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SINGAPORE – Veteran local actress Chen Meiguang, who moved many to tears with her performance of the Chinese song A Little Flower in 2007, has died at the age of 87.
His only son, Huang Yi, 65, told the Chinese daily Lianhe Wanbao that his maid alerted him on Saturday after she was unable to wake Chen for breakfast.
He immediately called an ambulance and his mother was sent to Sengkang General Hospital. Doctors performed a brain scan on Chen and found that he had a brain hemorrhage.
Huang said his mother regained consciousness briefly and mentioned that SBC, the predecessor of Mediacorp, had asked him to go back to filming TV shows.
He died around 8 a.m. in his sleep on Sunday (November 8).
Mr. Huang said that his mother had been using the wheelchair for the past six to seven years and suffered from dementia for the past two years.
“A month ago, my mother mentioned the names of veteran actors from time to time, saying once that Uncle Bai Yan is looking for her,” Wanbao said, quoted by him.
Local veteran actor Bai died in August of last year, months after celebrating his 100th birthday. Chen and Bai had appeared together on Mediacorp’s 30th Drama Anniversary Show in 2012.
Chen left the Singapore Television Corporation in 1998 for health reasons, but returned to acting ad-hoc, starring in such television series as Legend Of The Eight Immortals (1998).
Huang said that her mother’s biggest regret is not receiving the Special Achievement Award at the Star Awards. Actor Xie Shaoguang, who won this award in 2003, said then that the award should go to Chen, as she was someone younger actors should learn from.
Chen, who was born in Muar, Johor, in 1933, was a singer before becoming an actress in the 1980s. Soprano, she joined a singing competition at age 15 and later performed in getais. He used to teach singing and one of his students was Dawn Yip of the Jean Yip hair salon business, who won a national singing competition in 1979.
Chen once told an interviewer that her favorite role is that of a morally ambiguous cigarette saleswoman in Five Foot Way (1987).
In recent years, many have remembered her primarily for her portrayal of A Little Flower.
He sang the song on the 25th anniversary of the 2007 Star Awards drama, moving many to tears. She subsequently performed the song at Mediacorp charity shows in 2008 and 2011, attracting large numbers of calls for donations.
According to Wanbao, Chen was invited to sing at six concerts after the benefit show in 2008, singing one song per concert.
Chen’s funeral will be held starting Wednesday in the 546 block of 51 Hougang Street, and the funeral on Friday.
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