Chan was born into a musical family in Dublin and was taught classical piano and singing from a young age by her grandmother Joan Kelly. Chan started to immerse herself in sean nós singing and Irish fiddle when she was at university in Dublin and has never looked back.

Chan is an active folk and traditional singer, song collector and musician as part of the Irish diaspora in England, where she chairs a Comhaltas branch in the South East and teaches Irish fiddle and singing to adults and children.   She has toured extensively as a solo artist and guest performer and has participated in a number of TG4 Irish language series and music documentaries as a sean nós singer.

Chan is a member of Celtic folk duo Bold Reilly and enjoys a full and varied folk festival tour schedule each year playing songs she has written, as well as songs from her ever expanding Irish repertoire.  She is a sought after workshop leader in unaccompanied and harmony singing  and has recently formed a new close harmony folk duo The Fox In The Reeds with her partner.

During lockdown, Chan set herself the task of teaching herself the guitar and increasingly accompanies herself on the songs she writes on her treasured Martin Coletti jazz guitar as well as her latest acquisition, an Austrian lute.  Chan also enjoys working her Shruti box into her sean nós singing and exploring the cross over and connection between Irish and other genres of folk singing.