Tse Nga Yi

Biography

Tse Nga Yi is a Hong Kong singer-songwriter. She grew up in Tung Chung and participated in musical theatre performances during secondary school, which sparked her interest in music performance. She studied social work at the Chinese University of Hong Kong and worked as a social worker after graduation, recording songs for films and TV advertisements in her spare time. Through recording a demo for the film "Five Children's Principal," she met producer Wang Jianwei and began a long-term collaboration. In 2019, she traveled to Spain to study vocals with Berklee College of Music professor Olga Román. In 2020, she released her first EP "Light" in tribute to the firefighters who heroically fought the 2016 Amoy Industrial Estate mini-storage fire. In 2021, she moved to Taiwan to develop her career, performing in Taiwanese musicals and meeting director Huang Qilin. She composed the song "Soul of Lyric Writing," which the director selected as the theme song for the film "The Lyricist Wannabe," and she also had a small role in the film. "Soul of Lyric Writing" won "Best Original Film Song" at the 42nd Hong Kong Film Awards.