Tanya Chua

{{short description|Singaporean singer and songwriter|bot=PearBOT 5}}

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Tanya Chua ({{Lang-zh|c=蔡健雅|p=Cài Jiànyǎ}}; born 28 January 1975) is a Singaporean singer-songwriter. She launched her singing career by releasing her debut studio album Bored in 1997.{{cite web|url=http://www.scmp.com/article/684197/qa-tanya-chua|title=Q&A: Tanya Chua|last=Yu|first=Aitong|date=2009-06-20|publisher=SCMP|location=Singapore}} She was part of the trio that sang "Moments of Magic" (1999), Singapore's official millennium song. Her albums, Amphibian (2005), Goodbye & Hello (2007), Sing It Out of Love (2011) and Depart (2021), each won her a Golden Melody Award for Best Mandarin Female Singer award.

A veteran in the industry with a career spanning more than two decades, Chua is the first and only person to win the Best Mandarin Female Singer award four times at the Golden Melody Awards, and has achieved popularity in Greater China and among the Chinese-speaking world.

Life and career

= 1975–1996: Early years and career beginnings =

Chua was born in Singapore on 28 January 1975. She attended CHIJ Saint Nicholas Girls' School,{{cite web|title=Singer Tanya Chau on her music|url=http://www.cnn.com/COMMUNITY/transcripts/2000/8/17/chau/|publisher=CNN.com|date=2000-08-17|access-date=2015-12-13}} and achieved a diploma in business administration at Singapore Polytechnic in 1996.

= 1997–2002: Universal Music =

In 1997, Chua signed a recording deal with Singaporean management company Music & Movement, and debuted her singing career by releasing an English album titled Bored.{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=R0EhAAAAIBAJ&sjid=vnsFAAAAIBAJ&pg=4266,3767652&dq=tanya-chua+universal&hl=en|title=Chua Goes Hip-hop in Cover Version .|date=16 September 2003|newspaper=New Straits Times|access-date=20 January 2010}} In 1998, she attended the electric guitar classes at Musicians Institute in Los Angeles. In 1999, Chua signed a recording deal with PolyGram, and released her first self-titled Mandarin album. In the same year, she released her second English album Luck. The song "The Wicked Signs of Trying to Be a Superstar" was written by Taiwanese singer-songwriter David Tao.

In March 2000, Chua released her second Mandarin album Remember under Universal Music Group which acquired PolyGram on the same year. The album earned her a nomination for Best New Artist at the 11th Golden Melody Awards. In the same year, she wrote the theme song of the Singaporean film Chicken Rice War, and appeared on the film herself. In 2001, Chua released her third Mandarin album I Do Believe which earned her a nomination for Best Mandarin Female Singer at the 13th Golden Melody Awards. In the same year, she performed in the Singapore National Day Parade with her self-written theme song titled "Where I Belong".{{cite web|url=http://www.mfa.gov.sg/experience/Oct2001/InSingapore.htm|title=National display of joy|publisher=Singapore Ministry of Foreign Affairs|access-date=20 January 2010|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110606084817/http://www.mfa.gov.sg/experience/Oct2001/InSingapore.htm|archive-date=6 June 2011}} In 2002, Japanese record label S2S released an English album titled Secret Lavender which contained seven songs from Chua. Her composition "Wrong Number" for Chinese singer Faye Wong earned her a Golden Melody Award nomination for Best Composition.

= 2003–2006: Warner Music =

File:Tanya Chua at Golden Melody Awards 20060610c.jpg

In 2003, Chua signed a recording deal with Warner Music Taiwan, and released her fourth Mandarin album Stranger which earned her a nomination for Best Mandarin Female Singer at the 15th Golden Melody Awards. In the same year, she released her fourth English album Jupiter. In 2004, Chua produced Hong Kong singer Gigi Leung's album Belongingness. In 2005, Chua released her fifth Mandarin album Amphibian. At the 17th Golden Melody Awards, she won her first Best Mandarin Female Singer award along with other nominations for Best Pop Vocal Album and Best Album Producer.{{cite news|url=http://www.chinapost.com.tw/i_latestdetail.asp?id=38890|title=Tanya Chua, Leehom Wang win top music awards|date=11 June 2006|access-date=20 January 2010|newspaper=The China Post|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090331231207/http://www.chinapost.com.tw/i_latestdetail.asp?id=38890|archive-date=31 March 2009}} In 2006, Chua moved to Taipei, and launched her own music production company Tangy Music.

= 2007–2015: AsiaMuse Entertainment =

In May 2007, Chua signed a recording deal with Taiwanese record label AsiaMuse Entertainment.{{cite web|url=http://www.mtvasiaawards.com/Singapore/Nominees/show/artist/32|title=MTV Asia artist profile|publisher=MTV Asia|access-date=20 January 2010|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091015132721/http://www.mtvasiaawards.com/Singapore/Nominees/show/artist/32|archive-date=15 October 2009}} The following month, she was featured as background vocals in Taiwanese singer Chang Chen-yue's song "Yearning Is a Kind of Sickness". In October of the same year, she released her sixth Mandarin album Goodbye & Hello which earned her two awards for Best Mandarin Female Singer and Best Album Producer out of seven nominations at the 19th Golden Melody Awards.{{cite news |date=6 July 2008 |title=Singaporean Tanya Chua scoops top honours at Taiwan's Golden Melody Awards |publisher=Channel NewsAsia |url=http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/358468/1/.html |access-date=20 January 2010}}

In 2008, Chua released her live album My Space which was nominated for Best Mandarin Female Singer at the 20th Golden Melody Awards.{{Cite web |title=有望金曲奖三度封后蔡健雅将成台湾乐坛第一人-搜狐音乐 |url=http://music.yule.sohu.com/20100518/n272187580.shtml |access-date=2022-07-10 |website=music.yule.sohu.com}}

In 2009, Chua released her seventh Mandarin album If You See Him. The album earned her four nominations including Best Mandarin Album, Best Mandarin Female Singer, Best Album Producer, and Best Composition at the 21st Golden Melody Awards. The album also won her a Hong Kong Top Sales Music Award for Ten Best Sales Releases Mandarin.IFPI Hong Kong [http://www.ifpihk.org/www_1/go2009e.php 2009 IFPI Hong Kong Album Sales Awards winners list] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110722054849/http://www.ifpihk.org/www_1/go2009e.php |date=22 July 2011 }} Retrieved 19 April 2011 In 2010, Chua produced Chinese singer Na Ying's album So What. In 2011, Chua released her eighth Mandarin album Sing It Out of Love. She made history of becoming the first person to win the Best Mandarin Female Singer award thrice at the 23rd Golden Melody Awards, along with seven other nominations for that album.{{Cite web |last=网易 |date=2012-05-15 |title=第23届金曲奖提名揭晓蔡健雅五月天田馥甄领跑 |url=https://www.163.com/ent/article/81J4FVMN00031H0O.html |access-date=2022-07-10 |website=www.163.com}} In the same year, she released her fifth English album Just Say So.{{cite web|url=https://tnp.straitstimes.com/m/music/music-news/tanya-chua-too-busy-mr-right|title=Tanya Chua Too Busy for Mr Right|date=2015-07-15|publisher=The New Paper|location=Singapore|access-date=2015-12-13}}

In 2013, Chua released her ninth Mandarin album Angel vs. Devil, which earned her a nomination for Best Mandarin Female Singer at the 25th Golden Melody Awards. In the same year, she became one of the judges in the Chinese singing contest Sing My Song with Liu Huan, Yang Kun, and Emil Chau. In 2015, she came back as one of the judges in the second season of the show.{{cite web|url=http://www.onscreenasia.com/article/sing-my-song-garners-33-75-million-web-hits/16586|title="Sing My Song" garners 33.75 million web hits|last=Adam|first=Ariani Bte|date=2015-02-02|publisher=Television Asia|location=Shanghai|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150324135310/http://onscreenasia.com/article/sing-my-song-garners-33-75-million-web-hits/16586|archive-date=24 March 2015}} In November of the same year, Chua released her tenth Mandarin album Aphasia which earned her six nominations at the 27th Golden Melody Awards. Subsequently, her contract with AsiaMuse Entertainment expired.

= 2018–present: Return to Universal Music =

In July 2017, Chua re-signed a recording deal with Universal Music.{{Cite web |last= |first= |date=2017-07-18 |title=金曲歌后蔡健雅再度加盟環球，「像是回到初戀情人的懷抱！」 |url=https://www.vogue.com.tw/feature/content-34804 |access-date=2022-07-10 |website=Vogue Taiwan |language=zh-Hant-TW}} The following year, Chua released her eleventh Mandarin album Kisses for the World. The lead single from the album "The Will" earned her a Best Composition nomination at the 30th Golden Melody Awards.{{Cite web|url=https://gma.tavis.tw/gm30/gma/nomination.asp|title = 第30屆金曲獎入圍暨得獎名單}} Chua also sang Nightglow,{{Cite web|url=https://www.bilibili.com/video/av38095976|title = 「Nightglow」——《崩坏3》印象曲（演唱者：蔡健雅）_哔哩哔哩_bilibili}} the official theme song for miHoYo's mobile ACG title Honkai Impact 3 second CG: Final Lesson.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bilibili.com/video/av38096452?spm_id_from=333.334.b_62696c695f646f756761.8|title = 《崩坏3》全新动画短片「最后一课」_哔哩哔哩_bilibili}}

In 2020, her concert tour "Kisses for the World" was announced. Tickets for the show sold out within 5 minutes but was postponed from May 2020 to January 2021 due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.{{Cite web |last=自由時報電子報 |date=2020-02-14 |title=Tanya攻蛋遭搶光！被叫「健雅」傻眼：很熟吼 – 自由娛樂 |url=https://ent.ltn.com.tw/news/breakingnews/3067962 |access-date=2022-07-10 |website=自由時報電子報}}{{Cite magazine |last=Lee |first=Eachen |date=2021-01-30 |title=蔡健雅《給世界最悠長的吻》演唱會歌單！TANYA攜手林俊傑美聲合唱〈拋物線〉 |url=https://www.harpersbazaar.com/tw/celebrity/celebritynews/g35374093/tanya-chua-2021-concert-songlist/ |access-date=2022-07-10 |magazine=Harper's BAZAAR |language=zh-TW}} In August of the same year, Chua started writing songs for her twelfth Mandarin album DEPART which was released in August 2021.{{Cite web |date=2022-02-03 |title=終於踏出那一步！蔡健雅無預警曝光喜訊公司驚：變積極了 {{!}} 娛樂星聞 |url=https://star.setn.com/news/1034065 |access-date=2022-07-10 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220203051814/https://star.setn.com/news/1034065 |archive-date=3 February 2022 }} At the 33rd Golden Melody Awards, Chua won four out of eight nominations, including three major awards for Best Female Mandarin Singer, Best Mandarin Album and Album of the Year for the album. The win for Best Female Mandarin Singer award made Chua the most awarded artist in the category, breaking her tie with A-mei, with four wins.{{cite web |title=Big wins for veteran Singapore singer at Taiwan music awards |url=https://www.reuters.com/lifestyle/big-wins-veteran-singapore-singer-taiwan-music-awards-2022-07-03/ |website=Reuters |access-date=3 July 2022 |language=en |date=3 July 2022}}{{cite web |last1=Ang |first1=Benson |title=Tanya Chua crowned best female singer at Taiwan's Golden Melody Awards for record 4th time {{!}} The Straits Times |url=https://www.straitstimes.com/life/entertainment/tanya-chua-crowned-best-female-singer-at-taiwans-golden-melody-awards |website=The Straits Times|access-date=3 July 2022 |language=en |date=3 July 2022}}{{cite web |last1=Yen |first1=William |title=Golden Melody: Tanya Chua wins Best Mandarin Female Singer – Focus Taiwan |url=https://focustaiwan.tw/culture/202207030001 |website=focustaiwan.tw |access-date=3 July 2022 |date=3 July 2022}}{{cite web |title=Singapore veteran star Tanya Chua crowned best female singer at Taiwan's Golden Melody Awards for record fourth time |url=https://www.thestar.com.my/aseanplus/aseanplus-news/2022/07/03/singapore-veteran-star-tanya-chua-crowned-best-female-singer-at-taiwan039s-golden-melody-awards-for-record-fourth-time |website=The Star|access-date=3 July 2022 |language=en}}

Discography

= Studio albums =

== Mandarin ==

Tanya (1999)
Remember (2000)
I Do Believe (2001)
Stranger (2003)
Amphibian (2005)
Goodbye & Hello (2007)
If You See Him (2009)
Sing It Out of Love (2011)
Angel vs. Devil (2013)
Aphasia (2015)
Kisses for the World (2018)
Depart (2021)
Imperfect Us: Original Soundtrack (2024)

== English ==

Bored (1997)
Luck (1999)
Secret Lavender (2002)
Jupiter (2003)
Just Say So (2011)

Awards and nominations

=Asia Song Festival=

class="wikitable sortable"

!Year

!Category

!Nominated work

!Result

!Ref

1998

|Best Composition

|Tanya Chua for 'Hear Me'

|{{won}}

=Golden Melody Awards=

class="wikitable sortable"

!Year

!Category

!Nominated work

!Result

!class="unsortable" | Ref.

2000

|Best New Artist

|Tanya Chua for Tanya

|{{nom}}

rowspan="2" |2000

|Best Composition

|Tanya Chua for "Wrong Number"

|{{nom}}

rowspan="2" |Best Mandarin Female Singer

|Tanya Chua for I Do Believe

|{{nom}}

2004

|Tanya Chua for Stranger

|{{nom}}

rowspan="3" |2006

|Best Mandarin Album

|Amphibian

|{{nom}}

Producer of the Year, Album

|rowspan="2" |Tanya Chua for Amphibian

|{{nom}}

Best Mandarin Female Singer

|{{won}}

rowspan="5" |2008

|Song of the Year

|"Darwin"

|{{nom}}

|rowspan="5" |{{cite web |title=2008第19屆金曲獎流行音樂作品類得獎名單|date=6 July 2008 |url=https://goris.pixnet.net/blog/post/37735770|language=zh}}

Best Mandarin Album

|Goodbye & Hello

|{{nom}}

Best Composition

|Tanya Chua for "Blank Space"

|{{nom}}

Producer of the Year, Album

|rowspan="2" |Tanya Chua for Goodbye & Hello

|{{won}}

rowspan="2" |Best Mandarin Female Singer

|{{won}}

2009

|Tanya Chua for My Space

|{{nom}}

|{{cite web |title=第20屆金曲獎周杰倫封王陳珊妮稱后|url=https://www.epochweekly.com/b5/129/6615.htm|language=zh}}

rowspan="4" |2010

|Best Mandarin Album

|If You See Him

|{{nom}}

|rowspan="4" |{{cite web |title=第21屆金曲獎流行音樂類入圍得獎名單|url=https://www.ttv.com.tw/drama10/GoldenMelody/finalist.asp|language=zh}}

Best Composition

|Tanya Chua for "Projectile"

|{{nom}}

Producer of the Year, Album

|rowspan="2" |Tanya Chua for If You See Him

|{{nom}}

Best Mandarin Female Singer

|{{nom}}

rowspan="6" |2012

|Song of the Year

|"Sing It Out of Love"

|{{nom}}

|rowspan="6" |{{cite web |title=第23屆流行音樂金曲獎 – 得獎名單及入圍作品簡介|url=https://www.ttv.com.tw/drama12/GoldenMelody_pop/finalist.asp|language=zh}}

Best Mandarin Album

|Sing It Out of Love

|{{nom}}

Best Composition

|Tanya Chua for "Sing It Out of Love"

|{{nom}}

Best Music Arrangement

|Tanya Chua, Doug Petty, Charlton Pettus, Brian Allen, Jamie Wollam for "Sing It Out of Love"

|{{nom}}

Producer of the Year, Album

|rowspan="2" |Tanya Chua for Sing It Out of Love

|{{nom}}

rowspan="2" |Best Mandarin Female Singer

|{{won}}

2014

|Tanya Chua for Angel vs. Devil

|{{nom}}

|{{cite web |title=第25屆流行音樂金曲獎入圍名單|url=https://www.ttv.com.tw/GoldenMelody25/finalist.asp|language=zh}}

rowspan="4" |2016

|Best Mandarin Album

|Aphasia

|{{nom}}

|rowspan="4" |{{cite web |title=第27屆流行音樂金曲獎入圍名單|url=https://gma.tavis.tw/gm27/gma/finalist.asp|language=zh}}

Best Composition

|Tanya Chua for "Aphasia"

|{{nom}}

Producer of the Year, Album

|An Dong and Tanya Chua for Aphasia

|{{nom}}

Best Mandarin Female Singer

|Tanya Chua for Aphasia

|{{nom}}

2019

|Best Composition

|Tanya Chua for "The Will"

|{{nom}}

|{{cite web |title=第30屆金曲獎入圍暨得獎名單|url=https://gma.tavis.tw/gm30/gma/nomination.asp|language=zh}}

rowspan="8" |2022

|Album of the Year

|Depart

|{{won}}

|rowspan="8" |{{cite web |title=第33屆金曲獎入圍名單|url=https://gma.tavis.tw/gm33/GMA/Nomination.asp|language=zh}}

Song of the Year

|"Bluebirds"

|{{nom}}

Best Mandarin Album

|Depart

|{{won}}

Best Composition

|Tanya Chua for "Bluebirds"

|{{nom}}

Producer of the Year, Album

|rowspan="2" |Tanya Chua for Depart

|{{nom}}

Best Mandarin Female Singer

|{{won}}

Best Vocal Recording Album

|Depart

|{{won}}

References

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