MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1980
Date: 15 September 1980
Jolin Tsai I-lin (Chinese: 蔡依林; pinyin: Cài Yīlín; born September 15, 1980), also romanized as Jolin Cai, is a Taiwanese singer, songwriter, record producer, and actress. Recognized as the "Queen of C-Pop", Tsai is one of the most influential figures in the Chinese-speaking world's pop culture. Her continuous reinvention and versatility in musical style and visual presentation have established her as a leading figure in popularizing dance-pop music in Greater China. Tsai exercises significant creative control over her career, and her work, which often addresses societal issues and ideological themes, has achieved both commercial success and critical acclaim.
Born in Hsinchuang, Taiwan, Tsai gained prominence in 1998 after winning a singing competition organized by MTV Mandarin. Her debut album, 1019 (1999), cemented her status as a teen idol with a significant following among teenagers. With the release of Magic (2003), Tsai transitioned to a more dance-oriented musical style. This was further solidified with Dancing Diva (2006), a breakthrough album that earned her first Golden Melody Award and firmly established her as a prominent dance-pop artist in the Chinese music scene. She went on to win multiple Golden Melody Awards for critically acclaimed albums such as Muse (2012), Play (2014), and Ugly Beauty (2018). With a total of seven Golden Melody Awards to date, she remains the most awarded dance-pop artist in the award's history.
Tsai has sold over 25 million records, making her the highest-selling Taiwanese female recording artist since 2000. Since the release of Magic (2003), each of her studio albums has been the highest-selling album by a female artist in Taiwan for the year of its release, with four also being the highest-selling album overall in the country. Tsai has frequently appeared on the Forbes China Celebrity 100 list, ranking in the top 20 for six out of ten years since 2010 and being named the number one Chinese female singer three times. Her net worth surpassed NT$2 billion in 2014, and she has been ranked as the highest-paid Taiwanese female singer 16 times between 2003 and 2022.
阅读全文...1980年9月15日 是 星期一 星号下的 ♍。 这是一年中的 258 日。 美国总统是 Jimmy Carter。
如果你出生在这一天,你已经 45 岁了。 您的最后一个生日是 2025年9月15日星期一,258 天前。 2026年9月15日星期二 天后,您的下一个生日是 106。 你已经活了 16,694 天,或者大约 400,660 小时,或者大约 24,039,621 分钟,或者大约 1,442,377,260 秒。
Date: 16 September 1980
By ERIC PACE
Eric PACE
Union Pacific, Missouri Pacific and Western Pacific railroads formally apply for ICC permission to consummate $1.2 billion merger; combination will produce 22,800-mile system; analysts say that ICC is likely to approve request; proposed combination is part of wholesale redrawing of nation's rail maps that is in works; map of railroads' routes; portrait of Stan Pearce, Union Pacific's merger administrator (M)
Date: 16 September 1980
Interbank Card Assn introduces debit card to be known as MasterCard II, which will allow charges to be deducted directly from checking accounts; photo (M)
Date: 15 September 1980
By PAUL LEWIS Special to The New York Times
Paul Special
Article on struggle between Albin Chalandon, head of Elf Aquitaine, state-controlled French oil company, and Andre Giraud, France's Industry Minister, over Chalandon's efforts to use company's increasing profits from oil and natural gas, which reached $1.5 billion on sales of $14 billion last year, to build independent industrial empire outside control of Giraud and Industry Ministry; Chalandon's efforts have suffered setbacks recently, with his failure to win presidency of holding company, Erap, with Government's veto of company's plan to buy Kerr-McGee Corp and with collapse of planned purchase of 80% of heavy chemical division of Rhone Poulenc; Chalandon says new oil exploration, especially in US and Canada, remains top priority, but he also wants company to enter energy-related fields; his illus (M)