Manting Chan () (born on December 7, 1987) is a Hong Kong-American singer and songwriter. Since her debut EP album Musical Journey was released in July 2011 by Sony Music Hong Kong, Manting has been called the "musical theater princess" by the Hong Kong media because of her sweet-heavenly voice and her love for musical theater. Early life Manting was born in New York City, New York, and raised on Long Island. Her father is Chinese-Indonesian and her mother, from Fuzhou, Fujian, China. As a young child, Manting had her sights on what she wanted to become. It was either to be the first Asian-woman President of the United States or a singer. The event that changed her life was when Disney released Aladdin. It was the renowned song "A Whole New World" that made her choose the latter. She would sing the song and watch the movie every day for the entire school year. Manting entered the Metropolitan Opera Children's Choir at the age of 10 and was chosen by then music director, Elena Doria, to be one of the children singing in Puccini's La Boheme and later Khovanshchina, a Russian opera. It was then, Manting realized that she belonged to the stage. Career Beginnings Manting released her maiden EP album in July 2011 where she wrote music and lyrics to her song "A Boy". She also wrote the lyrics to the song "Our Time is Now" and "Feelings on Fire", which was featured in Barbara Wong's movie the Break Up Club (Fiona Sit and Jaycee Chan). C Kwan from 農夫 aka FAMA wrote "One Way Ticket" for Manting, which depicts her own story - buying a one way ticket to Hong Kong and creating a life there. Hanjin Tan 陳奐仁 helped with the music for "Good to be a Girl". Music Influences Manting's main influences are Celine Dion, Teresa Teng 鄧麗君, Han Hung 韓紅, and Luther Vandross. Musical Theater and Disney are her favorite genres, however, she is also very fond of Classical, AsianPop, Celtic, Enka, and Fado. She is able to sing in multiple languages including Cantonese, Mandarin, Japanese, Korean, Italian, Spanish, and English. References 陳文婷晒唱功葉麗儀大讚 - 東方日報 http://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/entertainment/20120914/00282_038.html 澳門印象……陳文婷！http://www.hokongsai.com/movie02/120127ManTing/manTing01.html 陳文婷拍葉麗儀興奮 - 東方日報 http://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/entertainment/20120908/00282_043.html 陳文婷蒙古遊飲羊奶護膚 - 東方日報 http://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/entertainment/20120803/00282_071.html?facebook=y 陳文婷感激陳雋騫相助 http://the-sun.on.cc/cnt/entertainment/20110415/00470_040.html 陳文婷挾儲蓄硬闖樂壇 http://hk.apple.nextmedia.com/enews/realtime/20110526/50016523 陳文婷唱得打得好氣功 - 東方日報 http://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/entertainment/20120506/00282_029.html? 美聲陳文婷承諾演繹更多廣東歌 http://stars-hk.com/wsp-topic.php?tid=12787 陳文婷做歌手最緊要見得光 http://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/entertainment/20110429/00282_070.html 陳文婷自爆高中無身材 http://hk.news.yahoo.com/video/陳文婷自爆高中無身材-045100029.html Jazz Harp Evening http://www.art-mate.net/?a=doc&id=9154&name=爵士豎琴之夜+Park+Stickney+Jazz+Evening Manting Chan 陳文婷 - 單程機票 MV http://www.tudou.com/programs/view/8KGS7aBJvrE/ 《分手說愛你》插曲女聲 - 陳文婷．首張EP．即將登場 http://mojim.net/tw_search_u2_KsGCnpbpwvY.html