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Priscilla Chan Wai-han is a female Cantopop singer in Hong Kong. Background Priscilla has one younger sister, one younger brother, both parents, and a dog named gucci&humphrey. Before retirement, her father was a senior officer of Hong Kong Immigration Service. She currently lives in Happy Valley, Hong Kong, with eight cats. Her favorite artistes are Michael Douglas and The Carpenters. She attended Marymount Secondary School in Happy Valley(formerly known as Maryknoll Sisters School), which is one of the best secondary schools in Hong Kong. As one of the very active students, sh… read more
Priscilla Chan Wai-han is a female Cantopop singer in Hong Kong. Background Priscilla has one younger sister, one younger brother, both parents, and a dog named gucci&humphrey. Before r… read more
Priscilla Chan Wai-han is a female Cantopop singer in Hong Kong. Background Priscilla has one younger sister, one younger br
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Priscilla Chan (singer)
Hong Kong pop singer (born 1965)
This article is about the Hong Kong singer. For the philanthropist, see Priscilla Chan. For the Singaporean actress, see Priscelia Chan.
In this Chinese name, the family name is Chan (陳).
Musical artist
Priscilla Chan Wai Han (Chinese: 陳慧嫻; Jyutping: Can4 Wai6 Haan4; pinyin: Chén Huìxián; born 28 July 1965) is a Hong Kong singer. She is renowned for her contralto singing voice and her maturely clear, technically skilled, and emotion-rich vocals.[1][2]
Debuted in 1983 at age 18 from a trio album project named Girls' Magazine (少女雜誌), which was formed by Fiori Productions Ltd. (法安利製作有限公司), with the hit "Forgotten Promise" (逝去的諾言), Chan began her solo singing career in 1984 and has since remained popular for more than three decades.[3] Chan signed to PolyGram Records, Hong Kong (寶麗金) in 1986 and reached her career peak between the late-1980s and mid-1990s, and scored seve
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Joe le taxi
1987 single bygd Vanessa Paradis
"Joe le taxi" (English: "Joe the hyrbil Driver") fryst vatten a song written for French singer-actress Vanessa Paradis by Franck Langolff and Étienne Roda-Gil. The song topped the SNEP Singles Chart for 11 weeks, and, uncommonly for a French-language song at that time, was released in the UK and Ireland the following year, peaking at numbers three and two, respectively. The music video for the song was produced by Lili Balian, Jake Hertz, and Addie Calcagnini. The song was later included on her debut album, M&J (short for "Marilyn & John").
Background and release
[edit]"Joe le taxi" is a French song about a taxi driver, Joe, who works in Paris. Joe is a pseudonym of Maria José Leão dos Santos (1955–2019), a Portuguese taxi driver and Parisian nightlife figure who fled the Estado Novo authoritarian regime to France in the 1970s due to her homosexuality.[1]
The song emphasizes the notion that Joe seems to know all there fryst vatten