Jannine Weigel

Jannine Parawie Weigel (Thai: ญานนีน ภารวี ไวเกล; born 30 July 2000), also known by the Thai nickname Ploychompoo (Thai: พลอยชมพู), is a Thai singer, actress, YouTuber, influencer, songwriter, gamer, and model of German descent.

Weigel was born on 30 July 2000 in Steinfurt, Germany, to a German father and a Thai mother. Her first name, Jannine (Thai: ญานนีน; [jaːn.niːn]), was from Hebrew, meaning "Yahweh is gracious". Her middle name, Parawie (Thai: ภารวี; Pharawi; [pʰaː.rá.wiː]), means "sunbeam" in Thai. Her Thai nickname, Ploychompoo (Thai: พลอยชมพู; Phloichomphu; [pʰlɔːj.t͡ɕʰom.pʰuː]), means "pink sapphire".

Weigel has three elder brothers, born 1986, 1988, and 1990, respectively. She lived in Steinfurt until her tenth year of age and moved to Bangkok, Thailand, in July 2010.

Weigel attended primary schools in Germany until Grade 4 as she moved to Bangkok. In Thailand, she was given homeschooling until Grade 6. She continued her education through distance learning until Grade 9, which she completed in 2014. By way of Advanced Placement, she now undertakes a pre-degree course at the Faculty of Liberal Arts, Sukhothai Thammathirat Open University, where she majors in English.

Weigel has an excellent command of Central Thai, English, and German. She is also studying Mandarin Chinese and Vietnamese.

Weigel started working as a model after moving to Bangkok in 2010. The next year, she turned her attention to singing. Following three months of training, she entered a national televised singing contest for children, called Singing Kids, and won third place. From there, she became an artist trainee at GMM Grammy in October 2012 before becoming a full artist under it.

In 2012, during her trainee period, she appeared in the music video of Getsunova's "Klai Khae Nai Khue Klai" (ไกลแค่ไหนคือใกล้; "How Much Further Is It Till I Could Be Near You?"), which brought her to fame. In 2013, she started her YouTube channel where she publishes, amongst other things, her covers of popular songs. Many of the covers went viral and gained many million views.

In 2015, Weigel released her first single, "Chak Din Chak Ngo", followed by a number of original soundtrack songs. In the same year, she was given the main roles in the television series Banlang Mek and the film Senior. In 2016, she issued her second single, "Away". She then released a couple more songs with the company GMM Grammy such as "Because Of You" and "I'm Glad". In the same year, she released a new project, The Black Moon consists of 4 horror short movies with her name credited as executive producer. She then ended her contract with GMM Grammy in June 2018.

Soon after that, she signed a contract with Universal Music Singapore and released a song called "Pak Rai Jai Rak". The following year, she was starring as main actress in "Pee Nak", a horror-comedy movie which achieved more than 150 million Baht in Thailand Box Office and released a song called "Words" which led her to be nominated as "Best Southeast Asia Act 2019" in MTV Europe Music Awards Seville

She had joined a lot of music shows abroad whether in South Korea, Phillipines, Indonesia, Malaysia and others.

On 6 December 2019, she became the first artist to be signed under a new label, RedRecords, a collaboration between AirAsia Group and Universal Music Group.

Her latest drama, When I Was 16 was produced since 2016 but later on air 4 years later on Channel True4U on 3 February 2020.

EPs

Singles

Original soundtracks

As featured artist

Other songs

Television series

Films