Birth Name: Edison Koon-Hei Chen
Birth Place: Vancouver, BC, Canada
Date of Birth: 7 October 1980
What Race or Ethnicity?: Chinese and Portuguese
The Canadian Chinese Canto Pop star is of Chinese and one eighth Portuguese ancestry. This was mentioned in a Time magazine article about his sister Tricia Chen, where it was revealed that Tricia and Edison have Portuguese heritage.
Edison’s native language is English but he is able to speak some Cantonese, Mandarin and Japanese. In 2008 Chen was involved in a photo scandal where Chen appeared in sexually explicit photos that circulated over the internet. The photos included other well known female Canto-pop stars. As a result his Chinese name was the number one search term on Google in China in 2008.
Source:
Celebrities sharing similar heritage:
