She used to be known as a girl-next-door type, but that all changed a few months ago when Canto-pop star Gigi Leung Wing-kei appeared on stage in Shanghai wearing sexy outfits and performing some decidedly erotic dance moves.
Her fans were surprised and many eyebrows were raised, and now it's time for local audiences to be introduced to Leung's new look at a charity show at AsiaWorld-Arena tomorrow night.
The show will be Leung's first large-scale performance in Hong Kong since Tall Girl Gigi Leung Funny Face Live held in 2003 and is a follow-up to her Shanghai tour staged in August.
Unlike the mainland show, more Cantonese numbers will be added to tomorrow's concert and she has also invited Vanness Wu from Taiwanese boy band F4 to perform some passionate choreography.
'To amplify your charm on such a huge stage, sexy dances and costumes are inevitable,' says Leung, 31.
'Also when people come to your concert, they expect to see something they can't get from listening to your records. There are lots of possibilities on stage - I don't mind exploring these.'
Starting out as a model, Leung entered show business at the age of 19 in Lee Chi-ngai's Doctor Mack, co-starring with Tony Leung Chiu-wai. She later became widely known for her part as the pathetic girlfriend of Andy Lau Tak-wah in Derek Yee Tung-sing's film, Full Throttle, for which she was nominated best new performer at the Hong Kong Film Awards in 1996.