Chinese-born, Vancouver-based singer/songwriter Wanting has joined Nettwerk’s label, management and publishing rosters.

She will release her debut full-length studio album Everything In The World on April 24, 2012.

Whether penned in her native tongue of Chinese or English (which she only learned to speak at age 16), Wanting’s piano-swept music has already won a following because her compositions—pop musings that plumb emotion—resonate universally.

Without a label behind her, Wanting’s tunes have already sound-tracked the upcoming Chinese film Love in the Buff, appeared on a Mercedes Benz sampler, and amassed combined views of millions on Chinese YouTube.

Wanting (whose last name Qu means “music, song, melody”) started to sing before she could even talk.

Her mother recalls, “You would know when she was awake because she’d be singing the theme song from this Chinese TV series called ‘Undercover Cop’ loudly in bed to the ceiling.”

Wanting played piano as a child, realized her true passion to be a songwriter and recording artist when she left the industrial city of Harbin, China, at age 16 for boarding school in Canada.

Along the way, bought herself a keyboard (“It cost two courses of tuition,” she says. “I didn’t go to school for six months.”) and a guitar, and taught herself to play.  She began writing songs in both Chinese and English, and when she graduated from business school in 2006, she told her mother that she needed to be a musician.

It was a combination of raw talent and persistence that first caught the attention of Nettwerk CEO Terry McBride Says McBride, “Wanting sent me an email containing demos, and I was immediately captivated by the honesty of the lyrics and the authentic song writing. She has the wonderful ability to seamlessly blend the cultures of East with the melodics of the West, making her a true Asia Pacific artist.”