Elva Hsiao, also known as Elva Siu, is a Taiwanese mandarin pop singer.
She speaks and writes some English, due to having lived for a year or two during her highschool years in Vancouver, British Columbia. While in Vancouver, she entered the New Talent Singing Awards Vancouver Audition 1998 with her birth name of Hsiao Ya-chih . She became one of the 12 finalists but did not place in the top 5. The song she sang was CoCo Lee's "Love Me A While Longer ". Also in the competition that year were 3 other Taiwanese celebrities, 183 Club member Jacky Chu (who was the winner), DJ Ruby Lu (1st Runner-Up) and (Michelle*Vickie) member Michelle Hsu (now known as Mimi or Michelle).
She has had film roles in two movies: Infernal Affairs (2002) and The Butterfly Lovers (2004). She is rumored to be participating in Fresh Tomato For Sauce (Announced 2007) alongsides Rainie Yang and Cyndi Wang.
And by joining EMI Virgin Records, the EMI's Gold Label Records which is seen as a inter-industrial agency is starting to find scripts and tailor-made contexts for Elva as she is planned to have more participations in movies under EMI as this is one of the strategic plans of EMI changes in Asia.