Background
Priscilla has a younger brother and sister. Her father is a retired senior officer of
Hong Kong Immigration Service. She attended Marymount Secondary School in Happy Valley (formerly known as Maryknoll Sisters School), one of many well known secondary schools in Hong Kong. As active student, she often entered singing contests as a teenager and got discovered by a recording company. She currently lives in
Happy Valley, Hong Kong, with eight cats; she is known for expressing great passion and emotion in her love songs, in which many of them are cantopop classics.
Music career
Priscilla started her life as a professional singer when she was 18 in 1983. Her first song was titled "
Forgotten Promise
" (?????), which is recorded in an album "
Girl Magazine
" (????) that also featuring two other new comers. The song propelled Priscilla's career; thus, she released her own first album "
The Feelings of a Story
" (?????) in 1984. The next year, she released "Priscilla," which included the hit "
Flower Shop
" (??). In 1986, the album "
Revolt
" (??) had several classics and push Priscilla to new heights. Song included "
Dancing Street
" (???) (a version of
Angie Gold's "
Eat You Up
" but based production wise, on
Yoko Oginome's version, titled "
Dancing Hero
" (?????ยท????)), "
Loving Accident
" (????), "
Love Me Once Again
," "
Revolt
" (??), and "
Hugging with Tears
" (????). Priscilla had a rough 1987, but she rebounded nicely in 1988 with the album ?? 1988, and the song "
Silly Girl
" (??, a Cantonese rework version of the Spanish song "
La Loca
") that first confirmed her status as a serious contender in the golden age of
Cantopop. "
Silly Girl
" was re-made into a disco-version by a new comer in Hong Kong in 2007.
Priscilla chose to retire in 1989 in order to pursue her degree in psychology at the
Syracuse University in
Syracuse, New York, a promise to her parents that she kept. In her supposed-to-be last album, (???????) "
Always Be Your Friend
," the everlasting hit "
Thousands of Songs
" (????) elevated her status in the legendary mega pop stars heavy industry including
Leslie Cheung,
Anita Mui and
Alan Tam. This best-selling album of 1989 also recorded hits like "Night Flight" (??) and "
Dancing Boy
."
During her academic career, she returned to Hong Kong and recorded three albums from 1992-1994 during the summer vacations. The song "
Snowfall
" (??) was very popular for karaoke at the time; other hits included "
Red Tea Shop
" (???), which was voted among the Top 10 song of the Year in 1992, "
Come Back!
" (???!), and "Jealousy." The album sales were surprisingly good despite the fact that she spent most of the time in the U.S. with minimum publicity.
By 1995, Priscilla has returned to the music industry in full force. Her initial return brought her back to the top of the pop chart with two albums: "
Welcome Back
" and "
I'm Not Lonely
" (????). In fact, "
Welcome Back
" topped the sales chart for a modern record of six weeks! Songs like "
It's Always Raining Tonight
" (???????), "
Missing You
" (??), "
Missing Love and Dust
" (????), "
I'm Lonely
" (???), and "Flow" (?) became instant classic. Her 10-night series of concerts in 1996 reaffirmed her popularity with the public. Another concert in 1997 with Hong Kong Philharmonic Symphony (HKPS) in Hong Kong made her the second pop artist ever to work with the HKPS.
With the signing of a new recording company,
Cinepoly, her fame started to fall. The death of her beloved cat, Remington, in 1998 marked the start of three year period when she found life difficult as the new recording company wasn't working well for her. In 2000, after the last album with Cinepoly named "
Good For You
" (???), she retreated the music scene until 2003 when she made a come-back with an album named "
Loving Knot
" (???) and a series of concert in Hong Kong. However, due to the album sales that's below her expectation, mostly because of illegal online downloading and piracy, she decided to retreat once again. She criticized the trend of Cantopop audiences, of whom she believed was only interested in admiring the entertainers' image and not appreciating their music. However, she has reiterated her desire to continue singing as many loyal fans still remained around the world.
In 2007, Priscilla signed IEC -
EC Music and the next year released a new live album recorded at a series of concerts in Hong Kong.
Concert tours
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