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3 unusual facts about The Wandering Songstress


The Wandering Songstress

The song has been covered by numerous singers, including Li Xianglan in the 1944 Japanese film Yasen gungakutai (野戦軍楽隊, Military Combat Music Band), Bai Guang, Teresa Teng, Tsai Chin, Wakin Chau, Adia Chan (in Cantonese), Lin Bao (林寶, in Wu dialect), Song Zuying, Zhang Yan (張燕).

"The Wandering Songstress" is often used in film soundtracks, usually in Chinese language films, but also in some Western language films, for example in the 2006 ensemble film Paris, je t'aime and its 2009 sequel, New York, I Love You.

Wu Mochou

In the final rounds, Wu experimented an improvisation of "Itch"(癢) by Huang Ling, which combined with "The Wandering Songstress"(天涯歌女) by Zhou Xuan, and that caused huge controversy.



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