Elva Hsiao

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Elva Hsiao (simplified Chinese: 萧亚轩; traditional Chinese: 蕭亞軒; pinyin: Xiāo Yǎxuān) or Elva Siu is a Taiwanese C-pop singer. She was born 蕭雅之 on August 24 in Taipei, Taiwan, in either 1979 or 1980 (different sources disagree). She speaks some English, due to having lived for a year or two and studied at a community college in Vancouver, Canada, and she often sprinkles the predominantly Mandarin Chinese lyrics of her songs with English.

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.

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 打っ掛ける Fresh Tomato For Sauce (Announced 2007) alongsides Rainie Yang and Cyndi Wang.

While in Vancouver, she entered New Talent Singing Awards Vancouver Audition 1998. She mananged to be 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 artists, 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 Angela Hsu 徐佳期 ( now known as Mimi or Michelle ).

Elva was originally signed to Virgin Music, a sub-label of EMI, however, the contract ended 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, Warner Music won the battle in the end. Elva signed into Warner Music on March 23rd, 2005, making her Warner's "fifth queen" (after Stefanie Sun, A-Mei, Na Ying, and Sammi Cheng). 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 big a trouble as Elva, whose album was delayed until September, then October, then November, December, until Warner announced that the album will be delayed for as long as necessary. This angered the fans, who have 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 will 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. The fans, though angered, are too tired to do anything more as all they can do now is simply wait and hope that this delay would be the last.

In June 2006, she released a new single, entitled "The World I Want" [我要的世界].

Discography

Original albums

Elva Hsiao Self-Titled Album (蕭亞軒同名專輯 Xiao Ya Xuan Tong Ming Zhuan Ji) (1999)
Red Rose (紅薔薇 Hong Qiang Wei) (2000)
Tomorrow (明天 Ming Tian) (2001)
4 U (2002)
Love's Theme Song, Kiss (愛的主打歌，吻 Ai De Zhu Da Ge, Wen) (2002)sexy
In Love With Love (愛上愛 Ai Shang Ai) (2003)
Fifth Avenue (第五大道 Di Wu Da Dao) (2003)

Collections and compilations

Beautiful Episode (美麗的插曲 Mei Li De Cha Qu) (2004)

External links

- Elva Circles Club!!