1. Kit Chan was born on 15 September 1972 and is a Singaporean singer and actress.
23 Facts About Kit Chan
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Kit Chan studied in Fairfield Methodist School, Raffles Girls' School, Raffles Junior College and Lasalle-SIA College of the Arts.
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Kit Chan wrote a thesis on the psychology of performance and graduated with first-class honors.
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Since her debut in 1993, Kit Chan has worked in singing, theatre, television drama, poetry, song-writing, entrepreneurship and creative direction.
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In 1994, Kit Chan released the album Heartache into the Taiwanese market.
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Kit Chan subsequently released more albums regionally including Liking You, Dazzling, and Worried, 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.
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Kit Chan performed a song, Home, during the 1998 Singapore National Day Parade which became very popular in Singapore.
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Kit Chan has worked linguistically and theatrically, with her Cantopop, and English albums.
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Kit Chan has held lead roles in the Hong Kong musical Snow.
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Kit Chan later fronted the first Singapore Day in New York City in 2007.
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Kit Chan was a member of the cast of the television drama Healing Hands II, the sequel to TVB's medical drama Healing Hands in 2000.
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Kit Chan was the female lead in SPH MediaWorks Channel U's drama serial Cash is King.
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In 2014, Kit 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.
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In 2014, Kit 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.
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Kit Chan participated in China reality singing contest I Am A Singer where Chinese critic Deng Ke remarked that Kit Chan can't sing.
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Kit Chan announced her retirement from performing at the National Day Parades in 2015 after making her last NDP performance.
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Kit 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 titled Cathy and Jodie: The Princess and the Flea.
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In 2022, Kit 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.
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In 1998, Kit Chan was appointed as the first National Youth Ambassador for Singapore's National Youth Council.
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In 2007, Kit 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.
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Kit Chan is the ambassador to the Christian relief organization "World Vision".
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Kit Chan has invested in two boutiques in Singapore, Flowers in the Attic and Roses in the Loft.
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In 2010, Kit Chan set up her own record label, named after her singing group Banshee Empire from when she was in secondary school.