Background
Mei Yan Fang was born on October 10, 1963 in Hong Kong. Mei Yan Fang experienced much hardship in her childhood. She was the youngest daughter in a family of four children. The children were raised in a single-parent family.
Mui at the "Anita Classic Moment Live 2003" concert in the Hong Kong Coliseum
Mui's star on the Avenue of Stars
One of the care centres established by Mui
Bronze statue of Anita Mui in Hong Kong
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1991
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1993
梅 艷芳
Mei Yan Fang was born on October 10, 1963 in Hong Kong. Mei Yan Fang experienced much hardship in her childhood. She was the youngest daughter in a family of four children. The children were raised in a single-parent family.
Mei Yan Fang had to help provide for her siblings at an early age, dropping out of school at the age of 13 or 14. More hardship followed the family when the bar that her mother ran was destroyed by a fire. To earn a living, she entered show business around the age of four with her sister Ann. She performed Chinese operas and pop songs in theatres and on the streets. Both Mui and her elder sister Ann performed in practically any nightclub that offered them a chance to make a living.
At the age of 15, due to the frequency of performances at different venues (up to six venues per day) that she had, her voice was affected due to the development of nodules on her vocal cords. Following the advice of the doctor, she took a year off and to keep herself occupied, she attended art lessons with her cousin. After a year, Mei Yan Fang started performing again despite the change in her vocal range, which lowered her voice by an octave (eight keys).
In 1982, as encouraged by her sister, Mei Yan Fang competed in the first New Talent Singing Awards. There, she got a big break by emerging champion with the song "The Windy Season" (風的季節). As an award for winning the New Talent contest at the time, Mui's first album was released with the local record company Capital Artists.
Her debut album, Debt Heart (心債), drew a lukewarm response from the audience. However, the subsequent album fared much better, as she developed her personal style and image. In 1983 and 1984, Mei Yan Fang won the RTHK Top 10 Gold Songs awards back to back. Her winning streak continued as she won another major award in 1985, her first top 10 Jade Solid Gold Best Female Singer award. Thereafter, Mei Yan Fang won the award every year until 1989. She was awarded the Gold Songs Gold Awards (金曲金獎) in 1989 for the song "Sunset Melody" (夕陽之歌), which became one of her signature songs throughout her career.
Mei Yan Fang released 50 albums in total. Her best-selling album was the 1985 "Bad Girl" (壞女孩), which sold over 400,000 copies (platinum 8x by Hong Kong's standards). In her career, she sold 10 million albums.
In terms of live performances, in 1985, at the age of 21, her first concert was held lasting 15 nights. Beginning in late 1987, a series of 28 consecutive concerts at the Coliseum was held through early 1988. This established a record at the time and dubbed Mui the title of "Ever Changing Anita Mui" (百變梅艷芳), which had become her trademark. Her popularity was also gaining prominence outside of Hong Kong, as she was invited to sing at the 1988 Summer Olympics opening ceremony in Seoul together with Janet Jackson. Mei Yan Fang performed in 300 concerts in her career. In 1995, she performed the song "Bad Girl" in Guangzhou, China, where it was banned, as it was considered pornographic in nature. The government authorities in Guangzhou were infuriated when she chose to sing the song on the last day of her concert.
In 1990, during her birthday celebration with her fan club, Mei Yan Fang announced that she would put an end to receiving music awards to give a chance to newcomers. She held farewell concerts for 33 consecutive nights before retiring from the stage. At the age of 28, she stepped down from the industry, only to return from retirement in 1994. Mei Yan Fang mentored several Hong Kong newcomer singers who have since become successful, most notably Andy Hui, Denise Ho, Edmond Leung, the band Grasshopper, and Patrick Tam.
In 1998, aged 35, Mei Yan Fang was awarded the RTHK Golden Needle Award, being one of the youngest recipients to receive the award as a lifetime achievement.
Mei Yan Fang was also well known as an actress across Asia, as she starred in more than 40 films over a 20-year period. Her films were mainly of the action-thriller and martial arts variety, but she had also taken comedic and dramatic roles.
Her first acting award as a supporting actress was won at the Hong Kong Film Awards for her performance in Behind the Yellow Line (1984). Three years later in 1987, her performance in Rouge won her the Best Actress at the Golden Horse Awards. In 1989, Mei Yan Fang was awarded the Best Actress for her role in Rouge at the Hong Kong Film Awards.
In 1994 and 1995, Mei Yan Fang found some international recognition by starring opposite Jackie Chan in The Legend of Drunken Master and Rumble in the Bronx.
Later, in 1997, she also won another best supporting actress at the Hong Kong Film Awards for her role in Eighteen Springs. In 2002, Mei Yan Fang won Best Actress at the Changchun Film Festival Golden Deer Awards for Best Actress with her performance in July Rhapsody.
Mei Yan Fang was originally cast in Zhang Yimou's House of Flying Daggers (2004), but she resigned only two weeks before her death. Zhang had reserved her scenes to be shot last due to her poor health. Out of respect for Mei Yan Fang, Zhang did not cast another actress in the role and the character was removed from the screenplay. She received a dedication titled "In Memory of Anita Mui" (謹以此電影緬懷梅艷芳小姐) during the closing credits.
Throughout her career, the tabloid magazines were unforgiving. Rumours never ceased to plague Mui, who was accused of being addicted to drugs, having tattoos on her arms, going for plastic surgery, being suicidal, and being linked to the death of a triad leader in the 1980s and 1990s. Rumours of affairs with leading actors also circulated.
On 5 September 2003, Mei Yan Fang publicly announced that she had cervical cancer, from which her sister had also died. She eventually succumbed to cervical cancer and died of respiratory complications leading to lung failure at Hong Kong Sanatorium and Hospital on 30 December 2003. She was 40 years old. Thousands of fans turned out for her funeral at North Point in January 2004.
(Soundtrack "Behind the Yellow Line" Theme Song)
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1991Mei Yan Fang was actively involved in charitable projects throughout her career. Her establishment of a nursing home in San Francisco, prompted the mayor of the city in 1992 to name 18 April as "Anita Mui Day". In 1993, she established the "Anita Mui True Heart Charity Foundation" (梅艷芳四海一心基金會). That same year, she was also one of the founders of the Hong Kong Performing Artistes Guild. The Canadian city of Toronto declared 23 October 1993 to be "Anita Mui Day".
During the severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) outbreak, she initiated a fundraising concert titled the 1:99 Concert to raise money for SARS-affected families. Mei Yan Fang was also awarded the "Fighting Against SARS Award" from RTHK and the newspaper Ming Pao. In 2003, she wrote and published the book The Heart of the Modern Woman (現代女人心). Profits from the book went to the Children's Cancer Foundation.