Yan Liming (Chinese: 颜黎明; pinyin: Yán Límíng; 15 April 1963 – 22 September 2018), better known as Dawn Gan, was a Singaporean xinyao singer. She was one of the pioneer xinyao singers in Singapore.^[1]

Gan was born on 15 April 1963^[2] and studied at River Valley High School^[3] and National Junior College.^[4]

In 1984, Gan signed a five-year contract with Tony Wong Company as a singer,^[4] one of the first two solo xinyao recording singers.^[5]

Gan sang the theme song, Youth 1 2 3, for the 1986 Singapore Broadcasting Corporation (SBC) Channel 8's drama The Happy Trio.^[3] In September 1986, Tony Wong Company would cease its operations, and had agreed to release Gan from her 5-year contract ahead of the clause which would abrogated the contract if the company did not release a new album for her within a year from her last release.^[6] In March 1987, Gan signed with the record label, Ocean Butterflies Music.^[7]

In 1988, Gan also made her acting debut in a Channel 8 drama, Song of Youth, about aspiring singers.^{[8][lower-alpha 1]} In the drama, she played an eponymous named undergraduate student whose personality matches her real self and writes lyrics for other.^[9] In promoting the drama, SBC held a concert which Gan also performed at.^[2] She left record label Ocean Butterflies Music^[10] and signed with recording company, WEA Records (now known as Warner Music Group).^[8] Production of her albums was still done by Ocean Butterflies Music.^[10]

From 2008, Gan had performed yearly at the annual Xinyao Reunion Concert series organised by TCR Music Station until 2018. In July 2014, she also performed at a xinyao concert held at Bras Basah Complex as part of the xinyao documentary film, The Songs We Sang.^[11]

Gan was married with two sons and a daughter and lived in Hong Kong with her family.^[11]

Gan was diagnosed with synovial sarcoma in 2013 and then early-stage breast cancer in 2014. She had five surgeries to remove four tumours and a lobe of her lung and were deemed tumour-free in 2016.^[12] She died on 22 September 2018 in Hong Kong.^[11]

Two concerts were held in memorial of Gan, one held at the Singapore Chinese Cultural Centre on 10 October 2018 by TCR Music Station and another concert, Embracing Dawn – Farewell For Dawn Gan, at Capitol Theatre, on 15 October 2018 organised by Singapore Press Holdings' Chinese Media Group and local record label Ocean Butterflies Music.^[13]