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Ken Lim | |||||||
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| Born | 1964 Singapore | ||||||
| Occupation | Musician | ||||||
| Years active | 1977–2025 | ||||||
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| Traditional Chinese | 林智強 | ||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 林智强 | ||||||
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Ken Lim Chih Chiang (born 1964) is a Singaporean musician and convicted sex offender.
He was born in 1964.
In 1992 at the age of 28, he started record company Hype records, and has served as the executive director since. [1]
From 2004 to 2009, he served as a chief judge of Singapore Idol, known for his remarks and deadpan expressions. [2]
From 2002 to 2017, Hype records managed Jeanette Aw. Similarly from 2002 to 2021, they also managed Rui En [1]
In 2024, Lim was acquitted of insulting a woman’s modesty in an alleged incident which alleged happened in 2012. [3]
On 18 Nov 2025, Lim was sentenced to 13 months imprisonment for molesting a 25-year old woman in 2021 during an interview. The case is currently on appeal before the High Court of Appeal. [4] The incident happened at the Hype Records office in Henderson Road on Nov 23, 2021, where Lim was the executive director of the record company.
Ken is married to Judy Hsu, a Taiwanese-Canadian and Singaporean PR who is currently the CEO of Wealth and Retail Banking at Standard Chartered bank.She was formerly a singer known as Hsu Zhong Wei (徐仲薇). They have two boys. [1]
•1981 – Awarded 'The Most Outstanding Composition Award' at the Asia Popular Song Festival
•1985 – Awarded the 'Most Outstanding Television Theme Song' for 2 consecutive years
•1999 – Won Best Movie Theme Song at Compass;
•2002 – Won the Siggraph awards in New Orleans for the cyber recording artiste video;
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