Kit Chan performs Emerald Hill theme song before Jeanette Aw during star-studded concert

2026 Kit Chan Atrium Live Tour

Singapore Indoor Stadium
Sept 19

Beautiful blooms fell like rain at Kit Chan’s solo concert on Sept 19 as the 54-year-old performed the beloved theme song Echoes Of Petals (2024), from local blockbuster drama Emerald Hill – The Little Nyonya Story (2025), for the first time on her current tour.

It was the Singaporean’s second live performance of the ballad, which captured the romance and rivalry between the series’ characters and won Best Original Song at the Star Awards in April 2026.

First performed at the 2025 Star Awards ceremony, it was this time heard by a 7,500-strong crowd during Chan’s sold-out show.

Among them was Singaporean actress Jeanette Aw, who in Emerald Hill played the righteous Yueniang, the original protagonist of The Little Nyonya (2008), which Emerald Hill is a sequel of.

Towards the end of Echoes Of Petals, Aw, 47, was captured on cameras smiling radiantly and projected on the jumbotron screens.

It was one of many touching moments during the 2½-hour concert, which was also attended by singers Stefanie Sun, JJ Lin and Joi Chua. Composers Lee Wei Song, Liang Wern Fook and Jimmy Ye were present too, and so was musician Bang Wenfu, Chan’s frequent collaborator.

It was a testament to the enduring quality of the music, with Lin mouthing the lyrics to Heartache (1994) and Liang singing along to Home (1998), the most popular National Day Parade song of all time.

It was a lovely homecoming for Chan, whose Atrium Live Tour kicked off in Guangzhou in May 2026 and has travelled to other Chinese cities such as Shanghai, Hangzhou and Chengdu.

She said on stage: “It is good to be home. I have missed you”.

She said that over the last three decades, she felt very proud of how much local artistes have achieved and how audiences here have supported works made in Singapore.

“We are a very young nation, but we have our stories to tell,” she added.

Indeed, her show featured many well-loved songs created by Singaporeans, such as Worries (1995), Like You (1996) and Quarrelled (1993), the first song she recorded in a studio.

The tour’s theme of “atrium”, a chamber of the heart, reflected the emotional nature of Chan’s music. Many tracks centred on the tensions within one’s inner sanctum, such as opening number Don’t Ask Me Why I Love You (2016) and the rousing Tug Of War (1995).

Unlike her previous concerts at the Sands Theatre in 2021 and 2023, the roomier Singapore Indoor Stadium allowed for a more immersive experience, with large projections of fluttering butterflies to accompany May Love Stay Strong (2023) and confetti showers during Dazzling (1999) and Like You.

Fans of her musical performances were not disappointed as she sang Cantonese number Wait And Wait (1997) from the Hong Kong musical Snow.Wolf.Lake (1997), where she played the quiet and patient Ling Yuk Fung. She also performed If There’re Seasons (2002), the title song of the 2007 musical of the same name.

She featured many covers in her setlist, including a medley of tracks originally sung by male singers – Leslie Cheung’s Left, Right Hands (1999), Mao Buyi’s Nameless One (2021) and Eason Chan’s Brother And Sister (2003).

Chan said she hoped she could “capture their original spirit, but from the perspective of a woman”.

Doing covers, she added, often pushed her to find her own voice. She told the audience: “I hope that like me, you are constantly reviewing yourselves, re-examining yourselves and updating yourselves.”

Indeed, for Chan, music is no longer just about expression but about bringing people together, asking questions and looking at oneself in a totally new light.