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SINGAPORE – Local Mandopop singer Kelvin Tan is engaged.
News of their engagement broke last Friday (October 9) when a friend of the 39-year-old and his fiancée posted congratulations to the couple on Facebook, the Chinese daily Lianhe Zaobao reported.
Tan’s management agency confirmed the news to Zaobao. But Tan declined to comment further on the news, as it is a personal matter.
Better known as Chen Weilian, Tan, who is blind, rose to fame after competing and winning the first edition of the Project Superstar local singing contest in 2005.
Not much is known about Tan’s fiancée, but she told Chinese night publication Shin Min Daily News last year that the two had been dating for more than two years.
He also told U-Weekly magazine in April that he had requested a build-to-order apartment with his girlfriend, but that there were some delays due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
Tan has kept up his music releases after his win in 2005. He has won the Best Themed Song award at the Mediacorp Star Awards four times, including last year’s drama You Can Be An Angel 3.
In 2017, his xinyao song cover album The Singapore Songbook reached No. 1 on the general iTunes charts as well as the Mandopop charts.
Aside from the music, Tan is also a guide to Ngee Ann Polytechnic’s Dialogue In The Dark, an exhibition where visitors experience everyday situations in total darkness.
He also bowls competitively. In 2015, he represented Singapore in goalball, where players attempt to roll a ball into their opponents’ goal, at the Asean Para Games in Singapore.
This article was first published in The times of the strait. Permission is required for reproduction.
