Older Amis singer records album of traditional songsBy Hua Mang-Ching and Dennis Xie / Staff reporter, with staff writerAn 81-year-old Amis woman has recorded an album of traditional Amis songs in an effort to preserve Amis music. The album, titled Radiw Sanay, meaning “just sing” in Amis, features 18 traditional songs sung by Chien Yen-chun (簡燕春), also known as Osay Hongay, who said that she learned the songs when she was 17 from an elder and is now passing them down to the younger generation. Eighty-one-year-old Amis woman Chien Yen-chun, foreground, sings traditional songs in Hualien County on Saturday last week. Contributors include several young people from the community who conducted field surveys, recorded sounds and organized workshops on traditional Amis songs, she said. Ho Chia-jung (何嘉榮), also known as Kaniw, a 23-year-old who last year moved back to Hualien after graduating from university, learned how to sing traditional songs from Chien in a workshop and contributed to the album.

Source: Taipei Times April 02, 2020 15:56 UTC