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Stefanie Sun Stefanie Sun , was born on 23 July 1978, and known to fans as "13th sister“. She is a Singaporean singer-songwriter. She has sold over 30 million copies of her albums during the span of her career thus far. She does the majority of her recording and conducts most of her publicity events in Taiwan, which comprises her largest audience.
Biography Stefanie Sun has an older sister three years her senior Sng Yee-kia, and a younger sister six years her junior named Sng Ee-mei. Sun was educated at Nanyang Primary School, St. Margaret's Secondary School, Raffles Girls' School and went on to attend Saint Andrew's Junior College. She later attended Nanyang Technological University, where she obtained a degree in Marketing. Her voice talent was discovered by her music teacher Lee Wei Song. In the Mandarin-speaking world, Sun is more popularly known by her Mandarin name, Sun Yan Zi or Sun Yanzi. Sun has sold over 10 million copies in Asia. With eleven albums to her name, she is arguably the most successful singer from Singapore, second to Kit Chan. Stefanie Sun is also known to be good friends with fellow Pop Princess of Taiwan, Jolin Tsai. They are often performing guests at each other's concerts. On 8 May 2011, Stefanie Sun married Nadim Van Der Ros, 34, a Dutch-Indonesian and senior executive at Aviva. They had met through a mutual friend and dated for five years.
Languages Most of her songs are sung in Mandarin Chinese, with a few in English. Sun's ability to speak various dialects is reflected in the songs she sings. io['uj In the song "Cloudy Day" , she sings in both Mandarin and Hokkien. It is an adaptation of a traditional Hokkien folk song that included the first six words in the original Hokkien- Thiⁿ-bo͘ho͘h, beh bo̍hō͘ - in the chorus. The album Start contains 6 songs in English: covers of "Venus", "That I Will Be Good", "Sometimes Love Just Ain't Enough", "Silent All These Years", and "Hey Jude"; and the original song "Someone".
Collaborations Sun collaborated with Japanese singer Mai Kuraki on the last track of Sun's album To Be Continued..., "My Story, Your Song". They collaborated again on Mai Kuraki's If I Believe album, released in July 2003, with the song, "Tonight, I Feel Close To You". Sun also sang with fellow Singaporean singer, Tanya Chua, the song "Original Point " in Tanya's album, "Amphibian". In the song "First Day", from the album A Perfect Day, she sings with the popular Taiwanese musicians MayDay and F.I.R., forming a one time band called First Day (same as the title of the song they sing), with FIR coming from F.I.R., ST coming from the first two letters in Sun Yan Zi's English name Stefanie and Day coming from MayDay. Sun had previously worked with MayDay on a song from their album "Time Machine". She collaborated with singers Wang Leehom, Jane Zhang, and Wang Feng to record the theme song of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games: Light the Passion, Share the Dream.
Awards and accolades Sun is regarded as one of the most accomplished local artists in her native homeland, Singapore, partly linked with her central role in two National Day theme songs. She has won over 33 awards and other accolades for her music in the course of her career in Singapore, Taiwan, mainland China and Hong Kong. Movie She has just recently taken an offer to guest star in the movie "12 Lotus". She will be acting as Guan Yin, who sings hokkien songs and reads a poem in Hokkien as well. In November 2009, Sun participated in the film Mu Lan by singing the theme song for the movie. In 2007 her song Green Light was heard several times in the movie "Two Tigers".
