Rita Maria Carpio (Chinese: 韋綺姍; born June 17, 1965) is a Hong Kong pop singer of Filipino-Macanese ethnicity.
[1] Rita's parents were separated early in her life, so she and her siblings were raised by her father, who taught them the piano and guitar.
[2] In 1982, she participated in the inaugural New Talent Singing Awards hosted by Hong Kong's television broadcaster TVB under the name Rita Maria Carpio.
She released two English albums there, Days of Sunshine (1988) and High Cost of Living (1989) to mild success; however, she became homesick and went back to Hong Kong.
Without an agent of her own, she did not leverage the fame she gathered in Taiwan to stage a comeback to the Hong Kong market, and instead had to start from the bottom.
Rita Carpio took this opportunity to release a hi-fi album, featuring new recordings of her songs from 20 years ago.