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Natalise

Date of Birth / Doğum Tarihi
27 September 1981, San Francisco, California, USA

Birth Name / Gerçek Adı
Robin Nathalis Chow

Mini Biography / Biyografi
A hard-driving overachiever from the get-go, Natalise began studying voice and piano at age three, dance at seven, songwriting at thirteen. Her tastes broadened throughout her childhood, from singing for years in the local church choir, to studying classical music at the Conservatory of Music and singing with jazz bands during high school. By seventeen, she was recording and producing. Natalise's focused and unwavering dedication to music is no surprise, given her roots. Her mother emigrated from Burma at only eighteen years old with a mere $200 to her name - which was stolen on the New York subway her first day in the United States - and now owns a successful boutique insurance agency. Her father, also an immigrant from Burma, is now a professor at Golden Gate University and the University of San Francisco.Despite being a straight 'A' student at one of the nation's most prestigious schools, Natalise could not ignore her calling. She made a pact with her parents that if she could graduate Stanford in only three years, they would let her pursue her real dream of having a musical career. Naturally, Natalise - who majored in Communication, while working on her songwriting and singing occasionally at community-based events - won the bet.She used her winnings from an essay competition to fund her first professionally recorded song "Love Goes On." The song became a nationwide radio hit landing on several highly successful compilations which propelled Natalise onto the covers of respected periodicals like SF Weekly and earned her feature interviews on nationally syndicated television shows like Crosstalk, Stir and the WB's Daily Mixx. In just a short time, Natalise has become one of the nation's most highly visible Asian-American singers.When she encountered roadblocks from the interested major labels, she took matters into her own hands. "I decided to pick myself up," she says. "I started writing a lot of material that I wanted to record. I saved money from tutoring kids and teaching piano and voice lessons, and that's how I paid for my first couple of songs." When she started her new label, she spun those first few songs into the foundations of I Came To Play.Revealing her ultimate goals as a performer, Natalise is very obviously influenced by her dad's love for The Rolling Stones and Pink Floyd and her own passion for the artist and album which she cites as her chief musical inspiration-Janet Jackson's 1993 dance/pop masterpiece Janet. IMDb Mini Biography By: Brooke Lavee

Trivia / Önemsiz Şeyler
She is a high honors graduate of Stanford University.

Personal Quotes / Kişisel Alıntılar
""The name of the album [I Came to Play] came before any of the songs were written. It was just a way to announce that this is me, this is where I come from, and I'm here to stay in this industry.""""Ultimately, I would love to tour and perform at sold out stadiums, and share my music with thousands of people throughout the world.""