Chairman Lee Band's Ji Dong Nominated for Golden Melody Taiwanese Male Singer, Chokes Up About Father's Mining Story

(Central News Agency, reporter Wang Xinyu, Taipei, 5th) Wu Yongji (Ji Dong), lead singer of Chairman Lee Band, has been nominated for the Golden Melody Award for Best Taiwanese Male Singer for his album "Thn̂g-khò͘ lān ê hiaⁿ-tī." While appearing on the show "Let's Chat," he choked up, saying the album is a record dedicated to his 90-year-old father, a former miner, who risked his life for money back then, and he hopes to bear witness to history.

Wu Yongji (Ji Dong) has been nominated for this year's Golden Melody Awards for Album of the Year, Best Taiwanese Album, and Best Taiwanese Male Singer for his Taiwanese-language album "Thn̂g-khò͘ lān ê hiaⁿ-tī." Additionally, Wu Xiong has been nominated for Best Lyricist.

On the show, Wu choked up as he explained that the album is a tribute to his 90-year-old father, a miner. To support a family of six, his father worked in the Ruifang mining area, essentially "risking his life for money," spending almost entire days in the mine. Due to occupational diseases and dangerous conditions, very few elderly miners live to be 90. "My father has almost no friends now," Wu said. Therefore, whenever he has time, he returns to Ruifang to chat with his father, turning the lives and culture of elderly miners into songs, hoping to preserve the stories of his father's generation through music.

When asked how Chairman Lee Band promotes Taiwanese music internationally, the band stated that the secret is their long-term commitment to integrating local elements like Zhentou culture and Bajiajiang into rock music. Their representative work, "The Gods Protect Taiwan," is an example of how they have brought local culture to the international stage.

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