BECOMING SAMMI

Biography

Sammi entered the entertainment at a age of 16. She participated in The 7th TVB New Comer Singing Contest in 1988 and won the Bronze award. Sammi’s first music company was Capital Artists. Sammi filmed her first TV drama in 1990 for TVB. Since 1990, Sammi’s images were always different, such as different hairstyles and different hair colors. Sammi was not so famous during the years in Capital Artists music company.

In the year 1995, Sammi finally decided to change her music company to Warner Music and she had a new manager, Frankie Lee. She released her first album with Warner Music called “Can’t let go of you”, her popularity suddenly increased rapidly. Her songs such as, “Can’t let go of you” and “The mourning song of love” were so popular in KTV’s.

Her popularity carried on to the next year 1996, Sammi held her first concert with 8 shows in the HK Coliseum. Sammi wore many exposed and sexy clothes such as the golden metal bra in the concert and with the most outstanding image, the “Nike” eyebrow. Sammi received her first “Most Popular Female Singer” award at that same year.

In 1998, Sammi held her first World Tour concert. Sammi’s popularity never stopped. In 1999, Sammi received her first TVB’s “Top Golden Gold Song” award. In 2000, Sammi filmed the movie “Needing You” with Andy Lau which grossed $35,000,000 high box office. On that year, it was the first time Sammi dominated as the “Best Actress”.

Sammi continued to work in the movie industry and filmed many movies with over $20,000,000 box office. Soon, Sammi became the highest pay HK female artist. Since then, movie companies viewed Sammi as the “Box office Queen”.

In 2001, Sammi received the gold award “Best Female Singer” from Commercial Radio 2 for the first time. Sammi also received many awards in that year. In 2002, Sammi received her first “Best Actress” award for the movie “Wu Yen” and received the title, the “Acting Queen”. Sammi’s popularity never dropped, even until now the year 2008, the press still viewed Sammi as one of the top female singer in Asia.

According to one of the Sammi's interviews around year 1996, Sammi revealed her first boyfriend. Sammi said her first love occured when she was 16 years old. She said she wanted a boyfriend at that time because all her friends and classmates have boyfriends so she wanted one too. Sammi said she went out with that guy for two years. She said the guy originally wanted to go out with Sammi's sister, but because Sammi's sister don't like him so Sammi went out with him, Sammi didn't mind.