Anita Mui

Anita Mui Yim-fong (梅艷芳; pinyin: Méi Yànfāng; Cantonese Yale: muìh yihm fòng) (October 10, 1963–December 30, 2003) was a popular Hong Kong pop singer and actress.

Background

Mui had one elder sister and two brothers. Her father died when she was eight, her mother moved in with another man, hoping he would look after her children. However, Mui and her family later discovered he was already married. Mui told a local magazine that her mother became very temperamental from that point and always took it out on them. Mui claimed to have been desperate to get away from her family.

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From the early 1980s to 2003, she was excellent friends with Leslie Cheung, another Hong Kong pop star, who committed suicide in April 2003. She was very devastated by his death.

Related Topics:
Leslie Cheung - April 2003

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Anita Mui announced in early September 2003 that she had cervical cancer and was undergoing treatment. Some of her friends and the media were baffled as to why she took so long to undergo treatment when it appeared she knew of her ailment when it was in a fairly early stage. It was widely believed she forwent early treatment because she wanted to preserve the possibility to conceive. Mui eventually lost her battle to cervical cancer and died of respiratory complications at Hong Kong's Sanitorium Hospital on December 30, 2003 at 02:50 (local time). She was 40 and single. Her sister, Ann Mui, also a Hong Kong singer, died of cancer in 2000.

Related Topics:
September 2003 - Cervical cancer - Conceive - Ann Mui - 2000

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