WAKIN FAN FOR DECADES: Mr Sridharan Madhusudhanan's wife first fell in love with a song from Wakin Chau 20 years ago. The couple went on to buy the Taiwan-based Mandopop singer's albums, but had never seen the artist in the flesh. Mr Madhusudhanan is India's top envoy to Taiwan.
Early this month, the couple finally met their idol at an event in Taipei to celebrate the works of Nobel Prize-winning poet Rabindranath Tagore, according to the Focus Taiwan portal.
Recalling the encounter, Mr Madhusudhanan posted online: "Today, at the Red Room event, while I was on stage, a tall figure came and sat in the front row. During the short intermission, my friend introduced him as her husband. We didn't even share our names and moved on."
When he was heading back to his seat, another friend asked Mr Madhusudhanan if he recognised the man he met. Only then did it dawn on him that the man is Chau, 58. He asked his wife to sit next to Chau and asked the singer to tell her his name.
The couple told Chau that they had, in particular, loved his song Peng You for decades. The song title means "friends" in Chinese.
In his Instagram post, Mr Madhusudhanan revealed that his wife was in a taxi in Beijing 20 years ago and was intrigued by a song playing on the radio.
"No clue about the song's name or singer. So she (went) to all the music shops in Beijing, and to the amusement of the shopkeepers and onlookers, started humming the tune and asked for the CD. Except for the free entertainment that we gave to tRead More – Source
