Tanya (stage name); 江廷燕

Biography

Jiang Tingyan (Tanya) was born around 1994 in Hong Kong. She began learning Cantonese opera at age seven and traveled abroad with her troupe in childhood, also studying Peking opera techniques. She won a school Cantonese opera competition in 2009. At 15, she went to Canada for university but transferred to a Cantonese opera school in Guangdong due to visa issues. She enrolled at the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts in 2015, representing the School of Chinese Opera in multimedia concerts. She studied directing at the National Academy of Chinese Theatre Arts in 2018 as an exchange student and completed her master's degree there. She won Cantonese opera competitions in 2017 and 2019. She currently performs with the Bi Hai Cantonese Opera Troupe and won hanfu modeling competitions in 2022 and 2023. Her sister Jiang Tinghui participated in a TV singing competition in 2022.