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Joey Yung Cho-yee (Chinese:容祖兒; pinyin: Róng, Zǔ'ér) (born June 16, 1980) is a female Cantopop singer and actress from Hong Kong. She is an artist of the Emperor Entertainment Group. She won Hong Kong Music Awards Best Female Singer in 2003 with her hit, "My Pride" and won the same prize in 2004, 2005, and 2006, thus emerging as one of the premier Cantonese singers in the world.

Biography

In 1995, Joey participated in many singing contests, including Big Echo Karaoke Singing Contest, in which she was given the opportunity to be an artist of Go East Entertainment Co. Ltd.. However, her talent did not win the recognition of the company. Go East ended the contract with Joey soon after the song 'The First Time I Want to be Drunk', which is the theme song of a movie, was recorded. The song is Joey's only song produced by Go East.

Afterwards, she worked as a clerk and helped her mother in managing the business of a fashion boutique. At the same time, she followed Roman Tam, the godfather of Canto-pop, to learn singing. She was later introduced to Golden Pony Records Co. Ltd. by an ex-colleague of Go East. Not long after she joined the company, it withdrew its business in Hong Kong. Joey's singing career was once again terminated.

In 1998/1999, Joey joined Emperor Entertainment Group. Her talent was appreciated and she was sent abroad for training to enhance her singing skills in 1999.

On 30 September 1999, her first EP was released. The album occupied first place in the CD sales roll for 23 weeks, and had a box office of 130,000 copies. In later prize-giving ceremonies held by different media organisations, she won lots of prizes together with Cecilia Cheung, who was regarded as a formidable adversary of Joey Yung.

In January 2000, Joey's apartment was set ablaze. In the same year, she made her appearance in her first movie 'Winner Takes All' and her first TV drama series 'The Green Hope'. She, at the same time, became the spokesperson of many brands, like the Four Seas, the Red Cross, Netvigator, etc. Her career had flourished with her increasing exposure in public. She held her first concert 'Joey Yung's See You Everywhere Live Concert' in the same year.

In 2001, her career crisis arose because of the strain in her vocal cords and the criticism from the public of being plump. However, she still managed to hold her second live concert 'Joey Yung Live in Concert 2001' at the end of the year and began her singing career in Taiwan after she released her first Mandarin album 'Honestly'.

In 2002, she was approved by her company to take a rest while learning dancing and make-up abroad. After two months of rest, she came back to Hong Kong and released her Canto-pop album 'Something About You'. She then became the spokesperson of Nissin and Nikon. At the end of the year, she released her second collection album 'Like Joey II', which marked her success as a singer again in Hong Kong.

In 2003, her song 'My Pride', which is also the theme song of the TV commercial of Banyan Garden developed by Cheung Kong (Holdings) Limited, became very popular and well-known among the public. This song was awarded 'The Most Popular Song in the Nation' by RTHK. In the same year, she became the spokesperson of a slimming parlour. In the fad of slimming in Hong Kong, Joey also had her body slimmed and presented herself as a sexy image, which was welcomed by the public. She held her third concert 'Joey Yung Live Show Up!' in Hong Kong Coliseum, which pushed her career to even higher heights, and she was soon named as 'Canto-pop Queen of Hong Kong'. At the end of the year, she was awarded the 'Most Popular Female Singer' in all prize-giving ceremonies held by the media. She was the youngest singer in history to have won this prize.

In 2004, Joey continued her sexy image in her CD album 'Nin9 2 5ive' and her first photo album 'The Real Joey, Glamour in London'. Her photo album was greatly accepted by the public and ran out of stock shortly after its release. Her second album in 2004, 'Give Love A Break', was greatly appreciated by the public. At the end of the year, she won the 'Most Popular Female Singer' prize of TVB and "My Most Favourite Female Singer" presented by the Commercial Radio, and many other honorable awards.

Around Christmas, a Cantonese remake of 'Chihuahua', a song performed by DJ Bobo, was sung by Joey as part of a Coca-Cola advertising campaign which included a portrayal of her on cans.

In the year 2004, she had won more than 20 awards and received the highest honor award again: The Media Award, which is given to the singer who accumulated the most awards from the 4 music award ceremonies in Hong Kong.

In 2005, Joey released her compilation album, Love Joey 3, and a Canto-pop album, Bi-Heart. Advertising her concert, Reflection of Joey's Live, which spanned a period of eight days in October and November, Joey exhibited a very sexy image in the poster. The theme song of the concert, 好事多為, was arranged and keyboarded by a Korean composer, which is a rare practice in Hong Kong. Funded by Sony Ericsson, EEG found the top production crew to produce the MTV of the theme song. Unlike the concerts she held before, she had invited many guests in this concert. Besides, she had added more dancing elements in the concert, which are greatly favoured by the public. After the concert, Joey suffered from sore throat owing to the strain in her vocal cord. Several days after, she worked without chatting with other people with a view to let her vocal cord relax. Under the heavy workload, she hardly managed to spend several days receiving acupuncture treatment in Nanjing to have her voice restored. On the Christmas Day, in the prize giving ceremony held by the Metro Radio Hong Kong, she won eight awards, being the artiste to have gained the most prizes. In 2006, she has won many awards from the four music awards ceremonies. It is also confirmed that she will perform along with the Hong Kong Orchestra in March or April. She is expected to release a mandarin album, and maybe two Cantonese albums.

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