Sally Yeh

Sally Yeh (born September 30, 1961), sometimes written as Sally Yip or Yip Sin-Man, is a Cantopop singer and actress. Yeh is a Canadian citizen, born in Taipei, Taiwan and immigrated to Canada at a young age with her family, growing up in Victoria, British Columbia. Yeh's singing career started in the early 1980s and gradually became well known in the Cantonese Chinese pop genre expanding in three decades with a total of thirty albums, plus forty-odd compilations and live recordings. Yeh speaks Cantonese, Mandarin, and English. Her jazz-trained vocals allow her to handle a wide range of musical genres. Apart from her original material, Sally Yeh has, through the years, covered a number of Western songs, ranging from Madonna to Céline Dion.==Links To Peel== In late 1986, Peel managed to get a hold of Chinese pop records, featuring amongst others covers of pop tunes from the west. One of the records included Sally Yeh, who did a cover of Madonna's Material Girl called 200 Degrees, which Peel loved. The Chinese lyrics of 200 Degrees were slightly different from Madonna's version, which had the Chinese translation of:


 * "I get the itches when the temperature rises / The weather situation gets worse and worse / And my body explodes at 200 degrees."

Other Shows Played
1986
 * Peel 046 (BFBS): '200度 (200 Degrees) (LP-長夜 (My Love Goodnight))' (JP: 'What an awe-inspiring record that is!...Now that I've sort of got the contacts there, I shall be able to get records like that on a fairly regular basis. If there are regular cover versions of things in Cantonese, or indeed in any other language, I shall be the man to play them, for sure. My idea of a good time, definitely.')
 * 25 November 1986: 200 Degrees (200度) (LP - My Love Goodnight (長夜))
 * Mid-Dec 1986: '200 Degrees' (to the tune of 'Material Girl' in Cantonese)