In describing what she calls “my three loves” – music, fashion and humanitarianism – singer, songwriter and entertainer SUN busts boundaries and combines joyful music with personal discovery. Highly recognized as one of Singapore’s leading Mandarin pop stars, SUN has achieved major success overseas with a succession of five groundbreaking Asian pop albums that have either gone double or triple platinum and have consistently been listed within the top 5 best-selling albums of the year in the Asian music industry. She is also the first Asian singer to top the U.S. Billboard Dance Charts at #1—a major feat in and of itself! Now, SUN is gearing up to take the U.S. by storm with her first full album project for the international market. As a prelude to her upcoming album release, she worked with Fugees co-founder Wyclef Jean on the track “China Wine” for his current album, “Carnival: Memoirs of an Immigrant”. A high-energy dance-oriented video fpr the track was directed by famed music video director Wayne Isham (Britney Spears, Sheryl Crow, Avril Lavigne, N’Sync) and features Wyclef and two Jamaican stars of dancehall, Elephant Man and Tony Matterhorn. That productive first encounter, it turns out, precisely illustrates the way SUN has gravitated to creative experiences all her life. ”I get really inspired watching Clef create music. We spent many late nights the first week we worked together; the time just flies, writing, singing and playing.” Sun recently wrapped a video for Wyclef’s upcoming single “Fast Car” in which she co-stars. She also joined him on his 2008 American and Canadian tour in a featured opening spot – setting her course straight for the global pop mainstream. Since her Asian music debut in 2002, SUN has co-written and released a series of five platinum-selling albums in Mandarin. Then, over a three-year period from 2003 to 2006, SUN released her first five English-language dance singles in the US and the UK, and every one piled up at the top of the dance club charts of Billboard Magazine and the London-based Music Week Magazine, making her the first Asian artist in the world to score successive No. 1 dance hits in the global market. In a career dotted with sales awards, honors and arena-sized performances in Asia, SUN found that “the relationship and connection I make with my fans is the most satisfying part. My fans are really special to me; it’s not just buying my albums or coming to my concerts; they take the effort to write me letters and get personal. My humanitarian work is still a huge part of my identity. When a song feels empowering to listeners, or when people tell me that a song I wrote or sang expresses something they couldn’t say themselves, it means so much to me. That’s my greatest satisfaction.” SUN has for years used her fame to unite and improve the lives of her listeners. Among other successful initiatives, she has established elementary schools in Chinese villages in dire need of education, and was been appointed the “Music Ambassador of the Olympics Songfest” for the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games, encouraging the youth of the nation to write songs dedicated to the Summer Games. “I look up to Oprah Winfrey, and what she has done in opening a school,” says SUN. “I’m consumed by this work because I have a passion for it, not for recognition.” She was the first one ever to sing the Mandarin translation of the 100-year-old Olympic Anthem in front of Government luminaries at the Forbidden Palace in Beijing, and together with China’s top male singer Sun Nan, sang and dedicated “The Light”, written by US songwriting extraordinaires David Foster and Carole Bayer Sager, to the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games. SUN’s third love, fashion, has also been a broadening force for her, and has led to the opening of several of her own fashion boutiques in Asia: “I love my basic, comfortable jeans and t-shirts, but in this career, you get pulled in to all the glitz and glam, and it does change your fashion sense. Fashion and art are connected, and I now see fabric, color, and shape as an expression of what I feel inside. Bringing American designers that I personally love [to Asia] was really a natural progression of that.” SUN is now in the studio to finish her much-anticipated first US album with superstar songwriters and producers like Danja, Rodney Jerkins, RedOne, etc. SUN’s rising career is bound to continue to create ripple effects in every direction, as her personal discoveries and breakthroughs reach the world stage. “I’m a strong believer that everything happens for a purpose,” she says. “I really hope I can continue to be creative and give something back. I love the strong, independent image of American women performers such as Fergie, Gwen Stefani and Madonna. I hope to bring that out in the process of growing as an artist here. I want to be an Asian maverick.”