Anita Mui(1963-2003)
- Actress
- Music Department
- Soundtrack
With a career that began in her early childhood, Anita Mui is the queen
of Hong Kong's pop-music industry. After she won a singing contest in
1982, her life in the limelight began. In the early stages of her
career her image was a little bit tomboy-ish and sexy (which was the
reason she was called the "Madonna of Hong Kong"), and some of her
songs were considered too risqué, with one of them, "Bad Girl",
actually being banned from airplay due to its suggestive content. She
started her acting career at about the same time, often starring with
Anthony Chan, including
Why, Why, Tell Me Why! (1986) and
Yi qi liang fu (1988). Other
acting partners included Jackie Chan
and Leslie Cheung. Both her singing and
acting careers were a success. She won an enormous number of "Best
Female Singer" and "Most Popular Female Singer" awards in the 1980s,
and her acting career's climax was winning "Best Actress" awards
(Golden Horse Award and the inaugural Golden Dragon Awards in Taiwan,
Hong Kong Film Award, and the Pan-Asia Pacific Film Festival) in 1987
for Stanley Kwan's "Rouge"
Rouge (1987). In the early 1990s
she announced her "half" retirement from the singing industry. However,
by popular demand, she continued to record albums and to act in movies,
and by 1994, she engineered a full comeback to great critical and
popular acclaim.
She passed away from cervical cancer on December 30th, 2003. Many of her friends were with her in her last hours.
She passed away from cervical cancer on December 30th, 2003. Many of her friends were with her in her last hours.
