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王菲
Musician · Beijing, Hong Kong

王菲

Faye Wong is a Hong Kong singer-songwriter and actress. Early in her career, she briefly used the stage name Shirley Wong (王靖雯). Born in Beijing, she moved to Hong Kong at the age of 18. Her debut album Shirley Wong (1989) was in Cantonese and her breakthrough came with the Cantopop song "Fragile Woman" in 1992. She established her style by blending alternative music with Chinese pop, and since the late 1990s has recorded primarily in her native Mandarin. In 2000, Wong was recognised by Guinness World Records as the best selling Cantopop female artist, having sold an estimated 9.7 million copies of her albums by March 2000. Upon her second marriage in 2005, she withdrew from the limelight and moved back to Beijing, making only occasional stage appearances. In 2009, Wong was voted the second most influential Chinese celebrity of the past 60 years in a poll conducted by the State Council Information Office to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the People's Republic of China.

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