袁鳳瑛

简介

Shirley Yuen Fung Ying is a Hong Kong singer born on November 1, 1965. She grew up in a divorced family with one brother and two sisters, raised in North Point at Ming Yuen Building. She studied at New Fa College kindergarten, primary and secondary school. After graduation, she worked at an insurance company and enrolled in a singing training course at the trade union, then became a lounge singer at age nineteen. She participated in the New Talent Singing Contest in 1986 but did not reach the finals, then won the "Most Outstanding Stage Presence Award" in the "Future Idol Competition" in 1988. After being dismissed from a television network due to a contractual dispute, she met composer Lo Ta-yu in 1989 who discovered her talent and signed her to his company "Music Factory." She sang the theme song for the film "天若有情" in 1990 without upfront payment, and through this song she achieved fame and received a Hong Kong Film Award nomination for Best Original Film Song in 1991. She released three albums with Rolling Stone Records Hong Kong, including the well-known children's song "阿花的故事." She also appeared in the TV series "壹號皇庭III" on TVB. After her singing contract ended in 1995, she withdrew from the music scene and spent a year traveling in Canada. She opened a private singing school in 1997 but closed it in 1999 due to a dispute with a partner. She studied counseling psychology and child psychology at the Open University of Hong Kong from 2003 to 2010. She currently serves as a director of the Hong Kong Singers Association and runs the Hong Kong Moral and Performing Arts Education Center to train school students in the performing arts.