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...Francisco. After graduating from a California public high school, CoCo returned to Asia. Though she lacked formal training in Chinese-language singing (she speaks Cantonese at home), she won second place in Hong Kong's annual New Talent Singing Contest. A minor Taiwan label gave her a recording contract and, after a fast course in Mandarin (the lingua franca of the recording industry in Taiwan, China and smaller markets in Singapore and Malaysia), she recorded a song that became a hit in Taiwan's karaoke bars. Within six months she had churned out two albums. "It was so hard...
...tiny, busy, with a predilection for berets and aviator-style glasses?is the archetypal stage mother, Hong Kong-style. She is manager, contract-signer and accountant. She is clearly pleased with CoCo's success, though she says she would also be happy if her daughter was in medical school. Mom is uncompromising about manners and decorum, both personal and professional. CoCo says she wasn't allowed to talk to boys until she was 18. But her decorum has won her fans in every corner of Asia. At a concert in the Chinese city of Wuhan, 55,000 people showed...
...Barry Bonds, OF, Giants: Entering what could be his final contract year; expect big numbers in Pac Bell 2. Vladmir Guerrero, OF, Expos: Could provide the answer to the question "If a home run is hit in Montreal, does anyone hear it?" 3. Mike Piazza, C, Mets: Along with Jeff Bagwell, maybe the best bad hitter in the history of baseball...
...Wonder if he took out a rainfall contract on that...
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