Beautiful Hokkien Songs

Discussions on the Hokkien (Minnan) language.
niuc
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Beautiful Hokkien Songs

Post by niuc »

Dear all

I found many beautiful Hokkien music in youtube, would like to share with you here. If you have, please share too :-)

阮若打開心內的門窗
"gun2 na7 pha4-khui1 sim1-lai7 e5 mng5-thang1" (if we open the door & windows of our heart):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wQCIXW6 ... re=related
Hearty song sung by big choir (children, adults & elderly) in concert hall!

Ah Du 阿杜 & Jiang Hui 江蕙 singing a duet hokkien song "su7-liam7 io0" 思念喲 (longing!):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nhUxfXnW9Ew
Live duet on tv, great duet!

江蕙 - 再會啦心愛的無緣的人
Jiang Hui (Kang1 Hui7): "cai3-hue7 la0 sim1-ai3 e5 bo5-ian5 e5 lang5" (farewell, un-destined beloved of my heart):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8ACIiJV9sE
Superb a cappella style of pop song!

江蕙--風吹風吹
"hong1-chue1 hong1-chue1" (wind blows, wind blows):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c43t01MqPwo&NR=1
Very beautiful vocal & melody!

伊是咱們的寶貝:
"i1 si7 lan2 e5 po2-pue7" (it is our treasure):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWNfwxOzauA&NR=1
Canadian girl (& Taiwanese guy?) singing Taiwanese Hokkien song, good performance although the diction is not clear enough.
SimL
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Re: Beautiful Hokkien Songs

Post by SimL »

Hi Niuc,

Thanks very much for posting these :-).

There will be more and more Hokkien music and other youtube clips in the future, I'm sure.

SimL
niuc
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Re: Beautiful Hokkien Songs

Post by niuc »

Hi Sim

You're most welcome :-) Yeah, glad to see more of them!
CheeTiong
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Re: Beautiful Hokkien Songs

Post by CheeTiong »

Try this 張惠妹 A-Mei - 心事誰人知: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEYD9Tksbok
Pier
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Re: Beautiful Hokkien Songs

Post by Pier »

hi, niuc,
thank you for sharing all the songs. :lol:
like it very much.
I especially like this song.
very touching. :)

伊是咱們的寶貝:
"i1 si7 lan2 e5 po2-pue7" (it is our treasure):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWNfwxOzauA&NR=1

Canadian girl (& Taiwanese guy?) singing Taiwanese Hokkien song, good performance although the diction is not clear enough.
Abun
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Re: Beautiful Hokkien Songs

Post by Abun »

Hey folks,

thanks for sharing so much stuff! I was a bit busy the last days so I haven't yet been able to hear much of it but I'll catch up on that starting from now :mrgreen:

For everybody who likes rock, I also have something to recommend. I usually tend to listen to the songs I stumble upon and grow to like and not care about researching the interprets, so my information about the band itself is kind of sparse. I do know that they call themselves 滅火器 (Fire Ex., I'd give you the Hokkien reading for the characters but I can't find the word as a whole right now, only the seperate characters, so I'm not sure if I'd choose the right reading) and come from Ko-hiông and that's about that. Their songs are not exclusively in Hokkien but the vast majority is. And although deciphering their songtexts is always a bit of a pain because they write them in an even more mandarinized way than I'm used to, I like their songs enough to work through that :lol:

If you want to check them out, these songs might give you a good impression, but there's more of course:
心內話(sim-lāi-oē): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2lmdhsZQ_g
我的廢人朋友(góa ê hòe-jîn pêng-iú): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSKVu3bDnT4
悲歌(pi-koa): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=etX5HbnhwZA
天鳥(thiⁿ-chiáu? thian-chiáu?): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WG9wRbZGo3Y
Last edited by Abun on Sat Jul 13, 2013 5:51 am, edited 1 time in total.
Pier
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Re: Beautiful Hokkien Songs

Post by Pier »

Hi, Abun,
Thank you very much for the listed songs.
I listen to all the songs.
Beautiful & meaningful lyrics. Like it.
Note: I think the second song had the wrong link.
Hope you share more songs here.
I will be camping on this thread regularly :lol: for updates.
Kam-sia
Abun
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Re: Beautiful Hokkien Songs

Post by Abun »

Hello Pier
Pier wrote:Note: I think the second song had the wrong link.
Of course it had :oops: , I have corrected it now.
Pier
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Re: Beautiful Hokkien Songs

Post by Pier »

Some nice Taiwanese song to share.
Very touching song to sing in KTV.


不曾說愛你 (Never said love you)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGVGLhPDjrk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ef4upIDQ0eo


人生的歌 (Song of Life)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=US2zpQbd46I
amhoanna
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Re: Beautiful Hokkien Songs

Post by amhoanna »

aBun,

It would indeed be Bia̍t-hóe-khì (with dialects variations on hóe), but I'm guessing everyone refers to them in Mandarin, even in Hoklo conversation, since this word hasn't been adopted into Hoklo AFAIK.
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