1987). They now have a son and a daughter.

Stars FerryEmil Chau Wakin's career in music has soared ever since. From 1985, he has released more than 40 records in Mandarin, Cantonese and English, becoming an important name in the music of Taiwan and appealing to music lovers around the globe. You Make Me Happy and Sad, The Flowery Heart, Music Brings Us Together, and Emil & Friends have brought him numerous awards from Taiwan, Hong Kong and Singapore. And with his burgeoning international popularity, Wakin packs concert halls wherever he goes. His concert productions have remained relatively simple by Asian standards: usually no mirrors, no smoke or explosions, no colored lights — just Wakin, his guitar, and his backup musicians.

Alongside his singing career, Wakin has appeared in a number of films and has hosted TV and radio shows in Hong Kong, Taiwan and Singapore. Besides being a successful restaurant owner, he is also very active in international charitable causes, such as kidney disease charities in Singapore, the December 2000 all-star concert in Las Vegas, the January 2002 "Take a Deep Breath" concert in Taipei to raise money for a new hospital, and Beijing's 4th Grand Charity Drive for Children in 2005.

With his clean-cut image, friendly disposition, and passion for music, Emil Chau Wakin remains one of the most admired artists in the entertainment industry.

Wakin's personal website
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