Since her debut in 1993, Chan has worked in singing, theatre, television drama, poetry, song-writing, entrepreneurship and creative direction. In 1994, Chan released the album
Heartache (心痛) for the Taiwanese market. She subsequently released more albums regionally including
Liking You (喜欢你),
Dazzling (炫耀), and
Worried (担心), performing in parts of
Asia, the United States, Korea, and New Zealand, as well as collaborating with symphonies and orchestras in
Hong Kong,
Taiwan and Singapore. Chan performed a song,
Home, during the 1998
Singapore National Day Parade which became very popular in Singapore. It was subsequently performed in various editions of the National Day Parades. Chan took a hiatus in 2004 from her performing career to further her studies and joined international PR consultancy Hill & Knowlton as a campaign specialist in 2007. She worked on the
Ministry of Defence's 2009
Total Defence campaign, 'What Will You Defend?'. She left the company after 19 months. Chan has also worked linguistically and theatrically, with her
Cantopop, and English albums. She has held lead roles in the Hong Kong musical
Snow.Wolf.Lake with
Jacky Cheung – both the Cantonese version in 1997 and the Mandarin production in 2005 – followed by
The Legend (where she played the late
Teresa Teng), and
Forbidden City: Portrait of An Empress (where she played the young
Empress Dowager Cixi)– first performed in 2002 as part of the Esplanade's opening programme, and again in 2003. Chan has also played the lead in the Dutch-Hong Kong production of
East Meets West, and the Taiwanese musical ''What's Love Got to Do with It?''. In September 2006, she reprised her role in
Forbidden City: Portrait of an Empress, as part of a plan to make this musical internationally recognized, in the hope of going on a world tour. Chan later fronted the first Singapore Day in
New York City in 2007. After her corporate sojourn, Chan performed the commissioned theme song
One World at the
APEC 2009 Gala Night and returned the theatre as leading lady (Li Qing) in the Mandarin musical
December Rains (雨季) at
Esplanade Theatre in 2010. In the same year, she sang
Home for the third time at the National Day Parade. Chan was also a member of the cast of the television drama
Healing Hands II, the sequel to
TVB's medical drama
Healing Hands in 2000. She was the female lead in
SPH MediaWorks Channel U's drama serial
Cash is King. Chan also acted in the 2010 film ''Lover's Discourse''. In 2011, Chan released her first studio album
Re-interpreting Kit Chan (重譯 陳潔儀) since 2004 and staged two solo concerts in collaboration with the
Singapore Chinese Orchestra at Esplanade Concert Hall, as the anchor performance of the Huayi Chinese Festival of Arts 2011. In the same year, she held her three-night solo concert
The Music Room at the
Marina Bay Sands Grand Theater. Also in 2011, Chan worked with Nexus, Ministry of Defence as Creative Director for the Total Defence "
Home – Keeping It Together" Campaign 2011. She was also executive producer for the remake of the
Home MV, which featured 39 local artistes spanning different genres, eras and races, including Max Surin, Dick Lee,
Taufik Batisah,
JJ Lin, and
Stefanie Sun. She wrote the theme song 倔强 for the
MediaCorp Channel 8 anniversary drama
Devotion, which won Best Drama Theme Song award at the
2012 Star Awards. Concerts themed
An Enchanted Evening with Chiu Tsang Hei (傾城) were also held in Hong Kong. In 2014, Chan performed in her first leading film role in Jason Lai's
Miss J Contemplates Her Choice as the titular Miss J, who offers advice to callers on a radio talk show. The film premiered at the
Singapore International Film Festival in December. In 2014, Chan reportedly underwent a surgical procedure that left her barely able to speak, however she completed her 'Spellbound' concert eventually in 2015 at Star Theatre. She also participated in China reality singing contest
I Am A Singer where Chinese critic Deng Ke remarked that Kit Chan can't sing. She announced her retirement from performing at the National Day Parades in 2015 after making her last NDP performance. In 2015, she sang the theme song for
Channel 8 Blockbuster
The Dream Makers II. In July 2016, she released her first album of original material in 12 years, titled
The Edge of Paradise (天堂边缘). In September, Chan ended her Spellbound concert tour with a finale at
Singapore Indoor Stadium to a 7,000-strong audience. In 2018, Chan marked her 25th anniversary as a singer with an acoustic live sessions album in which she also penned the lyrics for the title track “A Time for Everything”. She also staged “25 Years On: A Time For Everything” concerts in Singapore and Taipei. Chan has published a collection of her English poems,
Cork out of my Head, in 2000 in Taiwan,
I Write a Page in 2000 in Singapore, and a fiction book (together with her friend, Siew Fern Yong) titled
Cathy and Jodie: The Princess and the Flea. In 2022, Chan performed in
The LKY Musical, where she performed as the late Madam
Kwa Geok Choo, the wife of Singapore’s founding Prime Minister
Lee Kuan Yew. ==Community involvement==