Tanya Chua
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Tanya Chua at the 17th Golden Melody Awards in June 2006
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| Chinese name | 蔡健雅 | ||||
| Pinyin | Cài Jiànyǎ (Mandarin) | ||||
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28 January 1975 Singapore |
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| Occupation | Singer-songwriter, composer, musician, record producer | ||||
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Universal Music (1999–2001) Warner Music (2003–2006) Asia Muse (2007–present) |
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| Years active | 1997–present | ||||
| Ancestry | Chinese | ||||
| Website | www.tangymusicgroup.com | ||||
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Tanya Chua (born 28 January 1975) is a 3-time Best Female Vocalist Golden Melody Award-winning Singaporean singer-songwriter. She released her debut album, Bored, in December 1997. Chua then moved to Taiwan in 2006 to focus on the Chinese music industry. She was a judge on Sing My Song for its first two seasons.
Chua was born in Singapore in a Chinese family as the younger of two daughters. She attended CHIJ Saint Nicholas Girls' School and graduated from Singapore Polytechnic with a Diploma in Business Administration in 1996. Chua started out singing in English, releasing her first English album, Bored, in 1997. She was also the first Singaporean to win a prize in the Asia Song Festival, coming in first in the "Unpublished" category in 1998 before she furthered her studies at the Musicians Institute in Hollywood, California.
Chua signed on to Universal Music Taiwan in 1998 and released her first Mandarin album, Breathe, in 1999. That album comprised compositions of her English songs matched to Chinese lyrics by Taiwanese lyricists. In 2001, Chua performed for her own country during the Singapore National Day Parade 2001 with the theme song titled "Where I Belong".
In 2003, Chua signed a new contract with Warner Music in Taiwan, releasing the album Stranger, which topped sales charts in Taiwan. Her second Warner album, Amphibian (2005), won her a Best Female Artist at Taiwan's Golden Melody Awards. The 2006 release of her compilation T-time marked an end to her album contract with Warner, and she is currently under record label Asia Muse. Her Goodbye and Hello (2007) album was nominated in 7 categories at the 19th Golden Melody Awards where she repeated her Best Mandarin Female Artist win and also garnered a Best Album Producer award. She followed up with three Singapore Hit Awards for Best Local Lyrics, Outstanding Local Music Achievement, and Asia Media (Female Artiste) in November 2009.
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