ELVA HSIAO

Elva Hsiao Biography

Chinese name 蕭亞軒 (Traditional)
Chinese name 萧亚轩 (Simplified)
Pinyin xiāo yǎxuān (Mandarin)
Jyutping siu1 aa3 hin1 (Cantonese)
Birth name Xiāo Yǎzhī (蕭雅之)
Born August 24, 1979 (1979-08-24) (age 28)
Taipei, Republic of China (Taiwan)
Other name(s) Elva Siu
Occupation Singer, actress
Genre(s) Mandopop
Instrument(s) Singing
Label(s) Virgin Records (1999–2004)
Warner Music (2005–present)
Years active 1998–present
Official site www.lovelva.com

She speaks and writes some English, due to having lived for a year or two during her highschool years in Vancouver, Canada. While in Vancouver, she entered the New Talent Singing Awards Vancouver Audition 1998 with her birth name of Hsiao Ya-chih (蕭雅之).


She became one of the 12 finalists but did not place in the top 5. The song she sang was CoCo Lee's "Love Me A While Longer 愛我久一點". Also in the competition that year were 3 other Taiwanese celebrities, 183 Club member Jacky Chu 祝釩剛 (who was the winner), DJ Ruby Lu 盧春如 (1st Runner-Up) and 蜜雪薇琪 (Michelle*Vickie) member Michelle Hsu (now known as Mimi or Michelle).


Music career
Elva was originally signed to Virgin Records Taiwan, a sub-label of EMI, which created the stage name of 蕭亞軒 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.

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.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 March 23rd, 2005, making her Warner Taiwan's "fifth diva" (after Sammi Cheng, A-Mei Chang, Na Ying, and Stefanie Sun).[1] 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 faced some serious issues during this time, 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. However, none faced as much trouble as Elva, whose album was delayed until September, then October, then November, December, until 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, however, 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" [我要的世界].

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.

Elva and Warner Music announced in November that her newest album would be released on 22 December. The album is entitled [1087], signifying the number of days Elva had been absent from the Mandopop scene.

She recently released the music video for her single called "Confession". Her second single is called "L.o.V.E". Her third single is called "Not Far Away".Her fourth single is called "The Ambassador. Her fifth single is called "Honey Honey Honey". Her Sixth single is called "My Boyfriend".

Film and other media work
In Taiwan, she has done television commercials for a wide diversity of products, ranging from cellular phones to jewelry to makeup, for major brands such as Avon, De Beers, Motorola, Pantene, and Sprite.

She has had film roles in two movies: Infernal Affairs (2002) and The Butterfly Lovers (2004). She is rumored to be participating in Fresh Tomato For Sauce (Announced 2007) alongsides Rainie Yang and Cyndi Wang.

from: wikipedia.org