About 陳珊妮

One of the most successful and credited female performers of the past fifteen years in Taiwan, Sandee Chan (陳珊妮) is also recognized as one of the most talented producers and song writers throughout Asia. Sandee studied piano as a girl, and learned to play an electric piano in high school. As a university freshman, she founded the first Rock and Roll Music Club in Cheng Chi University, while continuing to play music through keyboards, guitars and other music instruments. It was also during this time that she started to write songs of her own. Discovered by the independent record label Friendly Dogs during her first performance on stage in Young Star, the annual battle of the bands for university students country-wide, Sandee's music career began in no time. In 1992, Sandee started to write songs for famous Taiwanese singers Jeff Chang and Pin-yuan Huang. Her first single A Long Way Down was published in a compilation of the Friendly Dogs records in 1994, and in the same year, Sandee released her debut album Washington Chopped Down the Cherry Tree. Hundreds of songs have been beautifully created by her hands for artists across Taiwan, Hong Kong and China since then. Sandee is very keen on live performances, in the form of either acoustic or full-band, but she maintains the essence of a comedian or talk-show host behind her punk-rock appearance and her princess charm. Other than her regular solo concerts, she also appeared on the same stage with Cat Power in 2003. Sandee has so far released ten solo albums and two albums under the name of Material Girls (a singing group with Sandee as the lead vocalist and producer, Hong Kong music engineer Veegay as the vocal and producer, and illustrator Cola King as lyrics writer and image designer). She has also independently coordinated and produced three non-profit compilations as part of the IS Project (Indie Soundcheck Project) for the new generation of songwriters and performers all over the world. Sandee Chan has also been a well-respected and trustworthy album producer for the past decade. With her straight-forward personality and sharp musical instinct, she produced uncountable numbers of songs for mainstream singers that enjoy great popularity, including: Sammi Cheng, Nicholas Tse, Jasmine Leong, Valen Hsu, Faith Yang, Ken Chu (from F4) and more. Chan's unique way of songwriting and production has been considered as one of the most challenging but encouraging tasks for many Asian male and female singers. As a successful singer-songwriter, Sandee had also set foot in different artistic categories, such as movie and stage play music, in virtue of her talents in creating the absolute atmosphere for the theatrical productions. One of her distinguished works is the composition and production of the self-titled song for the movie "In the Mood For Love," directed by Wong Kar-Wai and sang by Tony Leong (a.k.a. Chiu Wai Leong). What is more, she served as the theatrical musician for a number of stage plays produced by the independent stage play troupe Ping-fong, in response to an invitation from the troupe founder-director-producer Li Kuo-hsiu (a.k.a. Hugh Li). Sandee was nominated the Best Female Singer, and awarded the Best Mandarin Album Producer and the Best Mandarin Album for her solo album "Then, We all Wept in Tears" in 2005 at the Golden Music Awards. She was also credited by the Radio Guangdong Music Pioneer Awards in the same year as the Best Female Singer for the same album. In 2006, the second album of Material Girls received the Best Singing Group of the Golden Music Award, as well as the Best Singing Group of the Year and the Best Album Design from the Radio Guangdong Music Pioneer Award. In addition to her talents in music creation, Sandee is also considered a best-selling book writer and a painter with her painting album Gloomy Sunday Rosy published in year 2006. She released a solo album (Just For You) in November 2007, and held celebrated and legendary live performances in the form of concert tours around Taiwan, Hong Kong and China. Her latest album (如果有一件事是重要的) was released in late November 2008. In it, she combines elements of modern and classical music, referring to Frederic Chopin's Étude Op.10 No.3 for her new number "Farewell Song" (離別曲). Another highlight of Sandee's new ten-track album is "Apple Blossom"(蘋果花), a remake of the Misora Hibari hit Ringo Oiwake.