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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 ]
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 .
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]
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]
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.
Princess Chang Ping (Chinese: 帝女花; pinyin: Dì nǚ huā; lit. 'The Flower Princess') is a 1976 Hong Kong Cantonese opera film [1] directed John Woo.It is a remake of director Wong Tin-lam's 1959 film Tragedy of the Emperor's Daughter, itself based on the Cantonese opera Di Nü Hua (The Flower Princess).
Danny Chan Pak-Keung (Chinese: 陳百強; 7 September 1958 – 25 October 1993) was a Hong Kong singer, songwriter and actor.One of the first Cantopop idols in Hong Kong, he gained fame alongside performers Alan Tam, Anita Mui, and Leslie Cheung, who were collectively known as "Three Kings and a Queen" (三王一后) or "Tam Cheung Mui Chan" (譚張梅陳) in the 1980s. [2]
Look for a Star was distributed by Media Asia Entertainment Group in Hong Kong and produced by Media Asia, Chinese film studio Huayi Brothers, and Andrew Lau's production company, Basic Pictures. Shot under a budget of HK$ 45 million, [ 1 ] the film is reportedly based on the relationship between casino tycoon Stanley Ho and his fourth wife ...