Faye Wong is probably the most popular female Chinese pop singer of the past two decades, often simply referred to as "The Diva" by the media and her fans. She featured alongside seven other world-famous female pop singers, including Celine Dion and Maria Carey, in a Time magazine cover story, "The Divas of Pop", in October 1996.

The daughter of a mining engineer and a soprano, Wong was born in Beijing in 1969 and moved to Hong Kong in 1987. Her grandfather, Wang Youlin, was a national legislator in the 1940s.

Wong showed her distinctive vocal talent at an early age and released six albums between 1985 and 1987 while still in high school. The albums mostly consisted of songs by her personal idol, Taiwan's iconic singer Teresa Teng.