Timi Zhuo's bio

Timi was born Hsinchuang, Taiwan on October 2, 1981. When she was about the age of 3 or 4, her parents introduced her to show business (singing, music, acting). She did many TV commercials and advertisement until the age of 6, when she released her first Hokkien album.

She was skilled at the piano at a very young age. Zhuo was such a young and beautiful girl when she started her singing career that she was given the name "Small Princess."

She released a series of hokkien classical songs 歌坛小公主 (The Singing Princess), featuring her playing the piano or guitar as she sings or dancing. A famous release when she was 9 was the 黄金九岁山歌黄梅调 (Golden 9 years: Huang mei diao Chinese opera) mandarin opera songs where she starred as both boy and girl in each duet and her first Chinese New Year album. She came out with her first original hokkien hit, 妈妈在哪里 (Where’s Mama?) in 1990.

In 1993, she got a role in a Chinese opera play at the Taipei Theater where she acted and sang folk and opera songs. The crowd went wild during this play. The following year, 1994, she recorded 黄梅戏经典: 小调重唱 (Folk Melodies) containing songs of a look of young person's life in ancient China, 民歌小调 (The Ditty of Folk Songs) of famous folk songs, 恋恋风情 of the classic mandarin songs, and the popular 怀念邓丽君金曲 (Remembering Teresa Teng’s golden hits) album in tribute to the remembrance of the famous Taiwanese singer, Teresa Teng.

In 1995, she recorded 春风妙舞 (Exquisite spring dance) as a continuance to 恋恋风情, 春风舞曲 (Dance songs of the spring winds) the CNY album, and 闽南语情歌大对唱 (Minnan love songs duet) of hokkien love duets with 林正桦.

In 1996 when she was 15, she moved to Beijing, China for the first time and also, released her first very famous, special edition MTV 蜕变 (Transformation) 少女的心情故事 (The mood story of a young girl), the first two out of the five in the series, the very famous 校园青春乐 (Youthful happiness of school) school songs, and 款款柔情甜歌集 (Collection of sweet love music), of oldies sung with 凌一惠 (Ling Yi Hui).

In 1997, she recorded 猜心 (Guess the heart) of popular pop songs, the Spring/CNY album 春语 (Spring Language), and her self-album (hokkien) 恋梦 (Love dream).

In 1998, she recorded 化蝶 (Change to a butterfly) of classic pop music and 皇牌影视金曲 (Television golden hit songs) of famous television songs.

In 1999, she recorded the Tibetan album 山地情歌: 风之谷 (Mountain valley), 谜 (Mystery), the third in the 蜕变 series, and the CNY album 拱照北京城大团圆, the first of the 八大巨星 (Eight Superstar) series.

In 2000, her self-album of more modern pop music 伪装 (camouflage) was released as well as an informational album, 飞舞写真 (Dancing in the air photograph).

Afterwards, Timi took a year unannounced break from her singing because all the stress of work was making her unhealthy and ill. Because nobody knew where she went, there was a rumor that was passed saying that she had died in either a car accident or of stomach cancer. [2]

But afterwards in 2002, Timi went back on stage again and released the two-part 八大巨星 CNY albums, the mandarin 星光闪耀贺新春 and the hokkien 百万巨星大赚钱. She also sung the first album in the series of two, 祝福 (Luck wish).

In 2003, she released her third Eight Superstars CNY album, 霸气如虹迎新年, the Tibetan 山地情歌: 天地情 (Sky earth love), 中国时代经典 (China’s era classics) that expressed her love for China, 黄梅戏经典2: 名曲精萃 (Chinese opera classics) of Chinese opera classics, and the 婷不了的爱 (Endless love) the fourth in the 蜕变 series.

In 2004, she recorded 温情脉脉 (Light exquisite feeling) the fifth and last album in the 蜕变 series, 祝福 2 (Luck wish 2), the second and last album in the series, and the fourth 八大巨星 album, 大胜年.

In 2005, she released the famous Chinese New Year album 送你一个大年糕 (Give you a big New Year cake) with her original “Give you a big New Year cake”, another 八大巨星 album, 福禄寿喜 (Joy of the Three immortals), and 燃烧 (Burn), which is a DJ remix of some of her old songs.

In 2006, Timi released the modern DJ-type CNY album 热歌辣舞闹新春 (Noisy new spring of hot music) and also, a very famous CD, 我的眼泪不为你说谎 (My tears don’t lie to you) of famous pop songs, along with her own latest and biggest hit song “My tears don’t lie to you”.

In 2007, she released 八大巨星]] (Eight superstars) 好日子 (Good day) and her famous CNY album 恭喜发财 (May you be prosperous) with some of her original Chinese New Year songs. She also starred in a movie series, released October of that year called 丁家有女喜洋洋 (There’s a happy girl in the Ding family), playing a role as the office lady.

2008, she had a duet with 罗宾 on the song 採紅菱 (Picking red chestnuts) in the Eight Superstars album, 百福临门满人间.

Now, she is currently working on a new album that is supposed to be released in September or October. Timi has also sang at many concerts, beginning from 2003 until now. She is very famous for Chinese New Year songs and she enjoys singing pop and folk music. She currently lives and sings in mainland China and has toured and sang in Singapore, Malaysia, and Japan.

She was given a nickname of "Queen of all soft song singers."
in 2011, She will play Glinda in the Shanghai production of Wicked. close