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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]
During the late 1960s and 1970s, Mandarin pop songs were getting more and more popular and became the mainstream of Hong Kong pop. [6] In the 1970s, Hong Kong audiences wanted popular music in their own dialect, Cantonese. Also, a Cantonese song Tai siu yan yun (啼笑姻緣) became the first theme song of a TV drama.
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]
"Below the Lion Rock" (Chinese: 獅子山下) is a Cantopop song by Hong Kong singer Roman Tam. It was composed and arranged by Joseph Koo, with lyrics written by James Wong. It was written and used as the theme song of RTHK's TV show of the same name in 1979. In the 1970s, Cantonese pop songs were starting to gain traction.
The discography of Chinese and Hong Kong singer-songwriter G.E.M. (simplified Chinese: 邓紫棋; traditional Chinese: 鄧紫棋) consists of six studio albums, two live albums, one compilation album, five extended play, and twenty-six singles.
So's First Exciting Live (SO精彩第一次LIVE) Cantonese, Mandarin: Go East: 1999 William So's Concert (越唱越開心演唱會) April 1, 1999 Cantonese: Go East: 2002 William So Live In Concert (蘇永康定情歌演唱會) August 1, 2002 Cantonese: Go East: 2003 Andy Hui & William So Live With The Hong Kong Sinfonietta (安康演唱會 ...
Carpio was born in St. Teresa's Hospital in Ma Tau Wai, [4] to a Filipino father and a Shanghainese mother. [5] Born into a musical family (her grandfather was a concert violinist and jazz guitarist, her father Fernando, a jazz drummer, and several uncles were also professional musicians), she began singing at age 6 when she entered and won Hong Kong's first Amateur Talent Quest.
Two years later, Teng's albums Teresa Teng's Greatest Hits and Love Songs of the Island 3 won her second Golden Album Award. Teng released her first Cantonese album, Irreconcilable (勢不兩立) in 1980, which became the best-seller of the year; its single, "Forget Him", became one of the most famous Cantonese pop songs at that time. [24]