Chen Hsin-hung

Chen Hsin-hung, better known as Ashin, strikes me as one of the defining creative forces in Chinese-language rock. As the voice of Mayday he has shaped the emotional vocabulary of a whole generation across Asia, yet what impresses me more is his refusal to stop there. Founding the StayReal clothing line and helping build B'in Music shows an artist who thinks in worlds, not just songs. I have always respected musicians who write lyrics that genuinely lodge in your chest, and his do exactly that. To me, Ashin is less a frontman than a cultural architect quietly redrawing what a Taiwanese artist can be.

Name (English)

Chen Hsin-hung

Name (Japanese)

陳信宏

Born

December 6, 1975 (age 50)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Sagittarius / Rabbit

Origin

Taipei, Taiwan

Occupation

singer / writer / composer / songwriter

High school

Affiliated Senior High School of National Taiwan Normal University

University

Shih Chien University

• Official sitehttps://www.mayday.jp/
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/stayreal.ig/
• Xhttps://x.com/ashin945
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashin
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%98%BF%E4%BF%A1
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q704318

Tags

• singer
• writer
• composer

Last updated

2026-06-23

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.