我不相信運氣，但相信努力！ 我不相信天才，而相信人定勝天！

Birth Place: Taipei, Taiwan Height: 160cm Weight: 44kg Horoscope: Capricorn Favorite Singers: Chang Yu Sheng, Tanya Chow, Amei Chang, Dave Matthews, John Mayer, Kelly Clarkson, Sarah McLachlan, Stevie Wonder

The Songwriter Emerges

The first song Jasmine wrote was when she was in her late teens and needed an emotional release. Her uncle had passed away leaving the teenager unable to channel her grief. “I needed a song to sing – but there wasn’t one yet written for me” she remembers. So she picked up a guitar and created her own, “Blessing”.

It was the start of a songwriting process that would soon see Jasmine creating work on both the piano and guitar, and gigging her way around coffee shops and bars during her years at university.

Upon graduation in 2004, Jasmine decided to put the inheritance money left by her beloved uncle to good use: She flew to Los Angeles to attend the Musician’s Institute to major in Keyboard and Digital Music. Jasmine was soon under the tutelage of Lupo Groinig, producer of Hong Kong pop sensations, Soler. Hearing her raw talent, Groinig offered her a record deal with HummingBird Music.

Debut Album Jasmine’s songwriting process is organic,and built on emotion.Her sparkling stage presence and lyricism makes her stand out from a music industry saturated with fabricated“stars”.The songs on Jasmine’s debut album are all personal: “Little Women” is tale of women’s independence.“Sound of Rain” is a tribute to her idol, Taiwanese singer Chang Yu Sheng.“Every song is like a story,”she explains.“I’m very shy, I don’t talk a lot.So when I sing I’m telling my stories, of how I feel about everything.” With her debut album released in April 2007, this is an artist to look out for in the coming months and years. | 出生地: 台北 身　高: 160cm 體　重: 44kg 星　座: 魔羯座 擅長樂器: 鋼琴, 吉他

「我是庭竹，家庭的庭，竹子的竹。」她是這樣介紹著自己，簡單、純真。

她是庭竹，一個新的女聲。

第一個接觸的樂器就是鋼琴，跟每個初學鋼琴的我們一樣，會為了彈完一首完整的曲子高興個半天 隨著音符高興難過，簡單也容易被感動，那是她的開始。

她就像我們一樣長大，國中、高中到大學，音樂也陪著她，當她開心、難過，直接既純粹的喜歡 慢慢地，她開始思考，該隨著一般的價值觀步入社會，或是讓興趣變成未來 直到一個事情的發生-最愛的舅舅生病去世，第一次深刻地經歷生死、摯愛離去的痛苦 她壓抑著這些感受，第一首創作『遠方的祝福』就在這樣的情緒下誕生了。

「我說話，遠方的舅舅聽不見 如果我用唱的，他是不是就可以聽到，我想告訴他〝我想他〞。」

她開始認真思考，她希望音樂可以陪著她，她組團、計畫演唱、到處表演、也開始創作出一首又一首的歌曲： 寫給偶像張雨生的『雨聲』、 對大男人發出抗議宣言的『小女人』、關於思念一個人的心情『現在的你』。

2004年，在Los Angeles-Musician Institute學音樂的她，遇到soler的唱片監製Lupo Groinig，她原來只是想要錄一張專輯，算是給舅舅的成績單，她把所有創作的Demo給Lupo聽，說出每一首創作背後的故事，沒想到，Lupo居然開始欣賞起這個台灣來的小女生，帶著她進到Hummingbird，她的第一張專輯、音樂的第一步也在這裡踏出。

「我很害羞，不敢表達心中的想法，而創作幫我把平常說不出口的話變成一首歌抒發，讓我覺得很快樂！」

什麼樣的聲音可以是 有重量的 . 什麼樣的聲音可以是 有個性的 . 什麼樣的聲音可以是 感動人的 . 什麼樣的聲音可以是 沒壓力的 .

當你感到這個世界太過於複雜沉重，就讓庭竹帶著她的鋼琴、吉他以及聲音帶著你開始奔跑吧！ 她是庭竹，一個清新有個性的薄荷女聲。 「我是庭竹，家庭的庭，竹子的竹。」她是這樣介紹著自己，簡單、純真而已。