Liz Kong

Biography

Jiang Xinci, stage name Jiang Xiwen (Liz Kong), is a Hong Kong singer-songwriter and actress, born in Hong Kong in 1971. She graduated from St. Stephen's Girls' College and is the younger sister of actress Jiang Xinyan; her cousin's husband is actor Tony Leung Ka-fai. In mid-1992, at age 20, she first caught public attention when she was chosen by singer Leon Lai as the female lead in his music video for "夏日傾情". She signed with a record label in 1993 and released her debut album "舊情綿綿" the same year. She also joined TVB to act in television dramas. In 1996 she shifted her focus to film acting. In 2001, her self-composed song "還沒有變" won first place at the 13th CASH Pop Composition Contest. She later returned to music under the stage name "阿慈" as a singer-songwriter, self-releasing the fully self-composed albums "我變快樂了" (2003) and "P.T.O" (2005), which received positive acclaim. In 2008 she released her first Mandarin album "愛不起". In 2010 she left the entertainment industry to join her family's ginger candy business. In 2018, after a ten-year hiatus, she was invited to perform on the TV program "流行經典50年".