From the day she won a national singing competition at 8, to the day she released her last album at 40, Sarah Chen 陈淑桦 traveled a long, winding path, accompanied by her most faithful assistant and manager, her mother. Chen' s extraordinary achievements, including winning Taiwan's Best Female Singer Award three-times, were interspersed with frustrations of a slow start and personal challenges and health scares. Sarah Chen was very talented, but it was her grit that made her the diva of divas.
Her career path reminds us of Mencius's saying: "When Heaven is about to place a great responsibility on someone, it always first tests their resolution, exhausts their muscles and bones, exposes their body to hunger, subjects them to extreme poverty..." Sarah Chen overcame many obstacles in her career through sheer determination, giving her music an unmatched level of depth and maturity. (Full Article)