• Cantopop (a contraction of "Cantonese pop music") is a genre of pop music written in standard Chinese and sung in Cantonese. Cantopop is also used to...
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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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    Andy Lau (category Cantopop singers)
    Generals of TVB in the 1980s as well as one of the Four Heavenly Kings of Cantopop in the 1990s. By 2024, Lau has shot over 200 films and released over 100...
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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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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    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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  • 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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    Killer" (天后杀手) for having beaten Faye Wong and the 'Four Heavenly Kings of Cantopop' in sales charts. The album sold 600,000 copies in Taiwan alone. Her next...
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  • Yukki Tai in lead roles. The film is the first motion picture to be about Cantopop lyric writing, with Chung taking on the lead and titular role as a student...
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  • undesired effect in another circuit or channel Lolly Talk, a Hong Kong Cantopop girl group Talking Head (disambiguation) Compulsive talking, beyond 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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    Jacky Cheung (category Cantopop singers)
    for his vocal delivery, Cheung is widely regarded as a Heavenly King of Cantopop music, and an icon of Hong Kong popular culture. Cheung was born and grew...
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  • (Xinhui, Guangdong) – is a Cantopop singer and actress from Hong Kong Andy Lau (Xinhui, Guangdong) – is a Hong Kong Cantopop singer, film actor and producer;...
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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. Cinema was...
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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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    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-ever...
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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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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    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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    Sandy Lam (category Cantopop singers)
    singer, actress and album producer. She rose to fame in the 1980s as a Cantopop diva, before expanding her fan base significantly in Asia, releasing more...
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