Jolin Tsai is a Taiwanese pop-singer and idol. She first broke into the Taiwanese entertainment industry at age 18, winning first place in an MTV singing competition with a cover of a Whitney Houston song. After her performance, she was signed by Universal Music Taiwan. She released some photobooks, did some movies, and is a very popular star in Asia.

I did not hear her music, but I think she looks very cute. There are many many sites about her (a lot in uncomprehensible Chinese), and a lot of galleries! I have put a few in this posting, but if you really want to see more of her, just go to one of these sites:Jolin Tsai on the web:

J.O.L Zone: Fan Site (English)
Jolin Fan Club of Singapore (English)
Jolin Tsai at POPZ: Fan Site (English)
Jolin Tsai Malaysia Fan Club (English)
Jolin Tsai Gallery
Jolin Tsai Extensive gallery
Jolin Tsai @ Wikipedia.org
Jolin Tsai Google image search

Some facts:

Date of birth: 15 sept 1980
Place of birth: Taipei, Taiwan
Ethnicity: Chinese
Height: 158cm
Weight: 40kg
Measurements: B82-W62-H80

I thought it would be appropriate, to feature a Vietnamese beauty in my 100th posting! 😉

Scanned from a magazine called DienAnh that I bought in Vietnam, I present to you My Tam.

A Google search learned me she is a Vietnamese pop-singer. Her full name is Phan Thi My Tam, she was born in 1981 and her native hometown is Da Nang.My Tam left Da Nang, for Ho Chi Minh City to learn vocal music at the Intermediate level of Ho Chi Minh City Conservatory. Up to now, My Tam has got many achievements. As for this lovely singer, the most important award is the bronze medal in “Asian Music Festival” held in Shanghai at the end of 2000 when she worked in Music Center in Ho Chi Minh Sity. Since that year, My Tam has to overcome many challenges to be an “independent-professional singer”.
The songs she has presented usually filled with deep meaning of love, life, youth, etc. That is why nowaday My Tam is one of the most favorite singers to millions of Vietnamese Pop music fans.

My Tam official site (click english and then photo’s)
My Tam gallery
My Tam Google iamge search

After my last post on Stacey Lee, I thought I should also do a post on my personal favourite new LA ‘model’. I say ‘model’ because sadly it seems as though she has already left her modelling ‘career’ behind her (apparently she only modelled part time to support her studies). However, this is for a very good reason, as she is now one of the hottest up and coming classical musicians in the world. I am talking about gorgeous cellist Tina Guo (web site currently under construction).Born in Shanghai, China, Tina started playing piano at 3, then cello at 7. Now living in LA, she has appeared as cello soloist with the San Diego Symphony, the La Jolla Symphony, the San Diego Youth Symphony, the San Diego Civic Youth Symphony, the Palomar Symphony, and the Idylwild Symphony. She also appeared on television for KPBS in a recital series, and has been featured on the cover of We Chinese in America magazine.

She’s received many awards and been successful in many comptetitions, including first prize in the San Diego Symphony Young Artists Competition, the MTAC VOCE California State Solo Competition, the ASTA California State Concerto Competition, the CAPMT California State Solo Competition, the La Jolla Symphony Young Artists Competition, the Music Heritage Incorporated String Competition, the San Diego Youth Symphony Young Artists Competition, the MTAC Concerto Competition, and the Parness Concerto Competition for Young Artists. She was also presented with the “Most Promising Talent” Award at the California Young Artists Competition. In addition, she is also a published composer, and was awarded first place in the MTNA’s California State Composition Competition for her series of cello duets.

For those of you lucky enough to be in LA on October 30th, she will be playing in a quartet with world renowned violinist Midori at Disney Concert Hall. I don’t know about you, but I find the sight of a beautiful girl playing an instrument of the string family (except perhaps the double bass!) very sensuous. Here’s another photo to show what I mean:

I’m sure the parallels between Tina and a certain other Asian musician (Vanessa-Mae) haven’t escaped our readers. Indeed, Tina even has her own rock band, where she plays an electrified cello! If she plays her cards right I really think she can be the new Vanessa-Mae, so hopefully we’ll be seeing a lot more of her in the future!

Most of the above information was taken from this page – there’s a few nice photos there too. The web pages featuring her modelling photos have largely disappeared, but you can download them here. Here’s another page featuring an MP3 sample of Tina performing one of her personal favourite classical pieces (the first movement of Elgar’s Cello Concerto) recorded when she was just 16 years old (she is now 19).

At Asian Sex Gazette we believe that to truly understand sexuality in Asia, we must offer readers the full gamet of reporting. As such we are happy to bring you this entertainment profile that discusses one of the hottest bands in East Asia right now- but don’t stop there – we think you need to know:Shinae, 29, Sahara, 25, Binu, 22, and Yoona, 21, have all used their curvaceous physiques to propel them to stardom. Earlier this year, to a frenzied fanfare of television appearances, newspaper interviews and even the odd nude photo shoot, Lady became a hit in Korea and beyond. Full story here.

I have to say I’m no fan of children’s TV (even when I was one!), but there’s one kid’s program that has me transfixed every time I see it: Hi-5. Why? Three words: Kathleen de Leon (alright, so the two Aussie girls in the group are pretty cute too!).

I’ve been wanting to post on this cutie since re-launching Asian Sirens, but despite being in this massively successful Australian children’s group, there is astonishingly little information about her on the web, and the photo above was the only decently sized one I could find. I couldn’t even find out what her ethnicity is, although I’m guessing she’s Filipina (even though her favourite foods are Thai and Japanese). I don’t even know if she was born in Australia or not.There is one thing I do know about her, however: she’s just gotten married to Daniel Jones, ex-member of the lightweight but even more massively successful Australian pop duo Savage Garden. To add insult to injury, she did it right near where I live on the Gold Coast! Full story here.

Before joining Hi-5, she’d already found acclaim for her roles in the Australian productions of the musicals Rent and Miss Saigon. Hence, she certainly isn’t the kind of performer who could only find work on a kid’s program! Indeed – like the other members of Hi-5 – she is a very capable performer indeed, with a very bubbly personality. In this case, there’s a very good reason why Hi-5 has been so successful!

Here’s a couple of fan sites (with photos):

http://angeltowns.com/town/hi5/Kathleen/main_page.htm
http://www.geocities.com/kathleendeleon2003/index.html

Since before my previous post on breast surgery, many people here have noted my comments on the facial surgery many of the models featured here have had, and wanted me to do a post on this phenomonon. Well finally here it is!

My post has been held up by my desire to find some good before and after pics to demonstrate this phenomonon. Well I’ve finally managed to find such pics of perhaps the most internationally successful oriental singer ever: Coco Lee. Amazingly, Coco claims to never have had any surgery! (This is a good example of how you can’t believe Asian models/performers when they say their natural.) I will discuss Coco herself a little more below, but first lets analyze the before and after pics above.The bottom two pics are Coco as she is today, whereas the top two were taken before she had any surgery. Perhaps the most obvious – and for me most tragic – difference is her slilicone chin implant. As can be seen, she always had a fairly prominent chin by Asian standards, but in her desire to look more western, she has made it even more so. So much so in fact that to me it now looks kind of ‘stuck on’. (Still, at least it doesn’t look as ridiculous as Reese Witherspoon’s chin implant – for me her chin looks like it belongs on a witch!). Sadly, this form of surgery is now very common for Asian models and performers, although because most other Asian girls don’t have a chin as naturally prominent as Coco’s, the result isn’t usually this exagerated.

The other obvious thing that can be seen is how different her eyes look. She has reshaped her eyebrows by removing her natural eyebrow hairs and replacing them with tattoos. Less obviously, she has also had some of the fat removed from her eyelids, which once again makes her eyes look a little less classically Asian and perhaps a little bigger. Once again, these procedures are very common for Asian models and performers these days, although in this case the results are actually a lot more subtle than many others and IMHO are quite successful.

What can’t be readily seen from these photos is her nose job. Unlike many other Asian models/performers thse days, she doesn’t seem to have done anything to enlarge her nostrils, so from the front her nose looks pretty much the same as it always has. However, if you could see before and after profile shots (which unfortunately I couldn’t find), you would see that she has had a silicone implant inserted in the bridge of her nose, to make it higher (and once again more western). I find it ironic that so many western women have surgery to make their noses smaller, whereas Asian women have surgery to make them bigger! What a strange world…

Whether you like Coco’s facial surgery or not, it certainly hasn’t hurt her careeer! As stated above, she is probably the most internationally successful oriental singer ever. Indeed, she’s the only oriental singer I can think of who has really broken into the western market (unless you include half Chinese singer Bic Runga, who is very successful in Australia and New Zealand) – somebody please correct me if I’m forgeting someone! She got her big breakthrough in the US by performing “A Love Before Time”, the theme song from the huge hit Chinese film Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon. She performed this song at the oscars that year, which makes her the first and so far only oriental singer to have performed at the Oscars, as far as I’m aware.

Although her music isn’t exactly my taste (the usual modern dance pop, although she’s released some pretty nice stuff in her home market), she is actually a very capable singer (she has quite a lovely voice), and is a pretty talented dancer and performer. She also has a nice, trim body, which she really knows how to show off – although I can’t stand her chin job, I still find her quite sexy!

She was born in Hong Kong, but she moved to the US with her family when she was only 10. It was there that she won the Miss Chinese America pageant in 1991 – this was before she had all the surgery! Two years later she returned to HK to take second prize in the New Talent Singing Contest there, which resulted in her recording contract. She also came 47th in Maxim magazine’s “Top 100 Sexiest Women in Asia” in 2000. Anyway, here’s some more pics so you can make up your own mind about her:

http://www.cocolee.net/
http://www.actoractressgallery.com/
http://tanhongsheng.tripod.com/
http://www.chinasee.net/
http://en.ce.cn/