Rene Liu Ruoying, Taiwan singer and actress

Taiwan actress and singer Rene Liu Ruoying will give her Beijing concert at the Capital Gymnasium on November 19, following her acclaimed Shanghai debut in March.

Produced by Huahan International Culture Development Co Ltd and Liu's album contracting company Virgin Music, Liu's show will feature dozens of her hits in six parts.

Considering Liu a talented actress as much as a singer, the concert will be much more like a theatrical production with some drama involved, according to Guo Zi, director of the show.

"We will make Liu on stage as she is in life, keeping her usual air of being approachable and sincere," says Guo, who was a famous Taiwan pop song writer and turned concert director some two years ago. He also directed Liu's concert premiere in Taipei a few years ago.

The six sets include: Place Where Dreams Start; Falling in Love Upstairs; Reminiscing Downstairs; Songs of an Actress; 20, 30, 40 and One Night in Beijing.

Born in Taiwan and a student of classical music in California, Liu joined the Taiwan record company Rock Records upon graduation.

After three years as an assistant, she began to launch her own career in popular music in the mid-1990s. But before her first album was released, she was tapped by director Sylvia Chang to appear in the latter's film "Siao Yu."

Liu's performance was so accomplished that she won the Best Actress award at the Asian Pacific Film Festival in 1995, securing her place in the film industry.

Liu followed that with celebrated turns in a series of acclaimed films.

"Murmur of Youth" (Meili Zai Chang'ge, 1997) won her the Best Actress at the Tokyo International Film Festival in 1997 and "Double Vision" (Shuang Tong, 2002) won her the Best Supporting Actress at the Hong Kong Film Awards in 2003.

With a remarkably expressive face, Liu always portrays her character well. Taiwan director Chen Kuo-fu, who directed "The Personals" (Zhenghun Mingzi, 1998) calls her "definitely the best actress in Taiwan."

The 34-year-old Liu admitted that she accomplished more as an actress than as a singer. But the mild woman with a normal appearance and voice does have a large number of fans, who call her "Milk Tea" for her soft and mellow songs which contain a sense of nostalgia and sad romance.

Having 10 albums under her belt since 1991, she just released her latest "Hear Say" under the Virgin Music label in late October.

The 10 songs include folk melodies, electronics and pop. Each of the song titles is posed as a question.

Liu's answer is that "all these songs tell about the uncertainty and questions of love."

（China Daily)

approachable: easy to meet or converse or do business with（平易近人的）