Hu Te-fu, or Kimbo, is sometimes called the father of Taiwan's folk music movement, which swept college campuses in Taiwan in the 1970s and 1980s. Kimbo got his start singing at the Columbia Cafe in the Columbian embassy (back when Taiwan and Columbia still had diplomatic relations in the 1970s). From there he met Lee Shuang-tze and other musicians who had started the Sing Your Own Songs campaign, encouraging local artists to write their own music. Kimbo derived his inspiration from his childhood, from the beautiful land of Taiwan's aborigines and from the struggles of the island's native people. Today his music is a beautiful, rich combination of the Paiwan, Bunun, Amis, and Puyuma languages (of Taiwan's native people) as well as English and Chinese. While his music is often described as the blues, Kimbo likes to call it Haiyan a word which is often repeated in the songs of aborigines. For Kimbo, and many of Taiwan's aborigines, the lyric Haiyan is a direct link with the heavens. Like that of his ancestors, Kimbo's music is moving for all who hear it. His Haiyan speaks not only to the gods, but to all who hear it. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.