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Taiwan's biggest music awards, the Golden Melody Awards, were handed out on Saturday. Trout Fresh won best Mandarin male artist, while Waa Wei won best female Mandarin singer. Singer-songwriter Siri Lee won album of the year.

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00:00This is the Golden Melody Awards, the most prestigious music awards in the Mandarin-speaking world.
00:20Competing for prizes in over 20 categories, artists from Taiwan, China, Hong Kong, Malaysia,
00:26Singapore, and South Korea. One of the night's biggest winners, singer-songwriter Siri Lee,
00:32who won the coveted Album of the Year Award, with an album written in Taiwanese Daegi.
00:38Lee also won Best Taiwanese Album and Best Female Taiwanese Singer.
00:42Best Mandarin Male Singer went to Taiwanese hip-hop star Trout Fresh.
00:46My mom would say that she would be a girl who would be a girl who would be a girl.
00:50Mom, this is my most famous girl.
00:53Trout Fresh also won Best Mandarin Album for Good Sound with Attitudes,
00:58an album he said was inspired by a friend who suddenly died.
01:02Best Mandarin Female Singer went to Taiwanese singer and DJ Hua Wei,
01:06whose 2024 album Ordeal by Pearls features songs in a variety of music styles.
01:11Following the awards, Taiwan's premiere congratulated the winners on social media,
01:31writing in a statement,
01:32May all musicians stand up in the free land of Taiwan and continue to shine on the world stage.
01:38The night, celebrating performance, songwriting, and composing,
01:42honoring prominent achievements in those categories from across the region.
01:45Joseph Wu and Cadence Karanta for Taiwan Plus.

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