Mei Yanfang

Category
MUSIC

Language
CHINESE

Mui experienced much hardship in her childhood. She was born at Fa Yuen Street in Mong Kok, Kowloon. She is the youngest daughter in a family of four children. She is the only child born in Hong Kong in her family, as her brothers and sister were born in China. Her mother Mui Tam Mei-kam was born at Xiguan in Guangzhou. She was a Chinese medicine practitioner, who opened Yuet Wah Chinese Medical Clinic, Wah Geong Chinese and Western Music College, and a music brand in Hong Kong. Her siblings are Mui Kai-Ming ,[5] who was also a singer. The children were raised in a single parent family. Mui's father died when she was very young. In some of her interviews, Mui mentioned that she had little memory of her father and the family were very poor. This meant that she had to help provide for her siblings at an early age, dropping out of school at the age of 13 or 14. More hardship followed the family when the bar that her mother ran was destroyed by a fire.[2] To earn a living, Mui entered show business around the age of four with her sister Ann.[4][9] She performed Chinese operas and pop songs in theatres and on the streets.[4][9] Both Mui and her elder sister Ann performed in practically any nightclub that offered them a chance to make a living.[2] <

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