I love this Sally. When she’s speaking in her native tongue, she’s confident, intelligent, eloquent, honest and introspective. The interviewer was moving into dangerous territory for her when the subject of Chinese policies came up, however she handled it very well, didn’t dodge but still being honest and respectful as anyone could when given such a politically charged question.
Sally Yeh is legendary & so humble too. Her English is so surprising. I wish they played a different music video clip. One that actually shows her singing talent
She and Celion Dion share something in common. They are both famous singers. They both are from Canada. And they both married their own music managers much older than them.
She moved to Canada when she was 4 so she's a Canadian and is actually the most fluent in English (according to Wikipedia). Although I'm surprised too since I grew up listening to some of her songs as I kid. I assumed Cantonese was her first language and that she is from Hong Kong, since that's where my mom is from and she liked to listen to her Cantonese songs. But turns out she's actually Taiwanese-Canadian!
OMG, I always remember seeing Sally Yeh and Sandy Lam back in the 90s. Always thought they were sexy as who they are. Now that I'm hearing them speak English for the first time... Man these women are sexier more than ever now!
She still had the Canadian accent in this clip, but she had spent so much time in Hong Kong she began speaking English more like a native Hong Kong/Taiwan person. Just recently, I saw an interview from just last year, and her Canadian accent has come back more. I think she is not in the Chinese entertainment business like she used to and is now spending time in Canada more often.
@Elba Que Yes she is amazing with picking up Cantonese as a Taiwanese Canadian. Very often, overseas Chinese that either grew up speaking Cantonese or Mandarin in the household often cannot learn each other's dialects. Amazingly, Sally was the first overseas Chinese to become very famous in the Hong Kong Cantonese entertainment and is not even a native Cantonese speaker, but later learned it and because of her, an influx of other Canadian Chinese even some American Chinese, mainly Cantonese became inspired to enter into the Hong Kong entertainment business, but many of them cannot even speak Cantonese as good as Sally and many of them are very limited in Mandarin; only a small number of them can speak Cantonese and Mandarin along with English as good as Sally.
@@dumisatonyjohnson8145 I would say she is Taiwanese Canadian. She was born in Taiwan but moved to Victoria of British Columbia in Canada at the age of four, but her parents will send her back to Taiwan every summer for her to keep speaking Mandarin. It's still hard for her to write any Chinese character
She's the best English singer in the 80s & 90s. She's not naughty like Madonna haha but she did her covers pretty well like Material Girl & La Isla Bonita...Sally might not always surpass Sandy Lam, Shirley Kwan & Faye in terms of uniqueness of the vocal, but Sally always always out-sing them in English songs. Strangely Anita Mui did well with English songs too, who in fact doesn't speak no words of English. Lol
Sally, you were wrong! Your fans are still with you. You just have to produce more new songs. We love your singing and not so much on trendy Lok ant more. If you holds a concert, it will be a sold out in minutes.
Born in Taiwan, spent adolescence in Canada, so the English is on point, where she wanted fame but her new country wasn't very welcoming, so she went where the opportunities were and had agents willing to give her shortcuts to sing the songs.
g47s589 Well I would agreed but remember this interview was done in 1997 (you can tell when they brought up the Hong Kong handover to China in the interview). The international media didn't give Anita Mui attention until early 2000's, that's where the international media called her the Madonna of Asia. But now since Anita Mui is no longer with us, I wondered who's going to be the next "Asian Madonna"? I have a feeling the next Asian Madonna will be Korean given K-pop is getting a lot of global popularity.
Anyway, Anita Mui is constantly the top female singer in HK music industry. Dubbing Sally as the Asian Madonna is somehow inappropriate. And I think Anita did have an interview with CNN around 1992. Even Faye Wong seemed to gain international attention by appearing on the cover of 1996 Times magazine; however, I don't think at all Faye was that famous internationally especially at that time before developing the market of mainland China and Japan.
And the Kpop is getting much popularity only due to today's media, technology, and Internet. Unfortunately that only extends the width of their fame but not depth of recognition and popularity, which means more ppl in thr globe get to know them, but they do not obtain a significant recognition in any specific region of the globe (probably only beside locally in Korea).
+g47s589 you are totally right, but Sally is very good, too. Anita was the biggest HK sensation, and Sally could be considered one of the most popular pop divas, too.
This could have been as early as 1992 or as late as 1997 (before the handover which Michale Do notes they discuss). Pamela Wallin (the interviewer) hosted the interview sections of a CBC news show first called "Prime Time News" (1992 through 1994) but later rebranded as "The National Magazine" (part of "The National") in 1994 - 1995. Peter Mansbridge hosted the news portion. Pamela Wallin was replaced in 1995 by Hana Gartner. She then worked at CTV briefly before returning to CBC to host another interview show called "Pamela Wallin Live" which was basically the same celebrity interview format, and that ran until about 1999. I don't think this necessarily is from 1997 though. It makes sense that it was close to the handover but it might even have been a year or two before. I think the Pamela Wallin Live show had a distinctive logo on the screen, which is not here (just the CBC and National "N" logos). Too bad there is no search function at CBC.ca archives on the web.
She is Canadian Chinese. She immigrated to Canada at a young age and grew up in Canada. She spent time in Taiwan and then came to Hong Kong, where she has been throughout most of her career. During this interview, she had been in Hong Kong for so long speaking Cantonese and Mandarin mostly that her accent changed. Now that she is not spending as much time in the Chinese speaking region, her accent is now more Canadian again. Watch the interview "Sally Yeh Interview The Killer", which is from a few years ago her accent is more Canadianized.
Fk all the people that didn’t say shit for chickens but preferred to join this weakass & fakeass society to rob, rape, & kill chickens instead of try to call shit out & move away. Hella gey shit. Sally Yeh = a “singer” = a “copier” also because didn’t “INVENT” singing BUT copied. Copier = weak shit. Shady, ignorant, & cold blooded = whack shit. Copier, Shady, & CRUEL & COLD-BLOODED by CHOICE = a LOSER = NOT “attractive”! BETA FEMALE FOREVER & BEYOND = NOT “wifey/lover” material = FUCK & TOSS to the side & let them become wrinkled, wilt, & obsolete then replace them like the fking shady bytch that they are.
English is Sally’s mother tongue. She can truly expresses herself well and shows who she is in English.
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@@glorych1168Yes
I love this Sally. When she’s speaking in her native tongue, she’s confident, intelligent, eloquent, honest and introspective. The interviewer was moving into dangerous territory for her when the subject of Chinese policies came up, however she handled it very well, didn’t dodge but still being honest and respectful as anyone could when given such a politically charged question.
Sally Yeh is legendary & so humble too. Her English is so surprising. I wish they played a different music video clip. One that actually shows her singing talent
English is totally her mother language！
Sally Yeh is decent, modest, easy-going and well-mannered.
Sally is so good and so talented
Sally's song from the movie Killer keeps ringing in my head 😍
She and Celion Dion share something in common. They are both famous singers. They both are from Canada. And they both married their own music managers much older than them.
But there is one main difference: Sally is much hotter than Celine
I think, George Lam is the one for her 💕
True
And one of Sally’s songs is a Cantonese cover of a Celine song: 繫我心弦!
Yes Sally did a Cantonese version of "My heart will go on" too!
I love her very much and bought many of her album. Never know there was such an interview before.
Wow her english is so fluent never heard it before shes such a lovely person her and anita mui are truly the icons of cantopop
She moved to Canada when she was 4 so she's a Canadian and is actually the most fluent in English (according to Wikipedia). Although I'm surprised too since I grew up listening to some of her songs as I kid. I assumed Cantonese was her first language and that she is from Hong Kong, since that's where my mom is from and she liked to listen to her Cantonese songs. But turns out she's actually Taiwanese-Canadian!
OMG, I always remember seeing Sally Yeh and Sandy Lam back in the 90s. Always thought they were sexy as who they are. Now that I'm hearing them speak English for the first time... Man these women are sexier more than ever now!
I like the interviewer too she's graceful.
She is not only beautiful also gorgeous
She is supremely elegant
Such a pleasure simply listening to her talking, I bet her singing is even better
Watch The Killer
She is a legendary singer of Cantopop.
@@themartialartsapproach8786 the Killer, I Love Maria, and Peking Opera Blues
Sally is the best and best singer!❤❤❤
sweet voice while talking nor singing, just luv it... go sally go sally go 😄😄😄
Amazing … first time I’ve come across this.
She still had the Canadian accent in this clip, but she had spent so much time in Hong Kong she began speaking English more like a native Hong Kong/Taiwan person. Just recently, I saw an interview from just last year, and her Canadian accent has come back more. I think she is not in the Chinese entertainment business like she used to and is now spending time in Canada more often.
@Elba Que Yes she is amazing with picking up Cantonese as a Taiwanese Canadian. Very often, overseas Chinese that either grew up speaking Cantonese or Mandarin in the household often cannot learn each other's dialects. Amazingly, Sally was the first overseas Chinese to become very famous in the Hong Kong Cantonese entertainment and is not even a native Cantonese speaker, but later learned it and because of her, an influx of other Canadian Chinese even some American Chinese, mainly Cantonese became inspired to enter into the Hong Kong entertainment business, but many of them cannot even speak Cantonese as good as Sally and many of them are very limited in Mandarin; only a small number of them can speak Cantonese and Mandarin along with English as good as Sally.
Sounds like a California accent, couldn't tell the difference like from other Canadians.
@@supertrouper lol , her dad was a KMT soldier from Guangdong province, Zhongshan be more specific
Such a great interview!
Sally 好靚女，講英語好好，唱歌又好聽。👍👍👍👍👍
She is very beautiful.
Yar
Thanks for the upload. I learned so much about Sally
I love Sally so much ❤❤❤
she is the best..
She looks gorgeous 🥰
1997, interview in Vancouver
and u known in hongkong
Wow, great interview! Just if more Hong Kong artist can have interviews in English!
Many Hongkong artists born in the era when HongKong was ruled by the British can speak fabulous English.
She grew up in Victoria, BC..Canada.
@@chickwithaguitar6876 Maggie Chung great english
@@Valhalla88888 Maggie Cheung grew up in England.
Who knows when this interview was
it's fantastic!!
Sally is really humble.
Sally Yeh is sooo hotttt
Her English is fantastic
Bc’ she’s a native English speaker
待君歸
Is Sally an Englishwoman 🇬🇧 of Chinese descent or an American Born Chinese 🇺🇸?!
@@dumisatonyjohnson8145
I would say she is Taiwanese Canadian.
She was born in Taiwan but moved to Victoria of British Columbia in Canada at the age of four, but her parents will send her back to Taiwan every summer for her to keep speaking Mandarin. It's still hard for her to write any Chinese character
@@待君歸 no
I like sally nices got voice good 💫💫💫💫💫💫💖💖👍👍👍
Her song with James Ingram from 94 is wonderful.
I grew up listening to you, fantastic entertainer
Best singer!!!!!
Wifh george
She's the best English singer in the 80s & 90s. She's not naughty like Madonna haha but she did her covers pretty well like Material Girl & La Isla Bonita...Sally might not always surpass Sandy Lam, Shirley Kwan & Faye in terms of uniqueness of the vocal, but Sally always always out-sing them in English songs. Strangely Anita Mui did well with English songs too, who in fact doesn't speak no words of English. Lol
She has a beautiful unique voice. She's a great live singer as well. Faye Wong constantly sang out of tune in live performances
Never let you go with George Lam is the best Cover Version, hotter than the rest 💕. Duets with James Ingram were also perfect. Rest in Beats, James 😪
Never like Madonna with that pretentious pubescent voice, never been touched nasty slug.
Sally, you were wrong! Your fans are still with you. You just have to produce more new songs. We love your singing and not so much on trendy Lok ant more. If you holds a concert, it will be a sold out in minutes.
sally yeh good female singer
Have a concert in San Francisco! I and my family, friends will go.
I love her version of "Olive Tree" in fact I could pick her up and just run 🤣🌹
@Sally Yeh I am most honored little sister. 🌹
Sally Yeh is the best singer.
just it more taiwan artist can have interviews in english🎉🎉🎉
BEST SINGER
Her English 👍👍👍
第一次睇葉倩文被訪問，原來英語流水般流利。葉劉企埋一邊！
I think this is during the handover.
Her performace in the film The Killer was fantastic! I can't get that song out of my head, but that's ok.
The question on China and Taiwan… ooof
😱😱😱原来叶倩文很正常的。从来没有听她说过英语。她以前（我只认识她说中文的样子）给我的印象就是乐坛傻大姐🙈🙈🙈。多年后的今天我才恍然大悟，这其实是一个 Third culture kid 问题🤔其实她真实的identity 想来就是她这样说英语时候的样子吧🤔
Born in Taiwan, spent adolescence in Canada, so the English is on point, where she wanted fame but her new country wasn't very welcoming, so she went where the opportunities were and had agents willing to give her shortcuts to sing the songs.
Above There Come Here🌱
In many interviews, she expressed interest to have a baby. Finally, she has none.
Anita Mui is the Asian Madonna, not her...
g47s589 Well I would agreed but remember this interview was done in 1997 (you can tell when they brought up the Hong Kong handover to China in the interview). The international media didn't give Anita Mui attention until early 2000's, that's where the international media called her the Madonna of Asia. But now since Anita Mui is no longer with us, I wondered who's going to be the next "Asian Madonna"? I have a feeling the next Asian Madonna will be Korean given K-pop is getting a lot of global popularity.
Anyway, Anita Mui is constantly the top female singer in HK music industry. Dubbing Sally as the Asian Madonna is somehow inappropriate. And I think Anita did have an interview with CNN around 1992. Even Faye Wong seemed to gain international attention by appearing on the cover of 1996 Times magazine; however, I don't think at all Faye was that famous internationally especially at that time before developing the market of mainland China and Japan.
And the Kpop is getting much popularity only due to today's media, technology, and Internet. Unfortunately that only extends the width of their fame but not depth of recognition and popularity, which means more ppl in thr globe get to know them, but they do not obtain a significant recognition in any specific region of the globe (probably only beside locally in Korea).
+g47s589 you are totally right, but Sally is very good, too. Anita was the biggest HK sensation, and Sally could be considered one of the most popular pop divas, too.
Dani Timo I wonder what Sally today would've thought about K-pop making globla headline and I'm not only talking about Psy.
☘️👍👍👍😍❤️❤️❤️
Just wonder how old is that interview is it recently 2015?
lina assing This interview was done in 1997, noticed in the interview they talked about Hong Kong being handed over to China.
This could have been as early as 1992 or as late as 1997 (before the handover which Michale Do notes they discuss). Pamela Wallin (the interviewer) hosted the interview sections of a CBC news show first called "Prime Time News" (1992 through 1994) but later rebranded as "The National Magazine" (part of "The National") in 1994 - 1995. Peter Mansbridge hosted the news portion. Pamela Wallin was replaced in 1995 by Hana Gartner. She then worked at CTV briefly before returning to CBC to host another interview show called "Pamela Wallin Live" which was basically the same celebrity interview format, and that ran until about 1999. I don't think this necessarily is from 1997 though. It makes sense that it was close to the handover but it might even have been a year or two before. I think the Pamela Wallin Live show had a distinctive logo on the screen, which is not here (just the CBC and National "N" logos). Too bad there is no search function at CBC.ca archives on the web.
I didn't know she speaks English with a British accent.
She is Canadian Chinese. She immigrated to Canada at a young age and grew up in Canada. She spent time in Taiwan and then came to Hong Kong, where she has been throughout most of her career. During this interview, she had been in Hong Kong for so long speaking Cantonese and Mandarin mostly that her accent changed. Now that she is not spending as much time in the Chinese speaking region, her accent is now more Canadian again. Watch the interview "Sally Yeh Interview The Killer", which is from a few years ago her accent is more Canadianized.
+DYTUNG no need
+DYTUNG british accent? LOL what a joke...u dont know what british is accent at all...
antonio bruno nothing to do with british accent.she stars as singing cantopop. if not familiar with cantonese,nobody can star
wtf british accent?!
Ok
葉倩文
เธอเกิด ใต้หวัน 台北 4 ขวบกว่าย้ายบ้านไป แคนาดา
18 จึงกลับมาใต้หวัน 台灣
ภาษาเธอ ไม่ธรรมดา
12:02 其实不是 China is not like that，而是那个时候的中国大陆还在跟风港台，而那个时候“风速”不像现在那么快，所以只是一个“滞后”，并不是说中国人有多少珍惜 talented singers🤔🙈
I think she was mentioning this ruclips.net/video/xCbEs6RdHCk/видео.html 12:45
love her handling those racist questions, white pepo caused all the divisions and still asking all the questions about the problems they created
不愿听 叶情文 歌
你滚啊！
Fried chicken stemmed from “unfairness *& inhumane-ness” to chickens.
Animals LIVE & they didn’t volunteer to be shit for us.
Fk all the people that didn’t say shit for chickens but preferred to join this weakass & fakeass society to rob, rape, & kill chickens instead of try to call shit out & move away.
Hella gey shit.
Sally Yeh = a “singer” = a “copier” also because didn’t “INVENT” singing BUT copied.
Copier = weak shit.
Shady, ignorant, & cold blooded = whack shit.
Copier, Shady, & CRUEL & COLD-BLOODED by CHOICE = a LOSER = NOT “attractive”!
BETA FEMALE FOREVER & BEYOND = NOT “wifey/lover” material = FUCK & TOSS to the side & let them become wrinkled, wilt, & obsolete then replace them like the fking shady bytch that they are.
Oh yeh Sally sang Cantonese version of Madonna"Material girl".