Chew Sin Huey

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Chew Sin Huey
石欣卉
Debut album, 从台北到北京
Debut album, 从台北到北京
Background information
Also known as Sing
Born June 23, 1981 (1981-06-23) (age 26)
Origin Flag of Singapore Singapore
Genre(s) C-pop
Occupation(s) Singer
Years active 2005–present
Label(s) Play Music (subsidiary of Warner Music)
Website Sin Huey's official website

Chew Sin Huey, also known as Sing Chew (simplified Chinese: 石欣卉; pinyin: Shí Xīnhuì) (born June 23, 1981) is a Malaysian singer, who was one of the five popular new talents emerged from the Channel U's popular singing talent show, Project SuperStar in Singapore. The songbird is well-known in both Singapore and Malaysia.

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[edit] Biography

[edit] Background information

Chew Sin Huey, though a Malaysian, was made popular in Singapore as the first runner-up in the female category of Project Superstar 2005, a singing-cum-talent search competition organised by Channel U of Mediacorp, Singapore. She had garnered the highest points (with the highest score of 44/50 from the judges) during the female finals from her delivery of the three songs and received positive comments from the judges panel. However, she lost on a popularity voting system which totals up to 70% of the overall score. However, Sin Huey's singing talent is widely appreciated and she has been offered a three-year singing contract by Play Music which is now part of Warner Music.

During her school life, Sin Huey took part in debates and gave speeches during her primary and secondary school period. She participated in campus shows and took up the lead role of a musical and also held a mini concert when she was in university. She also participated in Astro Talent Quest in the year 2004.

Sin Huey also made many appearance on TV, including her participation in a local mandarin idol drama Dream Chasers as one of the female lead. Other TV appearances of Sin Huey include her hosting a game show that was being showed on channel U, The 7-eleven game show, where she is the leader of one of the four teams in the show and each team's objective is to eliminate the other teams by arriving at the designated 7-eleven convenience store and play the games. She also appears on a local talk/debate show, Cross Fire, where she showcases her verbal talents and well-structured opinions on social issues which invite guests to voice out their opinion on a particular topic, and as well as Let's Shoot! and also in music oriented variety show like Music in the Air

[edit] Career

Sin Huey became the fourth artiste to release an album after Project Superstar Overall Champion Tan Wei Lian, Kelly Poon and Hong Jun Yang. Her debut album 从台北到北京 consist of four original tracks, five covers and a cover duet with Kelvin [Tan Wei Lian]. She even penned the lyrics for her album's no. 1 hit, 从台北到北京 / From Taipei To Beijing (which is a cover of popular Danish group, Infernal's "From Paris to Berlin"). The song 从台北到北京 was an instant hit with the listeners and became popular with ringtone downloads and received frequent airplay on radio stations as well as in pubs or night hangouts because of its strong rhythmic techno nature. Her music video for the song From Taipei To Beijing became a hot topic in local newspapers and the online community after a 25-second video was leaked onto the popular video sharing website, Youtube. The video had more than 40,000 hits and she made a stunning return from her reclusion from the industry after almost one year of hiatus while she has been preparing for her debut album. It was shocking for those who had always regarded her as the girl next door because of her demure looks and her plain dress sense and could not accept this major change. Following her debut release, she also became more confident, pretty and fashionable and has shown to critics that she has better fashion sense now after vicious remarks and criticisms were directed at her during her competition days. Although there is a shift of focus onto her music video and her dressing, the album had received good feedback from music professionals and media where most reviews gave her at least 3/5 stars with some as high as 4.5/5 stars because of her steely and emotive delivery which is rare for a newcomer. It also achieved good sales results especially for a newcomer and thus proving her popularity in the Singapore and Malaysia regions.

However she feels that she still needs to improve on many aspects and is set to move on to other regions of the Chinese community like Taiwan and China of which the album title,从台北到北京 / From Taipei To Beijing, had vividly shown her ambitious vision to take over the Chinese music industry by storm. For her debut album, Sin Huey adopted an English name, Sing. It reflects her passion for singing, sounds like her Chinese name, Sin Huey, and indicates the fact that she is from Singapore.

Before this release, she had also lent her vocals to numerous Mediacorp soundtracks, drama theme songs and compilations. The drama theme and sub-theme songs that she sang for Mediacorp were later released as her personal compilation. It was a great success as the compilation clinched the top position of sales in renowned music stores like CD-Rama and Sembawang Music, indicating that the sales results were good.

Her ability in singing was further recognised as she won the Best Newcomer award in Singapore Hits Award, a prestigious award ceremony for Chinese musicians all over the world.

[edit] Education

[edit] Events & milestones

[edit] Albums

Date of release Title (Chinese)(English) Released by Remarks
September 2005 不要说抱歉 [don't say sorry] Play Music, Mediacorp Studios Part of the Best of 绝对SUPERSTAR

Compilation album
November 2005 舞出彩虹The Rainbow Connection,

看透[looking through], 遇见爱情[meeting love]with Hong Jun Yang

 Universal Music Group, Rock Records, Mediacorp Studios Part of a compilation album, The Rainbow Connection OST
16 December 2005 First Love,

不要说抱歉, 遗失的美好 with kelly Poon, 有你真好 with Chew Sin Ruey, WE Will Rock U with [Various Artistes], 老鼠爱大米 with [Various Artistes]

 Mediacorp Studios, Play Music 绝对SUPERSTAR LIVE演唱会2005 VCD
December 2005 Disk 1: 遗失的美好 61ders Radio Edit, 不要说抱歉 Meteora Radio Edit

Disk 2: 遗失的美好 61ders Extended Remix, 不要说抱歉 Meteora Club Mix

 Play Music, Mediacorp Studios Part of a compilation album, Best of 绝对Superst*r the super d*nce collection
December 2005 遗失的美好 Play Music Part of a compilation album, K 歌唱不完
January 2006 少年的我[When I Was a Youth](Various Artistes)

春 Spring sang with Kelly Poon

 [Mediacorp Studios], Universal Music Group Part of a compilation album, 旺事如意, a Chinese new year album produced by Mediacorp Studios Production in 2006
July 2006 Dreamchaser【梦·拼图】, Acted lead role of Charlotte [Mediacorp Studios] VCD of idol drama, Dreamchaser【梦·拼图】
30 November 2006 从台北到北京 From Taipei to Beijing Warner Music (華納唱片) Debut Album
December 2006 擱淺 with Chen Wei Lian Warner Music (華納唱片) Part of a compilation for love duets, 心心相印
January 2007 从台北到北京 Warner Music (華納唱片) Part of a compilation for Best Of Number 1 Hits, 排行榜總冠軍 Best Of #1 Hits 2007
02 March 2007 从台北到北京 From Taipei to Beijing Warner Music (華納唱片) Celebratory version
14 September 2007 Image:剧欣卉集.jpg 剧欣卉集 SING The BestDrama Warner Music (華納唱片), [Mediacorp Studios] Compilation Album of Mediacorp drama theme songs sang by sin huey

[edit] Rank of songs on music charts

Song/Radio station YES!933
Highest Ranking
/Number of weeks on chart		 Radio 1003
Highest Ranking
/Number of weeks on chart
从台北到北京
From Taipei to Beijing		 7 / 10 2 / 7
你给的
What you had given		 8 / 9 7 / 7

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[edit] Songs well known by others