Juwei Teoh, from Instagram star to pop singer

Popular Instagram user Juwei Teoh releases a Mandarin album titled Myself.

Local social media darling Juwei Teoh has a lot going for her. Her colourful Instagram account is all the rage with the hip and happening crowd. When she posts her pictures, netizens comment that she looks like mainland China’s highest-paid actress Fan Bingbing. When she sings, Mandopop fans say that she sounds like Malaysian pop diva Fish Leong.

Hailed as one of Malaysia’s top new online media divas of the year, the social media celebrity goes by her name Juwei. She recently made a successful transition from power blogger to recording artiste, with 253k views on YouTube for the music video for her first song White Jacket (Bai Se Wai Tao in Mandarin). In fact, her ever-growing online influence made the tune an overnight hit; White Jacket garnered up to 100,000 views in just one day.