Cally Kwong Mei-wan (born 24 December 1962) is a Hong Kong singer, actress, and business woman.
Early life
Kwong was born Cally Kwong Mei Wan on 24 December 1962 in British Hong Kong. Her family was poor and her mother died when she was 14.
Career
Cally entered into the Miss Hong Kong contest organised by HK TVB in 1982 when she was 19 and won the 1st runner-up title. The Miss Hong Kong of this year was Anglie Leon Leung () and the 2nd runner-up was Isabella Kau (). As the 1st runner-up, Cally represented Hong Kong in the 32nd edition of Miss World 1982 contest. Her contestant number was 29 out of 68. The event was held on 18 November 1982 at the Royal Albert Hall in London, UK.
She later became a
cantopop
Cantopop (a contraction of "Cantonese pop music") or HK-pop (short for "Hong Kong pop music") is a genre of pop music written in standard Chinese and sung in Cantonese. Cantopop is also used to refer to the cultural context of its production ...
singer. In 1984, she signed up to PolyGram Records and released her first solo album a year later.
She later became the Cantonese Singing voice for Ariel.
She started jewelry studies and obtained a diploma in gemology and in 2000, she opened her own store, Cally Jewellery.
Political career
Cally started her charity work back in early 1990s. Because of her contribution to Jiangxi province, she was elected as delegate to the 9th and 10th Jiangxi CPPCC: The Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.
Cally was elected as one of the 36 delegates representing Hong Kong to the China National People's Congress in Dec 2017.
Personal life
In 1996, Kwong married actor
Ray Lui
Ray Lui Leung-wai ( vi, Lữ Lương Vỹ, born 22 December 1956) is a Hong Kong actor. Born in Chợ Lớn, Saigon, Vietnam, he traces his ancestry to Lianjiang, Guangdong. He is best known for his role as "Ting Lik" in the 1980 Hong Kong te ...
Leung-wai, however the marriage only lasted 18-months.
In 2000, Kwong became a Buddhist and joined the
Fo Guang Shan
Fo Guang Shan (FGS) () is an international Chinese Mahāyāna Buddhist organization and monastic order based in Taiwan that practices Humanistic Buddhism. The headquarters, Fo Guang Shan Monastery is located in Dashu District, Kaohsiung, and is ...
(Mountain of Buddhist Light) ( )whose headquarters is near Kaohsiung in the south of Taiwan. Since then, she adopted her religious principles in her investment.
[Buddhist role model finds beauty in giving, not receiving, SCMP, 2009-10-30 Retrieved 2018-04-24](_blank)
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From 2000, Cally started to donate in China, mostly in Jiangxi province in building primary and secondary schools for the poor. Her goal was to build 100 schools.
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See also
*Miss Hong Kong Pageant
The Miss Hong Kong Pageant (), or Miss HK () for short, is an annual beauty pageant organised by local Hong Kong television station, TVB. The pageant was established in 1946, and acquired by TVB in 1973.
The current Miss Hong Kong is Denice Lam ...
References
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1962 births
20th-century Hong Kong women singers
Living people
Cantopop singers
Hong Kong Mandopop singers
Delegates to the 13th National People's Congress from Hong Kong