Category Archives: Singers/Musicians/DJs

Filipina-Spanish Singer Lora Love

Lora Love

Filipina-Spanish singer Lora Love will appear in a six-page pictorial for the March issue of FHM Philippines. Asian Sirens readers, of course, get the scoop on this hottie. The pictures you see here will not appear in FHM.Raised in a small rice village in the Philippine province of Iloilo, Lora found fame in the big city of Manila at the tender age of sixteen. After doing the rounds of local TV shows, Hyatt hotels, and a movie soundtrack, Lora pursued her tertiary education at Aquinas College and Swinburne University in Melbourne. If you live in Melbourne, you may have caught one of her performances at the Crown Casino.

Now at age twenty-four, Lora returns to the Philippines with a magazine spread and a debut album. You can follow her return at her upcoming Web site, LoraLove.net. Let’s see if this dusky songstress can make a comeback from teenybopper to siren.

Lora Love
Lora Love
Lora Love
Lora Love
Lora Love
Lora Love

Yuna Ito – Trust You

Ever since I heard this song in the fourth ending sequence for Gundam 00, it’s become part of my mellow midnight playlist. In her single Trust You, Japanese chanteuse Yuna Ito sings the words we would all love to hear from the Asian sirens we love.

Gundam 00 is a giant robot space opera, and astronomy nerds will appreciate the tastefully placed references in this video: antique starmaps, satellite dishes, and Jupiter looming large in the sky. If rocker chicks are more your thing, check out the video for the show’s fourth opening song, Namida no Mukou.

Baek Ji-young

Baek Ji-young

Korean singer Baek Ji-young, whose career was temporarily derailed but not destroyed, by a sex video scandal in late 2000, was recently presented with the song of the month award at the Cyworld Digital Awards show in Seoul, much to the surprise of some, who thought her male competitor would easily walk away with the honors.I’ve always admired her for the way she bounced back after the video of her having sex with her former manager hit cyberspace just a year after her debut, rather than go into hiding like other celebs would have chosen to do (such as 1989 Miss Korea Oh Hyun-kyung did after her infamous “Miss Oh” video made the Internet in 1999).

Yours truly saw Ji-young in concert less than a year after the scandal broke, and despite the many empty seats in the house, she gave a dynamic performance. Even though she was criticized by many Korean netizens for coming back “too soon” after the scandal, the posters for that concert were boldly worded; “Baek Ji-young Strikes Back.”

With her latest album being her 7th, it’s good to see that she’s still going strong. (Take note, Hoang Thuy Linh.) Oh, and for those of you who are curious to learn more about her sex video scandal, her Wikipedia entry here covers it, as well as the rest of her career, very accurately.

Oh, and yes, I’ve seen the video but no, I won’t post it, so send your requests to Zamscan, not me.

Baek Ji-young Strikes Back Concert Poster
Poster from her 2001 “Strikes Back” concert. Definitely a keeper.

Baek Ji-young
On the December 2003 cover of the Korean edition of Maxim

Baek Ji-young
Performing at the 2007 SBS Music Awards


The music video to her current single; “Like Being Hit by a Bullet”

This is Why I’m Hot

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This is Che’Nelle, also known as Cheryline Lim. Somehow she popped up as a “Recommended for You” video when I visited YouTube. I clicked it. She had remixed a song that had otherwise annoyed me and now was fairly catchy. And she looked pretty hot to boot. So she gets to be featured here for your viewing and listening pleasure. Video and photos seen below.She got her first recording contract in 2005 and came out with her first Album in 2007, with singles that reached as high as number 1 in Russia, #4 in Japan, and apparently #98 in the United States (though I have never heard her name before). You can see her music on her MySpace page linked to below. Her hit single is called “I Fell In Love With The DJ,” though I do not think it is the best example of her voice.

As far as outside of her music career, she was born in 1983 in Malaysia to a Chinese Malaysian father and Indian-Dutch mother. She moved to Perth, Western Australia. Because she is not a model it was hard to find many decent photos, so you get the ones I found below.

Stats:

Age: 25
Height: Short
Ethnicity: 1/2 Chinese Malaysian, 1/2 Dutch and Indian
Located: Perth, Western Australia

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This Is Why I’m Hot
This Is Why I’m Hot
I Didn’t Change Up
Just To Get What I Got
This Is Why I’m Hot
This Is Why I’m Hot
Cause I’m The Same Girl
Just Makin’ It To The Top
This Why Im Hot
Cause I Ain’t Fakin’ Ain’t Actin’
I Ain’t Sellin Out On My Friends
So This Is Why This Is Why
This Is Why I’m Hot

Links:

MySpace
I Fell in Love with the DJ
Hurry Up

Ying Ying (Jessica)

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We recently received an interesting email from this Chinese Australian girl, who felt we didn’t feature enough Asian Australians here, and suggested we might want to do a post on her to try and redress this imbalance (this is in spite of the fact that I’m an Aussie myself, as is our hostess Sachiko). She certainly has a good point though: we really haven’t featured many Asian Australians at all. However, the sad reality is that Asian models still don’t have much of a presence here, even though we actually have a lot of Asian babes. Also, most of the glamour photography done here is, quite frankly, embarrassingly bad (and it seems that most of our makeup artists don’t know how to work with Asian girls either). So it was with great relief that I discovered that Jessica’s photos were not only very high quality, but that she was also very attractive, with a remarkably curvacious yet slim body.

However, the most interesting part of all was her bio – it turns out she is a whole lot more than just a pretty face (and sexy body!). Her bio – plus many much more revealing photos – can be found after the jump.

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Name: Ying Ying (aka Jessica)
DOB: 13 September 1989
Height: 170cm
Ethnicity: Chinese
Hometown: Shanghai, China
Country of residence: Western Australia, Australia

At heart I’m a concert violinist but very passionate about all forms of art. Music has been and still is a huge part of my life (I started learning violin when I was three as my father is a professional violinist) and has taken me all around the world. At the moment, I am putting myself through university so violin performances have taken the back seat and I am currently teaching violin and musicology. I’m completing a bachelor of science in the discipline of physiotherapy. This year in 2009 I’m hoping to gain entry into a Law and Commerce degree. Starting my own teaching business and settling into university has been the main focus in my life for the past two years leaving not much room for anything else. 2009 is a welcomed year as everything is finally falling into place for me and I am able to pursue my hobbies again. As you can guess, music is making a come back on the top of my hobbies list (It is a hobby but it also happens to be what defines me as a person the most as opposed to my prospective career paths). I use to regularly collaborate with different artists mostly in the asian community to organise charity concerts and galas- I’m hoping to continue doing that this year. Art is severely neglected in the Australian society and I feel the public has been deprived of an element in life that I couldn’t imagine living without so I am doing my part to keep it alive. Being brought up in Australia, I love being outdoors and being active so I participate in a wide range of sport and having the general attitude to stay fit and healthy. I am also a member of the Australian Pistol Association – there’s nothing like having a bad day then getting even at the shooting range haha…don’t worry I’m perfectly safe and harmless. Being an art fanatic I love photography. To be able to ‘catch that moment’ and preserve it in time is priceless. I spend most of my time behind not in front of the camera (for the simple reason that I’m just not photogenic enough) and its only recently that I decided to swap roles and model for a change. I’m also a literature enthusiast especially concerning poetry and philosophy in the appreciation of it as well as composing my own work.

I am passionate about everything that I do and about every single person in my life. Sometimes people confuse my passion with my temper. I am demanding but never without reason. I expect no less than a vision to strive for perfection from everyone else because that is what I will strive to give to you too. I like the simple things in life but I enjoy the complex things just as much. I believe a girl can have the smarts, wit, feminine charm, class, beauty (inner as well as outter) to command respect, power and success. I think too many women these days forget that external beauty is not everlasting and a mere ‘win’ in God’s lucky dip and as a result become an empty shell with no aspirations, goals or substance. Who said we can’t have both? 😉

I am ruled by my emotions and am impulsive- not so good for the purse but I like to live my life in the now and live it my way and without boundaries except moral. I have a dark side which is my alter ego. I have a lingerie fetish which only seems to get worse. From the outside I am conservative. Mystery is intriguing so I’m going to leave the rest to your imagination…

My own personal communications with Jessica have confirmed that she is indeed exceptionally intelligent, accomplished and emotionally mature and self assured for someone so young – a refreshing change from the shallow attention seekers who (sadly) so often get featured here, and who seem to dominate the web these days! Personally I was also quite struck by how Eurasian she looked – not just her face but also her body. As it turns out, she has a fair bit of Russian blood on her mother’s side. This can be seen quite clearly in the following very nice (and quite revealing) photos, I think:

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