Joi Chua


Joi Chua is a Singaporean female pop singer. Her most famous songs are "Waiting for a Sunny Day", "Watching the Sunrise With Me", the Chinese version of "Nada Soso" and "Wind Chimes". She is also well known in Mainland China and Taiwan.

Early life

Chua was educated at Raffles Girls' Primary School, Clementi Town Secondary School, and Singapore Polytechnic majoring in optometry. Her original major was business administration, but her shifted her major into optometry 3 months later. She was influenced by her elder brother to pick up singing from a young age. She joined and led the choir in her Secondary school and later joined budding singers in The Ark, a café with live performances, which molded the most important part of Chua's singing career. Her mother died when she was 19. Both her mother and one of her aunts died from breast cancer.
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Entertainment Career (1996 – Present)

Chua debuted as a commercial singer in 1996 in "Extraordinary Singers Course" organized by Ocean Butterflies Production Company, where she was chosen from over 2000 candidates at its premiere audition to join the label as a trainee singer. Her first album under the same name, was however only launched in 2000 as she decided to complete her education before embarking on her singing career. Unfortunately, the album did not receive its desired response, and Chua returned to the hospital to work as an optometrist between 2001 and 2003 after her short stint.
Chua released her second album Sunrise with Play Music in 2003. This album helped her pick up the merit award under the cultural achievement category for The Outstanding Young Person Award for 2006. Play Music was later acquired by Warner Music and Chua came under the wings of the global music label till 2010 before switching to her own management.
Chua was later commissioned by MediaCorp to sing many Channel 8 NKF Drama Series theme songs and the sub-theme songs like There is Hope for Life, and she also performed at the Singapore National Day Parade in 2005 and 2008. She also led the music Craze Concert in 2005, 2006 and was the anchor performer for Chingay Parade 2012. Chua started her own music label "Joi Music" and produced her latest EP, Perspectives in 2012.
In China, Chua sang at the CCTV big annual show Mid-Autumn Festival Gala Evening in 2007 2008 and 2014. She acted in Royston Tan's new film "3688" in June 2015.

Business Ventures

Trained as an optometrist, in 2011 Chua started her own optical practice "Eyecare People" in Holland Village, Singapore.

Social Causes

Chua was appointed the ambassador for the Singapore Speak Mandarin Campaign 2005 which involved her in concerts over 12 different primary and secondary schools to promote the campaign. She sang the Chinese theme song of Uniquely You with the Singapore Tourism Board in promoting Singapore as a choice destination to both locals and foreigners. Chua also contributes as an ambassador for World Visions and Mercy Relief.

Personal life

Chua is married in December 2009 to her beau of 10 years.

Awards

Chua was later nominated Best Female Vocalist in the industry's most prestigious "Taiwan's Golden Melody Awards" in 2008 for her album, Joi Blessed. She went on to win "Best Asia-Pacific Vocalist" in the "Original Chinese Music Awards" held in China in 2010 with her album Back to Basics. Her co-written work Darkness from this EP, with prolific composer-producer Jim Lim won her, her first "Best Melody Composition" award in Singapore e-Award in 2012.

Star Awards

Discography

Other cover songs include:
TimeChinese TitleEnglish TitleLabelNotes
2000《蔡淳佳 Joi》Joi TsaiSony Taiwan
Sep 2004《日出》Sunrise
Aug 2005《有一天我会》One Day I willUST
Dec 2005《对不起，我爱你》Love is... or Sorry, I love youFeaturing Eric Chen.
Sep 2006《等一个晴天》Waiting for a Sunny DayWarner Music
Nov 2006《淳佳精选17首》The Best of Joi or
Joi's Greatest Hits compilation consists of 17 songs		Warner MusicOnly released in Taiwan.
Dec 2007《慶幸擁有蔡淳佳》Blessed JoiWarner Music
Sep 2009《回到最初》Back To Basics or Back To the OriginalWarner Music
Jan 2010《淳剧佳曲》Joi Best of DramaWarner Music
Jun 2010《時間的禮盒》The Gift of TimeWarner Music
Jul 2012《视界观》PerspectivesSongs were embedded in a promoting USB disk whose pattern was designed by Joi.

TimeChinese TitleEnglish TitleLabelNotes
April 2014《玻璃》Glass
Nov 2014《一传一》Be the OneReleased with both English and Chinese versions.
Nov 2014《信约》The JourneyDrama Opening Theme Song for

Filmography