Stefanie Sun
Singaporean female singer and songwriter. Debuted in Taiwan in 2000 with a first self-titled album, won Best New Artist at the Golden Melody Awards in 2001, and Best Female Mandarin Vocalist in 2005.
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Stefanie Sun, a Singaporean female singer and songwriter, was born in Singapore on July 23, 1978, with family roots in Chaozhou, Guangdong. At university Stefanie Sun was lead singer of a campus band, and at 18 wrote a first song, "Someone", whose Mandarin version, "知道的请告诉我", was later sung by Sammi Cheng and included on Sammi Cheng's 2000 album "去愛吧". Stefanie Sun's mother enrolled Stefanie Sun at 李伟菘's music school to study singing.
In 1998 周建辉 (then about to become chairman of Warner Music Taiwan) visited 李伟菘's music school; 李伟菘 had several students sing, and after hearing them Warner said it would sign Stefanie Sun. In 2000 Stefanie Sun graduated from the marketing department of Nanyang Technological University; the same year Stefanie Sun debuted in Taiwan with the self-titled album "孫燕姿", released in June, and also released the album "我要的幸福" that year.
At the 12th Golden Melody Awards on May 5, 2001, Stefanie Sun won Best New Artist for the first self-titled album. At that ceremony Stefanie Sun received six nominations across the first two albums, and "天黑黑" and "我要的幸福" were respectively the winning works for Best Composer and Best Arranger that year.
In 2001 the album "風箏" was released. In January 2002 the fourth album, "Start自選集", was released, collecting Chinese and English songs that had influenced Stefanie Sun's path in music; the same year the album "Leave" was released, "Start世界巡迴演唱會" (2002–2004) began, and the live album of the same name also came out that year. In 2002 Stefanie Sun appeared for the first time on the CCTV Spring Festival Gala, singing "与世界联网"; in 2002 and 2003 Stefanie Sun sang the English and Mandarin versions of the Singapore National Day theme songs "We Will Get There" (一起走到) and "One United People" (全心全意). In January 2003 the sixth album, "未完成", was released, and Stefanie Sun collaborated with the Japanese singer Mai Kuraki on "My Story, Your Song" and "Tonight, I feel close to you", each included on one of their own albums.
In October 2004 Stefanie Sun returned to the scene with the eighth album, "Stefanie", and in 2005 won Best Female Mandarin Vocalist at the Golden Melody Awards for it. The same year Stefanie Sun received the Outstanding Young Alumni Award for the 50th anniversary of Nanyang Technological University, and sang "梦不落" and "遇见" at the opening of the 4th East Asian Games in Macau; in October the ninth album, "完美的一天", was released, covering pop, rock, electronic music and Lounge Music. In 2006 the National Parks Board of Singapore named an orchid after Stefanie Sun (Dendrobium Stefanie Sun), and the same year Stefanie Sun was named one of Singapore's Ten Outstanding Young Persons. In 2007 the album "逆光" was released, Stefanie Sun received that year's Singapore Outstanding Youth Award, and also sang "Rise", the theme of the 40th anniversary of ASEAN.
In 2008 Stefanie Sun took part in singing an official Olympic song promoted by the Beijing Olympic organising committee, and performed at the Olympic closing ceremony. In 2009 Stefanie Sun held "答案是世界巡迴演唱會", and in 2010 began as a spokesperson for the Singapore Tourism Board.
On January 28, 2011, 美妙音樂, the label set up by 滾石移動, announced that Stefanie Sun had joined; on March 8 of the same year 美妙音樂 worked with Stefanie Sun's own music company, Make Music, to release the 11th album, "是時候", four years apart, and with it Stefanie Sun was shortlisted the next year for Best Female Mandarin Singer at the 23rd Golden Melody Awards. The Chinese Wikipedia records that Stefanie Sun registered a marriage with Nadim van der Ros on March 31, 2011, and held the wedding in Singapore on May 8 of the same year.
On September 3, 2013, Stefanie Sun held a press conference at Capella Singapore and announced joining Universal Music; on February 27, 2014, the first album after the comeback, "克卜勒", was released. After the crash of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17, Stefanie Sun decided to postpone the tour dates in Malaysia, in mourning for those who died. On March 5, 2015, the first commercial single, "RADIO", was released, and the same year Stefanie Sun won Best Asian Singer (Singapore) at the Mnet Asian Music Awards; in 2016 the EP "彩虹金剛" was released; on November 9, 2017, the studio album "No. 13作品-跳舞的梵谷" was released, more than three years apart. In 2019 Stefanie Sun was 星推官 on "明日之子水晶时代", the first time since debuting that Stefanie Sun was a regular fixture on a variety show.
On January 1, 2020, Stefanie Sun took part in singing Mayday's "溫柔 MaydayBlue20th", and at the end of the same month collaborated with JJ Lin on the pandemic charity song "STAY WITH YOU"; the 20th-anniversary tour "就在日落以前", due to start that June, was put off because of the COVID-19 pandemic. At the end of January 2021 Stefanie Sun released "餘額", a single for which Stefanie Sun wrote all the words and music, 19 years apart. On May 27, 2022, Stefanie Sun held "你好嗎?——孫燕姿抖音線上唱聊會". In 2023, videos related to "AI Stefanie Sun" appeared on bilibili, a video and danmaku site in mainland China; the Chinese Wikipedia records that the agency Stefanie Sun belonged to replied on May 9 of the same year that, because the regulations were incomplete, it was hard to take any action. On October 14, 2024, Stefanie Sun announced a solo concert after an interval of ten years, "就在日落以後巡迴演唱會", for 2025, and the first stop announced then was April 5 and 6, 2025, at the Singapore Indoor Stadium. Stefanie Sun has also visited tsunami-hit areas in Indonesia, a boarding school in Hebei, China, the Wenchuan earthquake area, and poor areas in India, Congo and Niger.
Overview
- Born
- July 23, 1978age 48
- Born in
- Singapore
- Career start
- First album · June 9, 2000
- Active
- June 9, 2000 – present26 years
- Gender
- Female
- Aliases
- 孙燕姿, 燕姿, 十三姐
- Instruments
- Vocals, Piano / Keyboard
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