Kit Chan
陈洁仪
Kit Chan in concert in 2011
Born	(1972-09-15)15 September 1972 (age 53) Singapore
Other names	Chen Jieyi
Education	Raffles Girls' School Raffles Junior College
Alma mater	Lasalle-SIA College of the Arts
Occupations	Singer actress businesswoman former public relations executive
Years active	1993–present
Height	1.64 m (5 ft 5 in)
Awards	Star Awards 2000 :Best Theme Song Star Awards 2012 :Best Theme Song Star Awards 2016 :Best Theme Song
Musical career
Genres	Pop Mandopop Cantopop
Labels	Ocean Butterflies(1993–2004) Banshee Empire(2010–Present) Taihe Music Group(2015–Present)
Musical artist
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese	陳潔儀
Simplified Chinese	陈洁仪
Hanyu Pinyin	Chén Jiéyí
Bopomofo	ㄔㄣˊ ㄐㄧㄝˊ ㄧˊ
Jyutping	can4 git3 ji4
Website	www.kitchan.com

Chan Kit Yee (Chinese:陈洁仪;Jyutping:Can⁴ Git³ Ji⁴; born 15 September 1972), known professionally asKit Chan, is a Singaporean singer and actress.

Born on 15 September 1972 inSingapore, Chan is the third daughter in a family of four sisters.

Chan studied inFairfield Methodist School,Raffles Girls' School,Raffles Junior College andLasalle-SIA College of the Arts.^[1] During Chan's six-year hiatus from the music scene from 2004 to 2010, she returned to LaSalle as a mature student. She wrote a thesis on the psychology of performance and graduated with first-class honors.^[2]

Since her debut in 1993, Chan has worked in singing, theatre, television drama, poetry, song-writing, entrepreneurship and creative direction. In 1994, Chan released the albumHeartache (心痛) for the Taiwanese market. She subsequently released more albums regionally includingLiking You (喜欢你),Dazzling (炫耀), andWorried (担心), performing in parts ofAsia, the United States, Korea, and New Zealand, as well as collaborating with symphonies and orchestras inHong Kong,Taiwan and Singapore.

Chan performed a song,Home, during the 1998Singapore National Day Parade which became very popular in Singapore. It was subsequently performed in various editions of the National Day Parades.

Chan took a hiatus in 2004 from her performing career to further her studies and joined international PR consultancy Hill & Knowlton as a campaign specialist in 2007. She worked on theMinistry of Defence's 2009Total Defence campaign, 'What Will You Defend?'.^[2] She left the company after 19 months.^[3][4]

Chan has also worked linguistically and theatrically, with herCantopop, and English albums. She has held lead roles in the Hong Kong musicalSnow.Wolf.Lake withJacky Cheung – both the Cantonese version in 1997 and the Mandarin production in 2005 – followed byThe Legend (where she played the lateTeresa Teng), andForbidden City: Portrait of An Empress (where she played the youngEmpress Dowager Cixi)– first performed in 2002 as part of the Esplanade's opening programme, and again in 2003. Chan has also played the lead in the Dutch-Hong Kong production ofEast Meets West, and the Taiwanese musicalWhat's Love Got to Do with It?.

In September 2006, she reprised her role inForbidden City: Portrait of an Empress, as part of a plan to make this musical internationally recognized, in the hope of going on a world tour. Chan later fronted the first Singapore Day inNew York City in 2007. After her corporate sojourn, Chan performed the commissioned theme songOne World at theAPEC 2009 Gala Night and returned the theatre as leading lady (Li Qing) in the Mandarin musicalDecember Rains (雨季) atEsplanade Theatre in 2010. In the same year, she sangHome for the third time at the National Day Parade. Chan was also a member of the cast of the television dramaHealing Hands II, the sequel toTVB's medical dramaHealing Hands in 2000. She was the female lead inSPH MediaWorks Channel U's drama serialCash is King. Chan also acted in the 2010 filmLover's Discourse.

In 2011, Chan released her first studio albumRe-interpreting Kit Chan (重譯 陳潔儀) since 2004 and staged two solo concerts in collaboration with theSingapore Chinese Orchestra at Esplanade Concert Hall, as the anchor performance of the Huayi Chinese Festival of Arts 2011. In the same year, she held her three-night solo concertThe Music Room at theMarina Bay Sands Grand Theater. Also in 2011, Chan worked with Nexus, Ministry of Defence as Creative Director for the Total Defence "Home – Keeping It Together" Campaign 2011. She was also executive producer for the remake of theHome MV, which featured 39 local artistes spanning different genres, eras and races, including Max Surin, Dick Lee,Taufik Batisah,JJ Lin, andStefanie Sun.^[5] She wrote the theme song 倔强 for theMediaCorp Channel 8 anniversary dramaDevotion, which won Best Drama Theme Song award at the2012 Star Awards. Concerts themedAn Enchanted Evening with Chiu Tsang Hei (傾城) were also held in Hong Kong.^[6]

In 2014, Chan performed in her first leading film role in Jason Lai'sMiss J Contemplates Her Choice as the titular Miss J, who offers advice to callers on a radio talk show. The film premiered at theSingapore International Film Festival in December.^[7] In 2014, Chan reportedly underwent a surgical procedure that left her barely able to speak, however she completed her 'Spellbound' concert eventually in 2015 at Star Theatre.^[8][9][10] She also participated in China reality singing contestI Am A Singer where Chinese critic Deng Ke remarked that Kit Chan can't sing.^[11] She announced her retirement from performing at the National Day Parades in 2015 after making her last NDP performance.^[12] In 2015, she sang the theme song forChannel 8 BlockbusterThe Dream Makers II.

In July 2016, she released her first album of original material in 12 years, titledThe Edge of Paradise (天堂边缘). In September, Chan ended her Spellbound concert tour with a finale atSingapore Indoor Stadium to a 7,000-strong audience.

In 2018, Chan marked her 25th anniversary as a singer with an acoustic live sessions album in which she also penned the lyrics for the title track “A Time for Everything”. She also staged “25 Years On: A Time For Everything” concerts in Singapore and Taipei.

Chan has published a collection of her English poems,Cork out of my Head, in 2000 in Taiwan,I Write a Page in 2000 in Singapore, and a fiction book (together with her friend, Siew Fern Yong) titledCathy and Jodie: The Princess and the Flea.^[13]

In 2022, Chan performed inThe LKY Musical, where she performed as the late MadamKwa Geok Choo, the wife of Singapore’s founding Prime MinisterLee Kuan Yew.^[14][15]

In 1998, Chan was appointed as the first NationalYouth Ambassador for Singapore'sNational Youth Council. She served for two years.^[1] From 2001 to 2005, she served as a council member with the National Youth Council.^[13] In 2002 theCommonwealth Youth Programme Asia Centre awarded her an Award for Excellence in Youth Work.^[1]

In 2007, Chan was appointed to the board of theNational Heritage Board over a two-year period, reaching out to the Singapore audience and linking with the creative industries.^[16]

She is also the ambassador to the Christian relief organization "World Vision".

Chan has invested in two boutiques in Singapore, Flowers in the Attic and Roses in the Loft.^[1]

In 2010, Chan set up her own record label, named after her singing group Banshee Empire from when she was in secondary school.^[17]

It was reported that Chan married her long-time boyfriend in 2012^[18] and divorced in 2017.^[19]

However, during an interview on “The Assembly”, aired on news network CNA in January 2025, Chan clarified that although she held a “wedding dinner” she was never legally married and hence, was never divorced.^[20][21][22]

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