More of the Difang story (I'm cutting and pasting from my friend Carl's blog where he told the story):
After winning the settlement over the Enigma song, he went on to cut three albums that went platinum in Asia. Not bad for a man in his 80s who had never recorded an album before. The first of these, Circle of Life, was done jointly with Deep Forrest, a Dutch outfit similar to Enigma. Difang hated the resulting album, saying the synth sounds destroyed the impact of his singing. His two subsequent albums (called "Amis" and "Across the Yellow Earth") were straight up Amis folk music. A big part of his success was due to successful marketing in Japan. He spoke fluent Japanese (and no Mandarin or Taiwanese) from growing up in the colonial period, and he toured Japan repeatedly up until his death in 2002.
