袁麗嫦

简介

Stella Yuen Lai-sheung is a Hong Kong singer and actress, born on 20 November 1957, who was active in the 1970s and 1980s. She began her artistic career while studying by winning a music competition, then signed with EMI Records and joined the youth vocal group "PAWS", which sang European and Western folk music and love songs in the mid-1970s. She later pursued a solo career under her Chinese name, singing Cantonese pop songs, with her most notable works being the 1977 song "百厭仔唔肯喫飯", the 1978 theme song for the TV series "鱷魚淚", and the 1978 theme song for the animated cartoon "星仔走天涯". Thanks to the song "鱷魚淚", she was selected for the first Top Ten Chinese Gold Songs list by Hong Kong Radio in 1978. In the late 1970s, EMI froze her contract on the grounds that her songs were not popular and ordered her to work as a backing vocalist for other singers. She also participated in television and film works, with her most prominent role being Xie Xiaojun in the TV series "鱷魚淚" in 1978. As for her personal life, she is an orphan raised by her adoptive parents, first married in 1982 and later divorced, and in 1985 married a British man. She currently resides in Beijing and travels between Hong Kong and Britain, and has three children with her British husband.