Main Page See live article Alphabetical index Sally Yeh Canada-grown Sally Yeh (Taipei, 30 September 1961, a.k.a. Sally Yip , a.k.a. Sin-Man Yip ) is a star in both Hong Kong pop and movie scenes. Her credits as an actress include Shanghai Blues and The Occupant (both ), and Tsui Hark's Peking Opera Blues (o.t. "Do Ma Den", 1986), probably her finest performance (and Best Actress Award at the 1986 Hong Kong Movie Festival), though her screen fame rests chiefly on her role as the blind piano-bar singer Jennie in John Woo's "The Killer" ( Yeh's singing career started in the early and exploded in the following decade thanks to a series of well though-out and executed releases - thirty albums, plus forty-odd compilations, best of's and live recordings. Yeh sounds excellent in Cantonese, Mandarin and English, and her jazz-trained vocals allow her to handle a wide range of musical genres. Apart from a good record track of original hits, Sally Yeh has covered through the years a number of Western songs, ranging from Madonna to Celine Dion by way of the M*A*S*H* title song. She has also collaborated on a number of soundtracks (mostly on Tsui Hark's movies), including the international hit "A Chinese Ghost Story" (1987). | |
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