Lydia Lau

Biography

Lydia Lau, known as Lau Ching Man, is an artist from Hong Kong. She began studying in Toronto, Canada from the fifth grade and completed university there, then stayed to work in Canada. She participated in a talent singing competition in Toronto at age sixteen but did not win. She learned street dance at age twenty-four, and when she contracted swine flu at age twenty-seven, she decided to abandon her career in Canada and return to Hong Kong with her boyfriend to pursue her artistic career, fearing she would not have time to dance. In 2013, she was discovered by director Wong Sau-ping and participated in the film "The Way We Dance" as a dancer character known as Milk Tea. In 2016, she was discovered by musician Dai Wai and sang "Seems Like So Far Away" for the soundtrack of the film "Weeds on Fire." In 2017, she officially joined the Hong Kong music scene at age thirty-four and released her first single "Opposite Direction."