Homing Jn

As the song “Home” celebrates its 20th anniversary, we get up close and personal to its original singer – the multitalented, versatile and soulful Kit Chan

- Sandhya Mahadevan

Kit Chan breezes into the studio for our cover shoot, dressed in faded blue jeans, a crisp white shirt and flats. “This is my uniform,” she says, as if reading my thoughts. “I actually feel most attractive in this. On stage, I am always in gowns and extremely done-up hair. I feel extremely unnatural,” she adds, professing that she’s not a dress-up kind of girl. But that in no way means she doesn’t care about what she’s going to wear. She leafs through the different looks laid out for her, with a careful and curated eye. There’s a friendly curiosity about her, she is chatty, approachable, yet decidedly assertive. But all these different sides of her morph into one in front of the camera. She becomes sultry, seductive and mysterious, all at once.

It’s a big year for Kit – 2018 marks 25 years of her career as a singing star, for which she released a new album in July. At press time, she was not able to reveal much of the details. “I can’t yet tell you the name, what I can tell you is that it has mainly Chinese songs, with one English and one Cantonese song thrown into the mix as is my practice,” says Kit.