Celine Tam
Celine Tam
Celine Tam (born November 22, 2007) is a Singer who rose to fame as a child performing at live events and televised programs in China. She caught her big break competing at age five on the Let's Sing Kids contest. In 2017, she became a semifinalist on season 12 of America's Got Talent. She is nicknamed the Celine Dion of Hong Kong.
Early Life and Family
Celine Tam, the oldest daughter of Dr. Steve Tam and jia Ming Shan, was born on November 22, 2007, in Hong Kong.
Her parents are such big fans of Canadian songstress Celine Dion that they named their two daughters after her. Her father, who is a music teacher and vocal coach, is the founder and owner of the music school Sing and You Music Center. Like his daughter, he took part in a number of music competitions when he was younger. However, his doctorate is not in music but business administration. It was only after he found out about his oldest daughter’s musical talent that he set up his school in 2013.
Celine started singing when she was three years old.
Her parents discovered her singing prowess when on one afternoon while she was travelling in a car with her family, Celine Dion’s ‘My Heart Will Go On’ from the 1997 film ‘Titanic’ came on the radio and she began singing along. Soon after, her father started giving her vocal lessons, helping her in her pursuit of a career in the music industry.
Career
Celine Tam gave her public appearance when she was four years and since then, she has sung at events in various parts of the globe and appeared on the national TV in both the United States and China.
She experience a breakthrough in her career at the age of five, when she made an appearance on a program called ‘Let’s Sing Kids’, in China. The show gives a national platform to young aspiring singers, and Celine sang Secret Garden’s ‘You Raise Me Up’ during her first televised appearance on the show.
She garnered her significant attention for the first time in 2014 after performing the duet of "You Raised Me Up" with Canadian young performer, Jeffery Li.
She and Li performed ‘You Raise Me Up’ on Steve Harvey’s NBC show ‘Little Big Shots’ in 2015 after their ‘Let’s Sing Kids’ performance became a viral hit.
In 2017, she performed the 12th season (2017) of America's Got Talent where she did wonderfully well and made it to the semi final of the audition. Later in late 2017, she was named Hong Kong’s top trending YouTube video star after her ‘America’s Got Talent’ audition video clip was viewed 42 million times. In December that year, she travelled to Germany and performed ‘You Raise Me Up’ with pop star Helen Fisher. She then contested in a Japanese Karaoke competition in September 2018 and was eventually declared its winner.[1][2]
In 2019, she took part in Hunan TV’s ‘World Got Talent’.
In the audition round of the competition, she performed her first original song, ‘Who I Am’