Shimica Castro, Wong/Shimica Hylee

Biography

Shimica Wong was born in Spain in 1992 and moved to Hong Kong at age three. Raised with a love for music from a young age, her mother trained her to sing in water, and she dreamed of becoming an international stage performer like Beyoncé. She began composing songs at age eleven, taught herself guitar through YouTube, studied Jazz Funk and Hip Hop dance at twelve, and worked as a dance teacher at sixteen before becoming a full-time singer. In 2013, she was discovered to perform the theme songs for the film "The Way We Dance" (狂舞派), namely "狂舞吧" and "The Way We Dance", which received widespread acclaim from radio stations and music critics, earning her recognition as one of Hong Kong's finest voices. She performed as a special guest at the Carpenters memorial concert alongside musician Chow Kai-sheng, who praised her powerful performances. In December 2013, she left her restaurant job to focus entirely on singing and won second place in the CASH Pop Composition Contest. In 2014, she won Best Original Film Song at the 33rd Hong Kong Film Awards for "狂舞吧". In 2017, she announced she would sing only in English, aspiring to become an international diva, and terminated her contract with her former label due to differing visions.