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Timi Zhuo

1981 - Today

By: Donald Tang | Date Added:

Timi Zhuo or Zhuo Yi was born 2 October 1981, she is a singer and actress from Taiwan. She has recorded over 800 songs in Mandarin and Taiwanese Hokkien, and 2 songs in Cantonese. Timi Zhuo was born in Xinzhuang District, New Taipei City. When she was about the age of 5, her parents introduced her to the world of show business in singing, music and acting. She did many television commercials and advertisements until the age of 6 when she released her first Hokkien album. She was skilled at playing piano at a very young age. She was considered as a young and beautiful girl that when she started her singing career that she was given the nickname "Small Princess." In 1990, she released a series of Hokkien classical songs (The Singing Princess), featuring her playing the piano or guitar as she was singing or dancing at the age of 9, in which she starred as both boy and girl singing mandarin opera songs in each duet; it was also her first Chinese New Year album. She came out with her first original Hokkien hit, (Where’s Mama?). In 1993, she got a role in a Chinese opera play at the Taipei Theater where she acted and sang folk and opera songs, to intense applause. She also released the popular (Remembering Teresa Teng’s Golden Hits) album in tribute to the remembrance of the famous Chinese singer, Teresa Teng. In 1995, she released (Exquisite Spring Dance) as a sequel to (In Love), (Dance Songs of the Spring Winds) the Chinese New Year album. In 1996, when she was 15, she moved to Beijing, China for the first time. At the same time, she released her first very famous, special edition MTV (Transformation1) series or (alias The Story of a Young Girl's Mood-1) together with (Youthful Happiness life in School), of school songs and (Collection of Sweet Love Songs), of oldies sung with (Ling Yi Hui). Zhuo then took a two-year break from her singing career because of stress. Because there was no announcement of the break, an unfounded rumor spread that she had either died from a car accident or died of stomach cancer. In 2002, she went back on stage again and released the two-part (Eight superstars) CNY albums, the mandarin (Bright star shining the new spring) and the Hokkien (Million superstars make good money). She also sang the first album in the series of two, (Wish You Luck/Blessing). In 2014, she released an album called (My Dear) featuring one Taiwanese Hokkien song among other Mandarin songs. She is now living in Taipei and performs mainly in China.

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