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Introduction:
Kit is an artiste who's involved not only in cutting albums, but also in musicals as well. One can remember her as the female lead in the musical, Snow Wolf Lake, in Singapore which also cast Jacky Cheung as the male lead. She's just finished her latest musical, The Forbidden City, and she's already back in action, doing publicity work for her latest album! Phew!She's been around in this industry for around 8 years or more(can someone drop me an answer if you know?, and I remember her as the first successful artiste who ventured into taiwan and enjoyed fame here in Singapore as well. I like the song that she performed for S'pore's National Day Parade, Home(the Mandarin version). Once I happened to watch an interview about her on Channel NewsAsia on TV mobile. Although I didn't get to see the whole interview, but she has already struck a very good impression on me, that she is a person with many strengths and her determination to enter the music industry as a "first" Singaporean artiste to break into the Taiwanese/overseas market was, to me, "simply awesome."I remember she said something to peruade her mum then to support her choice, something like "Mum, I know that I can do other things besides singing, but I assure you that I have chosen to do this, and I'm sure that I can do it really well."(Kit fans, don't persecute me if i rephrased her words wrongly-cos it was quite long ago since I last heard it) Here's an interview from the Straits Times:

Source: Straits Times Life Date: 13 Oct 2003 Understanding Kit

Fresh from a stint as an all-powerful dowager in The Forbidden City, her new Chinese album, Understand, offers insight into a relaxed Kit Chan

When the recent second run of the local musical Forbidden City received some bad press from the English media, singer and actress Kit Chan - who played the lead - was perturbed.

But when the Chinese media followed suit with more bad reviews, she decided it was okay to laugh.

Speaking in English, fresh from a photoshoot at the office of her record label, Ocean Butterfiles, she says: "Two wrongs do make a right. Things came to a point where even fellow cast members were telling me not to bother, since the critics didn't understand what we were doing." But she is glad for the experience and is now busy promoting her latest Mandarin album, Understand.

After headlining 29 shows in the second staging of Forbidden City, she hits the road next Sunday in a month-long promotional tour of Taiwan.

On the more intimate, cosy numbers in Understand, the 31-year-old Chan says: "I want to leave the stage diva part of me behind. I don't want to do another album of big ballads. Reflective albums are a platform for me to create. R&B is also not me. Some R&B can be sung beautifully, but I do not fall into that category."

Neither does she see herself taking on a behind-the-scenes role of producer or star-maker anytime soon. "I don't have the patience for that kind of job. I'm a difficult woman," she says, smiling.

Having spent nearly a decade in the business - she hit the Taiwanese market big time in 1994 with the album Heartache - Chan admits to shifting her gears down and aiming for a more "life-enhancing" existence.

Since then, she has starred opposite Heavenly King Jacky Cheung in the 1997 musical, Snow.Wolf.Lake in Hong Kong; played the late songbird Teresa Teng in another musical, The Legend, in Hong Kong in 1998; and acted in high profile dramas such as TVB's Healing Hands and Channel U's Cash Is King. "I don't feel I have to prove a point anymore. That would be pathetic," she says, emanating a confidence and poise that usually comes from someone luxuriating in love.

Of her 38-year-old Singaporean banker boyfriend, whom she met on a plane trip back from America, she says, " I see a lot of goodness in him. Not to put the men in my past down, but I've never really used the word 'respect' to describe a boyfriend before. But with him, I do." As to whether marriage is on the cards, Chan volunteers a cryptic reply:"It really depends, I want to be proposed to. I guess I want to be surprised."

P.S.Thanks for the article, www.kitchan.com! Don't sue!