Cora Tao
| Cora Tao | |
|---|---|
| Native name | 陶曉清 |
| Born | January 27, 1946 Republic of China |
| 🏳️ Nationality | Republic of China |
| 💼 Occupation | |
| 📆 Years active | 1965 |
| Opponent(s) | Radio host |
| 👩 Spouse(s) | Kua Kuang Ma |
| 👶 Children | Shih Fang Ma |
| 🏅 Awards | Golden Melody AwardSpecial Contribution Award 2000 Golden Bell AwardSpecial Contribution Award 2017 |
Cora Tao (Mandarin: 陶曉清, January 27, 1946 - ) is a Taiwanese broadcaster, wife of writer Kua Kuang Ma (Mandarin: 馬國光) and mother of musician Shih Fang Ma (Mandarin: 馬世芳). She is known as “the mother of Taiwan's Campus folk songs”, having led the Taiwanese folk song movement in the 1970s.[1]
Background
Cora Tao was born in Suzhou Province, China, and her family immigrated to Taiwan in 1936. Both parents were music lovers: her mother played the organ, her father played the huqin, her grandmother enjoyed Shaoxing opera, and her grandfather sang Kunqu.[2] Cora Tao's family entertainment was to gather in the living room on Sundays to listen to Cui Xiaoping's radio dramas on the tube radio.[1]
Cora Tao was a good speaker from a young age and enrolled in the Department of Radio and Television of Shih Hsin University. Later, she joined the Broadcasting Corporation of China (CBC) as an intern, and at the age of 19, she became the youngest host of the station.[1]
Pushers of the Taiwan's Campus folk songs
Cora Tao joined Broadcasting Corporation of China in 1965, and hosted her first program "Hot Music" at the age of 19, where she introduced Western pop music of the time. At the time, Taiwan was under martial law and the Cultural Revolution had not yet ended, Cora Tao's program introduced new Western pop songs, which were favored by the youth of the time and became a popular trend.[1]
In 1975, Hsien Yang (Mandarin: 楊弦) organized a "Modern Folk Song Composition Concert" at the Zhongshan Hall, and Cora Tao attempted to broadcast three real-life songs on "Hot Music". Originally, she was worried that playing Mandarin songs during the Western song time slot would be complained by the audience, but she unexpectedly received letters from the audience submitting their own lyrics, and therefore Tao created a "Chinese and Western Folk Songs" segment to introduce the ballads composed by the young students. These experimental songs were well received by the audience. These experimental songs were well received by the audience.[2]
In 1976, Li Shuangze's call for "singing one's own songs" became a trend, and songwriting sprang up. As a radio broadcaster, Cora Tao joined forces with the broadcasting industry and the arts and culture sector to organize the "Chinese Modern Folk Songs" concerts, which included Ara Kimbo (Mandarin: 胡德夫), Hsien Yang, Yang Zujun (Mandarin: 楊祖珺), Wu Chu Chu (Mandarin: 吳楚楚), and other folk song artists, as well as the "First Chinese Modern Folk Songs Night" concerts and the publication of the album "Our Songs". Cora Tao's participation in the folk song movement became one of the directions of Taiwan's popular music scene after the mid-1970s.
In 1979, when China and the United States broke off diplomatic relations, Taiwan's international status was slowly diminishing, and young people were still immersed in Western music culture, with "Old Shanghai"-style songs and Japanese and Western translations still dominating the scene at the time. In this atmosphere, the idea of creating songs that belonged to the "Chinese" began to germinate. Later on, Synco Cultural Corporation (Mandarin: 新格唱片) started to organize the Golden Melody Awards and Hai Shan Records (Mandarin: 海山唱片) organized the Folk Music Competition to encourage students to write songs, and to help young songwriters to publish their albums and arrange school tours.
In 1988, Cora Tao started hosting a program on the CBC Youth Network, which was launched on August 15 of that year. It was the first program in Taiwan to focus on youth development. Many of the hosts trained at that time have become important hosts in the current broadcasting industry.[1][3]
In 1992, Cora Tao retired from the Broadcasting Corporation of China, ending her broadcasting career, and went to Canada to take a course in psychological development, becoming a certified psychological counselor.[4]
In 1993, she founded the Chinese Musicians Exchange Association and served as its first and second chairpersons. In 2000, she was awarded the Golden Melody Award.[3][5]
In 2000, she was awarded the Special Contribution Award at the Golden Melody Awards.[6] In 2017, she received the Special Contribution Award at the Golden Bell Awards for Broadcasting.[7]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 謝淑靖 (2015-08-27). "民歌青春如昔！專訪陶曉清：音樂讓愛永遠純真美好｜女人迷 Womany". womany.net (in 中文). Retrieved 2023-10-04.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "生命就該學會流淚，捨得放鬆！民歌之母陶曉清，人生歌未央". Yahoo News (in 中文). 2016-06-22. Retrieved 2023-10-04.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 信義學堂. "學堂講師群". 信義學堂 (in 中文). Retrieved 2023-10-04.
- ↑ "金鐘獎得主、心理諮商師│陶曉清：我開始接納自己也能調皮、撒賴".
- ↑ "中華音樂人交流協會". musicmandomisodo.blogspot.com (in 中文). Retrieved 2023-10-04.
- ↑ 中華民國文化部. "第11屆金曲特別貢獻獎陶曉清實至名歸-文化部國家文化記憶庫". memory.culture.tw (in 中文). Retrieved 2023-10-04.
- ↑ 中華民國文化部. "陶曉清獲第52屆廣播金鐘特別貢獻獎-文化部國家文化記憶庫". memory.culture.tw (in 中文). Retrieved 2023-10-04.
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