華娃

简介

Singer Wah Wa was born in 1948 in Beijing, the youngest of nine siblings, with her father being a Kuomintang general. She moved with her family to Hong Kong in 1949. She began her career in the 1960s after winning a singing competition on Hong Kong radio with the song "Three Years," then joined Mei Ya Records and released albums covering Mandarin and Cantonese era songs. In the 1970s, she became an artist with Entertainment Records and released her first Cantonese album "Yun Niang" in 1974, singing many film and TV series songs. She founded a children's choir that included her children and her nieces. She married renowned lyricist Wong Jim (James Wong) in 1967 and had two sons and a daughter with him, but they separated in 1976 and officially divorced in 1982. She emigrated to Canada in 1989 and worked as a part-time singing teacher, then returned to Hong Kong in 2005 and occasionally appears as a guest at concerts.