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In May 1983 released "赤色梅艷芳"; Wikipedia says the album reached sales of five platinum records and was selected among the year's ten gold songs, and also records that the first widely sung song was the theme song of the cartoon "IQ博士". In the same year entered the Tokyo Music Festival with the Japanese version of "交出我的心", receiving the Asia Special Award and the Tokyo TV Award.

In December 1984 released "飛躍舞台"; records thereafter came densely, with four in 1985 — "似水流年", "壞女孩", "蔓珠莎華" and "歌之女" — "妖女" in June 1986, "似火探戈" and "烈焰紅唇" in 1987, "夢裡共醉" in May 1988, and "淑女" and "Brasil" in 1989. Wikipedia writes that Anita Mui was a contralto, with a timbre similar to 徐小鳳, and was once given the title "小徐小鳳"; and because the image kept changing and many costumes were changed in a single concert, was called "百變天后". In the early debut years appeared with a "壞女孩" image. From 1985 to 1989 received Jade Solid Gold Most Popular Female Singer for five consecutive editions, and in 1989 with "夕陽之歌" received the Gold Song Gold Award at Jade Solid Gold. In early 1992 received the Diamond Idol Award at the Top Ten Chinese Gold Songs Awards.

Film work advanced in parallel with records. In 1984, with "緣份", received Best Supporting Actress at the 4th Hong Kong Film Awards; in 1989, with "胭脂扣", received Best Actress at the 8th Hong Kong Film Awards, and the same film also received Best Actress at the Taiwan Golden Horse Awards. In 1998, with "半生緣", again received Best Supporting Actress at the 17th Hong Kong Film Awards. Also received Best Actress nominations at the Taiwan Golden Horse Awards for "何日君再來", "慌心假期" and "男人四十" respectively. With the three film songs "胭脂扣", "似是故人來" and "女人心" received the Hong Kong Film Award for Best Original Film Song. In 2001 played King Xuan of Qi in reverse gender in "鍾無艷", and with that film received the Ming Pao Weekly Performing Arts Power Award for Most Outstanding Actress.

On May 28, 1988 held "百變梅艷芳台北演唱會" at Taipei China Sports and Culture Hall; Central News Agency recorded Anita Mui as the first Hong Kong singer to hold a large ticketed concert in Taiwan, with over ten thousand in the hall that night. In 1990, after holding thirty shows of "百變梅艷芳夏日耀光華演唱會", announced no longer accepting any music awards. In 1991 announced leaving the music scene, and from March of the same year began a world concert tour, with places including the United States, Canada, Germany, the United Kingdom, France, the Netherlands, Taiwan, Singapore, Malaysia and Australia. In 1994 returned to singing with "感激歌迷演唱會" and released the album "是這樣的". In 1995 held fifteen comeback solo shows.

The Hit Fm discography lists, between 1997 and 2000, "鏡花水月", "女人花", "變奏", "床前明月光", "Life", "沒話說" and "Happy"; Mandarin gold songs include "親密愛人", "放開你的頭腦", "女人花" and "床前明月光". Wikipedia separately records collaboration in 1999–2000 with Anthony Wong Yiu-ming, 王雙駿, 蔡一智 and others, releasing the two records "Larger Than Life" and "I'm So Happy". The 2002 twentieth-anniversary commemorative album "With" invited Leslie Cheung, Alan Tam, Jacky Cheung, Andy Lau, Faye Wong, Sammi Cheng, Kelly Chen, Sandy Lam, Anthony Wong Yiu-ming, Andy Hui and William So — eleven singers — to sing together. From the first record "心債" on, 劉培基 handled image design, through the last concert in 2003. In 1998 received the Gold Needle Award at the Top Ten Chinese Gold Songs Awards ceremony; the same article calls Anita Mui the youngest winner of that award; in the same year appeared as a guest and closed the show in "黃霑、顧嘉煇真友情演唱會", jointly presented by James Wong Jim and 顧嘉煇.

In 1993 established the "四海一心" charity fund; the first fundraising activity that year was held in Toronto, Canada, and with a charity banquet plus an ice-skating concert raised over four million (currency not stated in the source), all donated to the University of Toronto for genetics research. In April of the same year the Hong Kong performing-arts community held the "減災扶貧創明天" benefit at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing; Anita Mui took part with several dozen artistes and it was broadcast worldwide. On September 7, 1994, with Sally Yeh, Faye Wong, Andy Lau and Jacky Cheung, took part in "天王天后慈善音樂夜", raising expansion funds for the cancer centre at Queen Mary Hospital. In 2003 raised funds for SARS patients and initiated "1:99音樂會", calling on singers across Hong Kong to perform, and separately established the "茁壯行動" foundation to help orphaned children of affected families. Once served as an Oxfam ambassador for Oxfam Hong Kong, and also pushed for the establishment of the Hong Kong Film, TV and Radio Celebrities Sports Association Charity Fund, with elderly people as the main people served.

Took many apprentices in the music scene, including Grasshopper, Andy Hui, Denise Ho, 譚耀文 and 彭敬慈, called "梅家班"; later juniors such as William So, Edmond Leung, Eason Chan and Hacken Lee were also given a hand. In 1996 returned as a judge of the New Talent Singing Awards and thereby met that edition's champion Denise Ho, who became the only female apprentice.

Wikipedia records that Anita Mui's family had a history of cancer (third sister 梅愛芳 died of cervical cancer in 2000, second brother 梅德明 died of laryngeal cancer in 2015, and eldest brother 梅啟明 had colorectal cancer in 2016), and the same article also records that Anita Mui had already been diagnosed with cervical cancer more than two years before death, at that time stage 0; citing a hope to have children and a heavy workload, Anita Mui refused medical treatment to remove the uterus, after which the illness worsened, and only sought care reluctantly when the pain became unbearable. Anita Mui died at Hong Kong Sanatorium & Hospital on December 30, 2003, aged 40. TVBS quoted the attending doctor as saying Anita Mui had already known of the illness two years earlier. The doctor also said the last eight concerts in life were sustained by will.

After death, at the first anniversary in 2004, the "四海一心" charity fund donated proceeds raised by the "十面埋伏" production and the anniversary charity banquet to the University of Hong Kong. In 2005 Eason Chan's album "U87" included "夕陽無限好", written by 林夕 on the subject of "夕陽之歌", as a memorial for the second anniversary of death. At the tenth-anniversary memorial concert "梅艷芳·10·思念·音樂·會" on December 30, 2013, after expenses the remaining proceeds were about 360,000; Jacky Cheung and 曾志偉 privately donated further to make up 500,000 (currency not stated in the source), all given to the Children's Cancer Foundation. On July 18, 2014, the bronze statue "香港女兒－梅艷芳", planned by the fan group "芳心薈" and sculpted by sculptor 曹崇恩, was erected on the Avenue of Stars, with words inscribed by Andy Lau on the base. Hong Kong director 高志森, invited by the fan group "芳心薈", directed the fifteenth-anniversary memorial film "拾芳", and with that film received Best Director of the Year at the 14th Chinese American Film Festival. At the twentieth anniversary on December 24, 2023, the Hong Kong Heritage Museum held the exhibition "絕代芳華・梅艷芳", showing seventy groups of exhibits. The fan club also, in 2011 and 2012, successively raised funds to build Anita Mui's second and third primary schools in Guangxi and Gansu, and there is also Anita Mui's first primary school in Guizhou, funds for which were raised in 2008.