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Joanna is a Singaporean vocalist and actress.

She has sung for various local festivals including the Mosaic Music Festival, Da:ns Festival, Baybeats, and Flipside. She also performed at the 2010 Shanghai World Expo with Brazilian all-stars band Bossa Negra (Sergio Brandao, Renato Fonseca, Erivelton Silva, Filo Machado, Valtinho Anastacio).

Strongly bilingual, Joanna has a passion for sharing her love for Jazz with mandarin-speaking audiences. In 2008, she released her debut Jazz EP Lullaby Nomad comprising original lyrics written in English and Mandarin. This was launched with a sold-out concert at the Esplanade Recital Studio. She also collaborated with Bossa Negra to release a Single of her Mandarin translation of popular bossa nova standard Summer Samba.

Joanna also enjoys cross-genre collaborations. These include working with DJ Koflow (DJ, Singapore), Robosonic (DJ Duo, Berlin), Gamelan Asmaradana (Gamelan Ensemble, Singapore), SonicBrat (Sound Artist, Singapore).

As an actress, Joanna was awarded Best Supporting Actress in 2008 ST Life! Theatre Awards for her role in local mandarin musical hit If There’re Seasons... Other theatre credits include The Soldier and His Virtuous Wife, Do Not Disturb – Late Checkout Please (Real Actors), Liao Zhai Rocks! and 881 The Musical. She made her feature film debut playing a quirky lovestruck stalker in local movie Forever, and was one of ten recipients of the Star Hunter Award at the 14th Shanghai International Film Festival held in 2011.

Joanna graduated with an Honours degree in Sociology from the National University of Singapore.