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Taiwan father-daughter design duo's road trip to Grammy glory
Xiao, 56, had to wait much longer. Before his first win in 2023, he had been nominated six times.
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In this picture taken on March 7, 2023, Taiwanese designer Xiao Qing-yang speaks with his daughter Hsiao Chun-tien during an AFP interview after the duo won a Grammy for best recording package for their artwork and packaging for “Beginningless Beginnings“, the soundtrack of a short film on Taiwan's ancient Tamsui-Kavalan Trails, in New Taipei City. The lauded album cover is designed to resemble a glove puppet, inspired by one of the characters in the film: a puppeteer who performs at shrines for the folk deity Lord of the Land.
(AFP /Sam Yeh)
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riving down a desert road, fresh off a heartbreaking loss at the Grammy Awards in Las Vegas, Taiwanese designer Xiao Qing-yang and his daughter were already working on their next project.
"When we were travelling in Arizona, the desert was endless and there was one road. At night it is like having a dialogue with yourself," Hsiao Chun-tien, 24, told AFP.
These ideas inspired their design of the artwork and packaging for "Beginningless Beginnings", the soundtrack of a short film on Taiwan's ancient Tamsui-Kavalan Trails.
A year later, their journey came full circle, with the duo winning a Grammy for best recording package for the album design.
"I was so excited that I forgot to hug my mother and brother who sat next to me before going on the stage," beamed Hsiao, a winner on her first nomination.
Xiao, 56, had to wait much longer. Before his first win in 2023, he had been nominated six times.
"I had sat in the audience for 18 years to finally get on stage, and she won the first time, so our moods are quite different," he said, smiling.
