Tanya Chua

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 is currently a judge on Sing My Song.

Life and music career

Early years

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 She was also the first Singaporean to win a prize in the Asia Song Festival, coming in first in the "Unpublished" category in 1998 before she furthered her studies at the Musicians Institute in Hollywood, California.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".

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