Tan Weiwei
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Tan Weiwei | |||||||
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谭维维 | |||||||
_3.jpg) Tan Weiwei at the 2009 Venice Film Festival | |||||||
| Born | 8 October 1982 | ||||||
| Other names | Sitar Tan | ||||||
| Alma mater | Sichuan Conservatory of Music | ||||||
| Occupation | Singer | ||||||
| Years active | 2006–present | ||||||
| Agent | TH Entertainment | ||||||
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| Children | 2 | ||||||
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| Genres | Mandopop, Rock, Folk | ||||||
| Labels | EE-Media | ||||||
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| Simplified Chinese | 谭维维 | ||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 譚維維 | ||||||
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Tan Weiwei (simplified Chinese: 谭维维; traditional Chinese: 譚維維; pinyin: Tán Wéiwéi; born 8 October 1982), also known as Sitar Tan, is a Chinese singer and actress.
She was the runner-up of the third season (2006) of Super Girl (Chinese: 超级女声), a singing contest in China. In 2015, she participated I Am a Singer (season 3), where it was revealed that she is a vegan.
Early life
[edit]Tan Weiwei was born in Fushun County, Zigong, Sichuan, on 8 October 1982.[1] Her mother was a teacher and her father worked at a cultural station.[1] She spent her childhood in Zigong with her parents. As a teenager, she became interested in pop music. In 1997, she won first places in the Students Art Festivals in both her primary and secondary schools. At the end of 1998, she began to perform in bars. When she was 19, she entered the Sichuan Conservatory of Music, where many the biggest names of the mainland Chinese Mandopop singer had been trained. Although her marks were not very high, she managed to improve her vocal technique thanks to Lanka Dolma, a Chinese vocal trainer of Tibetan ethnicity, who discovered the hidden talent of the young singer. Thanks to Lanka Dolma, she learned many traditional singing techniques which nowadays, Tan uses in her recordings.[citation needed] And at the same year, she was honored as Top Ten singers of Sichuan province.[citation needed]
Music career
[edit]In 2020 Tan Weiwei released her album '3811'. Since July, Tan Weiwei has been releasing new singles from her album “3811,” with each of the 11 songs chronicling stories of women from diverse backgrounds, including a taxi-driving single mom, an illiterate elderly woman, and a female poet from the Tang dynasty.[2] In December she released the song 'Xiao Juan'. “Erase our names, forget our beings, same tragedy continues and repeats,” Tan sings. (Xiao Juan is a name, like Jane Doe in English, that is used to anonymize women's names in court cases.) The groundbreaking song, which went viral in China, refers to domestic violence and misogyny, citing recent violent deaths of real women in China.[3]
Personal life
[edit]She married Taiwanese actor David Chen after he proposed in 2016 during a trip to Mount Kailash.[1][4][5] In 2018, they collaborated on a song for the TV series The Legend of Jade Sword (莽荒紀) which he acted in.[6]
Discography
[edit]Studio albums
[edit]| # | Album Name | Type | Label(s) | Released Date | Tracklisting | |
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| 1st | 高原之心 Heart of the Highland[7] | Studio Album | Star recording | 2005-11-23 |
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| 2nd | 耳界 Ear of the World[8] | Studio Album | [www.eemedia.cn/ EE-Media] | 2007-12-04 |
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| 3rd | 傳說 Legend | Studio Album | Flamingo Records | 2009-06-11 |
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| 4th | 譚某某 Tan Mou Mou[9] | Studio Album | [www.eemedia.cn/ EE-Media] | 2010-03-20 |
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| 5th | 3 | Studio Album | 遠達卓越 | 2011-10-18 |
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| 6th | 烏龜的阿基里斯 Tortoise Called Achilles[10] | Studio Album | 遠達卓越 | 2013-10-23 |
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| 7th | 3811 | Studio Album |
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2020-12-11 | #章存仙
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Extended Plays:
- (2016) 夏長 Long Summer EP
- (2016) 秋收 Golden Harvest EP
- (2017) 春生 Season of Rebirth EP
- (2017) Winter EP
- (2020) 姐码3811 Sister Ma 3811 EP
- (2020) 姐放3811 Sister Fang 3811 EP
Singles
[edit]- "If I Haven’t Fell Into Love" (如果我没有爱过)(September 2006)[citation needed]
- "I forgot to say" (我忘了说) (January 2008)
- "Encounter" (遇见) (August 2010)
- "In the Shu river" (在束河里) (October 2010)
Filmography
[edit]Film
- Chengdu, I Love You (2009)
- East Meets West 2011 (2011)
- Secret Garden (Chinese: 秘密花園; pinyin: Mìmì huāyuán, 2012)
- Forget All Remember (2014)[11]
- Love Education (2017)
Variety shows
- Keep Running - Season 4 Episode 6 (guest)
References
[edit]- ^ a b c Mei Shuai (美帅) (2023). 中国宝藏女歌手谭维维：从天生逆骨到重塑自我的跨界歌者 [Chinese Singer Tan Weiwei: a Cross disciplinary Singer]. Bosom Friend (in Chinese). 453. Wuhan, Hubei: Hubei Zhiyin Media Group Co., Ltd.: 19–21. ISSN 1007-502X.
- ^ Tone, Sixth (14 December 2020). "Chinese Song Amplifies Awareness for Violence Against Women". Sixth Tone. Retrieved 14 December 2020.
- ^ "The angry pop song calling out China's domestic violence problem". BBC News. 17 December 2020.
- ^ Li Jialing (李嘉翎) (25 November 2017). "金馬54／譚維維飆嗓！陳亦飛現身 網歪樓狂喊：喬琪姑娘". SET News (in Chinese). Retrieved 13 March 2020.
- ^ Wong, Joyce (2 September 2016). "Taiwanese Actor, David Chen & Chinese Singer, Tan Weiwei's Tibet Proposal". Asia Wedding Network. Retrieved 13 March 2020.
- ^ "陈亦飞谭维维首度合唱献声纪片尾曲《门》". Xinhua (in Chinese). 11 May 2018. Archived from the original on 6 July 2018. Retrieved 13 March 2020.
- ^ "譚維維新專輯《高原之心》展民通演唱魅力" (in Chinese).
- ^ "譚維維《耳界》展現音樂歷程：實現自我回歸" (in Chinese).
- ^ "新專輯《譚某某》慶功記者會 譚維維:尚雯婕請閉嘴" (in Chinese).
- ^ "譚維維《烏龜的阿基里斯》發行 詮釋溫柔搖滾" (in Chinese).
- ^ "37次想你 (2014)". movie.douban.com (in Chinese). douban.com. Retrieved 25 December 2014.
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