A-Mei (full name Sherry Chang Huei-Mei) was born on August 9, 1972 in Eastern Taiwan. She is a pop singer.
Biography and Career :
When she was a child she listened to tribal music and started loving music. Her parenmts have eight children. In 1994 she participated at "Five Lights Singing Contest" and was one of the finalists, but unfortunately lost in the end. Chang Yu-Sheng was the singer and producer who discovered her and soon her career was getting started. Their first song was "The One Who Loves Me the Most Hurts Me the Most" in 1996. Her first album, "Sisters" was released and she promoted three songs: "Nothing You Want After All", "Sisters" and "Released". After one year, in 1997, she had a second album, "Bad Boy". The success these two albums had was huge and she went
to a tour concert in Hong Kong, Singapore and Malaysia.
She represented her country at the annual ceremony "Asia Live Dream" in February 1998. In 1999 she went to another concert touring in all the Asia and she was definitely a successful singer. She was the person elected to perform "I Want to Fly", Sprite's new Chinese commercial song. In May 2000 she sang the ROC national anthem at the first presidential inauguration of Chen Shui-bian. China forbids her to visit the country and soon Sprite stopped using her for their commercial. She was present on the cover of the Newsweek magazine in January 2001 and in June accepted to sign a contract with Warner Music, Taiwan.
Releasing another album, "Brave" in 2003 offered her more popularity, but in June 2004 she had to cancel a concert in China because was accused that she supports the Taiwanese independence. She continues her musical career, releases albums and is having a great success worldwide.
- "I just hope to perform on the mainland as soon as possible... I am not a politician, but a singer with innocent beliefs [and] I just want to express myself in my music." A-Mei Image : chinatownconnection.com