Serina Ha

Biography

Serina Ha is a Hong Kong singer, radio presenter, writer, and floral art scholar, born on 28 May 1960. She grew up in Kowloon, Hong Kong, to a taxi driver father who had previously worked as a cook for Japanese soldiers. She received her primary education at Catholic Wu Wah Primary School, where she was a student of teacher and lyricist Cheng Kwok-keung, and participated in the school choir from primary school onwards. She later attended Notre Dame College for secondary school, where she was a classmate of Leung Lai-ping. She earned a double master's degree in communication and media management from Hong Kong Baptist University and a PhD in Japanese Studies from the University of Hong Kong. As a teenager, she formed a musical duo called "Serina & Franco" and participated in singing competitions, winning the Hong Kong Radio Amateur Singing Contest in 1979 in the English solo category. She released her solo album "You in the Painting" in the early 1980s. She joined Hong Kong Radio in 1981 to host the programme "Chat and Sing All Night Long". During the 1990s and 2000s, she focused on radio work and presented various language and culture programmes, including Japanese, Korean, Chinese, and Spanish language programmes. She won 20 international radio awards, including awards from the Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union, the Shanghai Radio Festival, the Beijing Global Chinese Radio Festival, and the New York Radio Festival. After retiring from radio, she devoted herself to promoting floral art and became a certified instructor in the Japan National Pressed Flower Art Association, exhibiting her works in Japan, the United States, Canada, and Hong Kong. She currently serves as an art consultant at Hang Seng University of Hong Kong and as an instructor at the Japan Kimono Education Association.