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Taiwanese rocker Chang Chen-yue (張震嶽) is getting ready for his first US tour in October. He will be singing in more than 10 cities in the US, becoming the first Chinese-language rock singer to tour around the US. The tour was partly organized by House of Blues, the rock house in Hollywood, in which Chang gave a well-received show last year.

"I want Westerners to know that there is not only William Kong (who won recent fame for his comic singing and performance) in Asia. We have also critical and humorous music," Chang said last week, according to Apple Daily. Chang added that the concert will be in Mandarin only. He will not be singing songs in English. "I don't think Americans will come to my concert to hear my English. Aren't there enough English songs in the US?" -- Compiled by Yu Sen-lun