Tan Kun-giok explained

Tan Kun-giok

Birth Date:

1905

Birth Place:

Daitōtei, Taihoku, Japanese Taiwan

Death Place:

Taiwan

Occupation:

Songwriter and author

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T:	陳君玉

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Label:	Columbia Record

Tan Kun-giok (; 1905 – 4 March 1963), also known as Chen Chun-yu in Mandarin, was a Taiwanese songwriter and author^[1] born in Dadaocheng. He wrote many Hokkien songs such as Thiau Bu Si Tai (跳舞時代)^[2] ^[3] and Siu Be Toa Kang Tiau (想要彈像調), and had served as an officer of the Columbia Record, a Japanese-owned disc company. Tan could speak Mandarin Chinese fluently, he was an introducer of Mandarin to postwar Taiwan.^[1] Chen died from hepatic cancer in 1963.^[4]

Notes and References

Web site: 台語歌樂的諍友陳君玉逝 . 9 July 2008. Radio Taiwan International . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110720200130/http://www.rti.org.tw/taiwan/TaiwanHistory.aspx?id=230&Month=3 . 20 July 2011.
News: Yu . Sen-lun . Taiwan gets recast in a different light . 20 November 2024 . Taipei Times . 21 May 2004.
News: Yu . Sen-lun . Taking a look back over musical history . 20 November 2024 . Taipei Times . 24 April 2003.
Web site: 台灣歌樂的諍友陳君玉 . 9 July 2008 . Radio Taiwan International . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110720200207/http://www.rti.org.tw/ajax/recommend/taiwanencyc_content.aspx?id=313 . 20 July 2011.