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musician

Film & TV

Taipei, Taiwan

Alex Zhang Hungtai (born September 4, 1980) is a Taiwanese-born Canadian musician and actor. In addition to his given name, he makes music under the names Last Lizard and Dirty Beaches.

Known for

  • Dream Team — Chase National2024
  • Even in the Wind2024
  • Souvenirs2022
  • I Was a Simple Man — Jimmie2021
  • August at Akiko's — Self2018
  • A — Konrad2017

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Country
CA
Active from
1980-09-04

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
251,869
Total plays
4,258,573

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Alex Zhang Hungtai, a Taiwanese-born Canadian lo-fi musician based in Lisbon, Portugal created the project Dirty Beaches in 2005. Like Bo Diddley or minimalist synth provocateurs Suicide, Dirty Beaches’ compositions were not so much stripped down as refined to their essence. Drum loops, Hungtai’s croon, and the yearning melodies draped overtop belie as much a sense of haunting mystery as they do romanticism and wry humour. In November, 2014 Alex Zhang Hungtai announced the end of Dirty Beach

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
human
Given name
Alex
Gender
male
Citizenship
Canada
Place of birth
Taipei
Occupation
guitarist
Instrument
guitar
Image
Alex Zhang Hungtai (Dirty Beach).jpg
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social media followers
10291
Commons category
Dirty Beaches
date of birth
1980-09-04
birth name
Alex Zhang Hungtai
pseudonym
Dirty Beaches
start of work period
2005-00-00
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