LÜ Quan-Sheng was born in Shenggang, Taichung in 1916. He took a trip to Tokyo in the third grade, and it was during a concert there that he was inspired to become a musician. After that he studied abroad in Japan. After returning to Taiwan in 1943, he started collecting Minnan (Hoklo) folk songs to arrange and also started composing many of his own compositions, such as “You Can’t Feed a Goldfish at the Bottom of Your Wine Glass,” “Song for Shaking Baby Cherries,” “If You Open the Window to Your Heart.” Lü is considered to be the “Taiwanese father of choral music.” He popularized the Rong-Shing Chorus outside of China. Lü also established the music department and made many contributions at Shih Chien University. He died in the US in 2008 after having a heart attack.
