Shanghai Daily news

Taiwan singer Mavis Fan will stage her first Chinese mainland concert on May 23. Since her last album in 2004, she has remained low key with only occasional news about her independent music label.

The saying goes that a girl changes 18 times as she grows up and Fan is a good example. She debuted in the mid-90s as a pretty face singing cute songs for children but since then the 30-year-old singer has changed a lot, both in appearance and music.

Famous for being a lovely little angel in mini skirts when she was 17, Fan suffered sudden attacks of depression. Reports of her crying in public, eating disorders and not talking continued for nearly five years.

When she appeared with a new album in 2001, fans found the lovely teenager girl had become a melancholy jazz singer. In mature qipao, she suddenly changed from being an innocent girl to a woman with stories. For the Shanghai concert, Fan says she has overcome her depression and will even sing some of her early songs but "in a different style."