Lisa Wong

Biography

Lisa Wong, originally named Huang Huan Chan, is a Singaporean singer and Christian. She officially entered the music scene in 1968, initially singing Mandarin and English pop songs. In 1972, her boss asked her to record her first Cantonese album, and she shot to fame with the song "相思淚", becoming a superstar in the Chinese-speaking world and earning the title "Cantonese Diva". During her performances in Hong Kong, she was hailed as "Singapore's National Treasure" by the Oriental Theatre in Hong Kong. She joined Life Records and learned piano and music theory to facilitate her work. In 1974, she was a basic singer with Man Chi Records in Hong Kong and visited Hong Kong with her mother for sightseeing. She gradually withdrew from the entertainment industry after 1975 and fully retired in 1982. In 1989, she suffered a business failure and lost a huge sum of money, then fell into a coma for 11 years in Singapore until gradually recovering in 2000, when she found her 5-year-old son had become a 16-year-old and her mother had passed away during that time. She lived with her son from 1976 in former British Royal Air Force barracks at Seletar Airport. In recent years, she has made a comeback, holding concerts in Singapore, Hong Kong, North America, and interacting with fans online.