陳珊妮

taiwan

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 t...