"Nowadays you make an album like a business card," she says.
"You just give it away to let people know about it."
When she is not on tour, Fygi lives in a quiet village surrounded by woods some 40 minutes by road from Amsterdam, where she tends her huge garden, and makes sure her three children are well taken care of.
Earlier this year, the Chinese teacher of her eldest son helped to translate her official website into Chinese. She is also working with Universal Music China to launch her own Weibo and Youku accounts.
Her social network is managed by a professional team, but when people post comments and ask questions, "I answer them," she says. "I keep in touch with my fans."
Fygi was born to a Dutch businessman and an Egyptian dancer.
She never studied music and has learned everything she knows by herself.
Her career started in the early 1980s, when she was in a girl's band called Centerfold. Since then she has won numerous gold and platinum discs and awards.
In 2009, she played the lead role in the musical Victor/Victoria in Singapore.
JZ Music held its first jazz festival in Shanghai 12 years ago.
In the past few years the company has expanded the JZ festival to Beijing, Guangzhou, Chongqing, Dalian, Xiamen and Xi'an.
It also runs the JZ Club, a live house dedicated to jazz, in Shanghai, Hangzhou, Wuhan and Guangzhou.
