Biography
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Born
19 July 1970 (age 54)
陳珊妮 (Sandee Chan) is a Taiwanese singer, song-writer and producer. Born in 1970 to a Taiwanese mother and a Chinese Filipino father, 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 Dog Entertainment, 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 fourteen solo studio 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: 鄭秀文 (Sammi Cheng), 謝霆鋒 (Nicholas Tse), 梁靜茹 (Fish Leong), 許茹芸 (Valen Hsu), 林曉培 (Shino Lin), 楊乃文 (Naiwen Yang), 王心凌 (Cyndi Wang), 楊丞琳 (Rainie Yang), 田馥甄 (Hebe Tien) 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 梁朝偉 (Tony Leong Chiu Wai). 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 Mandarin Female Singer, and awarded the Best Mandarin Album Producer and the Best Mandarin Album for her solo album "Then, We all Wept in Silence" in 2005 at the Golden Music Awards, creating history as the first female producer to gain the former award. 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.
Sandee has been consistently reinventing Mandarin pop music, taking it by the hand and revolutionising it with every new release.
DISCOGRAPHY:
Original Solo Albums:
Washington Chopped Down the Cherry Tree (May 1994)
Leaving on a Jet Plane (Oct 1995)
Sing till the end of the World (Oct 1996)
I'm Not the Humorous Type of Girl (March 1999)
Perfect Moan (5th Dec 2000)
Then, We All Wept in Silence (6th October 2004)
What If It Matters (Original Version, 22nd November 2008)
What If It Matters (English Version, 4th August 2009)
I Love You, John (17th June 2011)
A Low-key Life (28th June 2013)
As If Sorrow Has Been Downloaded Twice (21st September 2015)
Martial God Cardea (3rd October 2017)
Juvenile A (13th September 2019)
Discipline (20th May 2022)
Live Albums:
The Night When The Bad Guys Haven't Turned Bad (Live Album, June 1997)
2001 Live Album Limited Edition (2003)
2003 Live Album Limited Edition (2004)
An Addiction Of Beauty (Live Album, 2005)
Before the Memories Fade (Acoustic Live Session Album, 2024)
Collaboration Albums:
Material Girls (Sandee + Veronica Lee + Cola King Collaboration Album, 2004)
Material Girls 2005 (Sandee + Veronica Lee + Cola King Collaboration Album, 2005)
A Tale of Two Chens (Sandee + Kimmy Collaboration EP, 2009)
19 (Sandee + Chen Chien-chi Collaboration Album, 2011)
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