CAREER
On August 8, 2000, HIM International Music held a 'Universal 2000 Talent and Beauty Girl Contest' in search of new artists to sign under their label. When she travelled with her sister to Taipei for a holiday, Ella discovered that her older sister had registered her for a singing competition. Intimidated by the long line of contestants and worried of facing ridicule for her tomboy personality, Ella almost gave up before the first round. Her older sister, however convinced her to stay. Ella's deep voice caught the label's attention, and helped propel her through to the final round. Her alto voice is noted for its strong and beautiful nature.[1]
Following the conclusion of the contest, Ella returned to her duties at a local hospital, but received a call from HIM International requesting an additional audition. After test recordings were done, Ella signed on as part of HIM's newest girl group, S.H.E. When Ella first tested out her signature, HIM employees were concerned that the signature would be easily forged due to its simplicity; thus, during S.H.E's early days, Ella signed autographs using the last character of her name, (pinyin: huà). However, as S.H.E's autograph sessions drew larger audiences, Ella reverted to her simpler, English signature.[2]
During her career with S.H.E, Ella has been the most accident-prone member. On July 29, 2003 she was sent to the hospital after jumping from the third story of a building and shattering her hip. She returned three weeks later to promote Super Star. In 2005, during the filming of Reaching for the Stars, Ella burned her ears and hair on a candle, prompting crew members to send her to the National Taiwan University Hospital.[3] In order to recover, Ella stayed away from filming for two days, during which she cut off approximately two centimetres of burnt hair on both sides of her head.[3]
As a singer and an actress, Ella has also appeared in various music videos such as 愛的重唱曲-覆水難收篇 (2004-04-05), 再一次拥有 (2005) by Kaira Gong and 愛到瘋癲 (2009) by Power Station.
In 2009, along with her band-mate Hebe Tien, Ella composed a song for her seniors Power Station, entitled "Love Crazy/ 愛到瘋癲". Ella was the composer while Hebe wrote the lyrics. The song was given to them as repayment for Power Station have given S.H.E the song "Freezer". Ella had also composed a station song entitled "Pop Radio 91.7 jingle" for Taiwan Pop Radio station "FM 91.7" . In 2010 she was also featured in the drama Down with Love.
IMAGE
In 2007, Chen was voted by online fans as Taiwan's most down-to-earth (unpretentious) artist.[4] Out of the three members of S.H.E, Ella is the most outspoken. Since the release of S.H.E's first album in 2001, Ella has usually been the one to answer reporter's questions.[5] As the tomboy of S.H.E, Ella is frequently the subject of jokes targeting her gender and sexual orientation, but she usually takes the jabs in stride.[6] Netizens even labelled her one of China's Four Main Tomboys of the past century.[7] Her unusually deep voice earned her a starring role as the voice of Arthur in the Mandarin version of Arthur and the Minimoys.
PERSONAL LIFE
Chen is the third of four children, including two older sisters and a younger brother. She also had a small pug named Qiang Qiang (蔷蔷). However, due to health problems, Qiang Qiang had to undergo surgeries and died due to an anaesthetic allergic reaction. As a result of this, she composed and wrote the lyrics to a song dedicated to her pet Qiang Qiang. She released her 薔薔 EP in 2007 and to reduce costs, she performed many tasks herself, such as designing the cover for her EP, so that the profit, all of which went to animal shelter associations, would be higher. She also asked several of her friends and acquaintances, such as Joe Cheng and Jay Chou, to sign on EP so that they could be auctioned off.
Ella left for New York to study English a few days after Selina Jen, who was still in the hospital, celebrated her birthday on 31 October 2010.
SOLO / DUET
- 蔷蔷 (Qiang Qiang) - Solo EP, released August 27, 2007.
- 单手超人 (Dan Shou Chao Ren / Single-handed Superman) - A Solo in The 3 Spas of Love
- 我就是我 (Wo Jiu Shi Wo / I Am Just Me) - A self-penned and self-composed song she made for her Solo Performance in the S.H.E Is The One Concert Tour.[8]
- 跟月亮Say Goodbye (Gen Yue Liang Say Goodbye / Say Goodbye With The Moon) - Solo - unreleased but leaked around April 2010.[9]
- 你被寫在我的歌裡 (Ni Bei Xie Zai Wo De Ge Li / You're To Write In My Songs) - Duet with Qing Feng - was the featured artist in What Is Troubling You (你在煩惱什麼) Album by Sodagreen, released November 11, 2011.
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