Toyo Tsutsuli

Toyo Tsutsuli
Background information
Birth name	Fong Juei, Yang
Born	14 July
Origin	Taiwan
Genres	Electronic, pop
Occupation(s)	singer, songwriter, video artist
Instruments	Vocals, lyrics, music, arrangement
Years active	2009–2012
Labels	T.I.A. Record
Website	www.facebook.com/toyotsutsuli.official

Toyo Tsutsuli (Chinese name, Fong Juei, Yang, born July 14 in Taipei, Taiwan) is a Taiwanese indie singer, songwriter, and video artist. Because his past musical participation was focused on the market in Japan, his first name in Chinese was used as artist name in Japanese pronunciation.^[1] Toyo was born in a Taiwanese family but he is a Dutch origin from his mother's ancestry.

History

Toyo used to be signed by an entertainment agency in 2008 in Tokyo however he didn't debut.^[2] Until 2009, He started his solo musical activities on myspace as "Toyo Tsutsuli" officially.

After 2010, Toyo was involved in English pop music spans multiple genres from electronic ("EVERY YOU") and dance music ("Want More") to emotional ballads ("Twilight"). At the same time his music projects also focus on the experiments with visual art. During 2010 and 2011, Toyo released two English albums “Surreal Party” (2010) and “NOUVEAU”(2011) which were both basically influenced by 1980s synthpop although many songs were characterized by Toyo's distinctive, soothing vocals and multi-layered synthesizer and string arrangements ("Flavor", "Dancing alone"). Combined with his androgynous style, Toyo started to get noticed by occidental people and his music were also played on some indie radios^[3] in US and Europe. In 2012, Toyo released his best album “Lost Carnival”(2006-2012) and announced for free downloading.^[4]

The visual art element can be seen in Toyo's music videos and photographs which were directed, shot and edited by Toyo himself. To date, Toyo has released three studio albums, seven music videos all of which have been released independently and produced by Toyo.

Discography

Albums

• Surreal Party (T.I.A.) - 12 October 2010
• NOUVEAU (T.I.A.) - 15 October 2011
• Lost Carnival (2006-2012)^[5] (T.I.A.) - 11 June 2012

Music videos

References

External links

• Toyo Tsutsuli Official Facebook
• Toyo Tsutsuli Official Youtube Channel
• Toyo Tsutsuli Official myspace
• Toyo Tsutsuli Official Twitter