Chang Lye Lye

Biography

Chang Lye Lye is a Chinese singer and film actress in Hong Kong, performing in Cantonese, Hokkien, and Mandarin. She was born in 1931 in Hong Kong, with ancestral roots in Hebei province. In March 1965, she joined the Chinese television station in Hong Kong, where she was responsible for arranging singing and dancing programs and also participated in acting; she was set to serve as an instructor when the station's training class was established. She traveled with her sister to Tokyo in 1964 for a two-week sightseeing trip hosted by major Japanese film companies. She performed singing and dancing in the Philippines in 1967, but suffered a severe traffic accident that caused a brain injury affecting her memory. She returned to Hong Kong in August 1967 and performed in Taiwan for two months, then in 1969 performed in Hong Kong before traveling to Singapore and Malaysia. She comes from a distinguished family as the granddaughter of late Qing minister Zhang Zhidong, and her husband was a Singaporean businessman whom she married in 1965.