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 high school 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).