Stefanie Sun

essential information

Early experience

On July 23, 1978, Stefanie Sun was born in Singapore. Her ancestral home is Chaozhou City, Guangdong Province, China. Her father, sun Yaohong, is a professor of Electrical Engineering Department of Nanyang Polytechnic University of Singapore, and her mother is a teacher. Her elder sister, sun Yanjia, is three years older than Yanzi. She works as vice president of Singapore's Barclays investment bank. Her younger sister, sun Yanmei, is six years younger. She has a master's degree in medicine from the National University of Singapore. As the second daughter of her family, she is named "Yanzi".

Stefanie Sun graduated from Nanyang Polytechnic University. Her father was an enlightener of Stefanie's music. She loved music when she was young. She began to learn piano at the age of five. She sang on stage for the first time at the age of ten. At the age of eighteen, she wrote her first song "someone" composed by herself.

When she was in college, her mother signed up for Li Weisong music school and began to learn to sing as the lead singer of the campus band. It happened that Zhou Jianhui, who was going to be the chairman of Warner Music at that time, visited Li Weisong music school. Li Weisong arranged several students with good performance to sing. Sun Yanzi's unique voice and solid music skills attracted Warner producers' attention and said that she wanted to sign the contract, but she didn't want to Because Stefanie Sun's father insisted that her daughter complete her studies before signing the contract, the record company decided to wait for her for two years. In 2000, she formally signed the contract with Warner records.

Acting experience

Warner Music released Stefanie Sun's first music album "Stefanie Sun's album of the same name" on June 9, 2000, from which Stefanie Sun began her music journey.

In 2000, Stefanie Sun's first album, the album of the same name, won the annual album sales champion in Taiwan, and sold more than 300000 copies in Taiwan. At the end of the same year, she released her second album, happiness I want.

In 2001, Stefanie Sun released her third album "kites", which won the third place in Taiwan's 2001 album sales. Her composition "willfulness" won the first place in Taiwan's Hito 100 singles in 2001.

In 2002, Stefanie Sun released her fourth album "start from scratch". In this album, she covers Beatles' "Hey Jude", Dolly Amos' "silent talk the years", Alanis molisette's "that I would like to go", Dutch women's band Shocking Blue's' 70s classic "Venus", and American "punk godmother" Patti Smith In May, she released her fifth album, leave. In the 2002 album sales list of Taiwan, "start optional" won the second place, and "leave" the fourth place. In this year, Yanzi first appeared on the stage of CCTV Spring Festival Gala, sang "networking with the world", and began to hold her own personal tour concert, starting her first tour of Asia from Taipei stereo stadium. In October, Yanzi appeared on the cover of "Asia Weekly", with ten pages This paper deeply analyzes the "Stefanie Sun phenomenon" in Asia, and juxtaposes it with the "Jay Chou phenomenon" in the same year. The media uses "Jay Chou for men and Stefanie Sun for women" to evaluate the Chinese pop music market in the early 21st century. For example, in 2002, the sales volume of Taiwan's albums in one year accounted for nearly 40% of their four albums. (Asia Weekly, the world's first and only international Chinese current affairs weekly)

In 2003, Stefanie Sun set up a personal music company, makemusic. In January, she released her sixth album "unfinished", which sold 2 million copies in Asia. In August, she released her seventh album "the moment", which included 6 songs and 14 selected songs, and sold 1.7 million copies in Asia.

In 2004, after a year's absence, Stefanie released her eighth album Stefanie, which sold 2.2 million copies in Asia. This year, Yanzi's personal tour came to the mainland for the first time, and began to sing in Beijing, Guangzhou, Chengdu, Changsha and other places with success.

In 2005, he won the outstanding young alumni Award for the 50th anniversary of the founding of Nanyang Polytechnic University of Singapore. He was invited to sing "never falling dream" and "meet me" for the opening ceremony of the 4th East Asian Games held in Macao, and began to sing in Hong Kong Red Mansion for the first time. The tickets for two consecutive performances sold out rapidly, and the box office was booming. He performed two more performances at the request of the audience. In May, he became more mature with his 2004 new album "Stefanie" Mei's performance won the best Mandarin Female Singer Award of the 16th Taiwan Golden Melody Awards, and became the only golden melody rookie King (12th best rookie) + Golden Melody queen (16th best female singer) in the history of Golden Melody Awards. In October, the Ninth New Mandarin album "perfect day" was released, which presented a lot of different contents. In addition to cooperating with the new producers, the album has made great progress in creation and development The music style of the album includes pop, rock, electronics and lounge music Many new attempts have been made.

In 2006, she won the top ten outstanding young artists in Singapore and became the first female artist to stand on the Taipei Grand egg. She signed EMI with Warner records when her contract expired. In the same year, he finished another round of individual tour concerts in mainland China, such as Shanghai, Nanjing, Chongqing, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore and Malaysia. At the same time, he has become a frequent guest of award ceremonies in various regions for another year. For example, in the music billboard award ceremony, he has won the best female singer four times and the most popular female singer four times in the first six sessions. In the MusicRadio China top ranking, he has won the awards for four consecutive years from the first session in 2003 to the fourth session in 2006: three most popular female singers and one best-selling female singer of the year Singer, three best records of Hong Kong and Taiwan, won the national most popular female singer award (1 gold, 3 silver and 1 bronze) for five consecutive years from 2002 to 2006 in the top ten Chinese Golden Melody Awards ceremony in Hong Kong, all of which are the most popular female singers.

In 2007, he won the Singapore Outstanding Youth Award of the year and sang the theme song "rise" for the 40th anniversary celebration of the association of Southeast Asian nations. In March, he released his tenth New Mandarin album "backlight", which won the third place in Taiwan's 2007 album sales with 135000 copies. In this year's awards ceremony, "backlight" performed well. For example, it won the regional most popular singer award for the fifth time in the MTV Asia Awards; it won the most popular female singer award for the fifth time in the global Chinese song ranking ceremony; it won the top ten Mandarin record sales awards (2001-2007) for the seventh consecutive year in IFPI Hong Kong record sales awards; and it won the top ten Mandarin record sales awards (2001-2007) in Hong Kong Hong Kong Composers and composers Association won the best female singer Performance Award for the third time in the cash Golden Sail Music Award All of these once again set the highest record for a Mandarin female singer.

In 2008, he was invited to sing four official songs of the Olympic Games recommended by BOCOG (theme song of torch relay of Beijing 2008 Olympic Games and Paralympic Games ignite passion and pass dreams), theme song of Olympic movie "one man's Olympics" stand up, Olympic theme song "another look", and 100 day countdown theme song of Beijing 2008 Olympic Games "welcome to Beijing" 》）As the only representative of overseas Chinese, she performed in the closing ceremony of the Olympic Games. Wang pingjiu, director of the cultural activities department of the Organizing Committee of the Olympic Games, met with Yanzi to thank her for her support for the Olympic Games. Yanzi took part in the CCTV gala with the countdown of 100 days and 10 days for the Beijing Olympic Games, and the cultural celebration in Sanya, the first place of the Olympic flame.

As the only invited performance guest of the second Asian Film Festival, he sang five suite songs in Mandarin, Cantonese, Korean and other languages. As a caring Ambassador of Singapore charity aid organization, he visited the Wenchuan earthquake stricken areas in China, donated S $500000 (about 2.54 million yuan) of materials through charity organizations, participated in disaster relief activities and special programs, and visited primary schools in the disaster stricken areas.

In 2009, as the fashion designer of the Carnaby brand Yanzi for the Carnaby series. He was invited to participate in the Singapore president's Royal Performing Arts Conference as the finale. Singapore president Nathan was present. It won the "witness decade · entertainment ceremony" held by ray media - "the most influential female singer in Hong Kong and Taiwan in entertainment decade". A new round of "the answer is the world tour concert" has been launched. The concert uses large-scale production and costs more than NT $100 million. The stage effect is even more amazing. Diamond shaped cutting stage, floating piano, jellyfish lamp and "surreal light and shadow carving" are used to reshape different aspects of the stage with the effect of projection. The perfect combination of virtual and real gives people a new scene It's a visual feast. After the end of the Taipei stadium, the 80000 people stadium in Shanghai, the worker's Stadium in Beijing, the Chengdu Sports Center (40000 people Stadium) and other venues that few people can successfully challenge have achieved great success, with full venues and excellent box office performance.

In 2010, he began to act as the spokesman of Singapore Tourism Board. He won the top ten most influential music awards in ten years at the grand ceremony of music billboard

Chinese PinYin : Sun Yan Zi