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Faye Wong Discography
The discography of Faye Wong, one of the leading stars of Chinese pop music, includes 20 studio albums19 studio albums up to 2011, stated in . Subsequent to this, ''Be Perfunctory'' was issued as a full-length album. and 5 extended plays (EP). Wong began recording when she was a high-school student in China, releasing six albums during these years, including many cover versions of hits by Teresa Teng. In 1989, she began her official recording career in Hong Kong with Cinepoly Records. They gave her the stage name Wong Jing Man along with an English pseudonym, Shirley Wong, which was the title of her debut album. In 1997 she signed a 5-album recording contract with EMI. Cinepoly held one final set of recordings for another album but released these in stages on two EPs and on compilation album A compilation album comprises Album#Tracks, tracks, which may be previously released or unreleased, usually from several separate recordings by either one or several Performing arts# ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Faye Wong
Faye Wong ( zh, 王菲; born Xia Lin on 8 August 1969) is a Hong Kong singer-songwriter. Early in her career she briefly used the stage name Shirley Wong. Born in Beijing, she moved to Hong Kong in 1987 and her debut album '' Shirley Wong'' (1989) came to public attention in the early 1990s by singing in Cantonese, often combining alternative music with mainstream Chinese pop. Since 1994, she has recorded mostly in her native Mandarin. 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. Hugely popular in Hong Kong, Taiwan, China 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'' (1994) and ''2046'' (2004). While she has collaborated with international artists such as Cocteau Twins, Wong recorded only a few songs in Englis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Coming Home (Faye Wong Album)
''Coming Home'' is an album recorded by Chinese Cantopop singer Faye Wong. It was released on her return to Hong Kong in 1992 after her year-long stay in New York City. Background Wong had issued her first three official albums under the stage name Shirley Wong. The cover for ''Coming Home'' prominently shows the name "Faye", and from 1994, after the release of ''Sky'' she used name "Wáng Fēi" () on album sleeves. This album included "Fragile Woman", a cover of a Japanese song "Rouge" composed by the J-pop diva Miyuki Nakajima and sung by Naomi Chiaki. While this song had been covered by other Chinese singers, Wong's version nonetheless swept over Hong Kong and single-handedly lifted her to stardom. It became the No. 1 hit on almost all local radio stations and won Song of the Year at several musical awards. (Thanks to Wong's cover, this 1972 song—in different language versions—would in the early 1990s become a huge regional hit in Thailand, Vietnam and the rest of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sing And Play
''Sing and Play'' () is a 1998 Mandarin album by Beijing-based singer Faye Wong. It includes 10 tracks in Mandarin, with a bonus disc of 3 Cantonese tracks. It was released on 21 October 1998 in Japan.''Billboard'' Faye Wong article by Steve McClure, 6 February 1999, page 51, "Global Music Pulse" column, edited by Dominic Pride The album title is usually translated as ''Sing and Play'' in English sources.Stan Jeffries, ''Encyclopedia of world pop music, 1980-2001'' 2003 p224. "In January 1998, Wong won the favorite female category at Taiwan's Channel V awards. As part of her new goal of winning wider recognition, in the same year she released Sing and Play. The album included some Won ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 Chinese, 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 (Faye Wong album), 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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fuzao
''Fuzao'' (; lit. "Impetuous") is the fourth Mandarin-language studio album (thirteenth overall) by Chinese singer Faye Wong. It was released on 3 June 1996 through Cinepoly. Wong took more artistic risks with her work as she approached the end of her record contract, resulting in the experimental nature of ''Fuzao''. The album was positively received by critics, with ''The Straits Times'' considering the album as Wong's boldest and most artistically coherent effort to date''.'' An alternative record, ''Fuzao'' was largely written and composed by Wong, with arrangement and production done by her husband, Dou Wei, and Zhang Yadong. The album features two collaborations with the Scottish dream pop band Cocteau Twins, whose sound and aesthetic was a heavy influence. English names Translated names used in English-language sources are ''Restless'', ''Exasperation'',Stan Jeffries, ''Encyclopedia of world pop music, 1980-2001'', 2003, p224. "Between the release of her debut album in 198 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Di-Dar
''Di-Dar'' is the ninth and last Cantonese album by Hong Kong singer Faye Wong, released in December 1995 through Cinepoly. The album marked a shift from Wong's earlier style as she incorporated British psychedelic rock and ragga into her work, showcasing her evolving alternative musical influences. ''Di-dar'' featured compositions by Wong with arrangements by her then-husband Dou Wei, production by Zhang Yadong and lyrics by Lin Xi. The album was both a critical and commercial success, selling 1.5 million copies across Asia; with its title track "Di-dar" and "Ambiguous" (曖昧) becoming well-known songs. ''Di-dar'' peaked at number one in Hong Kong according to the IFPI and ''Billboard'' magazine. Critical reception ''Di-Dar'' ranked at number 27 in ''Ming Pao Weeklys list of "40 Classic Cantopop Albums of the Last 40 Years" published in October 2008. Music journalist Fung Lai-Chee described it as "the best psychedelic and best-selling avant-garde The avant-garde (; In 'a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tribute Album
An album is a collection of audio recordings issued on compact disc (CD), vinyl, audio tape, or another medium such as digital distribution. Albums of recorded sound were developed in the early 20th century as individual 78 rpm records collected in a bound book resembling a photograph album; this format evolved after 1948 into single vinyl long-playing (LP) records played at rpm. The album was the dominant form of recorded music expression and consumption from the mid-1960s to the early 21st century, a period known as the album era. Vinyl LPs are still issued, though album sales in the 21st-century have mostly focused on CD and MP3 formats. The 8-track tape was the first tape format widely used alongside vinyl from 1965 until being phased out by 1983 and was gradually supplanted by the cassette tape during the 1970s and early 1980s; the popularity of the cassette reached its peak during the late 1980s, sharply declined during the 1990s and had largely disappeared duri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Decadent Sound Of Faye
''Decadent Sound of Faye'' (), also translated as ''Faye Beautiful Music'', is a 1995 Mandopop album recorded by the Chinese singer Faye Wong when she was based in Hong Kong. It consists entirely of rearranged versions of songs originally released by Teresa Teng. Name The word ‘decadent’ is an ironic echo of early PRC condemnation of music such as that of Taiwanese singer Teresa Teng's music as ''mǐmǐ zhī yue'' (靡靡之樂). The title of this album is a pun: during the Cultural Revolution, Teng's songs were condemned as "decadent sounds" () by the Communist Party of China. The album title is literally translated as ''Faye's Decadent Music'' (), but as the character "" (''fēi'', i.e. the name Faye in Chinese) has the same pronunciation as the related character "" (''fēi'', "not" in Classical Chinese), the title can also be construed as "Non-Decadent Sounds". Word play on Faye's name ''fēi'' in Mandarin has also been used on two Cinepoly compilation albums: 菲 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Please Myself
''Tou hou ji gei'' Yale romanization of Cantonese, Yale Romanization, meaning ''Please Myself'' or ''Ingratiate Oneself'',Maximum rocknroll No.191 1999 "Faye Wong "Di Dar" TP $4 Faye Wong "Ingratiate Oneself" TP S4" (Cantonese: :wikt:討好, 討好:wikt:自己, 自己; ''Tou hou zi gei'' Jyutping) is a 1994 Cantonese album recorded by Chinese Cantopop singer Faye Wong as 王靖雯 Wong Ching Man, when she was based in Hong Kong. Cinepoly Records released this album in December, only a few months after her highly influential alternative pop, alternative music Cantonese album ''Random Thoughts (Faye Wong album), Random Thoughts'' and her second Standard Chinese, Mandarin album ''Sky (Faye Wong album), Sky''. It did not match them in terms of commercial success. Faye Wong composed the songs "Ingratiate Oneself" and "Exit" herself, and these continued her move into alternative music. The remaining songs were more conventional in genre. The lyrics are all in Cantonese except for "Exit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sky (Faye Wong Album)
''Tian Kong'' (天空), known as ''Sky'' in the English-speaking world, is the ninth studio album (her second album in Mandarin) recorded by Chinese singer Faye Wong when she was based in Hong Kong. It was released on 10 November 1994. Track listing "Angel" was the ending theme music for '' Mermaid Got Married'' and was also featured in an episode of '' Princess Angel.'' "Elude" is a Mandarin version of Wong's Cantonese song "Dream Person", which was included on '' Random Thoughts'' and featured in '' Chungking Express''. The song is a cover of The Cranberries' "Dreams A dream is a succession of images, ideas, emotions, and sensations that usually occur involuntarily in the mind during certain stages of sleep. Humans spend about two hours dreaming per night, and each dream lasts around 5 to 20 minutes, althou ...". Both versions are still played frequently in Chinese media. Release history References 1994 albums Faye Wong albums Cinepoly Records albums Sony Mus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Random Thoughts (Faye Wong Album)
''Random Thoughts'' (), alternatively ''Thinking Here and There'' or ''Wondering Music'', is the translated title of a 1994 Cantonese album recorded by Chinese Cantopop singer Faye Wong when she was based in Hong Kong. It confirmed her move into alternative music and covers songs by the Cocteau Twins, whose influence she readily acknowledged. The title track "Random Thoughts" is a cover of the Cocteau Twins' "Bluebeard". Track 5, "Know Oneself and Each Other", covered their song "Know Who You Are at Every Age", which was likewise from their 1993 album ''Four-Calendar Café''. "Dream Lover" (sometimes translated "Person in a Dream") is a cover of The Cranberries' "Dreams". It was a successful hit single, and was featured in Wong Kar-wai's critically acclaimed film ''Chungking Express'' in which Faye Wong also starred. She also recorded a Mandarin version, "Elude", on ''Sky''. Both versions are still played frequently in Chinese media. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mystery (Faye Wong Album)
''Mystery'' (alternatively ''Riddle'') is the translated title of a 1994 Mandarin album 迷 () 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. Reuters, Feb 17, 1999. Republished by fan site. Retrieved 2009-10-31. The article translated the album title as ''Getting Lost''. 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, se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
