Jessica Ho Lok-yiu ( zh, link=no, t=何洛瑤; born 24 May 2000), known professionally as Sica, is a

Hong Kong Hong Kong ( (US) or (UK); , ), officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China ( abbr. Hong Kong SAR or HKSAR), is a city and special administrative region of China on the eastern Pearl River Delt ...

singer, musician, stage actress and

cosplayer Cosplay, a portmanteau of "costume play", is an activity and performance art in which participants called cosplayers wear costumes and fashion accessories to represent a specific character. Cosplayers often interact to create a subculture, ...

. She was also one of the top 40 contestants on

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reality talent contest programme

King Maker IV ''King Maker IV'' ( zh, t=全民造星IV) is a 2021 Hong Kong survival reality show on ViuTV as fourth season of , accepting only female contestants. It aired from 30 October to 25 December 2021, with Marife Yau (Marf) being the champion, (Gao) ...

Biography

Sica was born in Hong Kong on 24 May 2000. She had her secondary education in

Evangel College Evangel University is a private Christian university and seminary in Springfield, Missouri. It is affiliated with the Assemblies of God Christian denomination, which is also headquartered in Springfield. The campus sits on that were originally ...

and became obsessed with Japanese

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and pop culture after watching ''

Attack on Titan is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Hajime Isayama. It is set in a world where humanity is forced to live in cities surrounded by three enormous walls that protect them from gigantic man-eating humanoids referred to as ...

'' in form 1. Sica began to cosplay different anime characters, such as ''

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''’s

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and ''

Cardcaptor Sakura , abbreviated as ''CCS'', is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by the manga group Clamp. Serialized monthly in the ''shōjo'' manga magazine ''Nakayoshi'' from May 1996 to June 2000, it was also published in 12 ''tankōbon'' ...

''’s

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, and ran a cosplay-themed Facebook fanpage called ''Casi's Planet''. Sica also learnt guitar since form 3 and served as the guitarist of local band Namida Hana (). Sica later attended

Hong Kong Baptist University Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU) is a publicly funded tertiary liberal arts education, liberal arts institution with a Christian ethics, Christian education heritage. It was established as Hong Kong Baptist College with the support of Ame ...

and obtained an

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of Arts in visual arts. She worked at a

maid café are a subcategory of cosplay restaurants found predominantly in Japan. In these cafés, waitresses, dressed in maid costumes, act as servants, and treat customers as masters (and mistresses) in a private home, rather than as café patrons. The f ...

after her graduation. In 2021, Sica auditioned for

's reality talent contest

and was enlisted as one of the final 96 contestants. She received public attention after winning against YouTuber Jackie Lau in the preliminaries and was sorted to Team B, mentored by professional actor Joey Leung. Her performance in the subsequent rounds received widespread acclaim from the mentors, adjudicators and general public. Leung even recruited her to cast his latest

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''War of Tung Choi Guys: Spiced Up Edition''. Ho was signed to ViuTV and appeared on its music variety show .

Filmography

Variety show

Drama

Theatre

*War of Tung Choi Guys: Spiced Up Edition (2021)

References

External links

* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Ho, Sica 2000 births Living people Hong Kong idols King Maker IV contestants 21st-century Hong Kong women singers Cosplayers