Lambert Chan Lap-yip

Biography

Chan Lap-yip (Lambert Chan) is a Hong Kong Chinese Christian singer-songwriter, born on September 25, 1965. He grew up in a middle-class family with one brother, and his father ran trading and manufacturing businesses between Hong Kong and mainland China. He received his primary education at the Chai Wan Government Primary School in North Point, where he won an inter-school singing competition in 1975. He completed his secondary education at Yu Tsai Secondary School before traveling to Canada in 1982 to study at Niagara Christian College and later the University of Toronto, where he earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics with a minor in Geography in 1986. He began his career at Heidelberg Canada, a printing company, before returning to Hong Kong to work in marketing and sales. He held senior positions at major companies including Hong Kong Telecom where he launched the One2free brand, Citibank, and TSL Jewellery. He was a member of the classic Hong Kong Christian band "Turning Point." He also served as Chief Operating Officer of TSL Jewellery and currently works as a professor at the City University of Hong Kong and the Hong Kong Polytechnic University.