Cindy Yen
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| Chinese name | 袁詠琳 (traditional) | ||
| Chinese name | 袁咏琳 (simplified) | ||
| Pinyin | Yuán Yǒnglín (Mandarin) | ||
| Birth name | Cindy Wu (吳欣雲) | ||
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 Republic of China (Taiwan)
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November 14, 1986 Houston, Texas, United States |
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| Occupation | Singer, Songwriter, Actress, Dancer, Producer, Composer | ||
| Genre(s) | Pop, R&B, Dance-pop | ||
| Instrument(s) | Piano, Violin, Guitar, Drums, Er-Hu, Cello | ||
| Label(s) | JVR Music, Sony BMG | ||
| Years active | 2009–present | ||
| Ancestry | Anhui | ||
| Website | www |
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Cindy Yen (simplified Chinese: 袁咏琳; traditional Chinese: 袁詠琳; pinyin: Yuán Yǒnglín), born as Cindy Wu (simplified Chinese: 吴欣云; traditional Chinese: 吳欣雲; pinyin: Wú Xīnyún on November 14, 1991 is a Taiwanese-American singer, songwriter, actress, composer and producer. She was the first artist to be signed to JR Yang and Jay Chou's company, JVR Music, in 2009, when the company was already 10 years old. In October 2009 she released her first self-titled album: Cindy Yen 袁詠琳. Her first single, "Sand Painting," a duet sung with Jay Chou and composed by Yen herself, became an instant success. Yen's music covers an array of styles ranging from R&B, soul, pop, and classical, to rock, acoustic folk, dance and hip-hop.
Cindy Yen was born and raised in Houston, Texas. to a statistics lecturer father and her mother is a certified account in USA When she was 12 her parents divorced, and since then Yen was brought up solely by her mother in USA as her father returned to his alma mater, National Cheng Kung University, as a Statistics professor. The piano become Yen's "best friend," and she once stated during an interview that "without piano, there is no me. Piano is my other half, what makes me complete. Everything I bury inside my heart I let out when I play." Yen attended Bellaire High School near Houston, TX and in 2004, went on to study and graduated from The University of Texas at Austin where she double-majored in piano performance and broadcast journalism.
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