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'' ` best new artist '' ' 2011 uî lé-an wei li-an taichung city , taiwan 200px wei , weibird -lrb- 韋鳥 -rrb- linfair records 2006-present '' ` best new artist '' ' 2011 william wei
 韋禮安 5 march 1987 voice , guitar mandopop william wei in hong kong 20121226.jpg republic of china -lrb- taiwan -rrb- william wei wéi lǐ ' ān
william wei

william wei -lrb- also known as wei li-an , ; born 5 march 1987 -rrb- is a chinese pop and folk-rock singer-songwriter from taiwan .
he attended the national dali senior high school and graduated from the national taiwan university -lrb- foreign language major -rrb- in 2010 .
his parents , wei chin-long -lrb- 韋金龍 -rrb- and chen yu-mei -lrb- 陳玉美 -rrb- , are both professors in the foreign languages departments of national chung hsing university and national chung cheng university respectively .
he first began publishing music on the online blogging platform streetvoice in 2006 , and received media attention as the champion of the cts variety show `` happy sunday '' -lrb- 快樂星期天 -rrb- .
in 2009 , wei released his debut ep `` màn man děng '' -lrb- 慢慢等 -rrb- .
the following year , on 4 june 2010 , he released his eponymous debut album `` william wei '' -lrb- 韋禮安首張同名全創作專輯 -rrb- for which he was nominated `` best mandarin male singer '' , `` best new artist '' , `` best mandarin album '' and `` best composer '' at the 22nd golden melody awards in 2011 , and subsequently won `` best new artist '' .
