Kit Chan Biography: Age, Movies, Husband, Children, Net Worth
Kit Chan is a Singaporean singer and actress who has achieved considerable success in Taiwan and Hong Kong.
With a decade-spinning career, Kit Chan has been the forerunner of the country’s contemporary mandopop output and successfully opened the gate to the Taiwanese market.
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Name: | Kit Chan |
Age: | 50 Years |
Husband: | Han (m. 2012; div. 2017) |
Date of Birth: | 15 September 1972 |
Nationality: | Singaporean |
Net Worth: | $5 million |
Kit Chan’s Biography
Kit Chan born on 15 September 1972, is a Singaporean singer and actress who has achieved considerable success in Taiwan and Hong Kong. With a decade-spinning career, Kit Chan has been the forerunner of the country’s contemporary mandopop output and successfully opened the gate to the Taiwanese market.
Kit Chan’s Nationality
Kit Chan is a Singaporean born in Singapore
Where is Kit Chan from?
Kit Chan is from Singapore, officially the Republic of Singapore is an island country and city-state in maritime Southeast Asia.
Kit Chan Age
How old is Kit Chan? Born on September 15, 1972, the Singaporean actress and singer Kit Chan is 50 years
Kit Chan’s Height & Weight
Kit Chan stands 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in) and weighs 71 kg (157 lb)
Kit Chan Early Life
Kit Chan was born in Singapore, the third of four sisters. She studied at Fairfield Methodist School, Raffles Girls’ School, Raffles Junior College, and Lasalle SIA College of the Arts. During her six years from 2004 to 2010, while Kit Chan was away from her music scene, she returned to La Salle as a grown student. She wrote a dissertation on the psychology of performance and graduated with honors.
Kit Chan’s Family & Siblings
There is no information regarding who the parents of Kit Chan are but we know she is the third daughter in a family of four sisters.
Why is Kit Chan famous?
She is famous as a diva in Singapore, often dominating in many local music awards in the mid-to-late-90s. Besides her achievements in the field of entertainment, Kit Chan is also recognized as a trailblazer in humanitarian and youth work, becoming Youth Ambassador
Kit Chan Career
Since her debut in 1993, Kit Chan has worked in the fields of singing, theater, television drama, poetry, songwriting, entrepreneurship, and creative direction. In 1994, Kit Chan released the album Heartache in the Taiwanese market. She went on to release other albums regionally, such as ‘Welcome to You’, ‘Dazzling’ and ‘Tanshin’, performing in parts of Asia, the United States, South Korea, and New Zealand, and collaborating with symphonies and orchestras in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Singapore.
Kit Chan performed the song “Home” at the National Day Parade in Singapore in 1998, and the song became very popular in Singapore. It was later staged in various versions of the National Day Parade.
Kit Chan took a hiatus from her acting career in 2004 to continue her studies, and in 2007 she joined the international PR consulting firm Hill & Knowlton as a campaign specialist. She worked on the Total Defense campaign for the Department of Defense, “What Will You Defend?” in 2009, and left the company after 19 months.
Kit Chan has also done linguistic and theatrical work on Cantopop and English albums. She co-starred with Jackie Chan in the Hong Kong musical Snow Wolf Lake and starred in both the 1997 Cantonese and 2005 Mandarin versions, followed by The Legend (where she played the late Teresa Teng) and The Forbidden City: “Portrait of the Empress” (playing the young Empress Dowager Cixi) that premiered in 2002 as part of the Esplanade’s first program and was revived in 2003. Kit Chan also starred in the Dutch-Hong Kong production East Meets West and the Taiwanese musical What’s Love Got to Do with It?
In September 2006, she reprised her role in The Forbidden City: “Portrait of the Empress” which was produced as part of a plan to bring this music to international recognition and hope for a world tour. After that, Kit Chan hosted the 1st Annual Singapore Day in New York City in 2007. After working in a company, Kit Chan performed the commissioned theme song “One World” at the 2009 APEC Gala Night, and returned to theater in 2010 as the lead actress (Lee Qing) in the Mandarin musical “December Rains” (Rainy Season) at the Esplanade Theater.
That same year, she sang her “Home” for the third time in the National Day parade. Kit Chan was also part of the cast of the TV drama Healing Hands II, a sequel to the 2000 medical drama Healing Hands on TVB. She is the lead female character in the SPH Mediaworks Channel U drama series Cash is King and also starred in the 2010 film Lovers Discourse.
In 2011, Kit Chan released her debut studio album since 2004, Re-interpreting Kit Chan, and held two solo concerts with the Singapore Chinese Orchestra at the Esplanade Concert Hall as anchor performances for the 2011 Huayi China Arts Festival, as well as a three-day solo concert “The Music Room” at the Marina Bay Sands Grand Theater in the same year.
Also in 2011, Kit Chan worked with the Department of Defense’s Nexus as the creative director for the 2011 Total Defense campaign “Home-Keeping It Together.” She also executive produced a remake of a home music video featuring 39 local artists of various genres, eras, and races, including Max Surin, Dick Lee, Tawfik Battisar, JJ Lin, and Stephanie Sun.
She wrote the theme song “倔强” for MediaCorp Channel’s 8th-anniversary drama “Devotion” and won Best Drama Theme Song at the 2012 Star Awards. A concert was also held in Hong Kong with the theme of “Tsang Hei”.
In 2014, Kit Chan made her first starring role in Jason Lai’s Miss J Contemplates Choices, playing the eponymous Miss J, who gives advice to callers on a radio talk show. The film premiered at the Singapore International Film Festival in December. In 2014, Kit Chan underwent surgery that reportedly left her unable to speak. However, she finally wrapped up her “Spellbound” concert at the Star Theater in 2015.
She also participated in the Chinese reality singing contest “I Am A Singer”, where Chinese critic Deng Ke said that Kit Chan could not sing. After her last NDP appearance, she announced her retirement from participating in the 2015 National Day parade. In 2015, she sang the theme song for the Channel 8 blockbuster Dreammakers II.
In July 2016, she released her first original album in 12 years, The Edge of Paradise (天堂边缘). In September, Chan concluded her Spellbound concert tour with a finale in front of a crowd of 7,000 at the Singapore Indoor Stadium.
In 2018, Kit Chan celebrated her 25th anniversary as a singer with an acoustic live session album, for which she also wrote the lyrics for the album’s title track, “A Time for Everything.” She also directed 25 Years On. She performed “A Time For Everything” concerts in Singapore and Taipei.
Kit Chan published an English poetry collection Cork out of my Head in Taiwan in 2000 and I Write a Page in Singapore in 2000, as well as a novel titled Cathy and Jodie: The Princess and Flea co-authored with her friend Shu Huang Yong. In 2022, Kit Chan starred in the LKY musical, where she starred as the late Mrs. Kwa Ngoc Chu, wife of Singapore’s founding Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew.
In 1998, Kit Chan was appointed the first National Youth Ambassador of the Singapore National Youth Council. She served there for two years. From 2001 until 2005 she served as a member of the National Youth Council. In 2002, the Commonwealth Youth Program Asia Center awarded her an award for her outstanding achievement in her youth work. In 2007, Kit Chan was appointed to the National Heritage Board for a two-year term to reach out to Singapore’s audience and connect with the creative industries. She is also an ambassador for the Christian advocacy group World Vision.
Kit Chan has invested in two boutiques in Singapore, Flowers in the Attic and Roses in the Loft. In 2010, Kit Chan launched her own record label, named after her high school singing group Banshee Empire. On December 8, 2012, Kit Chan married her long-time boyfriend, known only as Han, who was a finance manager whom she had first met in 2000. The couple subsequently divorced in 2017.
Kit Chan’s Husband
On December 8, 2012, Kit Chan married her long-time boyfriend, known only as Han, who was a finance manager whom she had first met in 2000. The couple subsequently divorced in 2017.
Kit Chan’s Children
Kit Chan isn’t known to have any children yet
Kit Chan’s Net Worth
Kit Chan has an estimated net worth of $5 million as a singer and actress.