Penny Tai
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Penny Tai is a Malaysian Chinese
Malaysian Chinese
Malaysian Chinese is a Malaysian of Chinese origin. Most are descendants of Chinese who arrived between the fifteenth and the mid-twentieth centuries. Within Malaysia, they are usually simply referred to as "Chinese" in all languages. The term Chinese Malaysian is also sometimes used to refer to...

 singer and songwriter in the Mandopop
Mandopop
Mandopop is a colloquial abbreviation for "Mandarin popular music." It is categorized as a subgenre of commercial Chinese-language music within C-pop. Mandopop was the first variety of popular music in Chinese to establish itself as a viable industry. As the name implies, Mandopop features songs...

 scene. Since her debut in 2000 she has released ten albums.

Biography

Tai started song-writing at the age of 17, participating in the Halo Song-writing Contest in Kuala Lumpur
Kuala Lumpur
Kuala Lumpur is the capital and the second largest city in Malaysia by population. The city proper, making up an area of , has a population of 1.4 million as of 2010. Greater Kuala Lumpur, also known as the Klang Valley, is an urban agglomeration of 7.2 million...

, a platform which also launched the career of fellow Malaysian singer, Fish Leong
Fish Leong
Fish Leong is the stage name of Jasmine Leong, a Malaysian Chinese singer in the Mandarin pop scene who has had much success in Taiwan, Mainland China, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Singapore and Japan...

. In 1999 she was offered a contract by EMI Music (Taiwan) and moved to Taiwan
Taiwan
Taiwan , also known, especially in the past, as Formosa , is the largest island of the same-named island group of East Asia in the western Pacific Ocean and located off the southeastern coast of mainland China. The island forms over 99% of the current territory of the Republic of China following...

 pursue a career in singing and song-writing. She released her self-titled first album, Penny, in January 2000.

In 2006 she won Best Composer at the Golden Melody Awards for the song "Crazy Love" (title track to her 2005 album).

She formed the band "Buddha Jump" with "D-power" and released their first album, "Buddha Jump", on September 23, 2011.

Her most popular song to date internationally was the end theme for the Taiwanese drama "Meteor Garden" and "Meteor Garden 2" entitled Ni Yao De Ai (The Love You Want).

Albums

  1. Penny (February 1, 2000)
  2. How's That? (怎样) (January 22, 2001)
  3. Just Sing It (April 13, 2002)
  4. No Penn, No Gain (March 24, 2003)
  5. So Penny (February 9, 2004) - selection plus new songs
  6. Crazy Love (爱疯了) (March 31, 2005)
  7. iPenny (October 6, 2006)
  8. Forgive Me For Being The Girl I Am (原谅我就是这样的女生) (May 16, 2009)
  9. Live Concert(野蔷薇)(September 16, 2010)
  10. On the Way Home (回家路上) (November 1, 2011)

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