Cantopop (a contraction of "Cantonese pop music") is a genre of pop music sung in Cantonese. Cantopop is also used to refer to the cultural context of...
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Music of Hong Kong (redirect from Hong Kong Cantopop)
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...
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singer Jin, Chinese American rapper Aaron Kwok, Cantopop singer Leon Lai, Cantopop singer George Lam, Cantopop singer, singer–songwriter, music producer, and...
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Leslie '89 is a cantopop album by Leslie Cheung released in 1989 by Cinepoly Records of Hong Kong. It was also his supposed penultimate album before the...
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currently three main subgenres within C-pop: Cantopop, Mandopop and Hokkien pop. The gap between Cantopop and Mandopop has been narrowing in the new millennium...
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Leslie Cheung (category Cantopop singers)
single "Monica." Cheung is regarded as one of the founding fathers of Cantopop for defining the music genre in the 1980s. He announced his "retirement"...
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Sam Hui (category Cantopop singers)
musician, singer, songwriter and actor. He is credited with popularising Cantopop both via the infusion of Western-style music and his usage of vernacular...
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Honorific nicknames in popular music (redirect from King of Cantopop)
the first flowering of modern dance music. Yvonne Teh. "the godfather of cantopop". bc magazine. Archived from the original on April 15, 2010. Retrieved...
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Andy Lau (category Cantopop singers)
entered into the Guinness World Records for the "Most Awards Won by a Cantopop Male Artist" in 2000, with a total of 444 music awards by 2006. Forbes...
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Sally Yeh (category Cantopop singers)
1961), sometimes credited as Sally Yip or Yip Sin-man, is a Hong Kong Cantopop diva and actress. Born in Taipei, Taiwan, Yeh immigrated to Canada at the...
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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...
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servant Leslie Cheung – Cantopop singer and actor, considered as one of the founding fathers of Cantopop Kelly Chen – Cantopop singer and actress Charlene...
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Charlene Choi (category Cantopop singers)
22 November 1982) is a Hong Kong actress and singer. She is a member of Cantopop group Twins, along with Gillian Chung. Choi was born in Vancouver, British...
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This is the discography of Cantopop artist William So....
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Sandy Lam (category Cantopop singers)
City Rhythm was the first successful execution of a concept record in Cantopop. Lyrically daring, the series was profoundly feminist; representing the...
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Boy'z (category Cantopop musical groups)
Boy'z is a Hong Kong Cantopop duo produced by EEG consisting of members Kenny Kwan and Steven Cheung. Kwan left the group in 2005, and was replaced with...
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Chung Yan-tung, is a Hong Kong actress and singer. She is a member of the Cantopop duo Twins, along with Charlene Choi. Chung was born in Hong Kong as Chung...
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Beijing and Cantonese opera. Chinese pop (C-Pop) includes mandopop and cantopop. Chinese hip hop and Hong Kong hip hop have become popular. Hanfu is the...
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The number of films produced annually has declined to about 60 in 2017. Cantopop is a genre of Cantonese popular music which emerged in Hong Kong during...
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James Wong Jim (category Cantopop artists)
March 1941 – 24 November 2004, also known as "霑叔" or "Uncle Jim") was a Cantopop lyricist and songwriter based primarily in Hong Kong. Beginning from the...
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covered by Cantopop artist Jacky Cheung under the name "愛下去" ("May love continue"). Another song "Miss You Finally" was covered by Cantopop artist Eason...
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Along with Mandarin and Hokkien, Cantonese has its own popular music, Cantopop, which is the predominant genre in Hong Kong. Many artists from the mainland...
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My Pride (Chinese: 我的驕傲) is an album recorded by Cantopop singer Joey Yung, released in 2003. "My Pride" was Yung's fifth studio recorded album and garnered...
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and actor. In the 1970s and 1980s, he co-wrote many lyrics of the first Cantopop songs with Sam Hui. He also wrote songs for Anita Mui, Leslie Cheung and...
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Jacky Cheung (category Cantopop singers)
Kong singer and actor. Cheung is widely regarded as a Heavenly King of Cantopop music and an icon of Hong Kong popular culture. He is often dubbed as the...
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China. The number of films produced annually declined to about 60 in 2017. Cantopop was a genre of Cantonese popular music which emerged in Hong Kong during...
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bandits". San Francisco Bay Guardian. Retrieved May 17, 2008. "The great Cantopop swindle". The Standard. May 22, 2006. Archived from the original on March...
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of the classic by Teresa Teng, and one of the very few "contemporary" Cantopop songs ever used by Wong Kar-wai in his films. In the film, the song is...
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Richard Lam (category Cantopop artists)
Chun-keung (21 January 1948 – 16 November 2003) was a Cantopop lyricist with several hundred Cantopop songs to his name, and a columnist for Apple Daily...
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