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[9] [10] The song was said to harmoniously merge R&B with a rich commercial appeal, conveying the message of unwavering love in the face of opposition. [11] The song peaked at number two digitally on the Hong Kong Songs chart, [12] and its music video ranked ninth among the Top Ten YouTube videos of the year. [13]
The song is an anthem of Cantonese rock music and one of Beyond's signature songs. [9] It has been adopted for several events in Cantonese-speaking regions, such as the Artistes 512 Fund Raising Campaign for the 2008 Sichuan earthquake , and most prominently as the unofficial anthem of the 2014 Hong Kong protests .
In the 1970s, Cantonese pop songs were starting to gain traction. Different from other Cantonese songs, "Below the Lion Rock" was not meant to be satirizing the society that time. During the 2003 SARS outbreak , the song was often broadcast by the media in Hong Kong, and became regarded as an unofficial anthem of Hong Kong .
Yat sang ho kau (Chinese: 一生何求; Jyutping: Jat1 sang1 ho4 kau4; pinyin: Yīshēng hé qiú) is a Cantonese-language Hong Kong album by Danny Chan, released by Warner Music (WEA) in June 1989. The title track became one of the top ten songs in the 1989 RTHK Top 10 Gold Songs Awards . [ 1 ]
The Radio Television Hong Kong (RTHK) Top Ten Chinese Gold Songs Awards, which is one of the major music awards in Hong Kong since 1979, can reflect the great reliance on Japanese melodies in Cantopop. During the 1980s, 139 out of 477 songs from weekly gold songs chart were cover versions, and 52% of the cover versions were covers of Japanese ...
Private Corner is a studio album by Hong Kong singer Jacky Cheung, known as God of Songs and one of the Four Heavenly Kings. [1] It is the first jazz album of Cantopop, [2] a concept album recorded in the style of "Canto-jazz", coined by Cheung to describe the new musical sound of the songs. There are nine Cantonese-language songs and one ...
Photograph of Kelly Chen. Hong Kong singer Kelly Chen has released four Hong Kong Cantonese and five Taiwanese Mandarin video albums and three Taiwanese Mandarin video singles and been featured in over one hundred music videos, twenty-six films, six TV series, three musical special features, and over two hundred commercials.
The Music of Hong Kong is an eclectic mixture of traditional and popular genres. Cantopop is one of the more prominent genres of music produced in Hong Kong. The Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra and the Hong Kong Sinfonietta regularly perform western classical music in the city. There is also a long tradition of Cantonese opera within Hong Kong.