JJ LIN

By Rong-Xiu Wu

JJ LIN is a famous singer and songwriter from Singapore who was born on March 27th 1981. He has written songs for different artists, for example, JI DE ("Remember"), for the Taiwanese pop diva A-MEI, and he has written songs for his best friend A-DO ("Let Go"), as well as "Heart of Superman" for the Comic Boyz. He is very successful in China, Singapore and, most particularly, in Taiwan where he has won the Golden Melody Award. Nowadays he is considered Singapore’s best artist and has signed up with Ocean Butterflies. He writes all the melodies for all of his albums.

In Singapore, he was selected to perform the remixed version of "Home", the theme song for the National Day Parade in 2004. JJ Lin's song "The Mummy" was used in the Media Corp TV Channel 8 drama, "Zero to Hero". He appeared as a guest star in the final show of Channel V’s ''Project Super Star''.

After winning the Gold award in the Best New Act category in 2004, JJ Lin won four more awards for the composition and performance of his music: the Best Local Male Artist, Best Composing Artist, Best Male Vocalist and Best Local Music Composition. His fourth album, "Cao Cao" (曹操) sold 1 million copies in less than a week and he has become famous in China, Taiwan, Singapore, Malaysia...

JJ Lin has released 8 studio albums, 1 compilation album and 1 World Tour DVD since his debut in 2003. He has released one album a year since then.

Albums (2003-2011):

"Music Voyager" (2003); "Second Heaven" (2004); "Nº89757" (2005); "Cao Cao" (2006); "West Side" (2007), which is my favourite album; "Sixology" (2008); "100 days" (2009); "She says" (2011).