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Anita Mui Yim-fong (; Cantonese Yale: muìh yihm fòng; October 10, 1963–December 30, 2003) was a popular Hong Kong pop singer and actress.

Background

Mui had one elder sister and two brothers. Her father died when she was eight, her mother moved in with another man, hoping he would look after her children. However, Mui and her family later discovered he was already married. Mui told a local magazine that her mother became very temperamental from that point and always took it out on them. Mui claimed to have been desperate to get away from her family.

From the early 1980s to 2003, she was excellent friends with Leslie Cheung, another Hong Kong pop star, who committed suicide in April 2003. She was very devastated by his death.

Anita Mui announced in early September 2003 that she had cervical cancer and was undergoing treatment. Some of her friends and the media were baffled as to why she took so long to undergo treatment when it appeared she knew of her ailment when it was in a fairly early stage. It's also possible that it was a late detection like most cases or secretly had treatment.

It was widely believed she forwent early treatment because she wanted to preserve the possibility to conceive. Mui eventually lost her battle to cervical cancer and died of respiratory complications at Hong Kong's Sanatorium Hospital on December 30, 2003 at 02:50 (local time). She was 40 and single. Her sister, Ann Mui, also a Hong Kong singer, died of cancer in 2000.

Music career

Mui first entered show business as a singer when she was five and turned professional when she was seven. Anita and her sister, Ann Mui, performed Chinese operas and pop songs in numerous restaurants and nightclubs, until she won the first New Talent Singing Contest in 1982 with the song "Season of Wind" (風的季節), beating over 3,000 contestants. Despite her title as "new talent" at that time, she had already been a singer for ten years.

Mui's first album was released with the Capital Artist Record Company within a year of the contest. Her debut drew a lukewarm response from audience. Two years later, in 1985, Mui won her first 10 Best Solid Gold Best Female Singer award. The same award went to her in the following four years. Mui won also best songs awards, both for album songs and movie theme songs.

Mui had her first concert in 1985, lasting 15 nights. Her 28 consecutive concerts in late 1987 won her the title of "Ever Changing Anita Mui" (百變梅艷芳), which became her trademark.

Mui also gained popularity overseas. She held a concert in Taiwan in 1988, and became the first artist from Hong Kong to give a solo concert there. That same year, she was invited to sing at the 1988 Olympics opening ceremony in Seoul, Korea.

In 1990, Mui 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 stage. She stepped down at only 28 years old, but returned from retirement in 1994.

Over the years, Mui has released over 40 albums. Possibly her best was her fourth album, released in 1986 and named "Bad Girl" (壞女孩) which had an eight platinum-selling album (about 400,000 pieces sold). "Bad Girl" holds the record for the best-selling Cantonese album in Hong Kong. She is extremely well known throughout Chinese communities worldwide. Because of her huge success as a pop singer, and her ever-changing images, she is often referred to as the "Madonna of Hong Kong," a comparison resented by some fans who felt that she deserves to be recognised in her own right. Her singing career was once compared to that of Diana Ross by CNN.

"Anita Classics Moments Live" Concert, held from November 6 to November 11, 2003 at Hong Kong Colosseum, was her sixth and the last concert, in which her final symbolic act was to "marry the stage", which was accompanied by her classic hit "Song of Sunset" (夕陽之歌) as she exited the stage for the final time.

Albums

Debts of the Heart 心債 (1982)
Crimson 赤色 (1983)
Flying Across the Stage 飛躍舞台 (1984)
The Years Flow By 似水流年 (1985)
Bad Girl 壞女孩 (1985)
Manzusawa (Mandarin version) 蔓珠莎華(國語大碟) (1985)
Evil Woman 妖女 (1986)
Tango of Fire 似火探戈 (1987)
Flaming Red Lips 烈焰紅唇 (1987)
Drunken Dreams 夢裡共醉 (1988)
百變梅艷芳再展光華87-88演唱會 (1988)
百變梅艷芳-烈焰紅唇(國語大碟) (1988)
We'll be Together (1988)
The Virgin 淑女 (1989)
In Brasil (1989)
愛我便說愛我吧 (1989)
Cover Girl 封面女郎 (1990)
百變梅艷芳夏日耀光華演唱會90 (1990)
Wild Streets 慾望野獸街 (1991)
親密愛人(國語大碟) (1991)
The Legend of the Pop Queen Part I (1992)
The Legend of the Pop Queen Part II (1992)
情幻一生 (1993)
變 (1993)
皇者之風 (1993)
戲劇人生 (1993)
是這樣的 (1994)
小心 (香港版及台灣版) (1994)
歌之女 (1995)
一個美麗的回響演唱會 (1995)
鏡花水月 (1997)
情歌．梅艷芳(精選大碟) (1997)
芳蹤乍現台北演唱會實錄(國語大碟) (1997)
女人花(國語大碟) (1997)
仲夏變奏 (1998)
情歌II (精選大碟) (1998)
床前明月光 (國語大碟) (1998)
Larger Than Life (1999)
沒話說 (1999)
I'm So Happy (2000)
眾裡尋芳 (2001)
With (2002)
Anita Mui Fantasy Gig 2002 梅艷芳極夢幻演唱會2002 (2002)

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