• 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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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 '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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    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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  • 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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  • known as Shidaiqu; later influences came from Japanese enka, Hong Kong's Cantopop, Taiwan's Hokkien pop, and in particular the Campus Song folk movement...
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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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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  • Frances Yip Lai-yee (born 1 January 1947) is a Hong Kong English pop and Cantopop singer. She is best known for performing many of the theme songs for television...
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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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  • 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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    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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  • 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...
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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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  • 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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  • This is the discography of Cantopop artist William So....
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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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    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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    music career at the age of 14 when she started writing songs for major Cantopop stars. She debuted as a Indie singer-songwriter in 2015 with her first...
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    Ka-yan Born (1990-08-13) 13 August 1990 (age 33) British Hong Kong Genres Cantopop alternative pop R&B Occupation(s) Singer-songwriter Instrument(s) Vocal...
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  • Latin Tropipop Mexican Nueva ola Asia Arabic Assyrian Azerbaijani Chinese Cantopop Hakka Hokkien Mandopop French Xinyao Zhongguo feng Chinoiserie Hong Kong...
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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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    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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