well, she came a longer way than that...
I've always admired her, since the days she was singing english pop covers in Dada (a pub in Boat Quay), with her band Private Collection.
Though her image, style and music (and even lingo) has changed, evolved and matured so much over the years, I still like the Tanya Chua I first saw, and believe very much that that is then her real self. She was sexy, energetic, and dared to be different.
As opposed to the current style she is being marketted, the images of her good old pub days will stay in my memory.
Cheers