Che'Nelle

Che'Nelle (Japaneseシェネル, real name: Cheryline Ernestine Lim; born March 10, 1983 in Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia ) is a Malaysian singer with chinesisch-/australischen roots. She debuted in 2007 in the music business and signed her first record deal with EMI and Capitol Records.

Since the year 2010, it is mainly active in Japan and has already recorded several Japanese -language songs.

• 3.1 albums
• 3.2 Singles
• 3.3 Digital Singles

Life

Cheryline Lim was born on 10 March 1983 in the capital of the Malaysian state of Sabah, Kota Kinabalu. She has a Chinese father and a mother, the Indian and Dutch roots, but was born in Australia. At age ten, she moved with her ​​family to Perth, which is located in Australia.

On May 1, 2013 were announced that she would marry with the choreographer G. Medison and is with him for four years together. The marriage was finally entered shortly thereafter on May 3.

Career

Her talent discovered Sir Charles Dixon, after they had uploaded their own songs on Myspace. Dixon gave the material to Virgin Records continued and the record company made ​​them, fly in late 2005, to New York to speak to the representatives of the record company. The chairman of the record company, Jason Flom, they immediately took under contract. After two days, she signed the contract and has been described as a world artist. However, it is in Australia on EMI under contract.

Your first musical steps they could prove on the tour by Kanye West, where she served as the opening act on his tour of Australia in March 2006, occurred.

Their debut album Things Happen for a Reason was published on 22 August 2007 in the USA, then on 25 September and 29 October 2007 in Japan and Australia. The first single was I Fell in Love with the DJ and was also a musician Featuring the Cham. Also on Malaysian language, the song was produced and was called DJ yang Ku Puja.

They also wrote to songs like Fierce, Carmit Bachar of, Hell No! , Ricki -Lee, and Can not Breath, Leona Lewis, with.

Her second studio album they released on February 10, 2010, under the name of Feel Good. From this, the first single from the album was the eponymous title of Feel Good, and the second was missing. Among other things, the album had featurings with Shaggy and Colby O'Donis. However, the album failed to match the success of small Things Happen for a Reason, and she turned to focus on the Japanese music market.

Success in Japan

She tried her first cover album, in 2011, titled Luv songs by popular Japanese songs translated to English, and sang, and there were also covers of American artists such as Ne -Yo or Whitney Houston. The album was a huge success because it was able to land at # 3 on the Oricon charts and she could prove more than 350,000 units sold. Mainly, the success was the song Baby I Love U, which is an English cover version of the same name song by Japanese singer tea. Later she collaborated even in a remake of the song.

Your first published in Japan, single, she released 4 April 2012 and was called story. The single has reached # 15 on the Oricon charts and the title song was a mix of Japanese and English, thus Story fell into the category J-Pop.

The third studio album called Believe and was released on 4 June 2012 and it was occupied with several J-pop songs. They also Mika Nakashima coverte with the song Stars and Miho Nakayama with the song You're My Only Shinin 'Star. In the first week of sales, the album was able to build # 3 on the charts, the following week, the album could fix at No. 2 and held for nine consecutive weeks in the top 10 on the Oricon charts. Following the success of the album Luv Songs could also build because it can detect more than 250,000 units sold. Both albums were also honored by the Recording Industry Association of Japan ( RIAJ ) with platinum. With the same title song of the album Believe, it rose for the first time a No. 1 on the RIAJ Digital Track Chart.

On 9 November 2012, it published its first digital extended play, titled Touch ( Close to You ).

Her studio album Believe won Che'Nelle, in the Western category Album of the Year (Eng. album of the year ), the Japan Gold Disc Award. The album won an award in the Western category Best 3 Albums. In the Western category Song of the Year by Download ( German digital song of the year ), she won another award for the song Believe. The song Believe also won in the category Best 5 Songs by Download, they also won in the category Artist of the Year (English Artist of the Year ) at the same award ceremony, in 2013. In general, the Western Category Artist of the Year only won by world renowned and successful artists, this and the profit of the five prizes at a ceremony, you passed another milestone.

On January 18, 2013, it released a deluxe version of their album Believe. Here there were bonus songs and story Believe, sung in Chinese. Together with David Guetta, she published, in Japan, a new addition to the hit Titanium, which was originally sung by Sia Furler. As a digital single the piece was published on February 6, 2013, various music portals. The second verse of the song is sung entirely in Japanese. The first preview of their next digital single was uploaded on April 18, 2013 on YouTube. The song is called I Will and was published on 26 April 2013. Finally, published on June 19, another digital single Burning Love (Japaneseバーニング·ラヴ) and then on August 7, the fourth Japanese studio album Aishiteru (Japaneseアイシテル). The album sold so far more than 60,000 times and rose in the first week to fifth place, the weekly Oricon charts, and went into the second week at No. 2 for December 4th 2013 announced to the first compilation with the title of Best Songs of, it consists of their most successful songs since Things Happen for a Reason to Aishiteru. It was also added in the product description that Baby I Love U has been downloaded three million times in Japan and Believe in 1.7 million.

Discography

Albums

Singles

Digital Singles