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Cantopop (a contraction of " Cantonese pop music") is a genre of pop music sung in Cantonese. [1] Cantopop is also used to refer to the cultural context of its production and consumption. [2] The genre began in the 1970s and became associated with Hong Kong popular music from the middle of the decade. [1]
Samuel Hui Koon-kit [1] [2] (born 6 September 1948), [1] usually known as Sam Hui, [1] [3] is a Hong Kong musician, singer, songwriter and actor. He is credited with popularising Cantopop both via the infusion of Western-style music and his usage of vernacular Cantonese rather than written vernacular Chinese in biting lyrics that addressed contemporary problems and concerns. [4]
Sharon Lee (singer) Isabella Leong. Cathy Leung. Toby Leung. Tony Leung Chiu-wai. Shiga Lin. Anson Lo. Mimi Lo. Ellen Joyce Loo.
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. She remained an idol throughout her career, and is regarded as a Cantopop diva. She was dubbed as the "daughter of Hong Kong" and is ...
Mirror (styled as MIRROR) is a Hong Kong Cantopop boy group formed through ViuTV's reality talent show Good Night Show - King Maker in 2018. The group consists of twelve members: Frankie Chan, Alton Wong, Lokman Yeung, Stanley Yau, Anson Kong, Jer Lau, Ian Chan, Anson Lo, Jeremy Lee, Edan Lui, Keung To, and Tiger Yau. [1]
This is a list of C-pop artists and groups. C-pop, which encompasses mainly Mandopop and Cantopop (and to some extent Hokkien pop and pop music of other Chinese dialects), represents the main pop music in the People's Republic of China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macau, Malaysia and Singapore, as well as Chinese-speaking communities in the rest of the world.
Hong Kong. Musical artist. Rita Maria Carpio (Chinese: 韋綺姍; born June 17, 1965) is a Hong Kong pop singer of Filipino-Macanese ethnicity. Active since the 1980s, she is most well known for the 1990 Cantopop classic "You Needn’t Be Acquaintances to Meet with Each Other" (相逢何必曾相識), a duet which she sang with Ram Chiang.
Beyond was a Hong Kong rock band formed in 1983. The band became prominent in Hong Kong, Taiwan, Japan, Singapore, Malaysia, Mainland China, and Overseas Chinese communities. [1] The band is widely considered as the most successful and influential Cantopop band from Hong Kong. [1] In 1993, leader Wong Ka Kui, died at the age of 31 after an ...