At two, Chinese-Canadian Chloe Ng-Brossard Yee-tsing could hum the song her mother would sing in Chinese while washing the dishes.
It was the Cantonese opera classic Dai Nui Fa. A few weeks later, she was able to sing it.
Chloe, now 10, developed a passion for Cantonese opera and has already performed in Hong Kong and at the Shanghai World Expo.
She revealed her musical talents for the first time during a birthday party. She was only three, could not speak Chinese at all and yet performed Dai Nui Fa.
'When I first saw Cantonese opera,' Chloe said, 'I thought it was interesting and also weird.' The makeup, costumes and singing were foreign to her. 'But now I like everything about it.'
Born and raised near Vancouver - her mother is from Hong Kong and her father hails from Quebec - Chloe came to Hong Kong with her family in 2007. She now studies at the Yew Chung International School in Kowloon Tong and her schedule looks more like that of a university student than a Year 6 pupil.
