45 Facts About Sammi Cheng

Sammi Cheng Sau-man is a Hong Kong singer and actress.

Sammi Cheng is considered one of the most prominent female singers in Hong Kong, with album sales of over 25 million copies throughout the Asia-pacific.

Since her debut, Sammi Cheng has won the IFPI Hong Kong Music Top Sales Awards for the best-selling Local Female Vocalist of the Year nine times.

From 1993 to 2010, Sammi Cheng won a total of 12 Top Female Vocalist awards, 14 Best-selling Local Female Vocalist Awards and has 7 albums that are the Best-selling Cantonese Release of the Year.

Sammi Cheng had previously won the Most Popular Hong Kong Female Artist Award in annual Top Ten Jade Solid Gold Awards Presentation for three times, and in a year winning the Gold Song Gold Award, the highest-ranked award which is the last to be presented at the ceremony.

Sammi Cheng received Honorary Lifetime Achievement Award for Female Singer in 2011 Metro Radio Hits Awards.

Sammi Cheng had won many top honors in various Chinese music awards held in Asia, including the MTV Asia Award for Favorite Artist Hong Kong 3 times, in 2002,2003 and 2004.

Sammi Cheng has produced over 80 studio albums, 10 live concert albums, over 130 singles with over 30 cover songs and had received numerous awards from acting to singing.

Sammi Cheng starred in close to 40 films and 7 television dramas and had held approximately 200 concerts up to date with over 11 concert tours.

Sammi Cheng is one of the female artists with most concert shows in Hong Kong Coliseum, at 115.

The name came about when Sammi Cheng was still in school and her English Language teacher wanted everyone in class to have an English name.

When Sammi Cheng turned to her sister for help, her sister came up with the name "Twiny".

Sammi Cheng received her education at SKH St Peter's Primary School and Tang Shiu Kin Victoria Government Secondary School.

Sammi Cheng entered the entertainment industry at the age of 16 through the New Talent Singing Awards in 1988.

Sammi Cheng then went through a transformation, dying her hair orange, changing her style.

Sammi Cheng's new image fitted well with the new single, which was a remake of a Japanese song by Maki Ohguro.

In 1995 Sammi Cheng disappeared from the public eye for nearly half a year.

Sammi Cheng let her hair color return to black and temporarily abandoned the wild image she used to have.

In 1996, the company decided it was time for Sammi Cheng to expand her market and fan base beyond Hong Kong.

Sammi Cheng won a number of awards, most notably she was voted back-to-back as the most popular female artist by TVB from 1996 to 1997.

Sammi Cheng went on to win the top female award again in 2001.

Sammi Cheng avoided Wong by repeatedly going off stage to fix her make-up.

Sammi Cheng broke the record as being the youngest female singer to hold more than 50 accumulated concert nights in the city.

Sammi Cheng invited heavyweight stars to be the guests of her concerts, including Andy Lau, Jacky Cheung, Leon Lai, Ekin Cheng, Louis Koo, Nick Cheung and Eason Chan.

Sammi Cheng held a single-show Sidetrack Birthday Gig concert at Macau on 19 August 2018 in conjunction of her 46th birthday as a treat to her fans.

Sammi Cheng's acting career began with the TVB series A Life of His Own in 1991.

At the 62nd Venice International Film Festival, Sammi Cheng was one of the frontrunners for the Volpi Cup for Best Actress for the film Everlasting Regret.

Sammi Cheng has been nominated for the Hong Kong Film Award for Best Actress 10 times, in 2001 for her performance in Needing You.

Sammi Cheng has earned 3 nominations for Best Leading Actress at Taiwan's Golden Horse Awards, the most prestigious awards for Chinese-language films, for Needing You.

Sammi Cheng won the Golden Horse Award for Best Original Film Song for "DoReMi" in 2012.

Sammi Cheng was named Best Actress by the Hong Kong Film Critics Society in 2002 for her titular role in Wu yen.

Sammi Cheng is a trendsetter of hair-coloring and has been chosen to be one of the Top Ten fashionable celebrities in Hong Kong.

Sammi Cheng has been signed and endorsed by many companies.

Sammi Cheng was selected as the prominent celebrity for the endorsement of Panasonic using "Can't Give You Up" as the theme song.

In 2005, Sammi Cheng had only one feature film release and no music projects.

Sammi Cheng became a representative for Veeko and Titus, a fashion and watch brand in Hong Kong, respectively.

Sammi Cheng reflected upon her life, and became an evangelical Christian and was baptized in 2007.

Sammi Cheng returned to entertain at the age of 34, and invited fellow star Andy Lau and Denise Ho to perform with her.

Sammi Cheng then continues actively in Hong Kong entertainment industry after about two years of rest, marking a strong comeback with many more concerts held at Hong Kong, Macau, mainland China, Taiwan, Singapore, Malaysia, Canada, United States, Australia, etc.

Sammi Cheng continued to work in films and had starred in various commercial advertisements.

In 2003 Sammi Cheng performed at the 1:99 Concert to raise funds for SARS affected families.

Sammi Cheng had participated in the 2008 Chinese winter storm support effort where many artists including Andy Lau, Alan Tam, Kelly Chen, etc.

Sammi Cheng was a participant of the Artistes 512 Fund Raising Campaign.

Sammi Cheng traveled to Laos with fellow singer Gigi Leung, a World Vision volunteer, to experience for themselves the struggles of the local people and children.

When Sammi Cheng returned to Hong Kong, she and Leung were invited to a radio program 903 to talk about the experience; she responded by announcing she had "adopted" 24 children.