Candy Hsu (; born 10 February 1998) is a Taiwanese singer-songwriter and actress. She writes, composes her own songs, and plays instruments such as piano, saxophone and guitar.

Biography

Candy Hsu's parents are professional musicians. In 2006, 8-year-old Candy entered a singer-songwriter contest with the song "Vanilla Kitty", that she composed at the age of 6, in 2004. The large competition, called Chunghwa Telecom MOD Star Contest, made her a star. After the 6 long months of preliminaries, semi-finals and finals, Candy Hsu was declared winner. Candy's first official album, also titled "Vanilla Kitty", was released by Avex Taiwan on 29 February 2008. All the songs on the album were written by her. "Vanilla Kitty" topped sales charts. In January 2012, Candy Hsu started filming in her debut movie, ''Kidnapping of a Big Star'' (), directed by Zhang Jiabei, notably the director of '' Midnight Beating''. She has a leading role in it, playing alongside

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Music China Shanghai (), that would take place from 11 to 14 October.

Discography

Albums

# ''Vanilla Kitty'' () ( Avex Taiwan, 29 February 2008) # ''Angel'' () (Pure Music, 15 July 2010)

EPs

* "Yongyuan De Chengnuo" () (with Devin Wu ()) (Pure Music, 4 July 2011)

Music videos

; 2008 * "Candy Box" * "Vanilla Kitty" () * "Xingfu De Maopao" () ; 2010 * "Tianshi Zhi Lian" () * "Sui Boli" () * "Ya Da Di" ; 2011 * "Yongyuan De Chengnuo" ()

Filmography

Movies

References

External links

Official website by Avex Taiwan

Pure Music profile

Pure Music's official blog

Xu Yahan story
by eNet
Candy Hsu "Tianshi Zhi Lian" music video
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