Frances Yip

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Frances Yip ( Chinese  葉 麗 儀  /  叶 丽 仪 , Pinyin Yè Lìyí , Jyutping Jip 6 Lai 6 ji 4 ; born October 22, 1947 in Hong Kong ) is a singer of Cantonese pop music from Hong Kong.

Life

Francis Yip belongs to the Hakka ethnic group . She is a Catholic and attended St. Clare's Girls' School in Hong Kong. In 1974 she got a record deal with EMI in London . On her early albums, she mostly sang covers of pieces by other artists such as Adam Cheng, Roman Tam and Jenny Tseng .

She gained international fame as the singer of the opening melody of the Television Broadcasts Limited (TVB) series - The Bund ( 上 海灘  /  上 海滩 , Shànghǎitān , Jyutping Soeng 6 hoi 2 taan 1 , Cantonese  Sheung Hoi Tan  - " Shanghai Beach ") with Chow Yun -Fat from 1980 . The opening melody The Bund , composed by Joseph Koo, text by Wong Jim, subsequently became its own signature melody.

In her more than forty-year career, Yip has given countless concerts on global tours. She has released more than 80 albums and sings in Cantonese , Standard Chinese , English , Indonesian , Japanese , Malay , Tagalog and other languages. Yip speaks Cantonese, Hakka, fluent standard Chinese and English.

On June 30, 1997, she co-hosted the television broadcast of the handover ceremony of the former Crown Colony of Hong Kong to China .

In 1996 , Yip was diagnosed with breast cancer , but she was able to overcome it. Francis Yip lives with her husband on the Kowloon Peninsula in the Hong Kong SAR and in a suburb of Sydney . She is the mother of an adult son.

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personal data
SURNAME Yip, Frances
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 葉 麗 儀
BRIEF DESCRIPTION hong kong chinese singer
DATE OF BIRTH October 22, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Hong Kong