biography
b i o g r a p h y
Olivia Thai engages with live audience members in a meaningful, yet comedic and relatable way. She pays close attention to the energy of the space to ensure that she delivers a truly unforgettable show. Olivia Thai engages with live audience members in a meaningful, yet comedic and relatable way. She pays close attention to the energy of the space to ensure that she delivers a truly unforgettable show. Her music is the perfect balance of truth, creativity, and sophistication.
She is able to captivate her audience by being a multi-instrumentalist with the ability to beat box, play the violin, guitar, and piano while singing - all at the same time. She records each instrument on stage with a looping machine. After creating her composition live, she adds her dynamic and soulful vocals to complete each song.
In addition to writing over 200 songs, Olivia was on the last season of American Idol on FOX, won Taiwan Idol, and won Megastar, Usher's worldwide talent competition in 2018. She has over 21 million views on YouTube with over two million fans worldwide. Olivia was also a writer and comedic actress for a comedy channel with over 2,000,000 subscribers.
r a n d o m f a c t s
She is not Thai - she is actually Chinese American
Winner of Megastar's December Spotlight 2018
#1 R&B artist on ReverbNation in 2015 & 2016
Featured as a contestant on FOX's American Idol XV in 2016
Received Best R&B Ballad at the Akademia Music Awards 2015
Received the Indepedent Music Award at the Hollywood Music in Media Awards 2015
Hawaii & LA-based singer-songwriter with 21,000,000+ YouTube views & 2,000,000+ fans
Winner of Taiwanese Idol 2009 (ETTV Top Idol)
Winner of CCTV Singing Competition, UCLA HKSS Internal Singing Competition, Asian American Sports Club Singing Competition, and several other local Los Angeles singing competitions
Former National Anthem singer for NBA's Los Angeles Clippers & WNBA's Los Angeles Sparks
Speech Level Singing (Level 5) voice instructor since 2008
Started college at 13 years old
Plays the piano, violin, and guitar
Can sort of beat box + play ukulele, bass, cello, viola, clarinet, and most instruments.
Speaks English, Cantonese, Mandarin, and Diojiu
Studies French, Spanish, Portuguese, Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese, Italian, Russian, and Arabic regularly
Develops recipes for ProduceParty on Instagram
Former main cast, writer, and staff member at JustKiddingFilms
Has a latte in hand 90% of all non-music-playing waking hours