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Jay Chou Release new song Greatest Works of art. Music Press Asia
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Jay Chou Finds New Love In Art

Jay Chou has found his most recent muse in the art world. Having seen him auctioned and exhibited with Hong Kong’s fine art auction house Sotheby’s, it came as no surprise that his next album is spotlighting the art world. And what’s more important than the art world in Paris, you may ask? The new single’s music video ‘Greatest Works Of Art’ (‘最偉大的作品’) may be considered Jay Chou’s most ambitious project today. Shot in Paris, the music video also featured Lang Lang, the Chinese superstar and pianist in the classical…

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OneCool Collective Launches NFT. Music Press Asia

OneCool Collective Launches Movie NFT

OneCool Collective, a Web3 project, recently announced its first Warriors of Future NFT collection. With up to 10,000 unique 3D avatars of soldiers, it was inspired by the Hong Kong sci-fi action movie produced by Louis Koo. The multi-million-dollar film – starring Louis Koo, Sean Lau and Carina Lau – has the story set in the future where Earth is…

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NMF2022 Malaysia audience. Music Press Asia

Highlights at Northern Music Festival Asia 2022

It may have been pretty rough, to say the least, for Malaysia’s live music industry. But what doesn’t kill us makes us stronger could easily be the motto of every live event promoter this year. Bouncing back, the Northern Music Festival Asia takes on an unpretentious approach to ‘get things back on the road’ for most of its colleagues in…

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Sound of Music Audition Results June22. Music Press Asia

The Sound of Music Malaysia Announced Audition Results

A brand-new international production of the world’s most beloved musical – THE SOUND OF MUSIC is coming to Malaysia for the first time this December. Over the last month, a casting search was conducted to find eighteen children (aged 6-14) to be part of the musical as members of the famous von Trapp children. A recent announcement has confirmed that…

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Vietnam SEA Games 2022 Opening Ceremony. Music Press Asia

Vietnam SEA Games closes with music and culture showcase

HANOI: Cocooned in an indoor arena away from the persistent rain, the closing ceremony of the 31st SEA Games drew the regional meet to a close with a vibrant show of music and culture in Hanoi last Monday (May 23). At the My Dinh Indoor Games Gymnasium, the Games’ closing ceremony began by with an exuberant performance highlighting the transformation…

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Endangered Species Day. Music Press Asia

Turning The Tide for Endangered Animals

Our species, the Homo sapiens, has officially seized the world. For roughly 300 millennia, or most of our existence, our population numbers have risen gradually. It is estimated that there were about 170 million people on Earth around 2,000 years ago. But with the arrival of modern medicine and the Industrial Revolution, the human population exploded. Skyrocketing from a billion…

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Taipei National Theater. Music Press Asia

Taipei City National Theater: A Cultural Ziggurat

The Palace architecture where culture is in the present. Built in 1987, the National Chiang Kai-Shek Cultural Center at Chiang Kai-Shek Memorial Hall is the first national-level cultural venue in Taiwan. In addition to hosting major performances, the two major buildings of the center—the National Theater & Concert Hall—are major Taipei landmarks. Adding a stately elegance to the traditional Chinese…

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Music Press Asia Book of the Month Heidi Shamsuddin
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Nusantara: A Sea of Tales by Heidi Shamsuddin

Heidi Shamsuddin’s newest anthology offers some retellings and deeper insights of beloved folk stories gathered from Malaysia and across the Nusantara region. Following the success of her children’s book The Malay Tale of the Pig King in 2020 (which retells the Indonesian tale of Hikayat Raja Babi), Heidi returns to her passion of telling fairy tales from South-East Asia. A…

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FIFA 2022 World Cup Release New Music Soundtrack. Music Press Asia

FIFA World Cup Qatar: “We’re better together”

Hayya Hayya (Better Together)’ by Trinidad Cardona, DaVido, Aisha The FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022™ has a new official soundtrack. The new single, titled Hayya Hayya (Better Together), features US star Trinidad Cardona, Afrobeats icon DaVido, and Qatari sensation Aisha. The release happened ahead of the final draw for the tournament. FIFA continues to build on the FIFA Sound strategy…

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Kpop musical is changing the New York scene. Music Press Asia

Ars Nova To Present KPOP Broadway Musical

The upcoming premiere of KPOP, the new musical about the global K-pop phenomenon, will begin performances on Broadway (New York) with previews starting on Thursday, October 13, 2022, in advance of an opening night on Sunday, November 20, 2022. The announcement was made at a press conference two days ago (30 Mar) at the Korean Cultural Center in New York.…

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