Jinny Ng

Jinny Ng
Jinny in February 2014
Background information
Chinese name	吳若希 (traditional)
Chinese name	吴若希 (simplified)
Birth name	Ng Ka Nei (吳嘉妮)[1]
Born	(1992-05-23) 23 May 1992 Fuzhou, China
Occupation	Singer, musician, actress, hostess
Genre(s)	Cantopop, Mandopop
Instrument(s)	Piano, ukulele
Label(s)	Craze Music (2010) Stars Shine International (2010–2013) Voice Entertainment (2014–present)
Years active	2010–present
Ancestry	Fujian, China

Jinny Ng Yuek Hei (Chinese: 吳若希; born 23 May 1992) is a Hong Kong Cantopop singer, hostess and actress. She is currently a singer with Voice Entertainment and an actress with TVB.^[2] She was born in Mainland China and emigrated to Hong Kong along with her family at the age of nine. She has risen to prominence since 2014 as she performed several theme songs and hosted TV programs for TVB.

Career

2008: Discovery

In 2008, 16-year-old Jinny Ng was discovered by an agent while singing in karaoke with her friends. She had been secretly trained to sing and play instruments for two years before her start in music career, which was a tough time she had undergone.^[3]

2010: Start of music career and debut album

Early in 2010, Jinny Ng and Enzo Siu chorused the song "Love@Earth", which marked the start of her music career. On 8 November 2010, she released her debut album Love Diary (戀愛日記), which has received positive criticisms.

2011: Chorus single and several awards

In 2011, Jinny Ng released the single "Intimate" (《知己》), which was chorused with Alfred Hui. It became a hit single as it reached to the peak of TVB Chart of pop songs and was awarded several times.

2012: Second album and illnesses

On 28 May 2012, Jinny Ng released her second album BlueSky (《蓝天空》), which contains her eight new Canto songs. In early July, she got a stomachache and went to the hospital for emergency. Later while participating in a public activity, she felt dizzy and visited a private doctor. After a careful inspection, it was found that she had a tumor in her stomach. She followed the doctor's advice and took Invasiveness of surgical procedures to excise the tumor.^[4] Subsequently she found there was a callus in her throat.^[5]

2013: Third album

On 26 June 2013, Jinny Ng released her third album I Understand (《我懂了》).

2014–present: Retrospective album and rise to fame

From the start of 2014, Jinny Ng joined Voice Entertainment from Stars Shine International and contracted with TVB. She sang several theme songs for TVB dramas, including A Time of Love, Storm in a Cocoon, Swipe Tap Love and Line Walker. Her song Love Is Not Easy is played for plenty of times in Line Walker especially when a crucial moment occurs. The song became very popular and a hot topic for the audiences along with the drama. On 27 November 2014, Jinny Ng released her fourth album, a Retrospective album called Love Collection: Love Is Not Easy(《越难越爱 Love Collection 精选》), which includes her theme songs and classics in her previous albums.

Jinny Ng is also a hostess in TVB programs such as All Things Girl and Jade Solid Gold. Additionally, she has begun to act in some TVB dramas such as Come On, Cousin, My "Spiritual" Ex-Lover, Young Charioteers and Angel In-the-Making.

On 18 January 2015, in the 2014 Jade Solid Gold Awards Presentation, Ng's "Love Is Not Easy" won the award of Golden Song, which denotes it as the best song among the other awarded songs. The song has been known by one and all and widely named the "brainwash song". It also has a Vietnamese version.^[6]

Discography

Personal albums

Filmography

Television dramas

References