Ariff Chan Wing-yip

Biography

Ariff Chan Wing-yip is a Hong Kong radio disc jockey, program host, actor, and singer. He grew up in the Yau Tong district and attended Catholic schools. In 1988, after graduating from secondary school, he worked as a teacher at a school within the Kai Tak Vietnamese refugee camp and as a social worker for the camp's youth until the summer of 1990. In early 1990, while working at the camp, he was noticed by Ni Ping-long who invited him to audition for a DJ training course at Hong Kong Radio, and he was immediately accepted. He began hosting radio programs in June 1990. In September 1990, he became a full-time disc jockey and joined the program "Morning Light First Line". In 1991, he moved to Hong Kong Radio's First Station and hosted the music program "Urban Leisure". In 1993, he entered the singing world and released a duet with Cai Ling-ling titled "Love Is Always Fascinating". In 1994, he released his first personal mini-album "Shift of Love" and its lead song "Still Devoted to You" entered radio pop charts. In 1995, he moved to PHANTOM record company. In 1996, he released a Mandarin song titled "Jealousy" in Taiwan. In 2001, he hosted the evening music program "Music Lover". He is also known as the inspiration for the character "First Two Pages" in the TVB program "Today VIP", though the famous line "I really learned a lot today" was not actually spoken by him.