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Biography
Use British English|date=September 2011Contains Chinese textInfobox Chinese-language singer and actor | name = Elva Hsiao linktext|?|?|?| image = ??? Elva Hsiao.jpg| imagesize =| caption = Elva Hsiao at CCTV-MTV Music Award ceremony in Beijing, July 2002| chinesename =| tradchinesename = linktext|?|?|?| simpchinesename = linktext|?|?|?| pinyinchinesename = Xiao Yaxuan| jyutpingchinesename =| birth_name = Xiao Yazhi (linktext|?|?|?)| ancestry =| origin = Republic of China (Taiwan)| birth_date = birth date and age|df=yes|1979|8|24| birth_place = Taipei , Taiwan| death_date =| death_place =| restingplace =| restingplacecoordinates =| othername = Elva Siu| occupation = Singer| genre = Mandopop | instrument =| voicetype =| label = Virgin Records|Virgin Records Taiwan (1999–2004) Warner Music Group|Warner Music Taiwan (2005–2007) Capitol Records#Taiwan|EMI Music Taiwan (2007–2008) Gold Typhoon|Gold Typhoon (Taiwan) (2008–present)| yearsactive = 1998–present| website = http://www.loveelva.com/ Elva Hsiao official homepage| awards = World Music Awards Best-Selling Chinese Artist 2001 Elva Hsiao , also known as Elva Siu , was born on 24 August 1979. She is a Taiwanese people|Taiwanese Mandopop singer.
Biography
She was educated at John Casablanca's College in Vancouver , British Columbia. She is fluent in both written and spoken English. While in Vancouver, she attended the New Talent Singing Awards Vancouver Audition in 1998 with her birth name of Hsiao Ya-chih (linktext|?|?|?). She became one of the 12 finalists but did not place in the top 5. She sang CoCo Lee 's "Love Me A Little Longer (Chinese: ?????)". In that competition there were 3 other Taiwanese recent singers, 183 Club member Jacky Chu ??? (who was the winner), DJ Ruby Lu ??? (1st Runner-Up) and ???? (Michelle*Vickie) member Michelle Hsu (now known as Mimi or Michelle).
Music career
Elva was originally signed to Virgin Records|Virgin Records Taiwan , a sub-label of EMI , which created the Chinese stage name (???) for her. Her self-titled début album in 1999 sold over 1 million copies in Asia and cemented her status in the Chinese music industry.cite news | title = Elva Hsiao Bio (Biography) | url = http://www.celebritygossip.com/celebrities/elva-hsiao/ | publisher= celebrity gossip | accessdate =2008-06-02
In 2001, Elva won the award for Best Selling Chinese Artist at the 2001 World Music Awards held in Monaco on 2 May. http://carolinesouth.com/wma.htm Lucky 13 For Monaco’s World Music Awards Radio Caroline. Europa Productions. 2001-05-02. Retrieved 2011-02-21
Elva Hsiao sang the song "U Make Me Wanna", which appeared on her album ''Love's Theme Song, Kiss (2002), with British boy band Blue (boy band)|Blue . Virgin Records and Elva parted ways in summer of 2004.
For a year, Elva rested as record companies fought over her next contract. It ended up becoming a battle between Warner Music Taiwan and Sony BMG , with Warner Music winning the battle in the end. Elva signed into Warner Music on 23 March 2005, making her Warner Taiwan's "fifth diva" (after Sammi Cheng , A-Mei|A-Mei Chang , Na Ying , and Stefanie Sun ).cite news | title = Elva ties knot with Warner Records | url = http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2005-03/25/content_2742639.htm |publisher=Xinhua | date =2005-03-25 | accessdate =2007-07-31 Fans were overjoyed at this, and waited for the coming of a new album, which Warner had promised would be released in June 2005.
However, Warner Music Taiwan was facing internal issues during this period, including executives resigning and a change of staff members. Many other Warner artists (including Stefanie Sun , Machi , A-Mei , and F.I.R. ) were affected and did not see much promotion on their albums. However, none faced as much trouble as Elva, whose album was delayed from September till December and eventually Warner announced that the album would be delayed indefinitely. This angered the fans, who had been waiting patiently. Their protests spammed the forums of Warner Music Taiwan, causing the entire website to be out of service for a week.
In February 2006, a Warner representative promised in an interview that the album would be released around late March/early April. It was only a few weeks later that magazine articles reported another change of staff members and the possibilities of the album being delayed into late April/early May. In June 2006, she released a new single, entitled "The World I Want" ?????.
In October 2006, the delayed album still had not been released, although Elva announced that it would be released in December. At that time she was in Los Angeles working on dance choreography. In addition, she released another new promotion single entitled "Elva Is Back", a fast catchy song featuring electro beats and raps. A dance song “Confession”(??) made the top 10. Elva and Warner Music announced in November that her newest album would be released on 22 December. The album is called 1087 , signifying the number of days Elva had been absent from the Mandopop scene.
She released the music video for her single called "Confession" in mid-2007. Her next singles were "L.o.V.E", "Not Far Away", "The Ambassador", "Honey Honey Honey", and "My Boyfriend".
Back to EMI
After the contract with Warner Music, Elva decided to switch back to EMI Virgin Records in 2008. She described the switch as "going back home" as she was among the first few artists signed by Virgin Music Chinese in 1999 when the division was first established.cite news| title = Elva returns to EMI Virgin | publisher=China. Org.Cn | year = 2008 | url = http://www.china.org.cn/culture/2008-04/23/content_14999355.htm Some critics also commented Elva was avoiding the back of Warner's original General Manager Sam Chen who has a bad name in Chinese music industry in controlling and creating fake statistics for his artists. The rumoured contract cost EMI over NT$250& nbsp;million which is over HKD 60 million or about USD 8& nbsp;million. Johanna Wang, President of EMI Music Taiwan commented that the action of signing Elva was proving they (EMI) are not going to quit the Chinese music scene. Instead, they would create a new entertainment empire spanning over film productions, artist management, concert production, publishing and both digital and traditional music industries.
Elva's first album back with EMI,????, was originally set to be released in late May 2008. But due to the delay in production and of China's approval due to the Olympic GamesCitation needed|date=June 2008, the album was pushed back and released on 13 June 2008.cite news| title = ????| publisher=9sky.com | year = 2009 | url = http://www.9sky.com/music/album/46780
Elva switched her record company to Gold Typhoon after Gold Label Record's acquisition of EMI Music Taiwan in August 2008.
Film and other media work
In Taiwan, she has done television advertisement|television commercials for a wide diversity of Product (business)|product s, ranging from mobile phones to jewellery to makeup, for major brands such as Avon Products, Inc.|Avon , De Beers , Motorola , Pantene , and Sprite (soft drink)|Sprite . She has had film roles in two movies: Infernal Affairs (2002) and The Butterfly Lovers (2004). She is no longer participating in Fresh Tomato for Sauce (Announced 2007). However, she is currently in talks to play a role in the TV series Less Than Zero , a retake on Bret Easton Ellis ' famous novel that will be set in Taipei.
By joining EMI Virgin Records , the EMI 's Gold Label Records which is seen as an inter-industrial agency is starting to find scripts and tailor-made roles for Elva as she plans to have more participation in movies under EMI , as part of changes to the strategic plans of EMI in the Asia-Pacific market. She will have a role in an upcoming TV series called ????????, which seeks to chronicle the material covered in Lung Ying-tai 's novel of the same name (which chronicles the Chinese Civil War ).
The first cross-media work is the co-partnership with Puma AG|Puma which Elva would become the spokesperson of Puma and Puma would buy media place including TVCs, print ads, billboards for the label and Elva's album. Puma would also sponsor Elva's music video "I'll Be There".
Discography
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Awards and nominations
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Best Singer Dancer
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References
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External links
http://www.loveelva.com/ LoveElva.com – Official site
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Elva Hsiao Use dmy dates|date=September 2011 Persondata | NAME =Hsiao, Elva | ALTERNATIVE NAMES = | SHORT DESCRIPTION = | DATE OF BIRTH =1979-08-24 | PLACE OF BIRTH = Taipei , Taiwan | DATE OF DEATH = | PLACE OF DEATH = DEFAULTSORT:Hsiao, Elva Category:1979 births Category:Living people Category:New Talent Singing Awards contestants Category:People from Taipei Category:Taiwanese female singers Category:Taiwanese Mandopop singers Category:World Music Awards winners
