{"id":2197445,"date":"2025-12-13T07:49:42","date_gmt":"2025-12-13T07:49:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2197445"},"modified":"2025-12-13T07:49:42","modified_gmt":"2025-12-13T07:49:42","slug":"veteran-singapore-singer-ling-xiao-dies-aged-75","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/veteran-singapore-singer-ling-xiao-dies-aged-75\/","title":{"rendered":"Veteran Singapore singer Ling Xiao dies, aged 75"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">SINGAPORE \u2013 Local singer Ling Xiao, a familiar name in Singapore\u2019s 1970s music scene, died at the age of 75 on Dec 13, said Chinese-language daily Lianhe Zaobao.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">The singer, whose real name is Tan Choon Huat, became partially paralysed in 2022 after suffering a stroke, and eventually faded from the entertainment industry and out of the public eye. <\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">Prior to this, he dealt with a range of diseases, including hypertension, high cholesterol and diabetes, Zaobao reported.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">According to his obituary, his funeral will take place on Dec 17. <\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">Ling Xiao was only 17 when he placed second in a singing competition organised by radio station Rediffusion, or Li Di Hu Sheng in Mandarin, according to the National Heritage Board\u2019s roots.sg website.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">Soon after his debut in 1967 he landed a contract with Happy Records, and his song Ku Qing Hua (Melancholic Flower) soon became a local favourite and one of his biggest hits.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">The evergreen crooner turned lead actor in the 1998 Channel 8 drama serial Facing The Music \u2013 a breakthrough that ended a career slump which saw him singing in small bars along Bencoolen Street and Middle Road, according to previous reports in The Straits Times.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">He later went on to star in Kampung Ties (2011) and The Quarters (2012), and as a long-term mentor on Mediacorp\u2019s Golden Age Talentime programme for several years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">The veteran marked his 50-year milestone in the entertainment industry with a concert at Resorts World Theatre in 2017, performing 38 songs from more than 100 Mandarin albums.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">A year later, at the same venue, he joined the star-studded cast of the Mandarin musical Taru, which also featured Singaporean singer and actor Huang Jinglun and Malaysian Mandopop star Freya Lim.<\/p>\n<div class=\"jeg_video_container jeg_video_content\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"\u82e6\u60c5\u82b1    ------    \u51cc\u9704\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bi6QE7S-33A?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"tags-test-id\">\n<p><span class=\"font-button-md-semibold\">Musicians<\/span><span class=\"font-button-md-semibold\">Singapore<\/span><span class=\"font-button-md-semibold\">Celebrities<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.straitstimes.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SINGAPORE \u2013 Local singer Ling Xiao, a familiar name in Singapore\u2019s 1970s music scene, died at the age of 75 on Dec 13, said Chinese-language daily Lianhe Zaobao. 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