Norwegian singer-songwriter and alt-pop sensation AURORA drew a full house of over 2,000 fans to her first concert in Taiwan at Zepp New Taipei (on February 21, 2023), joined by a surprise guest star: Golden Melody award-winning artist Qing-Feng Wu. With the stage set to recreate the moonlit landscape from “Storm”’s cover artwork, the two performed a touching duet of their lauded east-meets-west collaboration, for their debut live performance together.
Connected through Universal Music, the two labelmates began co-creating their track in 2021. After almost a year of making music at a distance and collaborating online, experimenting with their own ideas and thoughts, the pair developed a strong friendship bond and eventually met up face-to-face in Norway to complete the song’s final recording in person.
Visiting Taipei for the first time, label mate Qing-Feng Wu was proud to be AURORA’s local tour guide for her three-day stay. Her enhanced city adventures included a unique Chinese calligraphy experience — where, guided by a professional calligrapher, the two wrote each other’s name in Chinese on a paper fan as a souvenir to mark their precious friendship. Fascinated by Qing-Feng’s calligraphy, which he says he’s not practised for 20 years, AURORA asked him to autograph directly onto her white jacket. She was so impressed with the finished work that she promised to hang the masterpiece on her wall back home in Norway. Qing-Feng also made sure that AURORA’s ultimate Taiwanese experience included a foot massage and local beer.
The beautiful friendship between AURORA and Qing-Feng, one of Greater China’s most accomplished Mandopop singer-songwriters (and best known as indie-band Sodagreen’s frontman), as evidenced by their on-stage banter and antics. When Qing-Feng explained to AURORA that the English lyric “come again” in the chorus sounds like a “bucket of chicken” in Taiwanese, AURORA immediately responded with a humorous chicken-clucking imitation, closing the show with the entire audience laughing and screaming.
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