The jury for the 34th Golden Melody Awards on Tuesday announced the nominees for the prizes and the artists who are to receive Special Contribution Awards.
The Best Male Vocalist and Best Female Vocalist awards have six contenders each, the jury told a news conference in Taipei.
The nominees for Best Male Vocalist are MC Hot Dog (姚中仁), Kumachan (熊信寬), Wu Qing-feng (吳青峰), Hush (陳品赫), The Crane (林泰羽) and Zhao Lei (趙雷).
Photo: Chen Yi-kuan, Taipei Times
In the Best Female Vocalist category, Lala Hsu (徐佳瑩), Hung Pei-yu (洪佩瑜), Yisa Yu (郁可唯), A-Lin (黃麗玲), Penny Tai (戴佩妮) and Lexie Liu (劉柏辛) were nominated.
The nominees for Best Female Vocalist (Taiwanese) were Kelly Tsai (蔡佳蓁), Huang Fei (黃妃), Enno Cheng (鄭宜農), Kerris Tsai (蔡秋鳳) and Olivia Tsao (曹雅雯), while Danny Shao (邵大倫), Sam Liao (廖士賢), Chen Chu-sheng (陳竹昇), Lin Ching-chi (林清吉) and Since Chou (周自從) were nominated for Best Male Vocalist (Taiwanese).
Biung (王宏恩), Yawei Mawring, Kivi, Matzka, Kasiwa and Abus Tanapima are to vie for the Best Vocalist (Indigenous Language) award.
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For Best Vocalist (Hakka), Rita Lin (林鈺婷), Julia Peng (彭佳慧), ZiXuan (黃子軒), Misa (溫尹嫦) and VUIZE (王鍾惟) are the nominees.
For Best Vocal Group, Crispy, Running Youth, Deep White, Nine One One and Mr Miss were nominated, while Sheng-Xiang & Band, Bugs of Phonon, JADE, Elephant Gym, Cosmospeople, A_Root and Robot Swing were nominated for Best Musical Group.
Veteran singer Ouyang Fei Fei (歐陽菲菲), and late lyricist and producer Eric Lin (林秋離) were named by the jury as winners of the Special Contribution Awards.
Ouyang is to receive her award at the Golden Melody Awards ceremony on July 1, while a representative or family member of Eric Lin would collect his award.
Head judge Chen Chien-chi (陳建騏) said that the nominations were made following a 13-hour discussion on Monday with a group of international musicians from Chinese-speaking communities.
Minister of Culture Shih Che (史哲) said that a Golden Melody Award is without doubt the highest achievement for anyone working in the Mandopop music scene.
The jury received 24,604 submissions — the most in the history of the awards — from 314 entities spanning 1,667 albums, Shih said.
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