# Kit Chan

Kit Chan (born 15 September 1972) is a Singaporean singer and actress.

## Early life and education

Born on 15 September 1972 in Singapore, Chan is the third daughter in a family of four sisters.
Chan studied in Fairfield Methodist School, Raffles Girls' School, Raffles Junior College and Lasalle-SIA College of the Arts. During Chan's six-year hiatus from the music scene from 2004 to 2010, she returned to LaSalle as a mature student. She wrote a thesis on the psychology of performance and graduated with first-class honors.

## Career

Since her debut in 1993, Chan has worked in singing, theatre, television drama, poetry, song-writing, entrepreneurship and creative direction. In 1994, Chan released the album Heartache (心痛) into the Taiwanese market. She subsequently released more albums regionally including Liking You (喜欢你), Dazzling (炫耀), and Worried (担心), performing in parts of Asia, the United States, Korea, and New Zealand, as well as collaborating with symphonies and orchestras in Hong Kong, Taiwan and Singapore.
Chan performed a song, Home, during the 1998 Singapore National Day Parade which became very popular in Singapore. It was subsequently performed in various editions of the National Day Parades.
Chan took a hiatus in 2004 from her performing career to further her studies and joined international PR consultancy Hill & Knowlton as a campaign specialist in 2007. She worked on the Ministry of Defence's 2009 Total Defence campaign, 'What Will You Defend?'. She left the company after 19 months.
Chan has also worked linguistically and theatrically, with her Cantopop, and English albums. She has held lead roles in the Hong Kong musical Snow.Wolf.Lake with Jacky Cheung – both the Cantonese version in 1997 and the Mandarin production in 2005 – followed by The Legend (where she played the late Teresa Teng), and Forbidden City: Portrait of An Empress (where she played the young Empress Dowager Cixi)– first performed in 2002 as part of the Esplanade's opening programme, and again in 2003. Chan has also played the lead in the Dutch-Hong Kong production of East Meets West, and the Taiwanese musical What's Love Got to Do with It?.
In September 2006, she reprised her role again in Forbidden City: Portrait of an Empress, as part of a plan to make this musical internationally recognized, in the hope of going on a world tour. Chan later fronted the first Singapore Day in New York City in 2007. After her corporate sojourn, Chan performed the commissioned theme song One World at the APEC 2009 Gala Night and returned the theatre as leading lady (Li Qing) in the Mandarin musical December Rains (雨季) at Esplanade Theatre in 2010. In the same year, she sang Home for the third time at the National Day Parade. Chan was also a member of the cast of the television drama Healing Hands II, the sequel to TVB's medical drama Healing Hands in 2000. She was the female lead in SPH MediaWorks Channel U's drama serial Cash is King. Chan also acted in the 2010 film Lover's Discourse.
In 2011, Chan released her first studio album Re-interpreting Kit Chan (重譯 陳潔儀) since 2004 and staged two solo concerts in collaboration with the Singapore Chinese Orchestra at Esplanade Concert Hall, as the anchor performance of the Huayi Chinese Festival of Arts 2011. In the same year, she held her three-night solo concert The Music Room at the Marina Bay Sands Grand Theater. Also in 2011, Chan worked with Nexus, Ministry of Defence as Creative Director for the Total Defence "Home – Keeping It Together" Campaign 2011. She was also executive producer for the remake of the Home MV, which featured 39 local artistes spanning different genres, eras and races, including Max Surin, Dick Lee, Taufik Batisah, JJ Lin, and Stefanie Sun. She wrote the theme song 倔强 for the MediaCorp Channel 8 anniversary drama Devotion, which won Best Drama Theme Song award at the 2012 Star Awards. Concerts themed An Enchanted Evening with Chiu Tsang Hei (傾城) were also held in Hong Kong.
In 2014, Chan performed in her first leading film role in Jason Lai's Miss J Contemplates Her Choice as the titular Miss J, who offers advice to callers on a radio talk show. The film premiered at the Singapore International Film Festival in December. In 2014, Chan reportedly underwent a surgical procedure that left her barely able to speak, however she completed her 'Spellbound' concert eventually in 2015 at Star Theatre. She also participated in China reality singing contest I Am A Singer where Chinese critic Deng Ke remarked that Kit Chan can't sing. She announced her retirement from performing at the National Day Parades in 2015 after making her last NDP performance. In 2015, she sang the theme song for Channel 8 Blockbuster The Dream Makers II.
In July 2016, she released her first album of original material in 12 years, titled The Edge of Paradise (天堂边缘). In September, Chan ended her Spellbound concert tour with a finale at Singapore Indoor Stadium to a 7,000-strong audience.
In 2018, Chan marked her 25th anniversary as a singer with an acoustic live sessions album in which she also penned the lyrics for the title track “A Time for Everything”. She also staged “25 Years On: A Time For Everything” concerts in Singapore and Taipei.
Chan has published a collection of her English poems, Cork out of my Head, in 2000 in Taiwan, I Write a Page in 2000 in Singapore, and a fiction book (together with her friend, Siew Fern Yong) titled Cathy and Jodie: The Princess and the Flea.
In 2022, Chan performed in The LKY Musical, where she performed as the late Madam Kwa Geok Choo, the wife of Singapore’s founding Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew.

## Community involvement

In 1998, Chan was appointed as the first National Youth Ambassador for Singapore's National Youth Council. She served for two years. From 2001 to 2005, she served as a council member with the National Youth Council. In 2002 the Commonwealth Youth Programme Asia Centre awarded her an Award for Excellence in Youth Work.
In 2007, Chan was appointed to the board of the National Heritage Board over a two-year period, reaching out to the Singapore audience and linking with the creative industries.
She is also the ambassador to the Christian relief organization "World Vision".

## Business ventures

Chan has invested in two boutiques in Singapore, Flowers in the Attic and Roses in the Loft.
In 2010, Chan set up her own record label, named after her singing group Banshee Empire from when she was in secondary school.

## Personal life

It was reported that Chan married her long-time boyfriend in 2012 and divorced in 2017.
However, during an interview on “The Assembly”, aired on news network CNA in January 2025, Chan clarified that although she held a “wedding dinner” she was never legally married and hence, was never divorced.

## Discography

| Year | Title |
| 1993 | Do Not Destroy The Harmony (EP) 不要傷了和气 |
| 1994 | Heartache 心痛 |
| 1995 | Cornered 逼得太紧 |
| 1996 | Sadness 伤心 |
| 1996 | Don't Let Me Hate You 别让我恨你 |
| 1997 | Revelation 揭晓 (Cantonese) |
| 1998 | "Home" (Single) |
| 1998 | Dreams and Memories 有你愛过 (Cantonese) |
| 1998 | Too Deep in the Act 入戏太深 |
| 1999 | Dazzling 炫耀 |
| 2000 | That Day, That Night 那天那夜 |
| 2000 | Best 最好 (Cantonese) |
| 2000 | Lola 萝拉 |
| 2001 | Numbness 麻醉 (Cantonese) |
| 2002 | Like Kit 喜歡.潔儀.喜歡 (Compilation) |
| 2002 | Dreamscape 异想世界 |
| 2003 | Understand 懂得 |
| 2004 | East Toward Saturn 东弯土星 |
| 2008 | Love Again 再愛一回 - 精選集 (Compilation) |
| 2008 | Kit Chan Selections 私房歌 (2CD) |
| 2009 | Kit Chan Selections 私房歌 (24K Gold Edition) |
| 2009 | Wait and Wait 等了又等 (Compilation) |
| 2010 | Songs From The Heart 心頭歌 (Compilation) |
| 2011 | Re-interpreting Kit Chan 重譯 陳潔儀 |
| 2011 | Re-interpreting Kit Chan 重譯 陳潔儀 . 重奏 |
| 2011 | "The Music Room” Concert Live Recording 想像空間 Live |
| 2012 | An Enchanted Evening with Kit Chan & Chiu Tsang Hei featuring the HKCITYPOPS 傾城 - 陳潔儀 X 趙增熹音樂會 Live |
| 2016 | Wait 等 (EP) |
| 2016 | The Edge of Paradise 天堂邊緣 |
| 2018 | A Time For Everything |
| 2022 | In Parallel 平行线 (EP) |
| 2023 | 安 (Cantonese, Single) |
| 2023 | 願愛堅定 (Mandarin, Single) |
| 2023 | Home (25th Anniversary Remake) (English, Single) |
| 2024 | 落花如雨 (新傳媒戲劇《小娘惹之翡翠山》主題曲 / Mediacorp drama "Emerald Hill" theme song) (Mandarin, Single) |
| 2024 | 笑容 (《雄獅少年音樂劇》 精選曲 / From the musical "I Am What I Am") (Cantonese, Single) |

## Theatre

| Year | Performance type | Title | Location |
| 1997 | Musical (Cantonese) | Snow.Wolf.Lake | Hong Kong |
| 1998 | Musical (Cantonese) | The Legend 漫步人生路 | Hong Kong |
| 2001 | Concert (English / Mandarin / Cantonese) | That's Kit 就是陳潔儀 | Singapore |
| 2002 | Musical (Cantonese) | East Meets West 千里情牽 | Hong Kong |
| 2002 | Musical (English) | Forbidden City: Portrait of an Empress 慈禧太后的肖像 | Singapore |
| 2003 | Musical (Mandarin) | What's Love About? 愛情有什麼道理 | Singapore |
| 2003 | Musical (English) | Forbidden City: Portrait of an Empress 慈禧太后的肖像 | Singapore |
| 2005 | Musical (Mandarin) | Snow.Wolf.Lake | China, Hong Kong |
| 2006 | Musical (English) | Forbidden City: Portrait of an Empress 慈禧太后的肖像 | Singapore |
| 2009 | Concert (Mandarin / Cantonese) | Join Love Club Concert 情牽女人心演唱會 | Hong Kong |
| 2010 | Musical (Mandarin) | December Rains 雨季 | Singapore |
| 2011 | Concert (English / Mandarin / Cantonese) | My Musical Journey 我的音乐之旅 | Singapore |
| 2011 | Concert (English / Mandarin / Cantonese) | The Music Room 想像空间 | Singapore |
| 2012 | Concert (Cantonese) | An Enchanted Evening with Chiu Tsang Hei 傾城 | Hong Kong |
| 2015 | Concert (English / Mandarin / Cantonese) | Kit Chan Spellbound 著迷·陳潔儀 | Hong Kong, Singapore, China |
| 2017 | Musical (English) | Forbidden City: Portrait of an Empress 慈禧太后的肖像 | Singapore |
| 2018 | Concert (English / Mandarin / Cantonese) | Kit Chan 25 Years On：A Time For Everything | Singapore |
| 2019 | Musical (Cantonese) | Matteo Ricci The Musical 利瑪竇音樂劇 | Hong Kong |
| 2019 | Concert (English / Mandarin / Cantonese) | Kit Chan 25 Years： A Time For Everything | Taiwan |
| 2019 | Concert (English / Mandarin / Cantonese) | MOOV Live Kit x Gin x Aga Love Encounter 網上行夢想系MOOV Live 陳潔儀 x 李幸倪 x 江海迦” | Hong Kong |
| 2020 | Musical (Cantonese) | Matteo Ricci The Musical 利瑪竇音樂劇 | Hong Kong |
| 2021 | Concert (English / Mandarin / Cantonese) | Reignite 'Live' in Concert | Singapore |
| 2022 | Musical (English) | The LKY Musical 光燿建國路 | Singapore |
| 2023 | Concert (English / Mandarin / Cantonese) | Little Things - Kit Chan 30th Anniversary Concert | Singapore |
| 2024 | Musical (Mandarin / Cantonese) | I Am What I Am 雄獅少年 | China, Hong Kong |
| 2024 | Musical (Cantonese) | Matteo Ricci The Musical 利瑪竇音樂劇 | Hong Kong |

## Filmography
### Film

| Year | Title | Role |
| 1999 | Eating Air | Mysterious Girl |
| 2010 | Lover's Discourse | Mrs. Lai |
| 2014 | Miss J Contemplates Her Choice | Miss J |

### Television series

| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 2000 | Healing Hands II | Dorothy Yuen | |
| 2004 | Cash Is King | Huang Jin Hao | |

### Web series

| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 2017 | Patisserie Fighting | See Yu Tin | Mediacorp Toggle web-series |

## Awards and nominations

| Year | Award |
| 1994 | Singapore Hit Awards, Media Recommendation—Best Newcomer |
| 1995 | Singapore Hit Awards, Best Local Artiste |
| 1996 | RTHK 18th Top 10 Mandarin Hit Awards, Best Vocalist - Best Newcomer |
| 1997 | 8th Gold Awards, World Best Chinese Female Artiste |
| 1997 | Hit Radio Pop Music Awards, Outstanding Female Artiste |
| 1997 | 8th Golden Melody Awards, World Best Chinese Female Artiste |
| 1998 | TVB Pearl Channel Top 10 Hit Awards, Outstanding Performance (Gold) |
| 1998 | Hit Radio Pop Music Awards, Outstanding Female Artiste |
| 1999 | Singapore Hit Awards, Best Local Artiste |
| 1999 | Her World Young Woman Achiever |
| 2000 | Singapore Hit Awards, Best Local Artiste |
| 2000 | COMPASS Award, Top Local Artiste of the Year |
| 2000 | Hit Radio Awards 2000, Best Chinese Artiste Outside Hong Kong & Taiwan Territories |
| 2003 | Singapore Hit Awards, Decade of Outstanding Achievement Award |
| 2009 | COMPASS Award, Artistic Excellence Award |
| 2011 | Singapore Entertainment Awards, Outstanding Achievement Award – Music |
| 2012 | Global Chinese Music Awards, Pop Music Outstanding Achievement Award |
| 2012 | 12th Chinese Music Media Awards, Best HIFI Artiste |
| 2015 | QQ Music Awards, Special Achievement Award |
| 2015 | Inaugural Voice of ELLE, Style Music Achievement Award of the Year |
| 2016 | 23rd Oriental Billboard Awards, Most Popular Artiste: Singapore Region & Best Asia Style Artiste |
| 2016 | KU Music Asian Music Awards, Artiste of the Year |
| 2016 | Inaugural Fresh Asia Music Awards, Media Recommended Artiste of the Year |
| 2017 | Oriental Billboard Awards, Most Popular Artiste: Singapore Region & Influential Artist of the Year |

### Star Awards

| Year | Award | Category | Nominated work | Result |
| 1998 | Star Awards 1998 | Best Theme Song | Myths & Legends of Singapore | Nominated |
| 2000 | Star Awards 2000 | Best Theme Song | My Home Affairs | Won |
| 2012 | Star Awards 2012 | Best Theme Song | Devotion | Won |
| 2016 | Star Awards 2016 | Best Theme Song | The Dream Makers II | Won |