This is the 74th instalment in a biweekly series profiling major Hong Kong pop culture figures of recent decades.
When a young Joey Yung Cho-yee was dropped by her first record label for her supposedly ordinary looks, few would have bet she would one day stand atop Cantopop as one of its most decorated performers.
Yet nearly three decades later, the 45-year-old Hong Kong singer has outlasted her critics and claimed, among other accolades, a dozen most popular female singer trophies from TVB’s Jade Solid Gold and 11 gold awards from Commercial Radio Hong Kong’s Ultimate Song Chart Awards Presentation. She also has more than 25 studio albums to her name.
