Canto-pop queen Ivana Wong has forged a career in singing, acting and the theatre. Now, she is setting off a new career path as a visual artist
Canto-pop star Ivana Wong’s music room at home is, to put it bluntly, a mess. During a video call with Tatler in February, she sat in the tiny room, barely able to turn on her swivel chair amid the items that engulfed her: a synthesiser, piles of book, and paintings slotted into the crevices of the cliff formed of the boxes large and small that house her childhood toys. “My piano and painting tools are in the living room outside,” she says in her high-pitched, almost childlike voice.
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Her room reflects her versatile interests: although Wong has forged a name for herself as the queen of Canto-pop throughout her 17-year career as a singersongwriter—she won the Commercial Radio Singer-Songwriter Award for seven consecutive years—and then also as an actor, receiving two Hong Kong Film Awards for Best Performer and Best Supporting Actress in 2015, her artistic ambitions have recently become more visual.
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