After graduating from primary school in Hong Kong, Alice returned to Guangzhou with his father, completed secondary school courses there, and went to the Southern Cantonese Opera Academy (南國粵劇學院), now called Nanguo Fine Arts College (南國藝術學院) to study art.。 After the Seven Princess filmed the movie
Seven Princesses (電影《七公主》) in 1967, a nightclub owner invited her and the other six "princesses" to sing on stage when the Kai Tak Amusement Park (啟德遊樂場) opened. Then gradually she got more career opportunities. At the request and encouragement of the nightclub owner, Alice decided to temporarily give up her acting career and concentrate on being a singer in the nightclub for several months. Soon, she met a brother and sister who were engaged in the acrobatics industry, and through them, she was introduced to the person in charge of a Thai nightclub "Honey Night Club". Alice later went to Thailand and worked as a singer. She once went with the resident band to the
Chitralada Royal Villa in
Thailand (泰國皇宮吉拉達宮) to sing "
Green Island Serenade" (綠島小夜曲) and "
Rose, Rose, I Love You" (玫瑰玫瑰我愛你) in front of King Rama IX (拉瑪九世)
Bhumibol Adulyadej (
Siamese: ภูมิพลอดุลยเดช;
Chinese: 普密蓬·阿杜德) and other royal family members. Alice was later invited by the female owner of the Hong Kong nightclub "Show Boat" to join her company as a singer for three months. As her contract was about to expire, the female boss seconded Alice to
Singapore to perform for Peking Garden Restaurant (「北京樓」飯店) for six months. In 1969 and 1970, Alice went to the "Hai Tian Cabaret" (海天歌廳) in
Mong Kok to sing both morning and evening shows. At the same time, she sang Mandarin pop songs in the "Ciros Ballroom" (仙樂斯舞廳), "Empire Nightclub" (帝國夜總會) and "Royal Capital Nightclub" (皇都夜總會) in Tsim Sha Tsui. In 1980, as Alice was getting older and needed to take care of her family, and as Hong Kong nightclubs were declining, she needed a stable job. She worked as a warehouse clerk in a department store, responsible for handling communication and coordination between workers and warehouse logistics. Once, the behind-the-scenes staff of the TVB "
Enjoy Yourself Tonight" (歡樂今宵) production team came to the warehouse where she worked to look for workplace interviewees for TV interviews. She was selected as an interviewee. After the interview clip was broadcast in 1984, Asia Television producer Chuen-Yee Cha (查傳誼) contacted her to stage a comeback and star in the TV series "Butterfly Killer" (蝴蝶血). Another producer, Yuen Wai-yuen (阮惠源), also invited her to star in one of his series, "I Love Mermaid" (我愛美人魚). Prior to 1983, Cheung Chi Kok (張之珏) had invited Alice to star in "Fatal Love" (情難再) through Cheung Chun-Fai (張振輝), Alice's husband, who was the former musician and worked for the advertising department of Asia Television. When
Tsui Siu-Ming (徐小明), then producer of Asia Television, learned that Alice had appeared on screen, he advised Alice to officially return to the screen and resign from her position as a warehouse clerk. In 1990, Alice was poached by TVB. She then continued to serve TVB until 2012. After her comeback in the 1980s, she owned a lounge called "H20" in Wan Chai and also opened a lounge called "Poly Lounge" (寶麗廊) in Tsim Sha Tsui. In 2012, after her contract with TVB expired, Alice joined Hong Kong Television Network under
Ricky Wong. She left Hong Kong Television Network in 2014, ending a two-year employment relationship. In May 2015, she was invited by Catherina Tsang (曾勵珍) to return to TVB. Starting from 2020, Alice signed a non-exclusive one-show-a-year (一年一騷) contract with TVB, so she can film dramas for media other than TVB. In November 2022, the TVB drama "I've Got the Power" (超能使者) and the ViuTV drama "Dead End" (繩角) starring Alice were broadcast at the same time slot, making it a rare opportunity for Alice to appear on two TV channels at the same time. However, this coincidence became one of the fuses for her feud with TVB. Alice said in an interview after leaving TVB in 2024 that she had applied to the TVB Artist Department when she took on the filming of "Dead End" in 2022. Since her contract with TVB was for one drama per year, the head of the artist department had no right to prevent her from taking on programs for other TV stations. However, she pointed out that the person in charge later questioned why she did not inform the company earlier that "Dead End" would be broadcast at the same time as "I've Got the Power", and asked her whether she would attend the promotional activities for the "Dead End" drama. Alice believed that this action angered the senior management, resulting in a significant reduction in her subsequent work at TVB. In 2021, Alice was invited to be the guest host of the
Commercial Radio 1 program "Elderly Empire" (樂齡王國) and has been on the program ever since. In March 2024, she announced her departure from TVB on social media. In May of the same year, she won her first acting award - Best Actress (Short Film) at the World Film Festival in Cannes (法國康城世界影展), for her role in the short film
Garbage (垃圾) directed by Mak Yuen-yan (麥婉欣) about elderly abuse. In the mid-2010s, Alice was approached by a production company to organize a concert. The opportunity came in 1990 when he participated in the play
A Kindred Spirit (真情) and was arranged by the company to perform in Beijing. The event organizer knew that Alice was a talented singer and invited her to perform at the opening ceremony of a real estate project. In 2012,
WSM Music Group (環星娛樂) also invited her to perform. The production company then sponsored Alice's solo concerts starting in 2014. In addition, Alice is a member of the Japanese Buddhist organization "
Soka Gakkai International of Hong Kong" (香港國際創價學會) and a member of the "Performing Arts Group" (演藝組) of the organization's headquarters. == Notes ==