Faye Wong has metamorphosed through multiple identities since she started in the Canto pop industry, trying to find who she is. At the start of the 90s she was known as Shirley Wong, singing the usual love songs, striking the usual photographic poses, and being the same as everyone else. Somewhere in the mid-90s, she changed both her Chinese and English name to Faye Wong, perhaps pushed forward by the marketing department in an attempt to recreate herself. Since the name change, Faye Wong has become an international success. Her specialty lies in fusing both the art and commerce of music.

Faye Wong was born on August the 8th in 1969. Her mother was a singer and her father a mining engineer. During childhood, as a past time, she sang Chinese songs and later developed a growing talent and interest in the field of music. She moved from Beijing to Hong Kong and decided to pursue her potential, where she began taking singing lessons after each school day.

She began her career at the age of eighteen years old, when she was introduced by one of her singing teachers. Cinepoly took interest in her, and decided to contract her. In 1989, Faye Wong released her first studio album, which was self titled after her "Shirley Wong" name. It was changed for complications that audiences would have a problem with a singer who's first name meant "Queen" in English. Her first album would pull out one hit, "However That Day". The following year, the albums "Everything" and "You're The Only One" would hit the market.At this point, she was very unsatisfied with her career and decided to move to New York to take time off. There, she studied music and literature. She would often wander the streets, where nobody would notice her. During this time, she was highly inspired by bands outside of Asia. This period would highly affect Faye Wong's future in musical sound and eventually shatter her R&B only image. Writing music for her upcoming album, she decided to release one more album. In 1992, Faye Wong's career would take a drastic change.

She returns from New York and releases "Coming Home" under her favored name, Faye Wong. An album that shook the Canto-Pop music scene forever, and put Faye at the top of the charts. Her song, "Easily Hurt Woman", would become a phenomenal success. This album also had other popular hits such as "Miss You Night And Day", "Romantic Storm", and her first professional studio English song "Kisses In The Wind".Some audiences doubting her success, she would smash the charts once again with her "No Regrets" album the following year. Proving to doubters that she is here to stay with the extremely popular title song, "No Regrets".

In 1994, she took an important step in her career and sang her first album entirely in Mandarin titled "Mystery". Her song "I'm Willing" once again blew the charts to the roof and is a very popular song among Fayenatics. During the height of the success of "Mystery", she began a liking for a band called the Cocteau Twins. This band would highly influence Faye's sound and taste in music. That same year, she would star in her second film role in Wong Kar-Wai's explosive "Chungking Express" film. Her first film role was in "Beyond's Diary", which really didn't get Faye recognized as an actress. Soon after, Faye released her new album titled "Random Thoughts", which featured two covers songs by her newest favorite band the Cocteau Twins. One of which was featured in "Chungking Express", and the other song in the film was a cover song of Cranberries "Dreams". All featured on the "Random Thoughts" album. To close the year off she released "Sky", and "Ingratiate Oneself". She shocked the music scene with her first rap song "Exit", a song that nobody ever expected Faye to actually do. Faye would become so popular at this point that she went into hiding from the press from time to time.