Sally Yeh

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name = Sally Yeh

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occupation = Singer, Actress
genre = Cantopop
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goldenmelodyawards = Best Female Mandarin Artist
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Sally Yeh sometimes written as Sally Yip or Sin-Man Yip is a Cantopop singer in the Hong Kong music industry and an actress in the Hong Kong film industry.

Overview

Born in Taipei, Taiwan, she grew up in Canada. Yeh's singing career started in the early 1980s and gradually expanded in the following 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. 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.

Oddly enough, Yeh's mastery of written Chinese is rudimentary at best, and she often used romanized phonetics to help her read Cantonese and Mandarin lyrics.

Yeh's career seemed to be in decline after her marriage in 1996 to Hong Kong pop star and composer-producer George Lam. Many considered her discography ready to be shelved in the oldies section; however, in 2002, Yeh unexpectedly re-entered the Cantopop market with a new record, "Can You Hear," followed by a concert tour. By early 2003, she had two titles in the Hong Kong hit parade. With new records currently in production, her career seems to be going smoothly.

She is the only Hong Kong singer to have received the Hong Kong Best Female Singer award four times.

Discography

Filmography

* 一根火柴
* "Marianna" 賓妹 (a.k.a. 你要活著回去) 1982
* "Crimson Street" 殺人愛情街 1982
* "A Flower in the Storm" (a.k.a. "Falling in the Rain Flowers") 飄零雨中花 1983
* "A Certain Romance" 少女日記 1984
* "Funny Face" 醜小鴨 1984
* "Golden Queen Commando" (a.k.a. "Amazon Commando"/"Jackie Chan's Crime Force"/"Sexy Commando") 紅粉兵團 1984
* "Pink Force Commando" (Sequel) 紅粉游俠 (a.k.a. 烈血長天) 1984
* "Shanghai Blues" 上海之夜 1984
* "The Occupant" (a.k.a. "The Tenant") 靈氣迫人 1984
* "Teppanyaki" 鐵板燒 1984
* "Mob Busters" 惡漢笑擊隊 (a.k.a.情報販子) 1985
* "Seven Foxes" X陷阱 1985
* "Cupid One" 愛神一號 1985
* "Just For Fun" 空心少爺 1985
* "The Protector" 威龍猛探 1985 (uncredited)
* "Welcome" 補鑊英雄 1986
* "Aces Go Places IV" (a.k.a. "Mad Mission IV"/"You Never Die Twice") 最佳拍擋IV之千里救差婆 1986
* "Peking Opera Blues" 刀馬旦 1986
* "The Laser Man" 1986
* "Diary of A Big Man" 大丈夫日記 1988
* "I Love Maria" (a.k.a. "RoboForce") 鐵甲無敵瑪利亞 1988
* "The Killer" 喋血英雄 1989
* "The Banquet" 豪門夜宴 1991
* "Sisters of the World Unite" 莎莎嘉嘉站起來 1991

ee also

* Cantopop
* Cinema of Hong Kong

External links

* [http://sallyeh.net Sally Yeh: The Effervescent Queen of Pop]
* [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0947313/ IMDb entry]