Eason Chan

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, Eason won “Album of the Year” again for his work in Mandarin album “Don’t Want to Let Go”.

Eason 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. He returned to Hong Kong before the completion of his degree to participate in the 1995 New Talent Singing Awards Competition. 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.