Jade Kwan is best known for elegant ballads swathed in lush piano and swelling strings. It's a perfect format for the Cantopop singer's strikingly gentle voice and refined delivery, which lingers meaningfully over every syllable. Multilingual and classically trained, Kwan was born in Hong Kong but got her first big break while attending school in Canada. Though she enjoys the occasional organ-backed pop song (and plays an impressive array of instruments herself), she is at her best on intimate numbers that allow her to slowly peel away layers, gradually revealing the bittersweet core.