Kelly Chen Wai Lam

Kelly Chen was born on September 13, 1972 in Hong Kong. She was schooled in Hong Kong at a young age, but her father wanted her to learn Japanese, and thus decided to send her off to Japan for her high school years. After high school, Kelly went to New York City's Parsons School of Design, where she studied graphic design. After her education, she returned to HK and, very soon, she caught the attention of an agent and filmed her first commercial ad. Later, she was introduced to her present manager, Chung Chun, and filmed her first movie, "Whatever Will Be, Will Be", in 1995. In the same year, she was signed under Go East Music as a singer.



Apart from winning singing awards like 'HK's Most Popular Female Singer' and 'Asia's Most Poplar Female Singer', Kelly has other awards like 'Most Poplar Idol'. Kelly also does a great amount of charitable work. In 2002, Kelly started her own fund to help children called "Kelly Chen Children Education Fund". Kelly has built schools in Mainland China named 翰琳院 to help children with their education. She has managed to build 5 schools at the moment. Her goal is to have 10 schools developed. In the same year, she was chosen as one of "Hong Kong's Ten Outstanding Young Persons". In 2004, Kelly was named one of the "Outstanding Young Persons of the World", becoming the first HK celebrity to be honoured with the award. The list for Kelly’s awards is infinite.

I really do admire Kelly. She is the only HK celebrity with a healthy image, and she has managed to keep this image ever since she first started in the entertainment industry. She has never had any bad rumours or gossip surround her. Her singing skills really show improvement year after year. She is the only female singing in HK who can hold the title as "Dancing Heavenly Queen". She is the only one to have kept her 'true colours'. She is never 'fake'. Even when she goes on the game show "Super Trio", she shows off her true personality when she plays. Now, that's cool!