Eason Chan Yik-Shun
Gender: Male
Born: 27th July 1974 (currently 37 years old)
Nationality: Hong Kong
Movies: City of Glass, Visible Secret, Visible Secret 2, Comic King, Enter the Phoenix, Hooked on You, Lady Cop & Papa Crook, Golden Chicken, Lost Indulgence, Jiang hu: The Triad Zone, Cop Shop Babes, I Corrupt All Cops, Dream Home, Twelve Nights, Love Battlefield, Tiramisu, Heat Team, Crazy n' the City, Hidden Track, Brothers, East Meets West 2011, Love in Space, Strawberry Cliff
Eason Chan Yik-shun (陳奕迅) is a prominent male singer in Hong Kong's music industry. Undoubtedly one of the most dominant male singers in the post-1997 era of Hong Kong music industry. Eason Chan has been praised by Time magazine as a front runner in the next generation of Cantopop. He is considered by some to be Hong Kong's third "god of song" after Samuel Hui and Jacky Cheung.
His Cantonese album U87 was nominated by Time Magazine as "Five Asian Albums Worth Buying" in 2005. Eason Chan was the big winner at the prestigious Golden Melody Awards in 2003 and 2009. In 2003, he won "Best Male Singer" and "Album of the Year awards" for his work in Mandarin album "Special Thanks To...". In 2009, Chan won "Album of the Year" again for his work in Mandarin album "Don't Want to Let Go".
Chan is the son of Chan Kau-tai, a former housing official of the Hong Kong administration sacked after being proven corrupted. Chan was sent to the United Kingdom for study at the age of 12. He attended St. Joseph's kindergarten, St. Joseph's Primary School in Hong Kong, Dauntsey's School in Wiltshire, England and later Kingston University majoring in architecture. Chan returned to Hong Kong before the
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