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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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This is the discography of Cantopop artist William So....
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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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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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Twins' Love is an EP by the Cantopop group Twins, released on November 22, 2001. Computer Data Not Playable Computer Data Not Playable "Oi Ching Dong Yap...
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This is the discography of Cantopop artist Leo Ku. August 2004: Music is Live (拉闊音樂會) (VCD/DVD) June 2005: Leo Ku in Concert 2005 (05 勁歌金曲演唱會) (VCD) July...
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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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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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Doyers Street tunnels in Manhattan’s Chinatown. The series features several Cantopop songs, including Lazy Mutha Fucka's "Hum Ga Ling", Sam Hui's "Lullaby"...
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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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Twins (group) (category Cantopop musical groups)
debut Mandarin album Trainee Cupid. In June 2005, one year after the last Cantopop album, Twins released their sixth studio album Samba with the singles "Samba...
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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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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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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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