Taiwanese singer-songwriter, trained as a doctor, whose 1982 album 之乎者也 reshaped Mandarin pop. His songs such as 童年 and 光阴的故事 are still sung across the Chinese-speaking world.
Lo Ta-yu is known as the godfather of Chinese pop music.
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The album title 之乎者也 strings together four particles of classical Chinese, a stock phrase for stuffy, bookish talk. He is widely called the 教父, 'godfather', of Mandarin pop.
