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. She then debuted in the music industry in 2019 and won the New Artist Award on

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. She also has won an award for her song "Quarantine" ().

Biography

When Chan graduated from secondary school, she wanted to make a living from her interest in music. She has graduated in

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, also she was working as a dance teacher and an anchor for Billboard China. After she graduated from University, she was chosen by Universal Music Hong Kong to be the anchor for their new web magazine, UMWebzine, interviewing artists on their behalf. She interviewed

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, 5 Seconds of Summer,

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etc. She also has filmed some videos branded as "JengJace" on her YouTube channel. In 2018, she became a stylist in King Maker, a Hong Kong singing contest, helping a stylist, Mayao Ma. She has participated in music production when she was idle, uploading videos of covering different songs while performing with music group Dusty Bottle. Universal Music Hong Kong noticed her videos and signed her to their label. In 2019, she became one of the "Fabulous Four", becoming the new singer of that year. She released 3 songs that year, "想突然", a R&B song and invited the vocal of LMF and 24Herbs. Her second song, "想正常" is a heavier song, describing the conflicts in the latter stages in a relationship. Her third song, "講"'s demo was recorded in

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. In 2020, Chan collaborated with composer Alex Fung, composing the melody of the song "天生二品" with hirsk, a Hong Kong Composer. The song was a success, managing to get to the top of the Music Charts of

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and

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. In that August, she released a love song, Quarantine (), collaborating with Alex Fung again. The song's lyrics were written by YIU SUM and KW Chu, and the music video was directed by a former DJ of RTHK, Jerry Wong. Her friends, Z. Koo and Chung Suet Ying were the main actors in the music video. The song was another success, topping the charts on iTunes, MusicOne, and

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. This song also became one of the 10 best songs recommended by Metro Radio. A duet version with indie singer

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being the boy waiting for his crush. In 2021, Chan reused the crew of the song "天生二品", Terence Lam was also invited to be a co-composer of the song "虛擬人與我", this song is about a relationship online. She released her first album, Processing on 14 May 2021, the album reached the golden award sales (15,000 copies sold) on the first day of sale. The songs from the album was listened on

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for approximately 2 million times. The album contained all the previous songs and a new song, "I Wish". The song wants to express the hope for relieving stress and to do things the audience likes without being restricted. It became the top song on the charts of

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and

. Chan has also invited the vocal of bands Chochukmo and R.O.O.T, Jan Curious to record a Poolside Version. In July, Chan was chosen by

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to be the Hong Kong representative for their EQUAL Global Music Program of July, her portrait was on the screen of

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. On 20 August, Chan held her first concert under the sponsorship of

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, but the way for getting tickets for the concert led to disputes in the music community. In 2022, She released a R&B song 'Long D' composed by Jay Fung, she acted many classic old Hong Kong movie scenes in mv. She played 21 shows of musical 'Bye-Bye Your Tale' in August.

Musical works

Songs Chart on ''Billboard''

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Albums

Other Songs

* 2018: I'll be You (Promotional music for Universal Music Hong Kong, appearing as the anchor of UMwebzine in the music video) * 2018: Summer Thing (Personal creation) * 2018: Forever Summer (song of the Hong Kong band Dusty Bottle, also the lyricist for the song.) * 2019: Chung Full Hustle (Theme song for

program Chung Full Hustle, also the composer of the song) * 2019: 困獸鬥 (Theme song for ViuTV drama Showman's Show, featuring FatBoy@ERROR) * 2020: Last Seen! (Theme song for

program Medication for Insomnia and the music in another program, Last Seen!. featuring OSCAR, Yanny Chan and

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) * 2021: Before 30 (Theme song for

program Medication for Insomnia and the music in another program, Last Seen! Season 5. featuring OSCAR, Yanny Chan and

and Kaho Hung)

Performances

Personal

Cooperative

Other concerts

Awards and nominations

Music Awards

References

External links

* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Chan, Jace 1994 births Living people Alumni of Hong Kong Baptist University Universal Music Group artists Hong Kong television presenters Hong Kong film actresses Hong Kong television actresses Cantopop singers Hong Kong women singers 21st-century Hong Kong women singers Hong Kong idols English-language singers from Hong Kong