Elva Hsiao
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Elva Hsiao ( born August 24, 1979 in Taipei, Republic of China), also known as Elva Siu or Hsiao Ya Hsuan, is a Taiwanese Mandopop singer.
- 2.1 Studio albums
- 2.2 compilations
Life
You can write and speak English, as they, Canada lived during their high school years in Vancouver. While she was in Vancouver, she took with her birth name of Hsiao Ya- chih (萧 雅 之), in a singing contest and was one of the 12 finalists, but did not get on one of the top five ranks. The song she sang was by Coco Lee, "Love Me A While Longer爱 我 久 一点".
Musical career
Elva had a recording contract with the record label " Virgin Records Taiwan," a label of EMI Group originally signed. " Virgin Records Taiwan" also gave her the stage name Elva Hsiao (萧亚轩). Their debut album, which was named after her, was released in 1999 and has been in Asia more than 1 million copies. This cemented her status in the Chinese music industry.
Your song "U Make Me Wanna", which appeared on her album Love 's Theme Song, Kiss (2002), she sang with the British boy band Blue. Elva left " Virgin Records " in summer 2004.
For a year, Elva made a break, fight during various record companies about their next contract. It ended with a battle between Warner Music Taiwan and Sony BMG, Warner Music, which won and finally on 23 March 2005 completed a contract with Elva. Her fans were also overjoyed and waited for the new album, which should appear in June 2005 according to Warner.
However, Warner Music Taiwan had some serious problems during this time: terminate managers and other employees were laid off. Many other Warner artists were affected and did not get much promotion. But with anyone it was as bad as Elva: The release of her album was postponed until September, then October, November, December, until Warner announced that the album would be delayed indefinitely. This angered the impatiently waiting fans, who complained in the Internet forums of Warner Music Taiwan. The entire site had to be put out of service for a week.
In February 2006, was given by a representative of Warner Music announced in an interview that the album would appear around the end of March / early April. Only a few weeks later told a magazine of further layoffs of employees and that the release of the album could be delayed until late April / early May.
In June 2006, she released a new single entitled "The World I Want" [我 要 的 世界].
In October 2006, the album was still not published. But Elva announced that this would finally be the case in December. At this time, Elva was in Los Angeles and worked on a choreography. In addition, they released a new promotional single named " Elva Is Back ".
Elva and Warner Music announced in November that the album would be finally released on December 22, 2006. The name of the album is. The number represents the number of days Elva had been absent from the Mandopop scene.
You decoupled from this album already six singles from.
Return to EMI
" Virgin Records " of the company EMI: After working with Warner Music to Elva decided to go back to their old record label in 2008. She described the change as a " return home " ( "going back home" ), because it was in 1999, one of the first artists who signed a record deal with " Virgin Music Chinese ".
Elvas ninth album, which they again produced with EMI should be actually published in late May, but was then postponed to early to late June. The reason for this is the delay of production and the consent of China because of the Olympics.
Film, and other media work
In Taiwan, Elva was seen in some commercials. It advertised for many different products, ranging from mobile phones to jewelry and makeup. So she campaigned for example, for major brands such as Motorola, Sprite, De Beers, Avon and Pantene.
She had roles in two movies: Infernal Affairs (2002) and The Butterfly Lovers ( 2004).
Discography
Studio albums
Compilations
- Beautiful Episode (美丽 的 插曲Mei Li De Cha Qu ) (2004 )
- Love Elva ... Remix & More (最 熟悉 的...萧亚轩) (2006 )