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= Gordon Horace Chin = Gordon Horace Chin (born 30 March 1990) is a journalist and musician currently serving as Press Secretary to the Sabah Minister of Finance, Yang Berhormat Datuk Seri Panglima Masidi Manjun since January 2023. He served as Press Officer to the Chief Minister of Sabah, Yang Amat Berhormat Datuk Seri Panglima Haji Hajiji Haji Noor from September 2020 until January 2023. He was appointed as an Executive Committee member of the Gagasan Rakyat Sabah youth wing in May 2023 under the leadership of Yang Berhormat Datuk Fairuz bin Renddan.

Early life
Gordon was born into a very musical family where his father was a performing musician in the small town of Tamparuli, Sabah, working the party scene playing the electric guitar in the 1970's while his mother was a primary school teacher who also has interests in singing and playing various musical instruments. Gordon started informally learning the piano and organ at the age of four and was sent for formal music education at the age of seven at the Technics Music Academy, learning the organ, before moving to RAM Music Academy to learn the electric guitar at age nine under local guitar hero, Oswald Pareira. Most of his early childhood revolved around music, family and friends and he did not participate much in other activities such as sports.

Education
He attended SRK Stella Maris primary school in 1997 before entering Sabah College in 2003 and obtained his Malaysian Certificate of Education or Sijil Pelajaran Malaysia (SPM) in 2007 from Sekolah Swasta Seri Insan.

Upon finishing high school, he went to Brickfields Asia College in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia to obtain his A Levels (law) in 2008 before returning to his hometown to pursuit a career in journalism.

After three years of working, he went to the London School of Journalism, London, where he obtained a Degree in Advanced Journalism in 2011.

Music career
Gordon started performing in various shows and student concerts since the age of nine. His first public appearance was during the RAM Music Academy student concert in 2000 and subsequently performing in numerous local shows, concerts and events with various bands and backing local artists including performing in front of 20,000 people during the National Day celebrations in Kota Kinabalu Padang Merdeka in 2007.

He signed his first performing residency contract with JW Promotions in 2013