Born in the Philippines on July 19, 1970, Sandee Chan is a Taiwanese singer-songwriter, producer, and music video director with Chinese roots and Shanghai ancestry. She began exploring her musical side as a child, learning the piano before going on to write her own songs as a student at the National Chengchi University in Taiwan. After wowing at the university music contest Young Star in 1991, she was signed to an indie label and began penning songs for Jeff Chang and Huang Pin-Yuan. Her debut solo single and album, Washington Chopped Down the Cherry Tree (華盛頓砍倒櫻桃樹), came out in 1994, and she went on to release a raft of Mandopop-minded solo albums over subsequent years, including 2004's Then, We All Wept (後來 我們都哭了). Sandee Chan won the Best Album and Best Album Producer gongs at the 16th Golden Melody Awards in 2005, and at the 20th Golden Melody Awards in 2009, she was named Best Mandarin Female Singer. She has also released a number of collaborative albums, including 2004's Material-Girl Coin with Li Duan Xian and Wang Ke Le, and 2011's 19 with Chen Chien Chi. Her 12th solo album, Juvenile A, arrived in 2019 and a pair of new Mandopop singles landed three years later; "痛癮" and "捆縛".