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Taiwanese Super Star Sings for Cancer Fundraising

The Flint Center for the Performing arts will have two cancer fundraising concerts Friday and Saturday, featuring Tsai Chin, a famous singer in Taiwan for the past three decades.

Tsai Chin is a household name in the Chinese community of the Bay Area. Almost every immigrant from Taiwan or China has seen her on TV or listened to her CDs, given her evergreen career of the past three decades.

Her distinctive, low-pitched voice carries a story-telling tone that mesmerizes people, not only Chinese but also those from other ethnic groups who have been to her cancer fundraising concerts in America. 

At a press conference Wednesday, Tsai (her surname is Tsai, as the Chinese put the family name first) said she had seen non-Chinese audience members at her past charity concerts.

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"At first, I felt a little bad. I thought they were not going to understand a thing,"  Tsai said in Chinese. "But in the end, they applauded like crazy, just like the Chinese around them. So I guess the appeal of vocal music is universal."

The famous singer just came all the way from Taiwan to sing at the Flint Center for the Performing Arts Friday and Saturday nights for the Chinese Cancer Memorial Foundation (CCMF), which was established in 1996 in memory of its founder, Paul Huang's wife, Daisy.

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The Flint Center shows are part of a concert tour that will also include Houston and New York. This is Tsai's fourth charity concert tour in America.

Tsai said she repeatedly works with the cancer foundation, because the nonprofit meets her high standards.

"I think charity concerts should go for higher quality and sell more expensive tickets than for-profit concerts," said Tsai. "It's hard for volunteers to meet professional standards, but these people (CCMF volunteers) make it happen."

Tickets are from $50-$120. For ticket information, visit Tsai Chin Charity Concerts.

For Tsai's high profile in the Chinese community, Patch collaborated with Ding Ding TV on a report about Wednesday's press conference. The video can be watched on the website of Ding Ding TV.

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