Faye Wong Quotes & Trivia



Quotes

Boredom is the most unbearable emotion.

Trivia

One of the biggest pop singers in Asia.

Has a daughter (Dou, Jing-tong) with 'Dou, Wei'

Left Hong Kong at the early stages of her career to study music, and literature. She left because she lost herself and wanted to revive her personality. After several months, she returned and released the "Coming Home" album, which turned her career around into new heights.

Recorded three albums before her first studio album "Shirley Wong". These albums are extremely difficult to find to this day.

Faye Wong fans like to call themselves "Fayenatics". This term "Fayenatics" derived from a popular Internet mailing list back in 1997. Some of the members of the mailing list recorded a double disc album called "Fayenatics - The Album", which Faye Wong received a copy of, as she mentioned in an interview with CNN the following year.

During her career she has sung in several languages such as Japanese, Mandarin, Cantonese, French and English.

Teresa Teng is one of her idols.

Her first name "Faye" can mean "Fairy", "Princess", and "Queen" in English.

Went by the name "Shirley Wong" for her first three studio albums.

Some of her favorite artists include: Cranberries, Cocteau Twins, Air, Sinead O'Connor, and The Sundays.

Is known internationally for her 1 million dollar song, "Eyes on Me". Theme to Final Fantasy 8.

She has entered into the Guiness Book of World Records as the best-selling Cantopop female. With an estimated 9.7 million of her 20 albums sold by March 2000.

First Canto-Pop female to hold a concert in Nippon Budokan, Japan.

She was contracted previously with Cinepoly/Universal, and EMI to release her newest albums. She is currently contracted with Sony.

She usually wears a red string around her right hand. She is a Buddhist, and the red string symbolizes Buddhism.

She used to be the main spokesperson for Pepsi in Asia.

Her personal favorite song is "Kisses In The Wind", featured on her "Coming Home" album.

Her eyeglasses prescription is 40 degrees.

Her song "To Love" was banned in Malaysia and China because the song talked about smoking Opium.

Singer Na Ying is one of her best friends.

Spokesperson for Baleno, a clothing company.

Some of her fashion is very much inspired by the style of Bj?rk.

Went under a stage name of "Miss Charm" during her very early years.

Good friends with Carina Lau Ka-Ling