Timi Zhuo Yi-ting (; born 2 October 1981) is a singer and actress from Taiwan. She has recorded over 800 songs in Mandarin and Taiwanese Hokkien, and 2 songs in Cantonese.
Timi Zhuo was born in Xinzhuang District, New Taipei City, Taiwan on October 2, 1981. When she was about the age of 5, her parents introduced her to the world of show business in singing, music and acting. She did many television commercials and advertisements until the age of 6 when she released her first Hokkien album.
She was skilled at playing piano at a very young age. She was considered as a young and beautiful girl that when she started her singing career that she was given the nickname "Small Princess."
From 1986 to 1991, she starred in many Hokkien soap operas, including 'No more wine for sale é Âç¸éÂÂÃ¥ÂÂç¡', 'Sentiment of the Wind and Rain é£Âé¨æ ', 'where are you Ã¥ÂÂå¨ä½Âå¤Â', 'love you in the bone ç±你堥骨', 'neighbor relatives éÂÂå£Â亲家', 'Mother of God 顺天å£æ¯Â', 'the story of eight faithful dogs å¿ ä¹Âå «ç¬传', 'You are my most loving person ä½ æ¯æÂÂæÂÂç±çÂÂ人', 'little genius å°Â天æÂÂ', 'mother å¦Âå¦Â', 'little angry å·å·çÂÂæÂÂ', 'Mother's day ä¸Â堫亲æ¯Â', 'Spring wind and autumn rain æÂ¥é£Âç§Âé¨', 'powerful prince çÂÂä¸ÂçÂÂ太åÂÂ' and 'Unmatched couple èÂÂé¸Âé Âå¤å°'. During that period of time, she also recorded many music albums, mostly in Hokkien.
In 1990, she released a series of Hokkien classical songs æÂÂÃ¥ÂÂå°Â堬主 (The Singing Princess), featuring her playing the piano or guitar as she was singing or dancing. A famous release was the é»ÂéÂÂä¹Âå²Âå±±æÂÂé»Â梠谠(Golden 9 years: Huang mei diao Chinese opera) at the age of 9, in which she starred as both boy and girl singing mandarin opera songs in each duet; it was also her first Chinese New Year album. She came out with her first original Hokkien hit, å¦Âå¦Âå¨åªé (WhereâÂÂs Mama?).
In 1993, she got a role in a Chinese opera play at the Taipei Theater where she acted and sang folk and opera songs, to intense applause. The following year, 1994, she released é»Â梠æÂÂç»Âå ¸1 (classical Huang mei diao movie songs); å°Âè°ÂéÂÂå± (Folk Melodies) album containing songs of a look of young person's life in ancient China; æ°ÂæÂÂå°Âè° (The Ditty of Folk Songs) featuring famous folk songs; and æÂÂæÂÂé£Âæ (In Love), classic mandarin songs. She also released the popular æÂÂ念éÂÂ丽åÂÂéÂÂæ² (Remembering Teresa TengâÂÂs Golden Hits) album in tribute to the remembrance of the famous Chinese singer, Teresa Teng.
In 1995, she released æÂ¥é£Âå¦Âè (Exquisite Spring Dance) as a sequel to æÂÂæÂÂé£Âæ (In Love), æÂ¥é£ÂèÂÂæ² (Dance Songs of the Spring Winds) the Chinese New Year album, and é½åÂÂè¯Âæ æÂÂ大对å± (Minnan Love Song Duets) of Hokkien/Taiwanese love duets with Lin Zhenghua (æÂÂæ£桦).
In 1996, when she was 15, she moved to Beijing, China for the first time. At the same time, she released her first very famous, special edition MTV èÂÂÃ¥ÂÂ1 (Transformation1) series or å°Â女çÂÂå¿Âæ æ äºÂ1 (alias The Story of a Young Girl's Mood-1) together with æ ¡åÂÂéÂÂæ¥习(Youthful Happiness life in School), of school songs and 款款æÂÂæ çÂÂæÂÂé (Collection of Sweet Love Songs), of oldies sung with Ã¥ÂÂä¸Âæ (Ling Yi Hui).
In 1997, she recorded çÂÂå¿ (Guess the Heart) of popular pop songs, the Spring/CNY albums æ¥诠(Spring Language), and her solo albums (Hokkien) æÂÂ梦 (Love dream), with the first also known as å°Â女ä¹Âæ æ (The love feeling of a young girl) and the second known as 伸æÂÂçÂÂä½ çµ (Stretch my hands waiting for you to hold).
In 1998, she recorded Ã¥ÂÂè¶ (Change to a Butterfly) of classic pop music and çÂÂçÂÂå½±è§ÂéÂÂæ² (Golden Television Hit Songs) of famous television songs.
In 1999, she recorded the å±±å°æ æÂÂ1 (Mountain Love Songs): é£Âä¹Âè°· (Warriors of the Wind), è° (Mystery), the third album in the èÂÂå (Transformation) series, and the CNY album æ±砧åÂÂ京åÂÂ大å¢å (Gather in Beijing DVD) or 京åÂÂè¿Âæ°æÂÂ¥/京åÂÂÃ¥ÂÂè¿ÂæÂÂ¥ (Welcome new spring in Beijing VCD), the first of the 堫大巨æ (Eight Superstars) series.
In 2000, her solo album of more modern pop music 天使快éÂÂæÂÂ¥ (Wake Up, Angel): 伪裠(Camouflage) was released as well as an informational album, é£ÂèÂÂÃ¥ÂÂç (Dancing in the Air Photograph).
Zhuo then took a two-year break from her singing career because of stress. Because there was no announcement of the break, an unfounded rumor spread that she had either died from a car accident or died of stomach cancer.
In 2002, she went back on stage again and released the two-part 堫大巨æ (Eight superstars) CNY albums, the mandarin æÂÂå ÂéªèÂÂè´ºæ°æÂÂ¥ (Bright star shining the new spring) and the Hokkien ç¾ä¸Âå·¨æÂÂèµÂ大é± (Million superstars make good money). She also sang the first album in the series of two, ç¥Â禠(Wish You Luck/Blessing).
In 2003, she released ä¸Âå½æ¶代ç»Âå ¸ (ChinaâÂÂs Era Classics) that expressed her love for China, å±±å°æ æÂÂ2 - the second album in the Mountain love song series, 天å°æ (Sky Earth Love), å©·ä¸ÂäºÂçÂÂç± (Endless Love), èÂÂÃ¥ÂÂ4 - the fourth album in the Transformation series, é»Â梠æÂÂç»Âå ¸2: Ã¥ÂÂæ²精è (Chinese Opera Classics) of Chinese opera classics, & her third album in the Eight Superstars CNY series, é¸æ°Âå¦Âè¹è¿Âæ°年 (Welcome new year in the most brilliant way).
In 2004, she recorded æµÂæÂÂé¨ (meteor shower), èÂÂÃ¥ÂÂ5 - the fifth and last album in the Transformation series (also known as "shy and lovely1" 温æ èÂÂèÂÂ1 on the VCD and "grown up" äºÂäºÂçÂÂç«Â1 on the DVD), ç¥Âç¦Â2 (Wish You Luck/Blessing 2): ç¥Â寿æ (also known as "shy and lovely2" 温æ èÂÂèÂÂ2 [VCD]/ "grown up2" äºÂäºÂçÂÂç«Â2 [DVD]), the second and last album in the series, and 大èÂÂå¹´ - the fourth album of 堫大巨æ (Eight superstars) series.
In 2005, she released the famous Chinese New Year album éÂÂä½ ä¸Â个大年糠(Give You a Big New Year cake) with her original âÂÂGive you a big New Year cakeâ song in it, ç¦Âç¦Â寿å (Joy of the Three Immortals) - yet another 堫大巨æ (Eight Superstar) album, and çÂÂç§ (Burn), which is a DJ remix of some of her old songs.
In 2006, Zhuo released the modern DJ-type CNY album çÂÂæÂÂè¾£èÂÂé¹æ°æÂÂ¥ (Dance and sing in new spring) and a bestselling album of famous pop songs, æÂÂçÂÂç¼泪ä¸Â为你说谠(My tears donâÂÂt lie to you); its title track is her biggest hit song to date.
In 2007, she released 堫大巨æ (Eight superstars) 好æÂ¥å (Good day) and her famous CNY album æÂÂÃ¥ÂÂÃ¥ÂÂè´¢ (Wishing You Happiness and Prosperity) with some of her original Chinese New Year songs. In June, she acted as a teacher in a movie called ç·£ä¾Âæ¯æ (Blessed Destiny) for a charity foundation without compensation. She also starred in a soap opera series called ä¸Â家æÂÂ女åÂÂæ´Âæ´ (ThereâÂÂs a happy girl in the Ding family) in October, playing the role of an office worker.
In 2008, she had a duet with ç½Â宾 ("Robin") on the song æ¡素è± (Picking red chestnuts) in the Eight Superstars album, ç¾ç¦Â临é¨满人é´.
In 2009, she released another CNY album called 好æ¥天 (Good Spring/Beautiful Spring).
In 2011 she released a Chinese New Year Album called 丰æ¶年 (Good harvest year) and also another album called Ã¥ÂÂÃ¥ÂÂä¸Âè¾Â-Ã¥ÂÂä¾Âå©· (Same name collection - Timi Zhou).
In 2014, she released an album called 親æÂÂçÂÂä½ (My Dear) featuring one Taiwanese Hokkien song among other Mandarin songs.
She is now living in Taipei and performs mainly in China.
Zhuo has given several concert performances since 2002 in Singapore, Malaysia, USA and China. She is very famous for Chinese New Year songs as well as pop and folk music.
Timi Zhuo's most recent performances:
She is advertised in concert posters using the nicknames used by her fans, "æÂÂè²æÂÂÃ¥ÂÂ", "è³Âæ²堬主" and "è³Âæ²天åÂÂ" (Soft Song Diva, New Year Princess, New Year Diva).
From the æÂÂÃ¥ÂÂå°Â堬主6 (Small Princess6 - Hokkien) album when she was 9 years old in 1990 -
æÂÂ梦1: å°Â女ä¹Âæ æ (The love feeling of a young girl - Hokkien) 1995 "Love Dream 1"
æÂÂ梦2: "Love Dream 2" 伸æÂÂçÂÂä½ çµ (Stretch my hands waiting for you to hold - Hokkien) 1995
天使快éÂÂæÂÂ¥ (Wake Up, Angel): 伪裠2000
èÂÂÃ¥ÂÂ5 (Transformation 5) "æµÂæÂÂé¨" (meteor shower) 2004
éÂÂä½ ä¸Â个大年糠(Give You a Big New Year Cake) Chinese New Year album 2005
æÂÂçÂÂç¼泪ä¸Â为你说谠(My Tears Don't Lie to You) 2007
æÂÂÃ¥ÂÂÃ¥ÂÂè´¢ (Gong Xi Fa Cai - Happy Prosperity) 2007
Ã¥ÂÂä¾Âå©·åÂÂÃ¥ÂÂå°Â輯 (Timi Zhuo same name album) 2011
Most popular songs in this album - Thank you for continue loving me (è¬Âè¬Âä½ ä¸Âç´æÂÂçÂÂæÂÂ), Dream is ahead/Hope is ahead (夢æ³å¨åÂÂæ¹).
This song wasn't recorded in an album, but she sang it on her 2007 concert.
Unreleased song:
This song was not recorded in an album, but she sang it on her 2011 concert.
She also sang two other Cantonese songs in her separate album released in 2002 and 2008.
These three songs were not recorded in album, but she sang them in a television show named "China musical history in 100 years (ä¸Âå½ç¾年é³ä¹Âè¯Âå²)" on CCTV4 channel in China.
Zhuo is famous for her Chinese New Year songs, and for Chinese opera songs such as "Liang San Bo Yu Zhu Ying Tai" (æ¢Â山伯ä¸Âç¥Âè±å°) from The Butterfly Lovers.
Her cover versions of Teresa Teng's songs are also very popular, including: