{"id":434344,"date":"2026-05-10T05:04:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-10T05:04:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/434344\/"},"modified":"2026-05-10T05:04:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-10T05:04:11","slug":"turning-the-tables-how-3-hong-kong-mothers-are-spinning-trauma-into-hope-as-djs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/434344\/","title":{"rendered":"Turning the tables: how 3 Hong Kong mothers are spinning trauma into hope as DJs"},"content":{"rendered":"

Amid the crackle of vinyl records and the nostalgia of Cantonese golden oldies<\/a>, Holy Lee Hau-yin, a Hong Kong mother of three young children, is spinning a new narrative as a professional disc jockey and turning a page on her troubled past.<\/p>\n

After suffering an abusive marriage and the exhaustion of a decade of childcare, Lee will spend Mother\u2019s Day on Sunday with renewed hope. The 28-year-old is set to perform for a private event at The Peninsula Hong Kong hotel and ultimately hopes to make a living from it.<\/p>\n

Such an opportunity was once unimaginable for the full-time mother, who said she had mostly spent her prime years caring for her children, now aged 10, eight and six.<\/p>\n

\u201cAt that time, I felt so trapped in the reality that I had three children, and that I had to bear the full responsibility for them and make them my priority no matter what,\u201d said Lee, who is recovering from a long history of borderline personality disorder.<\/p>\n

Relying on a cocktail of medication to manage her emotions for 14 years until 2024, she recounted a dark episode during her first pregnancy \u2013 when she was 19 years old \u2013 that turned her life around and made her commit to caring for a life she brought into the world.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat was the first time I wanted to commit suicide. I already went up to the roof. But then, I felt the baby kicking in my womb,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

The moment made Lee realise that being a parent was a responsibility that she would have to carry for life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Amid the crackle of vinyl records and the nostalgia of Cantonese golden oldies, Holy Lee Hau-yin, a Hong…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":434345,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[203766,203763,170716,203761,203760,146,203762,3448,85,46,203764,166839,43,203765,14857,170715],"class_list":["post-434344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-carrie-lam","tag-chickensoup-foundation","tag-club-soul-good","tag-complexcon-hong-kong","tag-edward-man-ho-wai","tag-entertainment","tag-holy-lee-hau-yin","tag-hong-kong","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-may-chen-mei-xiang","tag-mothers-day","tag-news","tag-peninsula-hong-kong","tag-scmp","tag-sham-shui-po"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=434344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434344\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/434345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=434344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=434344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=434344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}