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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 ...
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. [1] [2] In 2013, the 'Hong Kong Our Home' (Chinese: 家是香港) campaign, ran by the Hong Kong government to boost community cohesion, used lyrics from this song. In the same year, the Wikimania ...
In the 1950s, popular music of Hong Kong was largely dominated by pop songs in the English language until the Cantopop's emergence in the mid-1970s. Many well-known Cantopop singers of today, like Sam Hui and Alan Tam , began their early careers singing in English.
Anita Mui Yim-fong (Chinese: 梅艷芳; 10 October 1963 – 30 December 2003) was a Hong Kong singer and actress who made major contributions to the Cantopop music scene and received numerous awards and honours.
Everyone Bounce is the fifth greatest hits album by Hong Kong cantopop girl duo Twins. It consists of 32 songs on two CDs. The first CD has 16 tracks including the new song, "Everyone Bounces Up". The second disc contains the new song "Growth". It was released in March 2010 along with Gillian's debut EP Gillian.
Shirley Kwan or Kwan Suk Yee (Chinese: 關淑怡, born 15 August 1966) is an influential former Cantopop singer from Hong Kong. Kwan first shot to fame in 1989 with the hit "Happy Are Those in Love" (難得有情人) and was widely popular throughout the early to mid-1990s.
HONG KONG — Mirror, the most popular boy band in Hong Kong, is hoping to expand its global reach and promote Cantopop in the process with the release on Friday of its first English-language song ...
He played a major role in developing the Cantopop scene in the 1980s as he was known for singing romantic ballads with modern arrangements. From 1983 to 1987, Alan Tam received numerous music awards and won Most Popular Male Artist and IFPI Award for successive four years, which made him the most famous superstar singer of Hong Kong in 1980s.