Baidu Music Awards - Gold Typhoon EMI artists win it big

As Gold Typhoon EMI expands in the music industry, its artists have also proven their performing skills on stage. Yesterday, Gold Typhoon artists including Show Luo won a total of 8 awards at Baidu Music Awards/ Hot Point 2009 Awards Ceremony.

Among themselves, Show Luo, Elva Hsiao and Cyndi Wang won “Most Popular All-Around Entertainer”, “Most Popular Taiwan/HK Female Singer”, “Best Taiwan/HK Drama Theme Song”. Mainland China’s heavenly princess, Bibi Chou won two awards in the idol category: “Most Popular Idol” and “Best Idol”. Zhang Yun Jing, Show Luo and Elva Hsiao also won three awards for “Top 10 Golden Melody”.

With good results, the five artists went backstage for a group pic. They joked to let Gold Typhoon’s new shareholders to first “remember their faces”. Most of the artists had to rush from Beijing to Hong Kong the next morning for Gold Typhoon’s news conference.

But while they were in Beijing, a few had some traumatic experiences. Elva had a flight delayed for three hours due to fog. Cyndi, before coming to China, had a bad ear-mic that made her jumpy. Zhang Yun Jing met a crazy fan who wanted a picture with her. When her manager blocked the fan, the fan broke a water bottle on her head, almost spraying Jing with water. Show Luo had many fans break past the barrier line, fighting to get close to him.

Baidu’s Hot Point 2009 Awards Ceremony was held on the 31st at Beijing Olympic Basketball Gymnasium. The awards results to determine the most popular artists that day were based solely on 3.38 billion searches by netizens. Artists from Gold Typhoon EMI included Bibi Chou, Show Luo, Elva Hsiao, Cyndi Wang and Zhang Yun Jing. They dominated the awards show with eight awards total amongst themselves. As for Bibi Chou, she won “Most Popular Idol”, “Baidu’s Most Popular Female Artiste”, and “Best Fanclub”; once again she became Baidu Music Awards’ biggest winner.

That day, Bibi also distinguished herself from other artists during her performance. Her performance of a mix of 10 classic Mandarin songs was the highest moment of the ceremony. This performance gave her another inspiration regarding costume styling: “Bringing out a band to perform is a really cool thing so I decided to also show off another side to me. I have to become stylish!”

This was the first time Bibi became her very own stylist. Not only did she pick her own outfit, she also decided her own hairstyle and makeup. After a half-hour of styling a punk-ish hairstyle, Bibi joked: “Right now, I’m still Maruko-chan’s mom.” But when she was finally made up, many of her colleagues and staff were surprised. The entire makeup room was bursting of “WOWs”.

Bibi didn’t stop styling herself. Not only did she prepare a pair of sunglasses and gloves, she suddenly thought to paint her nails black. As soon as Bibi received some nail polish from staff, she immediately started putting it on. Perhaps it was her punk hairstyle that made her excited. But as she was putting on nail polish, she repeatedly yelled “ROCKER” during the process. Everyone around her started laughing. Bibi commented on her work: “Actually this is my first time trying nail polish so it looks like I still need some practice.”

When Bibi came off stage after her performance, Zhang Yun Jing, who had watched from behind, rushed to tell her: “Your performance was so steady and cool! And when you held that phone prop, it was super funny!”
Bibi laughed: “Yeah, actually I borrowed that phone prop. And when I dropped it at the end, the staff still have to pick it up haha!”

Besides recognizing artists for their work in the past year, Baidu specially prepared a award for the fans – “Best Fanclub”. Bibi fans, who are nicknamed “China’s #1 Fanclub”, won with no objections! It shows that Bibi has wonderful interactions with her fans. As soon as the fans received the award, they donated the award worth 50,000 RMB (~7300 USD) to charity. This showed their admiration for Bibi as a role model and an idol. Bibi also gave out her cherished feather necklace to a lucky fan for a Chinese New Year gift. She expressed: “Since this award is for the fans, I would like to thank them for supporting me all this while. So I will also give out my most favorite item to my most favorite dear ones.”

Source: http://asianfanatics.net/