Anu Kaliting Sadipongan grew up in a port village in Fengbin Township, Hualien accompanied by tribal ballads. So besides listening to pop music while working in Taipei, tribal music has had the deepest influence on him. Finding urban life rather unappealing, she moved back to the village to kick off her musical career at the age of 30.
We love to play and hate to study; the mountains and riverside are our playgrounds. Born in the 70s, members of Generation7 were not exposed to as much as those living in Taipei, so they could only generate energy through music and songwriting in their mother tongue.
Paliulius 8664 is a band led by Ansiyang Makazuwan. Started purely from singing, instruments were added progressively to form music, which was, in turn, transformed into performance art. Conveying a message to the public through sound is 8664's aspiration toward music.
BOXING is the first indigenous Latino rap band in Taiwan. They are characterized by a fusion of musical styles including Latin, rock, and hip-hop. The band members met one another at the Ho-hai-yan Rock Festival, and consist of three pairs of brothers from the Paiwan Tribe in Pingtung, all of which are boxers, hence the name of the band BOXING.