Tanya Chua (Chinese: 蔡健雅; pinyin: Cài Jiànyǎ) (born 28 January 1975 in Singapore) is a Golden Melody Award-winning Singaporean singer and songwriter. A former business administration student, Chua started out singing in English, releasing her first English album, Bored, in 1997. She was also the first Singaporean to win a prize in the Asia Song Festival, coming in first in the "Unpublished" category in 1998 before she furthered her studies at the Musicians Institute in Hollywood, California.