Formosa Voice~~~

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追憶 郭英男
Difang Duana = Kuo Ying-nan
Igay Duana = Kuo Hsiu-chu
沒有慾望的感動

乾淨而和諧唱出生命的尊嚴

Taiwan's indigenous people are like Indian people in America. They are quite few in Taiwan's society.
I want to introduce a singer Difang Duana. Because of him, people attention the minority group's music again. 1994 was a boom year for Enigma, which achieved worldwide sales of millions of copies of its album: The Cross of Changes. One track, "Return to Innocence," featured a male soloist with an extraordinary voice that moved everyone who heard its almost unworldly combination of quiet pride and indomitable spirit. This song made such an impression, in fact, that it was eventually included in the 1996 Atlanta Olympic Games' commemorative CD. It later emerged that the haunting voice belonged to Difang Duana, a member of one of Taiwan's indigenous tribes. His contribution was subsequently overshadowed by an unseemly dispute about intellectual property rights, eventually resolved in the singer's favor, but for a glorious moment Taiwan's aboriginal music took center stage at home and internationally.

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