Penny Tai

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Penny Tai 戴佩妮
Promotional photo from 7th album iPenny
Background information
Born	April 22, 1978 (1978-04-22) (age 30)
Origin	Malaysia
Genre(s)	Mandarin pop
Occupation(s)	Singer-songwriter
Years active	1999–present
Label(s)	EMI (1999-present)
Website	www.emimusic.com.tw

Penny Tai (Chinese: 戴佩妮; pinyin: Dái Peìnī; born: April 22, 1978) is a Chinese Malaysian singer and songwriter in the Mandarin pop scene. Since her debut in 2000, she has released seven albums.

1 Biography
2 Discography
- 2.1 Albums
3 Awards
- 3.1 2006
4 External links

[edit] Biography

Penny Tai was born in Johor, Malaysia, to a Hakka family. She started song-writing at the age of 17, participating in the Halo Song-writing Contest [1] in Kuala Lumpur, a platform which also launched the career of fellow Malaysian singer, Fish Leong. In 1999, she was offered a contract by EMI Music (Taiwan) and moved to Taiwan pursue a career in singing and song-writing. She released her self-titled first album, Penny, in January 2000. Her latest album is iPenny, released in October, 2006. She is marketed by her company as a talented singer-songwriter who is responsible for both the compositions and performance of her songs.

[edit] Discography

[edit] Albums

Penny (February 1, 2000)
How's That? (怎样) (January 22, 2001)
Just Sing It (April 13, 2002)
No Penn, No Gain (March 24, 2003)
So Penny (February 9, 2004)
Crazy Love (爱疯了) (March 31, 2005)
iPenny (October 6, 2006)

Her most popular song to date internationally was the end theme for the Taiwanese drama "Meteor Garden" and "Meteor Garden 2" entitled Ni Yao De Ai (The Love You Want).