Edison Chen | |||||||||||||||||
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陳冠希 | |||||||||||||||||
Born | Chen Hing-wah October 7, 1980 | ||||||||||||||||
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Years active | 1999–Present | ||||||||||||||||
Partner | Qin Shupei (2015-Present) | ||||||||||||||||
Children | Alaia Chen | ||||||||||||||||
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Also known as | EDC | ||||||||||||||||
Origin | Hong Kong | ||||||||||||||||
Genres | Hong Kong hip hop, Chinese hip hop, Cantopop, Mandopop | ||||||||||||||||
Instrument | Vocals | ||||||||||||||||
Labels | Clot Media Division, EEG | ||||||||||||||||
Chen Koon-hei | |||||||||||||||||
Traditional Chinese | 陳冠希 | ||||||||||||||||
Simplified Chinese | 陈冠希 | ||||||||||||||||
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Chan Hing-wah | |||||||||||||||||
Traditional Chinese | 陳興華 | ||||||||||||||||
Simplified Chinese | 陈兴华 | ||||||||||||||||
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Website | clot |
Edison Chen Koon-hei (Chinese: 陳冠希, born Chen Hing-wah on 7 October 1980) is a Canadian-born Hong Kong actor, singer, rapper, fashion designer and entrepreneur.[1] Chen is the co-founder of CLOT, a Hong Kong–based streetwear and fashion label.[2] Debuting in 1999, he released multiple Cantopop and Mandopop albums under the record company Emperor Entertainment Group, before releasing Please Steal This Album in 2004, the first of many Cantonese-language hip-hop albums.
On 21 February 2008, he publicly announced that he intended to step away "indefinitely" from the Hong Kong entertainment industry due to a sex photo scandal, in which numerous explicit photographs of Chen and several Hong Kong actresses were published online.[3][4] He returned in 2010 but other than a brief cameo in the 2014 film Golden Chickensss, he did not make a complete comeback to the Hong Kong film industry until 2016.