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Elva Hsiao () or Elva Siu is a Taiwanese C-pop singer. She was born on August 24 in Taipei, Taiwan, in either 1979 or 1980 (different sources disagree). She speaks fluent English, due to having lived part of her childhood in Vancouver, Canada, and she often sprinkles the predominantly Mandarin Chinese lyrics of her songs with English.

Elva Hsiao sang the song "U Make Me Wanna", which appeared on her album Love's Theme Song, Kiss (2002), with British boy band Blue.

In Taiwan, she has done television commercials for a wide diversity of products, ranging from cellular phones to jewelry to makeup, for major brands such as Avon, De Beers, Motorola, Pantene, and Sprite.

She has had film roles in two movies: Infernal Affairs (2002) and The Butterfly Lovers (2004).

Elva was originally signed to Virgin Music, a sub-label of EMI, however, the contract ended in summer of 2004. For a year, Elva rested as record companies fought over her next contract. It ended up becoming a battle between Warner Music Taiwan and Sony BMG, Warner Music won the battle in the end. Elva signed into Warner Music on March 23rd, 2005, making her Warner's "fifth queen" (after Yanzi Sun, A-Mei
, Na Ying
, and Sammy Cheng). Fans were overjoyed at this, and waited for the coming of a new album, which Warner had promised would be released in June 2005. However, Warner Music Taiwan faced some serious issues during this time, including executives resigning and a change of staff members. Many other Warner artists (including Yanzi Sun, Machi, A-Mei
, and F.I.R.) were affected and did not see much promotion. However, none faced as big a trouble as Elva, whose album was delayed until September, then October, then November, December, until Warner announced that the album will be delayed for as long as necessary. This angered the fans, who have been waiting patiently, their protests spammed the forums of Warner Music Taiwan, causing the entire website to be out of service for a week.

In February 2006, however, a Warner representative promised in an interview that the album will be released around late March/early April. It was only a few weeks later that magazine articles reported another change of staff members and the possibilities of the album being delayed into late April/early May. The fans, though angered, are too tired to do anything more as all they can do now is simply wait and hope that this delay would be the last.

Discography

Original albums

  • Elva Hsiao Self-Titled Album (蕭亞軒同名專輯 Xiao Ya Xuan Tong Ming Zhuan Ji) (1999)
  • Red Rose (紅薔薇 Hong Qiang Wei) (2000)
  • Tomorrow (明天 Ming Tian) (2001)
  • 4 U (2002)
  • Love's Theme Song, Kiss (愛的主打歌,吻 Ai De Zhu Da Ge, Wen) (2002)
  • In Love With Love (愛上愛 Ai Shang Ai) (2003)
  • Fifth Avenue (第五大道 Di Wu Da Dao) (2003)

Collections and compilations

  • Beautiful Episode (美麗的插曲 Mei Li De Cha Qu) (2004)

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