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Jennifer Chan | |||||||
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| Occupation(s) | Radio personality, creative director, singer, actor, architect | ||||||
| Years active | 1980s-2000s | ||||||
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| Traditional Chinese | 陳漢詩 | ||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 陈汉诗 | ||||||
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| Genres | Cantopop | ||||||
Jennifer Chan (born 25 September, year unknown) is a former Hong Kong radio personality, creative director, singer-songwriter, film actress and architect of Chinese and Scottish descent, most active from around the late 1980s to the 2000s.
Chan became a radio personality after entering a 1987 disk jockey competition held by RTHK. [1] Contestants that year included Vivian Chow and Christopher Wong, with whom Chan later co-hosted a number of programmes on Radio 2. [2]
In 1996, Chan released the EP Still Thinking of You, for which she wrote all of the music and lyrics. [3] She had a starring role in the 1999 film Dreamtrips, which was screened at the 23rd Hong Kong International Film Festival. [4]
She currently[ when? ] resides in Paris, France, and is a registered architect after graduating with a master's degree from the École nationale supérieure d'architecture de Paris-Malaquais.[ citation needed ]
Sammi Cheng Sau-man is a Hong Kong singer and actress. She is considered one of the most prominent female singers in Hong Kong, with album sales of over 25 million copies throughout the Asia-pacific. Most notably in the 1990s, she was dubbed by the media as the "Cantopop Queen". Having success in entertainment industry for over three decades, Cheng is also best known for her roles in Hong Kong rom-com films in the early 2000s that were box office hits. For her performance in the 2022 film Lost Love, she won 4 best actress honors including the Hong Kong Film Award for Best Actress.
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