Tata Young
| Tata Young | |
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Tata Young in 2009
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| Background information | |
| Birth name | Amita Marie Young |
| Born |
December 14, 1980 Bangkok, Thailand |
| Genres | Dance-pop, electropop |
| Occupation(s) | Singer, dancer, actress, entrepreneur |
| Instruments | Vocals |
| Years active | 1991–present |
| Labels |
GMM Grammy (1995-2000) TERO Records (2001-2003) Sony Music (2004–present) |
| Website | http://www.tatayoung.com/ |
Amita Marie "Tata" Young (Thai: อมิตา มารี ยัง born on December 14, 1980 in Bangkok) is a Thai-American singer, model, actress and dancer.
She gained prominence when she placed first in a national singing contest at age 11, subsequently signing a record deal and releasing her first album Amita Tata Young in 1996. Within five months, the album had sold over one million copies. Since then, Young has released eight studio albums, three in English and five in Thai. Her most recent album is Ready for Love, released in 2009.
Young has acted in three films, The Red Bike Story (Jakkayan See Daeng), O-Negative and Plai Tien a TV drama Wick of the Candle. She sang "Reach for the Stars" at the Bangkok opening ceremony for the 13th Asian Games in 1998 and also sang "Dhoom Dhoom", the English version of the title song for the 2004 Bollywood movie Dhoom.
Young was born Amita Marie Young in Bangkok in 1980 to a Thai mother and an American father, Tim Young from Zanesville, Ohio. She went to Bangkok Patana School. At age 11, she won at her first national talent contest, the Nissan Awards Thailand Junior Singing Contest. By the time she was 14, she had signed her first professional contract and released her debut million selling album in 1995. This led to her winning multiple awards at the Thai Radio Vote Awards in 1996.
In 1997, the Chinese government chose her to represent Thailand at the transfer of sovereignty over Hong Kong, and that same year she had hits including Wet Wet Wet, Michael Learns to Rock, Lisa Stansfield, All 4 One and Brand New Heavies. She received the prestigious Golden Pikkanes God Award from the Musical Artist Association of Thailand, the youngest performer to do so. The Tata Young Fan Club was also formed in 1997, to gather support from her fans to provide assistance to the Thai children's charity, the Human Development Foundation.
Tata continued her success by singing a duet with Patiparn Pataweekarn in the album MOS & TATA, that was launched on January 23. This album made Tata to be the newest Teen Idol, the songs like 'Malang' (Bugs) was one of the songs in Thai music memories, even until now everyone can sing it!
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