Gloria Tang (Gem)

Born Gloria Tang Sze-wing, the Hong Kong-raised pop icon better known as GEM—an acronym for “get everybody moving”—is often referred to as China’s Taylor Swift. Both she and the US pop star are known for writing their own songs, often confessional compositions on the subject of romance; and both have held among the most successful tours in history. Like Swift, Tang has also released a re-recorded album of songs following her departure from her former label.

Born into a family of musicians, she started writing songs at the age of five and won her first recording contract while she was still at school. She broke through in the late 2000s with a series of hit albums in both Cantonese and Mandarin, and was pushed even further into the musical stratosphere by her 2014 appearance on reality show I Am a Singer.

Her I Am Gloria World Tour began in December 2023, taking the singer across major stadiums in mainland China, Hong Kong and Southeast Asia before expanding into arenas across Europe and North America. Generating hundreds of millions in ticket revenue and drawing millions of attendees, it became one of the highest-grossing concert tours in music history by a female artist.

Tang cemented her status as a global Mandopop star with the I Am Gloria World Tour, which concluded with historic multi-stadium runs in late 2026. Setting the record for the most stadium performances by a female artist on a single tour, she capped its conclusion with the debut of her single, Free You.