Fans of Taiwanese singer Jody Chiang (江蕙) have a 7.6 percent chance of obtaining tickets to any of her 20 concerts on her first tour since her retirement 10 years ago, tour organizer KHAM Inc said yesterday.
The promoter said people have registered to buy 2,605,368 tickets in an upcoming computerized draw, but only about 200,000 tickets would be available for the 20 performances.
Chiang’s tour is to feature eight concerts at Kaohsiung Arena from July 11 to 26 and 12 shows at Taipei Arena from Aug. 8 to Sept. 1, KHAM said last month.
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KHAM’s ticketing service showed that registration began at 3:30pm on Thursday and closed at 11:59pm on Saturday.
Each member could register to buy up to 12 tickets — up to four tickets for each of one to three dates of their choice — in the first draw, with the results to be announced at noon tomorrow.
If after the first draw there are tickets that have not been paid for by draw winners before noon on Thursday, those tickets would be put into a second draw for people who registered, but did not get tickets in the first round, KHAM said.
Results of the second draw are to be announced at noon on Monday next week, and winners need to pay for the tickets allocated to them by noon on Wednesday next week, it said.
Chiang, 63, first came out of retirement on Oct. 5 last year to perform at a Double Ten National Day event at the Taipei Dome. In early September last year, she released a statement explaining her long absence from the stage, saying that she needed medication because of health issues before embarking on her 25-concert farewell tour in July 2015.
Only describing her illness as “very serious,” Chiang said she underwent long hospital stays, surgeries, chemotherapy, the loss of her singing voice, a heavy loss of blood, a pulmonary embolism, and several life-and-death moments, before her health improved.
“I’m a Taiwanese woman who sings with my life. Singing is the only thing I have known how to do since I was nine,” she said in the statement. “Life is short, I want to seize the moment and be myself. I’m picking up the microphone again to sing for my devoted fans.”
Following her performance on Oct. 5 last year, Chiang also appeared as a guest during two of singer-songwriter Jay Chou’s (周杰倫) four concerts at the Taipei Dome on Dec. 5 to 8 last year.
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