If you're Chinese name is Liu Ai Li

why is your English name Erika

and it's not say, Ellie?

Because Erika was the name that I was born with

It's on my birth certificate

my whole life has been Erika, and then Liu Ai Li is my stage name

which I got after I came to Taiwan.

Oh is that right?

right

so you had ano-- like

Your last name is Liu right?

Yes, my last name is Liu

My original name is Liu Wan Ting

I'm sure a lot of listeners right now are named Wan Ting

It's a really common name

What other common names are there?

Xing Yi is also a very common one right?

I also have a classmate named Xing Yi

I have an aunt and a friend called that

Okay so it's a good idea to change your name

Yeah

I mean I mean I guess

I guess

And it's also easy to write

Yeah Liu Ai is very easy to write Liu Ai Li has less strokes to write

Okay, so let's ask the other project that you're doing

Of course your focus is in music

But you recently graduated from university, right?

yes

and you majored drama

right

so you are engaged in on stage performances

yes

Do you want to share that with us?

Yeah, so I am in currently performing in a musical called "Love Ya Mom"

It is Godot Theatre's new musical

Right now we are touring Taiwan, and next weekend we're going to be in Kaohsiung

And then after Kaohsiung, we're going to take a break for a couple months

and then September we're going to come back to Taipei to perform at Sun Yat Sen Memorial Hall

Oh my, and this is all after that you perform at the Golden Melody Awards as well

Yeah

You have a pretty busy month

This month is so crazy!

In the beginning of June, we went to Taoyuan and then Hsinchu and then Tainan and then Golden Melody Awards and then Kaohsiung

This month, every single weekend I have work to do

That's remarkable that you can do that. Are you getting enough sleep?

Yes, I am

I like it, I like being busy

Oh, and there's another project that you're involved in

You're in a TV show, right?

Oh, that is-- there is a Midnight Snacks?

Diner, I think that's what it is

Midnight Diner, the original with the Japanese manga and the TV series

Right

So the Chinese version was just filmed and released

and it's playing right now online, and then I sang two songs in it

for one of the episodes, and then the two songs are "Small World" and "Let Life Be Beautiful Like Summer Flowers"

So yeah, so

You almost forgot

I'm not in the television series. I'm just by voice will be in it

Before and after I guess for the theme songs basically right?

Not the theme songs.

Oh so it's one of the tracklist

Yeah so it's only one episode. The episode is about a girl

who likes to sing and who becomes a singer

and then the songs that she sings are like-- I like sing for her

So which is you basically

Yes me, it's my voice

You're so busy, my goodness!

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