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The local pop princess discusses her fantasy dinner date and how she feels local institutions have helped music progress here.
From a viral TikTok track, to 1.5 million monthly listeners on Spotify, 20-year-old Regina Song has had quite a meteoric rise to fame thanks to her single ‘the cutest pair’ from her debut album ‘fangirl’, which was released in June 2024. Since then, she has travelled around the region to promote the album, playing in venues from Kuala Lumpur to Manila.
Before she decided singing was her passion, Regina was studying classical piano at School of the Arts (SOTA). Joining the school’s acapella group as well as a pop band convinced her to do vocal training, which in turn gave her the confidence to choose voice track as a minor in her studies. While she had a place in a Bachelor of Arts in Music programme at the University of the Arts Singapore in 2024, she decided to take a break from school to focus on her singing career – choosing to seize the moment and capitalise not just on her own success, but on the boom of female artists worldwide. “I think female artists have been gaining so much more attention and love all over the world,” she says. “The female artists that I’ve been following are so versatile, and I think it’s so fun that so many genres of music and styles are being represented in pop culture now.”
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Regina counts Taylor Swift as one of her idols and believes they would have amazing conversations together on a dinner date (“I think we would have the most intense and intellectual conversations, and I’m here for that. I’d love to learn about her and learn from her experiences as the world’s biggest pop star,” she says). She has also been touched by how much her music has resonated with a global audience. Her regional tour, which kicked off in January 2025, was a sudden decision but one that she feels was made at the right time. “I think one of the most surprising things for me would be to realize how my music has impacted fans from different countries outside of Singapore,” she says.
As a singer in the social media era, she is also conscious of how that is one of her greatest assets when interacting with fans and how that is part of the “job”. “My biggest challenge was posting consistently, honestly,” she says. “I would get unmotivated a lot, but I’m glad that I always found myself coming back to doing what I love. After a while, I made being consistent a habit and part of my lifestyle.”
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Regina loves performing and is keen to do so in Singapore for more of her fans. At the moment she is working on finding the right venue. “I never fathomed that I would be able to play in stadiums [around Asia], so it would be my dream to be able to play in Singapore at somewhere like the Indoor Stadium. Finding the right venue in the country is something I’m actively working on and I hope to be able to bring to life for my fans in Singapore soon,” she says.
Singapore Sports Hub has always been supportive of local artists, with everyone from Stephanie Sun to Benjamin Kheng having performed at their venues. Even Regina herself has enjoyed that honour, playing at their Let’s Celebrate 2025 Countdown. “I really enjoyed every single moment of it. I feel like more people have discovered my music after the countdown performance earlier this year!” One day – maybe five years into the future she says — she would love to perform at the National Stadium, until then she’s grateful for the support offered to local musicians. “I think it’s great that Sports Hub plays a lot of local music,” she says. “I’ve gotten a handful of voice recordings of my music played at Sports Hub, and I think that’s amazing exposure because Sports Hub goers tend to be music lovers as well.”
Article first published on Lifestyle Asia, 28th March 2025.
