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Tier 3 · vertical & regional
Showlen Maya
Person · female · Taiwan · Zhudong Township · born 1978
Taiwanese singer
Also known as 秀兰玛雅
Timeline
2 events◦ Birth 1✦ Award 1
1970s
2000s
Biography
English biography92 words · 1 sectionssource: wikipedia-en · licence CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1329356966
Biography
Shen Show-len (born October 18, 1978), better known by her stage name Showlen Maya (or Xiulan Maya), is a Taiwanese singer of Han Chinese (father) and Bunun (mother) descent. While she also sings in Mandarin, Showlen Maya is primarily a Hokkien pop singer, even though she doesn't speak Hokkien.
Showlen Maya has released 20 albums to date. She has been nominated for "Best Hokkien Female Singer" (or "Best non-Mandarin Dialect Female Singer" before 2004) at the Golden Melody Awards a record 15 times, including in 11 consecutive years from 2004 to 2017.
Discography & profile
Normalised profile
Percentiles are computed over every artist in the database, so a tier-3 artist can still sit in the 95th percentile on a single axis.
| Metric | Value | Percentile |
|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia language versions | 5 | 32th |
| Spotify monthly listeners | — | no data |
| Release groups in DB | 0 | 0th |
| Studio albums | 0 | 0th |
| Awards recorded | 1 | 89th |
| Timeline events | 2 | 62.1th |
| Recording span (years) | — | no data |
| Genres | 2 | 74th |
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Discography (0 release groups)
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Stats & PK
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| Metric | Value | Percentile |
|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia language versions | 5 | 32th |
| Spotify monthly listeners | — | no data |
| Release groups in DB | 0 | 0th |
| Studio albums | 0 | 0th |
| Awards recorded | 1 | 89th |
| Timeline events | 2 | 62.1th |
| Recording span (years) | — | no data |
| Genres | 2 | 74th |
Awards & honours
| Year | Award | Category | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2004 | Golden Melody Award: Best Hokkien Female Singer | won |
Where this record comes from
portrait—Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0 · retrieved 11 October 2026
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Showlen_Maya_%28cropped%29.jpgcore—wikidata · CC0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q9321719genre—wikidata · CC0 · retrieved 11 October 2026
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q9321719seed-list—wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Showlen_Mayabiography—wikipedia-en · CC BY-SA 4.0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Showlen_Maya
Why this artist is in the database
- List of Taiwanese singers
Tier rule: curated genre/region list
Image: 吹笛牧童 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Wikidata: Q9321719 · MusicBrainz: 1720bc27-5e1e-418a-851d-e702bd334e8f
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