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Western-influenced music first came to China in the 1920s, specifically through Shanghai. [7] Artists like Zhou Xuan (周璇) acted in films and recorded popular songs.. When the People's Republic of China was established by the Chinese Communist Party in 1949, one of the first actions taken by the government was to denounce pop music (specifically Western pop) as decadent music. [7]
The album was also instrumental in helping Cheung break into the mandopop market. Due to these great songs and albums, Cheung is generally considered to be the pre-eminent member of the Four Heavenly Kings of Cantopop. He is regarded by some sources as the best singer of the four. [24]
Leon Lai Ming SBS BBS MH (Chinese: 黎明; born 11 December 1966), is a Hong Kong actor, singer, film director, and businessman.He is one of the "Four Heavenly Kings" of Hong Kong pop music.
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.
Aaron Kwok Fu-shing (born 26 October 1965) is a Hong Kong singer, dancer, actor and racing driver, known as one of the "Four Heavenly Kings" and the "God of Dance". [1] Active since the 1980s, he has released over 30 studio albums in Cantonese and Mandarin, mostly in the dance-pop genre, with elements of rock , R&B , soul , electronica and ...
Andy Lau Tak-wah SBS BBS MH JP [3] (Chinese: 劉德華; Jyutping: Lau4 Dak1 Waa4; born Lau Fook-wing; 27 September 1961) is a Hong Kong actor, singer-songwriter and film producer. He was named the "Fourth Tiger" among the Five Tiger Generals of TVB in the 1980s as well as one of the Four Heavenly Kings in the 1990s. [4]
This is the discography of Taiwanese recording artist Show Lo (Chinese: 羅志祥). From 1996 to 1998, he was part of a quartet boy band Four Heavenly Kings (四大天王), releasing five albums. Then in 1998, after two members left, he formed a duo Romeo (羅密歐), with Ou Han Sheng (歐漢聲); the other member of Four Heavenly Kings ...
Mandopop or Mandapop refers to Mandarin popular music.The genre has its origin in the jazz-influenced popular music of 1930s Shanghai known as Shidaiqu; later influences came from Japanese enka, Hong Kong's Cantopop, Taiwan's Hokkien pop, and in particular the campus folk song folk movement of the 1970s. [1] "