The album is recorded in China with Asian musicians and adding the guzheng on several tracks. In 2013, she launched her first English album Somewhere I belong, an East-meets-West reinterpretation of jazz classics. KAREN MOK (2007) and HALF TIME (2018) containing numerous number 1 hits such as Ta Bu Ai Wo, 他不愛我, He does not love me, Yin Tian, 陰天, Overcast and Man Man Xihuan Ni, 慢慢喜歡你, Growing fond of you. To date, she has released 17 studio albums, the most successful ones being 做自己 To Be (1997), 全身莫文蔚 Karen Mok in Totality (1995), (2004), Without you (2006), 拉活.莫文蔚 L!VE is. She achieved her musical breakthrough with the launch of her first Mandarin album To Be in 1997.
She decided to put her theatre aspirations on hold, headed back to Hong Kong and released in 1993 her first Cantonese album Karen. At the same time, she recorded music demo tapes together with fellow students which landed her first recording contract with Star Records. While studying in London, Mok auditioned for the West End Musical Miss Saigon. She subsequently studied Italian Literature at Royal Holloway, University of London. In 1987 she won a scholarship for the United World College of the Adriatic in Duino ( Trieste, Italy) from which she graduated in 1989 with the International Baccalaureate. When she was a F.4 student, she received the 1st Hong Kong Outstanding Students Awards. Mok attended Diocesan Girls' School from primary to secondary grade in Hong Kong. She speaks English, Cantonese, Mandarin, Italian, German and French. Her grandfather was Alfred Morris, the first principal of King's College, Hong Kong. She is of mixed ancestry: her mother is half Chinese, quarter German and quarter Persian, while her father is half Welsh and half Chinese. Karen Mok was born on 2 June 1970 as Karen Joy Morris in Hong Kong.