Veteran Chinese Mandopop singer and actress Rebecca Pan was born Rebecca Pan Di-hua in Shanghai, China on December 29, 1931 and relocated to Hong Kong in 1949. She kicked off her singing career in 1957, putting out her first release in 1961, Pan Wan Ching Sings The Four Seasons, via Diamond Records. Also known as Poon Tik-wah and Pan Wan Ching, the Hong Kong star is known best for her contribution to 1970's Tian fu tian Shou, 1990 drama film Days of Being Wild, and 2000 romantic drama In the Mood for Love, which was written, produced and directed by Wong Kar-wai and featured Rebecca Pan's English version of Indonesian song, "Bengawan Solo." During the '60s, she built up a repertoire of music that traversed albums, singlea and EPs, including 1962 LP Oriental Pearls and an EP from 1965 containing four of her biggest hitters: "Tropical Love Song," "Pachanga," "I Could Have Danced All Night" and "Chit Chit Rit Chit. From the late '80s onwards, she began appearing as an actress in films across an array of genres, including 1988's The Greatest Lover, 1998 Taiwanese film The Flowers of Shanghai and 2009 Chinese-Hong Kong romantic film Look for a Star. In 2010, Rebecca Pan performed "What A Wonderful World," made famous by Louis Armstrong, with the group at17 at the 29th Hong Kong Film Awards. In 2018, she released a new original album, My Hong Kong 东西一堂.
