Eason Chan

Early life

Eason Chan Yick-shun, born in Hong Kong, went to England to study when he was 12. He attended St. Joseph's kindergarten, St. Joseph's College Primary School in Hong Kong, Dauntsey's School in Wiltshire, England and later Kingston University, studying architecture. Chan returned to Hong Kong before the completion of his degree to participate in the 1995 New Talent Singing Awards Competition in which he won first place. Immediately after his victory, Capital Artists signed a contract with him, ending his future career as an architect while launching his successful career in music. Chan received a doctorate honorary degree from Kingston University.

Career

Eason Chan is a frequent winner of Asia's music awards. He is the second non-Taiwanese singer after Jacky Cheung to win Taiwan's Golden Melody Awards. He won "Best Male Singer" twice in 2003 and 2015, and "Best Album" twice in 2003 and 2009. He has won the prestigious Hong Kong's Most Popular Male Singer Award twice, in the year 2006 and 2007. He also won his first Asia Pacific's Most Popular Singer Award in 2007, and again in 2008. His album U87 (The name of the album came from his favourite microphone), released in 2005, has been recommended by Time Magazine as one of the five best Asian albums worth buying. U87 also won the top sale of album (non-concert, non-collection category) in Hong Kong in 2005. He was Hong Kong's highest selling male artist in 2002, 2003 and 2007. He has been one of Hong Kong's top selling artists for all years starting from 2000. His concert DVD Get a Life was the highest selling album of 2006.

Chan has been praised by critics and fellow musicians alike as one of the top singers of his generation. Since the very beginning of his career, He has been one of the favourites to lead the new generation of Cantopop. He has been described as a breath of fresh air in the HK music scene. Over the last ten years, Chan emerged as the leading male singer of his generation, fulfilling his role as an innovator and a leader in the HK music scene, winning prestigious awards one after another. Chan has also been successful in his work in the Mandopop scene. He has won numerous awards in both Mainland and Taiwan, most notably Taiwan's Golden Melody Awards. "Admit It" was another notable work of Chan, which led to a nomination for Golden Melody Awards' Best Male Singer; the award was ultimately won by Gary Chaw. Next year, he was again nominated for Golden Melody Awards' Best Male Singer (for his work in Mandarin album "Don't Want To Let Go"), the award went to Jay Chou. However, Chan won Album of The Year for "Don't Want To Let Go".

Chan has been named by Chinese critics as the next God of Songs (歌神) after Jacky Cheung. However, Eason has more than once clarified that he wishes to build his own name instead, and not just be the successor of Jacky Cheung. There is a duet called 天下太平 sung by Chan and Jacky Cheung in the album Perfect Match by Albert Leung，Ronald Ng (伍樂城) released in April 2006. Chan and Cheung have collaborated on other occasions as well. They sang a duet of Cheung's 頭髮亂了 in a fundraising campaign for SARS victims in 2003.

Chan not only sings but also plays some instruments in his live concerts, such as the piano, the guitar, the harmonica, the accordion, etc. He frequently showcases his musical talent by incorporating instruments into his live performances. Chan is also a songwriter who has written many songs, some included in his albums.

In 2009, Chan performed in "PAX Musica 2009" in Tokyo. He sang seven songs including a Japanese song by Koji Tamaki called "Mr. Lonely". This was his first time performing in Japan publicly. After that, Japanese Musician Ikuro Fujiwara openly praised Chan for his stage charisma and expressed hope to collaborate with Chan in the future. Chan plans to promote his musical works in Japan in 2010.

In 2011, Chan released a new album titled "Stranger Under My Skin" on 22 February. Released in November, Chan's latest album titled "?" features a piano performance by his seven-year-old daughter.

In 2012, Chan released the 《...3mm》Cantonese album on 10 August 2012. Followed by a remix version of the album, titled 《...3mm Remix》releasing on 8 November 2012. It is an album by Eric Kwok and Jerald Chan in composing music, including the number one songs "Finish" (<<完>>) and "Heavy taste" (<<重口味>>). At the same time, Chan opened his own music production company, EAS Music.

In 2014, he received Honorary Doctor of Arts degree for accomplishments in the Cantonese music industry from Kingston University where he studied architecture before entering the entertainment industry.

In 2015, Chan released the 《準備中》(Preparing) Cantonese album, including number one song "Unconditional" 《無條件》. The album won Chan a lot of awards that year.

Concerts

Chan has held five major theme concerts at the famous Hong Kong Coliseum starting from 1999, a proof of his enduring popularity and his status as one of Hong Kong's most beloved singers. His first series of concerts at the Hong Kong Coliseum, a total of four Eason's 99Big Live concerts, came four years after his debut in 1995. Even today, that amount of time is considered short for a singer to gain the general approval and public support needed to perform at such a prestigious venue. Two years later in 2001, Chan held a series of nine The Easy Ride concerts at the Hong Kong Coliseum under the wing of his second record company, Music Plus. In 2003, he again held a series of seven The Third Encounter concerts with the support of Music Plus. In the spring of 2006, after a year of rest and another change of record company, Chan held his fourth theme concerts, a total of nine Get a Life concerts at the Hong Kong Coliseum. A year later, Chan broke his own record while holding his fifth series of concerts named Eason's Moving on Stage. During October and November 2007, he completed a total of 16 hugely successful Chan's Moving on Stage1 concerts at the Hong Kong Coliseum. As of January 2008, Chan has held 45 concerts at Hong Kong Coliseum.

Chan began his Moving on Stage World Tour in February 2008. The already completed stops include: Taiwan, United States, Canada, Australia, Guangzhou, Shanghai, Malaysia, Macau, Singapore, Kunming, Tianjin, Chongqing, Beijing, Shenzhen, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Hangzhou. His following stops were Guiyang, Beijing, Foshan and Guangzhou. Chan's Moving on Stage World Tour ended with Eason Chan's Moving on Stage 26 at Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (16 August 2009).

Months after his Moving On Stage Concerts came to a finish, Chan began another tour in Mainland China, called "Ninety Minutes of Bliss". Instead of playing at grand venues, Chan began this tour hoping to get closer to his fans by playing at smaller venues. He completed two concerts in Nanjing and three more in Shanghai before and during Christmas 2009. Two more concerts were held in Beijing on 29 and 30 May 2010.

In between his tour, Chan held his sixth record-breaking Theme Concerts at the Hong Kong Coliseum for a total of 18 concerts, scheduled from 20 March to 6 April 2010. This new series is called Duo Eason Chan 2010 Concert (《DUO陳奕迅2010演唱會》).

After the May "Ninety Minutes of Bliss" concerts in Beijing, Chan went to Europe for his first ever European Tour scheduled for three cities, London on 3 May, Manchester on 6 May and Rotterdam on 8 May. The venues for the three concerts were respectively, Royal Albert Hall, Manchester Apollo and Ahoy Rotterdam. Tickets to his London and Manchester concerts were each sold out within hours of ticket release. Chan is the second singer after Roman Tam to perform in the prestigious Royal Albert Hall.

At Chan's concert in Beijing on 29 September 2011 at the Beijing Workers' Stadium, Faye Wong made a special guest appearance, surprising many as Wong has previously never accepted any invitation to appear as a special guest at another singer's concert; this was the first time that she broke her "rule," and she gave her "first" to Chan.

Continuing his Duo Eason Chan 2010 ConcertWorld Tour, Chan made his second appearance in London, the O2 Arena on 23 April 2012. He became the first Asian artist playing in the O2 stage, making a record that the concert was sold out in 20minutes to 12,000fans, where Chan found it was surprising and was thankful to have so much international support.

In 2015, Chan held his 100th show of Another Eason Life's World Tour in Montreal, Canada, on December 4, 2015. This was the first time ever that a Chinese singer has performed at the Centre Bell.

Musicals

On 18 and 19 August 2005, Chan performed the musical Wrestling with God (人神鬥), the second programme of Love Music Tour 05 organised by Netvigator. He was the actor and producer. Stars featured in the show included famous comedian Jim Chim (詹瑞文), singer Wilfred Lau (劉浩龍), Taiwanese singer Mavis Fan (范曉萱), Best Supporting Actress Winner of the 23rd Hong Kong Film Awards Josie Ho (何超儀), pop duo at17 and Soler. The story was about the competition among different angels (played by the featured stars) to protect the only man alive in the world (played by Eason Chan). The secret guest, veteran singer George Lam (林子祥), played Chan's late father. The audience were impressed by the performers, who told the story through song and dance.

Charity work

Chan has been Orbis International's Sight Ambassador in HK since 2006. He has travelled to India and Sichuan, China, visiting kids and elders with visual impairment, in an effort to raise funds for Orbis. Eason has also been an active participant in Hong Kong's fundraising campaigns such as the 2003 fundraiser for SARS victims and the 2008 fundraiser for Sichuan earthquake victims.

On 7 July 2007 Eason performed at the Chinese leg of 'Live Earth' in Shanghai.

Personal life

Chan married his longtime girlfriend Hilary Tsui (Tsui Ho Ying) in 2006, and his wife is a former TVB actress. His daughter Constance Chan was born on 4 October 2004. Constance Chan's name was given by his good friend and famous lyricist Wyman Wong. Chan gave up smoking after the birth of his daughter. He reportedly did it for Constance and the health of his voice. However, in 2007, he admitted in his concert that he has resumed smoking due to stress from his then ongoing "Moving on Stage" world tour. As of 2017, he has constant relapses.

On 9 December 2009, Chan carried the 2010 Olympic Torch through the downtown of Montreal, effectively becoming the only person of Chinese descent to carry both the Summer and Winter Olympic torch.

In August 2013, he announced during a performance that he has bipolar disorder.

Music awards statistics

Eason is regarded as the millennium's most successful singer in Hong Kong, and has won numerous awards including several major awards in a number of awards ceremonies. He won the Media Award five times (2000, 2001, 2002, 2005, 2007).

Since his debut, Chan has won 9 of the "Supreme Grand Prix du Disque"; six "Grand songs Awards" with "K Song King" (2000), "magnificent sunset" (2005), "Seven hundred years later" (2009), "flavors" (2012), "the wind took" (2013) and "unconditional" (2015); "male singer Gold" and "best male singer"; and many more. He has repeatedly won the Top Ten Golden Melody award, Male Singer Of The Year award and Album Of The Year award.

In 1998, the songs "My Happy Times" and "Odyssey", which made Chan first time to attend the ceremony of harvest. In subsequent years, "God Bless sweetheart", "Shall we dance? Shall we talk" and other albums, and "Forever Love", "K Song King", "Shall we dance", "next year today," "people come Wang "and" House of Flying Daggers "and other songs for him swept several awards, during three consecutive years won the media award. 2003 - During the 04 years due to contractual issues with record companies fell in 2005 after switching to Cinepoly with "U87" and the song "magnificent sunset" swept the awards. 2006 to 2007 also achieved excellent results, the song "Crazy", "Mount Fuji" and "Crying in the Party" and so brought him several awards. In 2008 the main market development Mandarin, Chinese song "The road has been in ..." there are still many in the music awards. Launched in 2009 album "H3M" and song "Seven hundred years" and "salon" and then swept the awards that he subsequently has dominated the music scene for several years, such as "Time Flies", the song "Tourbillon", "bitter" "June Feishuang", "naked" have achieved outstanding results. 2012 Release retro song "flavors" is still very receptive, 2013, "the wind took" also gain another victory.

Studio Album

1. Eason Chan 陳奕迅 (Cantonese, 1996)
2. Tear 一滴眼淚 (Mandarin, 1996)
3. Always With Me 與我常在 (Cantonese, 1997)
4. Preparation 醞釀 (Mandarin, 1997)
5. My Happy Time 我的快樂時代 (Cantonese, 1998)
6. New Life 新生活 (Cantonese, 1998)
7. God Bless Lover 天佑愛人 (Cantonese, 1999)
8. Wedding Blessing 婚禮的祝福 (Mandarin, 1999)
9. Happiness 幸福 (Cantonese, 1999)
10. Nothing Really Matters (Cantonese, 2000)
11. Some Like it Hot 打得火熱 (Cantonese, 2000)
12. 68'29' (Cantonese, 2000)
13. Shall We Dance? Shall We Talk! (Cantonese, 2001)
14. It's Me 反正是我 (Mandarin, 2001) – Nominated for "Best Male Singer" in Golden Melody Awards, Harlem Yu was the winner
15. The Easy Ride (Cantonese, 2001)
16. Mixed Up (2001)
17. Special Thanks To... (Mandarin,2002) – Won "Best Male Singer" & "Best Album of the year" in Golden Melody Awards, he is the only singer to win these two awards in the same year
18. Five-star home 五星級的家 (Cantonese, 2002)
19. The Line-Up (Cantonese, 2002)
20. Black. White. Gray 黑白灰 (Mandarin, 2003) – Nominated for "Best Male Singer" in Golden Melody Awards, Sky Wu was the winner
21. Live For Today (Cantonese, 2003)
22. Seven 七 (Mandarin, 2003)
23. I Had a Great Time (No release)
24. U87 (Cantonese, 2005) – Recommended by Time Magazine as one of the five best Asian albums worth buying
25. How 怎麼樣 (Mandarin, 2005)
26. Sound & Sight (2005)
27. Great 5000 Secs Vol.1 and 2 (2005)
28. Life Continues... (Cantonese, 2006)
29. What's going on...? (Cantonese, 2006)
30. My Great Age 我的最好時代 (Cantonese, 2006)
31. Admit It 認了吧 (Mandarin, 2007) – Nominated for "Best Male Singer" in Golden Melody Awards, Gary Chaw was the winner
32. Listen To Eason Chan (Cantonese, 2007)
33. Soliday (Cantonese, 2008)
34. Don't Want To Let Go 不想放手 (Mandarin, 2008) – Won "Best Album of the year" & nominated for "Best Male Singer" in Golden Melody Awards, Jay Chou was the winner
35. H³M (Cantonese, 2009)
36. 5/F Blissful 上五樓的快活 (Mandarin, 2009) – Nominated for "Best Male Singer" in Golden Melody Awards, David Tao was the winner
37. Time Flies (Cantonese, 2010)
38. Taste the Atmosphere (Cantonese, 2010)
39. Stranger Under My Skin (Cantonese, 2011)
40. ？(Mandarin, 2011)
41. ...3mm (Cantonese, 2012)
42. The Key (Cantonese, 2013)
43. Rice & Shine (Mandarin, 2014)
44. Getting Ready (Cantonese, 2015)
45. C'mon In~ (Mandarin, 2017)

Songs written by Eason Chan

1. 時代曲 (with 江港生) (from the album 陳奕迅)
2. 那一夜有沒有說 (from the album 與我常在)
3. 反高潮 (from the album 我的快樂時代)
4. 同聲一哭 (duet with Anita Mui) (from the album I'm So Happy of Anita Mui)
5. 你會不會 (from the album Special Thanks To...)
6. 給蕭邦寫過的歌 (sung by Sammi Cheng) (from the album 愛是... of Sammi Cheng)
7. PG家長指引 (sung by Edmond Leung) (from the album PG家長指引 of Edmond Leung)
8. 呼吸困難 (sung by Edmond Leung) (from the album Music Is The Answer of Edmond Leung)
9. 下週同樣時間 (再見)(from the album 打得火熱)
10. 溫室效應 (from the album 打得火熱)
11. 怪物 (from the album Shall We Dance? Shall We Talk)
12. 衝口而出 (with 王雙駿) (from the album The Easy Ride)
13. 改造人 (sung by Nicholas Tse) (from the album 幸福)
14. 我也不會那麼做 (from the album 反正是我)
15. 沒有你 (from the album 反正是我)
16. 落花流水 (with Eric Kwok) (from the EP Life Continues)
17. 大得太快 (from the EP Life Continues)
18. 戀愛盲 (with Edmond Leung) (Sung by Edmond Leung) (from the album The Story of June of Edmond Leung)
19. 新生活 (from the album 新生活)
20. 2001太空漫遊 (with 陳輝陽) (from the album Shall We Dance? Shall We Talk)
21. Namasgar你好嗎 (from the album OST 十二夜十二首)
22. 解藥 (from the album What's Going On...?)
23. 粵語殘片 (With C.Y. Kong) (from the album What's Going On...?)
24. 白色球鞋 (With C.Y. Kong) (from the album 認了吧)
25. 兄弟 (duet with Andy Lau) (from the album Listen To Eason Chan)
26. 乜嘢啫 (from the album Listen To Eason Chan)
27. 狂熱革命 (with Davy Chan) (from the album Listen To Eason Chan)
28. 換季 (sung by Hacken Lee) (from the album Today Special of Hacken Lee)
29. 沙龍 (from the album H3M, namely Hyper Horrendous Hybrid Maniac)
30. 給你 (from the album 5/F Blissful)
31. 習慣説 (with Eric Kwok) (from the album 3MM, namely 3 Married Men)
32. 床頭床尾 (from the album The Key)，
33. 滴答(with CY Kong) (sung by楊幂)
34. 春去也 (sung by William So)
35. 人人愛 (with CY Kong)
36. 放過你 (duet with Joey Yung)
37. 新曲+精選
38. 心深傷透 (with CY Kong/Davy Chan/Hardpack) (from the album What's Going On...?)
39. 猜情尋 (with 吳國敬/孫偉明/陳永明) (from the album Live for today)
40. 歲月如歌 (with 劉志遠/李振權) (from the album Live for today)
41. 新歌 (with 陳光榮)(sung by Ekin Cheng)
42. 承諾 (with Peter Kam/Carl Wong/Alan Tam/Andy Lau/<黄家强)
43. 淘汰 (with CY Kong/Davy Chan) (from the album 認了吧)
44. 馬里奥派對 (with CY Kong/Davy Chan/Concord Wong) (from the album Listen to Eason Chan)
45. 熱島小夜曲 (with CY Kong/Davy Chan/Concord Wong/張亞東) (from the album Listen to Eason Chan)
46. 滑鐵盧車站 (with Tony/Steve/CY/Davy) (from the album Listen to Eason Chan)
47. 閃 (with CY/Davy) (from the album Listen to Eason Chan)
48. 演唱會 (with CY/Davy) (from the album Listen to Eason Chan)
49. Crying in the party (with CY/Davy) (from the album Listen to Eason Chan)
50. 變色龍 (with Carl Wong) (from the album Listen to Eason Chan)
51. 時代巨輪 (with Eric Kwok) (from the album Listen to Eason Chan)
52. Allegro Opus 3.3am (with Gary Tong/ CY/Davy) (from the album H3M, namely Hyper Horrendous Hybird Maniac)
53. 還有什麽可以送給你 (with Davy/CY) (from the album H3M, namely Hyper Horrendous Hybird Maniac)
54. 于心有愧 (with Davy/CY/鍾達恩) (from the album H3M, namely Hyper Horrendous Hybird Maniac)
55. 今天只做一件事 (with Joey Tang/CY/Davy) (from the album H3M)
56. 一個旅人 (with Pak Lui/CY/Davy) (from the album H3M namely Hyper Horrendous Hybird Maniac)
57. 七百年後 (with CY/Davy/Jim Lau) (from the album H3M namely' 'Hyper Horrendous Hybird Maniac)
58. Life goes on (with Gary Tong/孫偉明) (from the album H3M namely Hyper Horrendous Hybird Maniac)
59. 太陽照常升起 (with Yin Wong/ CY/Davy) (from the album H3M namely Hyper Horrendous Hybird Maniac)
60. 不來也不去 (with 梁飛翔/CY/Davy) (from the album H3M namely Hyper Horrendous Hybird Maniac)
61. 後台 (with 梁飛翔/CY/Davy) (from the album Soliday)
62. 重口味 (with Swing@Eric Kwok/Swing@Jerald Chan) (from the album 3MM namely 3 Married Men)
63. 非禮 (with Eric/Jearld) (from the album 3MM namely 3 Married Men) # CLASS (with Swing) (from the album 3MM namely 3 Married Men)
64. 碌卡 (with Swing) (from the album 3MM namely 3 Married Men)
65. 笑死朕 (with Swing) (from the album 3MM namely 3 Married Men)
66. 蚊 (with Swing) (from the album MM namely 3 Married Men)
67. 床頭床尾 (from the album The Key)
68. 追求 (duet with Chinese Badminaton althlet)
69. 春去也 (sung by William So)
70. 刚刚好 (sung by Miriam Yeung)
71. 无耻 (sung by Juno Mak)

Filmography

Eason Chan is a notable actor who has starred in multiple box office hits. Chan started to act in films in 1997. He has starred or co-starred in over 20 films so far. He was nominated for Best Supporting Actor by Hong Kong's Golden Film Awards in 2000 for his role in Lavender. In 2005, he was nominated for Best Actor by Hong Kong's Golden Bauhinia Awards for his work in Crazy N' The City. In 2008, He was nominated for Best Supporting Actor by Taiwan's Golden Horse Awards for his work in Trivial Matters. In 2010, Eason Chan participated in the love comedy film “Love in Space” with Aaron Kwok, Kwai Lun Mei and René Liu.