Michael Kwan Ching Kit

Biography

Michael Kwan Ching Kit was born in Hong Kong in 1949 as an only child. He grew up in the Happy Valley area of Hong Kong Island and graduated from St. Paul's Co-educational College. During his school years, he co-founded the band The Swinging Minstrels, which performed English folk songs and won first place in the 8th Hong Kong Amateur Singing Competition in 1967. He graduated with a degree in architecture from the University of Hong Kong in 1973. He began his Cantonese-language singing career in 1975 through the music programme "視聽蔡和平" on RTV. He achieved widespread fame in 1976 with the song "大丈夫" from the film "Jumping Ash". In 1978, he released his first solo album "近代豪俠傳" and had a major hit with the theme song "變色龍". He signed with PolyGram Records in 199 and released the album "天蠶變". Kwan became one of the most prominent performers of TV drama theme songs in Hong Kong during the 1970s and 1980s, working closely with lyricist 盧國沾 and composer 黎小田. He released his final album in 1988, retired from the music scene, and moved to Seattle, USA in the early 1990s.