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Monday, 10 February 2025

Musician
Albums

Faye Wong
Shirley Wong (album)
Faye Wong (2001 album)
Mystery (Faye Wong album)
Faye Wong (1997 album)

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Faye Wong

Faye Wong (born 8 August 1969) is a Chinese singer-songwriter and actress based in Hong Kong, often referred to as a "diva" in Hong Kong media.(Chinese: 天后; literally: "Heavenly Queen"). Early in her career she briefly used the stage name Shirley Wong. Born in Beijing, she moved to British Hong Kong in 1987 and came to public attention in the early 1990s by singing ballads in Cantonese. Since 1994 she has recorded mostly in her native Mandarin, often combining alternative music with mainstream Chinese pop. In 2000 she was recognised by Guinness World Records as the Best Selling Canto-Pop Female. Following her second marriage in 2005 she withdrew from the limelight, but returned to the stage in 2010 amidst immense interest in the Sinophone world.

Hugely popular in Mainland China, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Singapore, she has also gained a large following in Japan. In the West she is perhaps best known for starring in Wong Kar-wai's films Chungking Express and 2046. While she has collaborated with international artists such as Cocteau Twins, Wong recorded only a few songs in English, including "Eyes on Me" – the theme song of the video game Final Fantasy VIII. Wong is known to be reserved in public, and has gained a reputation for her "coolness". In Encyclopedia of Contemporary Chinese Culture, Jeroen de Kloet characterised her as "singer, actress, mother, celebrity, royalty, sex symbol and diva all at the same time".

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Shirley Wong (album)

Shirley Wong is a 1989 album recorded by Chinese Cantopop singer Faye Wong when she was based in Hong Kong, then using the stage name Shirley Wong. This is her debut album with Cinepoly.

Track listing

無奈那天 (Mou Noi Naa Tin) - However That Day

藉口 (Ze Hau) - Excuses

有緣的話 (Jau Jyun Dik Waa) - If Destined

溫柔的手 (Wan Jau Dik Sau) - Delicate Hands

尾班車 (Mei Baan Ce) - Last Train

未平復的心 (Mei Ping Fuk Dik Sam) - The Unsettled Heart
<Duet with Paul Wong>

仍是舊句子 (Jing Si Gau Geoi Zi) - Still The same Old Phrase

中間人 (Zung Gaan Jan) - Torn Between Two Lovers

愛聽謊言 (Oi Ting Fong Jin) - Like Listening To Lies

新生 (San Sang) - New Life

References

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Faye Wong (2001 album)

Faye Wong (王菲) is a 2001 album by Beijing-based singer Faye Wong. The songs are a mixture of pop and rock numbers, including pop rock, techno and electro genres.

It included 11 tracks in Mandarin Chinese and five in Cantonese. The latter provided Wong's most significant release of new Cantonese songs since Toy in 1997.

Faye Wong worked with new partners on this album, including Singaporean singer-songwriter Tanya Chua and Taiwanese rocker Wu Bai.

Track listing

↑ The title of "Two Persons' Bible" was inspired by One Man's Bible, a novel by Nobel Laureate Gao Xingjian.

Tracks 1–10 & 16 are in Mandarin Chinese, and 11–15 in Cantonese. Tracks 14 and 15 are Cantonese versions of tracks 4 and 3 respectively.

Reception

Reflecting the varied contributors to the album, reviewers found it a mixed bag. A retrospective review in Singapore's Straits Times mentioned that Wu Bai's techno-rock track "Two Persons' Bible" was "more Wu than Wong". The Cantonese section was considered "more heartening".

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Mystery (Faye Wong album)

Mystery (alternatively Riddle) is the translated title of a 1994 Mandarin album 迷 (pinyin: Mí) recorded by Chinese singer Faye Wong as 'Wong Ching Man' when she was based in Hong Kong.

Although she had included a few Mandarin Chinese songs in her 1993 albums No Regrets and 100,000 Whys, Mystery was her first album recorded entirely in Mandarin rather than the Hong Kong majority dialect of Cantonese. The first track "I'm Willing" (or "I Do") was an instant hit single, and the album brought Wong to fame across the region of East Asia. The track "Cold War" is a cover of Tori Amos's "Silent All These Years"; Wong had already scored a hit with her Cantonese version of this song, which had been included in her 1993 album 100,000 Whys.

Despite the inclusion of Mandarin versions of that and other Cantonese songs, Mystery was a huge hit, selling over 800,000 in Taiwan alone.

Track listing

↑ This is a remixed version of the track originally included on the album of the same name

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Faye Wong (1997 album)

Faye Wong (王菲) is a self-titled album by Chinese singer Faye Wong. Her first recording with EMI, it was recorded in Beijing and released in 1997, around the time that she relocated to Beijing after several years of success in Hong Kong.

All tracks are sung in Mandarin. This album is filled with feelings of lethargy, languor, drowsiness and disengagement, yet most of the songs sound warm and sweet.

The album continued Wong's collaboration with the Cocteau Twins, which began with Random Thoughts in 1994 and Fuzao in 1996. They wrote the fourth track on this album, "Amusement Park", especially for Faye Wong. Track 8 "Reminiscence" (or "Nostalgia") is a cover of "Rilkean Heart" from their 1996 album Milk and Kisses.

Track 5, "Mortal World", was composed by Miyuki Nakajima. Nakajima had also written Wong's 1992 breakthrough song "Fragile Woman". "Mortal World" was also a hit single and became the closing song with which Wong would end her concerts thereafter. Nakajima re-recorded the song in Japanese as "Streams of Hearts" (清流, Seiryū) on her 1998 album Be Like My Child.

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