Biography
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Born
31 July 1979 (age 44)
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Born In
Hong Kong, China
Jade Kwan Sum Yin (Traditional Chinese: 關心妍; Simplified Chinese: 关心妍), born 31 July 1979, is a female Cantopop singer from Hong Kong.
Kwan is the winner of the "New Talent Singing Competition - Canada" in 1999 and later also won the "Best Potential Award" in the "New Talent Singing Competition 1999" by the song "Face" (臉) originally sung by singer Faye Wong.
She was first known to the public as "Kwan Sum-yin" in 2002. Her singing was greatly admired as were her albums. Her first two albums, "Jade-1" and "Jade-2", won her gold records. Over the years, she has won many music industry awards in Hong Kong and China.
She also plays a few musical instruments including piano, guitar and saxophone. Jade received a minor degree in Music Composition while attending University of British Columbia in Canada.
Jade Kwan is a practising Christian, and has been active recently in the Christian community in Hong Kong. She recorded a few Christian songs in 2008 and some of them became popular in the Japanese Christian music scene. Those songs also met with success in the mainstream music market, despite the religious connotations of the songs.
Discography
Jade-1 (2002-7-3)
Jade-2 (2002-12-20)
Jade3 (2003-4-16)
Jade Forward (2003-11-26)
The 5th Element (2005-1-7)
Jade Loves... (2006-5-3)
Lost & Found (2007-7-20)
最愛 Jade i (2008-5-28)
妍亮 SHINE (2008-9-10)
A New Beginning (2010-10-11)
仍然 (2012-1-20)
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