Early life and singing Vidal was born in
Kowloon, Hong Kong, to a Filipino father and a mother of mixed Chinese and Korean descent. She worked as a bar singer under the name Renee and joined the 2000
New Talent Singing Awards as Ming Lok Tai (明樂蒂), before adopting her current Chinese name, Wei Lan (衛蘭).
Music career In December 2004, Vidal attracted media attention by covering one of
Leon Lai's hits, "Long Distance" (情深說話未曾講), in English. She soon followed it with a Christmas version of another Lai song, "Bu Ke Yi Shi" (不可一世), sung in Cantonese. Vidal was signed to Lai's label,
Amusic, the same year, and she released her debut album,
Day & Night, in April 2005. Her second album,
My Love, followed in November 2005. Vidal issued her third studio album,
Do U Know, in 2006, and she held her first concert series from 29 March to 1 April 2007, as part of a four-night stint at the
Hong Kong Coliseum; it was called "My First Concert". A year later, she published her fourth album,
Serving You. Her first English-language record,
Morning, came out in 2009. From 28 April 2007 to 13 May 2007,
Madame Tussauds Hong Kong organised the "Madame Tussauds – Your Celebrity Choice for This Summer" competition, with the aim of selecting a new wax portrayal to be displayed in the museum. Vidal won the competition, and her wax portrayal went on display in the glamour section on 18 July 2007. The statue is dressed in a green ballet dress, which she wore during "My First Concert". In November 2009, Vidal released her first greatest hits album, titled
Wish (New + Best Selection). She returned with a new Cantonese album,
Love Diaries, in 2010. She followed it with
Imagine (2012),
E11 (2014), and
Love and Other Things (2017). Also in 2017, she published her first
Mandarin-language album, simply titled
衛蘭 (Vidal's Chinese name). Two further Cantonese records followed:
In His Name in 2019 and
Daughter in 2022.
Acting Vidal appeared in the 2008 Leon Lai-led musical film
A Melody Looking, alongside her sister.
Personal life In a 2009 interview with
South China Morning Post, Vidal stated that she had become
Buddhist about six years prior. She has since converted to Christianity, together with her sister. ==Discography==