Daphne Khoo

Daphne Khoo
Background information
Birth name	Daphne Khoo Pheng Yi
Born	(1987-01-22) 22 January 1987
Origin	Singapore
Genres	English pop
Years active	2004–present
Website	www.daphnekhoomusic.virb.com

Daphne Khoo is a Singaporean singer. She was a contestant in the first season of Singapore Idol, finishing up in fourth place (third runner up) during Asian Songs week. She was also host of Idol-On-Demand, an online programme for Singapore Idol. She was video-featured on Singapore youth TV station CTV. She was also one of the contestants in the television show The Dance Floor in the group Snaap!

Khoo was born in Perth, Australia, and moved to Singapore when she was eight, where she lived with her family. She has an older and a younger sister. She also studied in St. Margaret's Secondary School in Singapore

Daphne released her debut album in December 2007 titled "Desperate" featuring twelve tracks, one of which was contributed by Ling Jia Hao (Track 8 "Rescue"). She has released a few unofficial singles, and one for the Idol-based show, Shooting Stars. She was formerly the lead singer of West Grand Boulevard. She was a Mass Communications student at Ngee Ann Polytechnic's School of Film and Media Studies where she pursued a diploma. She completed her degree in communications at RMIT in 2009 in Melbourne, Australia.

In 2010, she began studying Songwriting at Berklee College of Music in Boston, Massachusetts and currently resides in Manhattan, New York. In early 2012, she was diagnosed with stage 1 of ovarian cancer but is coping well with its treatment.

Filmography

• Shooting Stars (2005) ; from Singapore Idol
• The Showdown (2008) ; from Channel 5's brand new local game show

Discography

Albums

• Desperate (2007)

Singles

• 2007: Doll
• 2008: Desperate

• 2012: Carry On
• 2013: Rooftops
• 2014: Wonderland
• 2015: Louder (Paul van Dyk & Roger Shah featuring Daphne Khoo)
• 2015: Greatest (Songs of the Games-2015 Southeast Asian Games)

External links

• Daphne Khoo at the Internet Movie Database