Sally Yeh
Sally Yeh performing at the "Sally Yeh HKPO Live - Music in Motion Concert 2005" with the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra on August 2005.
Chinese name	葉蒨文 (Traditional)
Chinese name	叶蒨文 (Simplified)
Pinyin	Yè Qiànwén (Mandarin)
Jyutping	jip6 sin3 man4 (Cantonese)
Ancestry	Zhongshan, Guangdong, China
Origin	Hong Kong
Born	(1961-09-30) 30 September 1961 (age 51) Taipei, Republic of China
Other name(s)	沙麗
Occupation	Singer Actress
Genre(s)	Cantopop Mandopop
Years active	1980 - present
Spouse(s)	George Lam
Awards Hong Kong Film Awards Best Original Film Song 1988 A Chinese Ghost Story Golden Melody Awards Best Female Mandarin Artist 1994

Sally Yeh (born September 30, 1961), sometimes written as Sally Yip or Yip Sin-Man, is a Cantopop singer and actress.

Overview [edit]

Yeh is a Canadian citizen. Born in Taipei, Taiwan, immigrated to Canada at young age with her family, 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 married 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.

She was also known to be in Jackie Chan's The Protector (1985) in the HK edit version with new shots having her character Sally Ho.

Discography [edit]

Filmography [edit]

• 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) (Hong Kong version)
• Welcome 補鑊英雄 (1986)
• Aces Go Places 4 (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)
• Vampire Strikes Back (1988)
• The Laser Man (1988)
• 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)
• Spirit vs. Zombie (1989)
• The Killer 喋血雙雄 (1989)
• The Banquet 豪門夜宴 (1991)
• Sisters of the World Unite 莎莎嘉嘉站起來 (1991)
• Love Under the Sun (2003)

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See also [edit]

• Cantopop
• Cinema of Hong Kong

References [edit]

External links [edit]

• Sally Yeh at the Internet Movie Database
• Sally Yeh: The Effervescent Queen of Pop
• Sally Yeh's Facebook
• Sally Yeh's Weibo
• iLove-Sally.com