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Sally Yeh Wikipedia

Sally Yeh (葉蒨文, pinyin: Y? Qi?nw?n)
a.k.a. Sally Yip, a.k.a. Sin-Man Yip (born September 30, 1961) is a star in both Hong Kong Cantopop|pop and film|movie scenes.

Her credits as an actor|actress include Shanghai Blues and The Occupant (both 1984), and Tsui Hark's Peking Opera Blues (o.t. Do Ma Den, 1986), probably her finest performance (and Best Actress Award at the 1986 Hong Kong Movie Festival), though her screen fame rests chiefly on her role as the blind piano-bar singer Jennie in John Woo's The Killer (Die xue shuang xiong, 1989).

Born in Taipei, Taiwan, she grew up in Canada. Yeh's singing career started in the early 1980s and exploded in the following decade thanks to a series of well thought-out and executed releases - thirty albums, plus forty-odd compilations, best of's and live recordings. Yeh sounds excellent in Cantonese (linguistics)|Cantonese, Mandarin (linguistics)|Mandarin and English language|English, and her jazz-trained vocals allow her to handle a wide range of musical genres. Apart from a good record track of original hits, Sally Yeh has covered through the years a number of Western songs, ranging from Madonna (entertainer)|Madonna to C?line Dion by way of the Cinema of China|M*A*S*H title song.

Yeh's career seemed destined to take a slower pace after her marriage in 1996 to Hong Kong pop star and composer/producer George Lam, and her catalogue was considered ready to be shelved in the oldies section by most; but in 2002 Yeh unexpectedly made a re-entry on the Cantopop market, her new record ("Can You Hear") followed by a concert tour, and by early 2003 she had again two titles in the Hong Kong hit parade. With new records following, her career seems settled smoothly.
She is the only Hong Kong singer to have been four times the recipient of the Hong Kong Best Female Singer award.

Last Modified:   2005-04-13