Jannine Weigel

Weigel was born on 30 July 2000 in Steinfurt, Germany,[1] to a Thai mother and a German father.[2] Her first name, Jannine (Thai: ญานนีน, IPA: [jaːn.niːn]), was from Hebrew, meaning "Yahweh is gracious".[2] Her middle name, Parawie (Thai: ภารวี, RTGS: Pharawi, IPA: [pʰaː.rá.wiː]), means "sunbeam" in Thai.[2] Her Thai nickname, Ploychompoo (Thai: พลอยชมพู, RTGS: Phloichomphu, IPA: [pʰlɔːj.t͡ɕʰom.pʰuː]), means "pink sapphire".[3]

Weigel has three elder brothers, born 1986, 1988 and 1990, respectively.[2] She lived in Steinfurt until her tenth year of age and moved to Bangkok, Thailand, in July 2010.[2]

Weigel attended St Martin kindergarten and Regenborgen Primary School in Steinfurt, Germany until Grade 4 as she moved to Bangkok.[4] In Thailand, she was given homeschooling until Grade 6.[4] She continued her education through distance learning until Grade 9, which she completed in 2014.[4] By way of Advanced Placement, she now undertakes a pre-degree course at the Faculty of Liberal Arts, Sukhothai Thammathirat Open University, where she majors in English.[4] She took a summer course in Berklee College of Music in 2018 whereas she received a scholarship from the college.

Weigel speaks Central Thai, English and German.[3][4] She is also studying Mandarin Chinese and Vietnamese.[3]

Weigel is a Christian.[2]

Weigel started working as a model after moving to Bangkok in 2010. The next year, she turned her attention to singing. Following three months of training, she entered a national televised singing contest for children, called Singing Kids, and won third place.[3] From there, she became an artist trainee at GMM Grammy in October 2012 before becoming a full artist under it.[2]

In 2012, during her trainee period, she appeared in the music video of Getsunova's "Klai Khae Nai Khue Klai" (ไกลแค่ไหนคือใกล้, "How Much Further Is It Till I Could Be Near You?"), which brought her to fame.[2] In 2013, she started her YouTube channel where she publishes, amongst other things, her covers of popular songs. Many of the covers went viral and gained many million views.[5]

In 2015, Weigel released her first single, "Chak Din Chak Ngo", followed by a number of original soundtrack songs.[2] In the same year, she was given the main roles in the television series Banlang Mek and the film Senior.[2][6] In 2016, she issued her second single, "Away".[7] She then released a couple more songs with the company GMM Grammy such as "Because Of You"[8] and "I'm Glad".[9] In the same year, she released a new project, The Black Moon consists of 4 horror short movies with her name credited as executive producer.[10] She then ended her contract with GMM Grammy in June 2018.[11]

Soon after, she signed a contract[12] with Universal Music Singapore and released a song called "Pak Rai Jai Rak".[13] The following year, she was starring as main actress in "Pee Nak",[14] a horror-comedy movie which achieved more than 150 million Baht in[15] Thailand Box Office and released a song called "Words" which led her to be nominated as "Best Southeast Asia Act 2019" in MTV Europe Music Awards Seville[16]

She had joined a lot of music shows abroad whether in South Korea, Malaysia, Philippines, Indonesia, and others.

On December 6, 2019, she became the first artist to be signed under a new label, RedRecords, based in Kuala Lumpur, a joint venture between AirAsia Group and Universal Music Group.[17]

She released her debut single under the label called "Passcode" on September 18, 2020. "Passcode" was recorded and completed in Malaysia. Produced by Tommy Brown (record producer) and was co-written by Jessie Reyez.

• Official website
• redrecords.com
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• Jannine Weigel's channel on YouTube
• Jannine Parawie Weigel at IMDb