[6] Agnes Chan became her family's fourth daughter when she was born at Tsan Yuk Hospital in Sai Ying Pun.

She began singing and playing guitar in her junior high years in Hong Kong, as volunteer work for fundraising events.

She had a chance to record a cover of Joni Mitchell's "The Circle Game" with her older sister, actress Irene Chan, and it became a hit song in Hong Kong.

Chan's 1984 visit to Ethiopia during a drastic drought and food shortage was covered for the Nippon Television Network's annual "24-Hour TV" charity special.

In 1986, Chan married her former[citation needed] manager, Tsutomu Kaneko, and gave birth to her eldest son in Canada.

Her new English-language album Forget Yourself, including a duet with legendary Chinese performer Jackie Chan, was released in the United States in February 2006.

In October 2007 it was reported that Chan had undergone breast-cancer surgery in a Tokyo hospital,[13] and is expected to make a full recovery.