Posted: Sunday, 10 August 2008 7:25PM
NJ Band Provides Song for Chinese Basketball Team
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FORT LEE, N.J. (AP) -- A northern New Jersey rock band is getting big airplay at the Olympics.
``Hsu-nami,'' named for founder Jack Hsu, was formed at Ramapo College in 2005 and describes itself as an Asian fusion band.
A song written by Hsu, of Fort Lee, is being used at the Olympics as theme music for the Chinese men's basketball team. It plays whenever the team enters the arena as well as during time-outs and halftime.
The band performed the song at an Asian festival in New York last summer and was noticed by an NBA official who later become musical coordinator for the Olympics.
The 25-year-old Hsu is a native of Taiwan who plays a traditional two-stringed Chinese instrument called an erhu. The rest of the band is composed of two guitars, bass and drums.
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