FayeWong-TheDivasofPop同步文字解说.doc

Faye Wong – The Divas of Pop （PPT同步讲解文字） Slide 02 1969, a baby girl came to this world with a loud cry 1989, an album named Shirley Wong hit the music market 2009, a pop queen left the stage saying—“Forget About Me” However, those bygones, the harder we try to forget about them, the tighter they seem to obsess us. Two decades, long enough to make a legend. Slide 03 Faye Wong?(Wang Fei, 王菲) is a Chinese singer, songwriter, actress, model, and philanthropist. She is one of the most successful eastern pop artists of recent times, having sold more than nine million albums throughout her career. Slide 04 Among all these studio albums, compilation albums, or just extended plays, I’d like to pick up some of them which are so classic that I think you must be interested in. Slide 05 They are Shirley Wong (1989) Mystery (1994) Random Thoughts (1994) Sky (1994) Ingratiate Oneself (1994) Restless (1996) and Fable (2000) Slide 06 In 1987, after being accepted to college, she immigrated to Hong Kong, where she was given a stage name Wong Jing Wan (Shirley Wong for English) and then had her first album released. Shirley Wong was a surprising success, selling over 30,000 copies and helped her won bronze at the Chik Chak New Artist Award. Slide 07 Four best-selling albums in Cantonese and Mandarin, a record-breaking 18 consecutive concerts in Hong Kong, and a widely acclaimed film (Chungking Express) made Faye Wong the most eminent female Hong Kong singer in the mid-1990s. She finally became the true Hong Kong diva—— and that was in 1994. Slide 08 This one is definitely unique. The album contains mainly her own compositions and of course it was Faye’s personal favorite. However, the response from Hong Kong and Taiwan was less supportive. Many fans who enjoyed her previous three Mandarin albums turned their back on Restless, which they considered to be too alternative and self-absorbed. But good news was, after the release, Wong became the second Chinese artist