She was the runner-up of the third season (2006) of Super Girl (Chinese: 超级女声), a singing contest in China.

When she was 19, she entered the Sichuan Conservatory of Music, where many the biggest names of the mainland Chinese Mandopop singer had been trained.

Thanks to Lanka Dolma, she learned many traditional singing techniques which nowadays, Tan uses in her recordings.

Since July, Tan Weiwei has been releasing new singles from her album “3811,” with each of the 11 songs chronicling stories of women from diverse backgrounds, including a taxi-driving single mom, an illiterate elderly woman, and a female poet from the Tang dynasty.

“Erase our names, forget our beings, same tragedy continues and repeats,” Tan sings.