1˚ of Eason Chan: Lillian Ho 何嘉莉 / 何俐恩

Six degrees of separation is the idea that everyone is no further than 6 "steps" away from each other, or the more commonly used explanation, everyone is connected through six people (a.k.a. six degrees).

Six degrees requires too much thinking; therefore, we're going to keep it simple with one degree.

真正本色 - Eason Chan, Grace Ip, Lillian Ho, Joey Yung

1˚ -- Like Grace Ip, Lillian Ho started her music career with EEG (originally Fitto Entertainment) and Eason would later join EEG under Music Plus, and the two would become company brother-sister.

非份之想 - Lillian Ho
(probably Lillian's most popular song)

Background -- Lillian Ho 何嘉莉, who later changed her Chinese name to 何俐恩, entered the Hong Kong Entertainment industry in 1992 as an actress. It was in 1997 when she appeared in a Nicholas Tse MV where she was "discovered" and signed under Fitto Entertainment.

Lillian made her music career debut in 1998, alongside Grace Ip, and had a successful year. At the end of the year, Lillian won Best Newcomer Gold at both CRHK and RTHK.

In 1999, with the emergence of Joey Yung, EEG neglected Lillian. When she released her second album Unreasonable Thought (非份之想) EEG never seriously promoted it; therefore, sales were not pleasing. Despite the lack of promotion, the song 非份之想 became a popular hit and kept Lillian in the game. She then released her next single I Believe off the same album.

After an on stage incident, Lillian disappeared from the music scene for a while and in 2002, she re-emerged under her new Chinese name 何俐恩, and released another album. Album sales were once again not pleasing and once again she was neglected by EEG, and disappearing from the music scene once again.

In 2004 Lillian re-emerged yet again, this time as a fashion consultant to various artists. Lillian got married in 2006 and is no longer in the HK Entertainment industry.

I Believe - Lillian Ho

My love for diverse Chinese albums comes from Lillian's album Unreasonable Thought. Unreasonable Thought was not the first Chinese album I listened to, but it was the first Chinese album where I listened to every single song from beginning to end and enjoyed each and every song because they were all different.

Lillian has a pretty unique voice for the HK music industry because she doesn't have that high sweet voice. Which is why I don't think EEG ever intended to fully promote her. Grace was definitely, from my POV, given more opportunities.