Overview
Born in Taipei, Taiwan, she grew up in Victoria, British Columbia. Yeh's singing career started in the early 1980s and gradually became a memorable diva whose career has expanded for three decades with a total of thirty albums, plus forty-odd compilations and live recordings. Yeh speaks Cantonese, Mandarin, and English. Her jazz-trained vocals allow her to handle a wide range of musical genres. Apart from a good record track of original hits, Sally Yeh has, through the years, covered a number of Western songs, ranging from Madonna to Céline Dion by way of the Titanic theme song.
Due to her unique voice, she has received the number of awards in her career. In the 1980s-1990s, her popularity in Hong Kong was only matched by Anita Mui and Priscilla Chan.
She has also collaborated on a number of soundtracks (mostly on Tsui Hark's movies with scores by Wong Jim), including "Lai Ming But Yiu Loi" from A Chinese Ghost Story (1987), which won the Best Original Song award at the 7th Hong Kong Film Awards. Other notable hits of her include, A Woman's Weakness, Heart of Fire, Cheers, Bless, Bygone Wound, Believe in Yourself (duet with Alex To), Ten Past Midnight, You Have to Leave Today, I Want To Keep Living, and much more.
Yeh's mastery of written Chinese is rudimentary at best, and she often uses romanizations to help her read Cantonese and Mandarin lyrics.
She has received four times (1990, 1991, 1992, 1993) of the Most Popular Hong Kong Female Singer award at the Jade Solid Gold Top Ten Awards, this is a one of Hong Kong's most prestigious awards.
In 1996, Yeh gets married to Hong Kong pop star and composer-producer George Lam.
In 2002, Yeh unexpectedly re-entered the Cantopop market and released a record "Can You Hear" and performed a series of concert tour in different countries.
In 2011, Sally Yeh received the Golden Needle Award at the 33rd RTHK Top Ten Chinese Gold Song Music Award Ceremony, a lifetime achievement award for artists who have contributed enormously to the Hong Kong music industry. It is recognized as one of the highest honors in the entire Chinese music industry.
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