Mavis Fan (Chinese: 范曉萱; pinyin: Fàn Xiǎoxuān; born 27 February 1977) is a Taiwanese singer and actress.
She was sent to learn the flute and piano at the age of three, since her mom, an aspiring singer, had put all of her own musical dreams in Fan.
Her mom had to sing at bars to afford Mavis' tuition for the best music school in Taiwan.
In the late 1990s, she adopted a more mature image, singing in a variety of pop styles for a more general audience and captured significant amounts of popular attention.
Her first records got incredible sales, so that each album sold over a million copies, thus giving her nickname – "Little Witch of Music."
Darling is overall a pretty comfortable pop album, thanks to brilliant collaborations between Mavis and other musicians from Hong Kong and the mainland.
Rumors said Mavis developed depression during her transition period, because she put herself under too much pressure to produce good music.