Kelly Poon

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潘嘉丽(潘嘉麗) Kelly Poon
Birth name	Poon Kar Lai
Born	July 11, 1983 (1983-07-11) (age 24)
Origin	Singapore
Genre(s)	Mandarin pop
Years active	2005–present
Label(s)	Universal Music (2005-present)
Website	http://blog.pixnet.net/kellypoon

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Kelly Poon Kar Lai (Traditional Chinese: 潘嘉麗; Simplified Chinese: 潘嘉丽; pinyin: Pān Jīalì; ) (born July 11, 1983) is a Singaporean singer who emerged from one of the Chinese singing competition held in Singapore, Project SuperStar.

Kelly Poon graduated from Yishun Town Secondary School and Singapore Polytechnic. She took up Chinese folk dancing during secondary school days, proving to be a good performer during the course of competition. Her father is an architect and her mother, a housewife.

She pursued her studies of Maritime Management at the Singapore Polytechnic. Kelly enrolled in Lee Wei Song School of Music for a singing course in hope of learning more about the world of Music.

Kelly then went on to be under the tutelage of Roy Loi Fey Huei, who happens to be one of the Project Superstar judges later on. She took part in singing competitions at school level, and was often honoured with the top three positions. Kelly also began writing her own songs, which she equates to as writing of a diary. But her passion for singing took a break after graduation in 2004 when she became an air stewardess with the Singapore Airlines.

She auditioned for Project SuperStar in April 2005.

During the course of competition, she was eliminated in the fourth quarter-final, but was back on stage following sufficient public votes in the revival round. During the entire competition, she impressed both the critics and the judges with her on-stage personality and versatility. Her consistent and impressive performance week after week won over many fans in spite of critism from judges that she need to improve on her musicianship. A fan club was quickly setup and as of September 2005 with Valerie as President and Joe Sim(SP) as Vice President, there are over 4200 members in her official fan club, the Kelly Fan Club.

As a result of the competition, she took two months long of no-pay leave from Singapore Airlines.

While Kelly's fame is largely attributed to the reality competition Project Superstar, she had already garnered some attention previously, from the several competitions she participated in, such as the National Chinese Song Writing Competition which she came in Third.

Poon lost in terms of votes to Kelvin in the Grand Finals of Project Superstar but, still managed to secure a recording deal with Universal Music.

She is now based in Taiwan with 在世界中心^[1] being her 2nd album released in Singapore and her debut album in Taiwan.

1 Discography
2 Television dramas
3 Awards and achievements
4 References

[edit] Discography

To date and since her debut in 2005, Kelly Poon released 1 single and 2 albums:

[edit] Singles

Album Cover	Album Information
	遗失的美好 Yi Shi De Mei Hao (My Lost Happiness) Released: August 21, 2005 (Singapore) Language: Mandarin Chinese Label: Mediacorp Genre: Mandopop

[edit] Albums

Album #	Album Cover	Album Information
1st		Love Me, Kelly Released: February 14, 2006 (Singapore) Language: Mandarin Chinese Label: Universal Music Genre: Mandopop
1st part 2 ~Celebration Album~		Love Me, Kelly Released: April 24, 2006 (Singapore) Language: Mandarin Chinese Label: Universal Music Genre: Mandopop
2nd		在世界中心 (Zai Shi Jie Zhong Xin/In The Heart of the World) Released: September 28, 2007 (Worldwide) Language: Mandarin Chinese Label: Universal Music Genre: Mandopop