
First up from the local of course is the in-comparable Reshmanu, who have the best knock out style is Malaysia. He is one of the first to produce some great english album when there's no one dare to venture into the area.
Next up of course is the ancester of all ancester of Malaysian English Genre, Jason Lo. the person who, in my opinion, started the whole movement of Malaysian music to sing in your own mother tongue only to expand to the international stage.


And for the ultimate Rap group in Malaysia. there's no doubt that Too Phat is the one to listen too and rank highest in my list. They bring in the Malaysian flavor in the sound and not missing out on any ghetto style.
The soul queen of all soul queen of Malaysia is the soul Goddess herself Sheila Majid. Who have the sound fit for the ear of kings and there's no one will top the songs that praise the one and only Legend, P. Ramlee.

after introducing a few of the great singer, song written, musician of Malaysia I think it's best t venture out of Malaysia see some more Asian Sound out there.

on the Chinese Music scene there's no doubt that Michael Wong own part of the sky. our own Malaysian are the pioneer of Malaysian Chinese venture into the Taiwanese Music scene and thus opening the whole gateway for Malaysian Artist to the world of modern Chinese music scene.

Besides him there's also the totally original, and often Innovative sound of Lee-Hom Wang, all of my friends at the state side you should be proud of yourself. for this American Born Chinese (ABC) is fully educated in your country's educational system. It's a proves that if you work hard enough you can achieve anything in the country of freedom and dreams. He is now one of the best selling artist in the whole Asia and one of the most creative one.
Let's now move into the whole center of Asian trend setting country, Japan. From Japan, there's alway new sound in every aspect of any music genre and some more. Their sound is always so different from the rest of the world for they still maintain the one Japanese Spirit in their creativeness.

For the R&B genre you have Chemistry. one of the best Group out there with one of the most diversified collection of collection that I totally believe no American or European could produce even with their domination of the genre now. This group's recording are pure perfect artistry at it's best.

I'm a big fan of J-Pop but they are not exactly the best music out there. they are contageous but also fade from the whole interest really fast. on that front of course there's the ultimate group like Smap, Godfather, Tokio, Flame, Lead, Kattun, NEWS. but one group I wish to mention is W-inds. This group which consist of 3 kids who now become teenager are one of the best group now to represent the whole J-Pop Scene. Hard working, with the correct set of skill and the right attitude to totally survive cruel world of Japanese Entertainment business. Trust me Japanese Music Scene are one of the hardest industry to survive fo you have to break the ranks to get to the top and the entertainment there respect their senior more than anything in the world. so these Kids they are entertainer trained to be the best. and to be in the business for that long at a yougn age. believe me when i say they are gonna stay there for much much longer.
Of course when you talk about Asian, there's no doubt on entertainment center in the world is Hong Kong and China and Taiwan. the growing line up of great artist from China is rising by the thousand every year. Xun Nan is one of the best sound out there. It's an understatement to say that Hong Kong is the entertainment center of Asia. for they have been there and producing great artist and entertainer like Jacky Chan, Jet Li since before I was born.
And Taiwan now is owns almost half of the chinese Air waves around the world.
There's very few mentioning of the east Asian side of the Artistic expression. because of some misunderstanding that east Asian country ban Art is totally untrue. for they are the origin of so many thousand years history of Christian and Islamic art. and Turkey being so close to the European they are totally free in expressing their music. and there are plenty of great Arabic singer out there. Since I'm into the whole new artist and sound, here's one of them who came out of a Arabic X-factor Idol Contest, a show that originally produce by none-other than Britain Simon Cowell and adapted by the Arabian. His name is Mohammad Al Majthoub. you can check him out in You Tube. this guy is totally David Archuleta of Arabic country. His sound is great fresh. and if you take into account of him singin in one of the hardest language to sing in. (Arabic are used in most muslim's prayers and to be a singer with the language that's represent the most hyme language in the world and adapt it into a pop sound is totally mind boggling. trust me you'll get totally tongue tied to sing Arabic in pop. HAHA) and Muhammad did it in style.
(Note: ** We are living in the same world under the same sky. I respect anyone who is indirectly or directly effected by 911 and the war. but Music is universal and doesn't limit to any boundaries, language, skin color or races. for it represents us all but does not discriminate. My beleive that world peace can only be achieve with forgiveness and realization that we are all human and we are connected in this vast plain of land and sea. when you hurt, we on the other world hurt with you, when you happy we are together happy. let's spread Goodness and let go of the sorrow and rages. Peace and Best hopes for those living in rage and sadness will fine comfort and closure soon.)
One more big cultural melting pot of music is coming from Bollywood. You cannot denied the movie of bollywood have some of the most elaborate music and storyline. even before Lord of the Rings and Titanic, Bollywood's film is already in 3 hours long region. and before you can see MTV on your cable. there's at least 10 dances feature in almost every Bollywood movie then. which makes them the ultimate Ancester of all Music Video. HAHA.
If you have not watch any Bollywood movie before, trust me and have a look. there's you;d find some of the most handsome guys and beautiful woman on earth and they have defines bootilious long before that word appears in the dictionary. I'd award the best dancer singer award to any Bollywood star.
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