actor Zhang Guoli, and performed at the Miss Asia Pageant show in Hong Kong in 1992,also becoming the lead singer in the first concert tour in American major cities arranged by the China Central Song and Dance Group. 1993–2000: Carnegie Hall and International Recognition In 1993, Wei was the lead singer at the 1993 East Asian Games opening and closing ceremonies together with Spanish singer Julio Iglesias. She then performed her single Asian Mighty Winds again at the 1994 Asian Games opening show in Hiroshima, Japan, and the lyrics of her songs became the subject of academic discourse and analysis in Japan. Later that year, she represented the People's Republic of China visited Monaco to campaign for the Beijing Summer Olympic Games, and a year after, in 1994, she was named Star of the Night after her performance of her hit single Dedication of Love at the CCTV New Year's Gala in Carnegie Hall, New York. In the same year, the song Wind Coming From the East became a hit at a show in Shanghai Oriental TV, and subsequently became the TV station's theme song. Her first English album was released, titled The Twilight. In the year after her performance at Carnegie Hall, she started her concert tour "Wei Wei and the World", which included visits and performances in the major cities in Mainland China, including Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, and Kunming. She represented Asia and performed in front of 60,000 people at the centennial anniversary of the Olympic Games in Atlanta in 1996, and was portrayed in a CNN fifteen-minute special as the only Asian representative for the Olympic anniversary show. In 1999, Wei's compilation album Wei Wei's Devotion was the most popular pop music album in China, and she held a concert at Caesar's Palace in Paris, France to further promote the album. In 2000, she joined the Chinese Olympic Committee and represented the People's Republic of China in campaigning for the Beijing 2008 Summer Olympics, and performing with the Sydney Opera and Shanghai Opera. Her rendition of The Same Song won her a Golden Phoenix Prize at the 6th China Music Television Competition. 2000–2013: Go, Girl Go! and The 2008 Beijing Olympics In 2003, Wei was invited as a special guest at galas arranged in Beijing in the honor of healthcare staff after the SARS epidemic, and initiated an international management company, Wei Wei International Management, in Stockholm