| Start From Here | |
| Type: | studio |
| Artist: | Joanna Wang |
| Cover: | Start from Here cover.jpg |
| Released: | January 11, 2008 |
| Genre: | Pop, jazz, soul |
| Label: | Sony BMG Music Taiwan |
| Producer: | Bing Wang |
| Next Title: | Joanna & Wang Ruo-lin / The Adult Storybook |
| Next Year: | 2009 |
Start From Here is the debut album by singer-songwriter Joanna Wang, released by Sony BMG Taiwan in January 2008.[1] The album consists of two disks, featuring songs performed in English and Mandarin. It received mostly positive reviews and commercial success, with the sales of over 200,000 copies in Asia.[2]
Despite the album's success, Wang herself strongly dislikes the album, and the label of "jazz singer" under which she became known in Taiwan, in the wake of the album's success.[3] In a Reddit 'Ask Me Anything', she wrote:
At 17, I signed my first contract with Sony Music Taiwan, a decision I would soon have extremely mixed feelings - regret, fear, frustration, arousal, and sometimes hunger.
Long story short, the first two years was not what I expected and hoped for at all. After a lot of "no's, but's" and reluctant "yes's", at 19 I debuted with a shitastic record with the cheesiest and cliche 80's-esque music videos to very lame music that my label coerced me into singing [...]