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by Maureen Koh
The tale of two Suns couldn't be more different.
Even as one Sun continues to shine, the other Sun continues to seek stardom.
One was plain, the other glamorous.
One didn't have much financial support, the other had her pastor husband and an entire church congregation behind her.
And yet Stefanie Sun is the best-selling recording artiste in Singapore today.
Ms Ho Yeow Sun, also known as Sun Ho, has been chasing after stardom for more than 10 years but has yet to come anywhere near Sun's success.
Sun is unlike the glamorous divas - think Faye Wong and Sammi Cheng - who have dominated the music scene in Hong Kong.
Yet she holds her own in Hong Kong, Taiwan and China.
How did she achieve so much with so little? Who made her so?
Unlike Ms Ho, the odds were stacked against Sun from the start.
She was fresh out of school and was more comfortable speaking English than Mandarin, unlike talented singer-songwriters like Emil Chau and A*Mei, who scored hit after hit in Taiwan.
But Sun's self-titled debut album, She Is Sun Yanzi, went on to sell 150,000 copies within the first month of its release in June 2000.
While Ms Ho had the backing of her charismatic husband, Kong Hee, and his 33,000-strong City Harvest Church congregation, the woman largely known to have helped kick-start Sun's career is Ms Kathleen Tan.
- http://www.divaasia.com/article/17438
The tale of two Suns couldn't be more different.
Even as one Sun continues to shine, the other Sun continues to seek stardom.
One was plain, the other glamorous.
One didn't have much financial support, the other had her pastor husband and an entire church congregation behind her.
And yet Stefanie Sun is the best-selling recording artiste in Singapore today.
Ms Ho Yeow Sun, also known as Sun Ho, has been chasing after stardom for more than 10 years but has yet to come anywhere near Sun's success.
Sun is unlike the glamorous divas - think Faye Wong and Sammi Cheng - who have dominated the music scene in Hong Kong.
Yet she holds her own in Hong Kong, Taiwan and China.
How did she achieve so much with so little? Who made her so?
Unlike Ms Ho, the odds were stacked against Sun from the start.
She was fresh out of school and was more comfortable speaking English than Mandarin, unlike talented singer-songwriters like Emil Chau and A*Mei, who scored hit after hit in Taiwan.
But Sun's self-titled debut album, She Is Sun Yanzi, went on to sell 150,000 copies within the first month of its release in June 2000.
While Ms Ho had the backing of her charismatic husband, Kong Hee, and his 33,000-strong City Harvest Church congregation, the woman largely known to have helped kick-start Sun's career is Ms Kathleen Tan.
- http://www.divaasia.com/article/17438