Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
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.
The Radio Television Hong Kong (RTHK) Top Ten Chinese Gold Songs Awards, which is one of the major music awards in Hong Kong since 1979, can reflect the great reliance on Japanese melodies in Cantopop. During the 1980s, 139 out of 477 songs from weekly gold songs chart were cover versions, and 52% of the cover versions were covers of Japanese ...
Orchestra in black bloc playing the march Glory to Hong Kong [ 21] The word "glory" ( 榮光) in the song title consists of the Chinese characters for honour ( 榮; wing4) and brilliance ( 光; gwong1 ). [ 22] The term has been used in poems by Li Bai and a prose by Lu Xun, in addition to being a common term used by Christians.
Grasshopper is a Hong Kong Cantopop male group formed in 1985. [1] The band consists of Edmond Chi-Wai So (Chinese: 蘇志威 ), Calvin Yat-Chi Choy (Chinese: 蔡一智 ) and Remus Yat-Kit Choy (Chinese: 蔡一傑 ).
Kay Tse On-kay ( Chinese: 謝安琪; born 13 March 1977) is a Hong Kong Cantopop singer. She is a prominent figure in Hong Kong music and popular culture and was once frequently referred to in the media as a "grass-roots diva" [1] and "goddess". [2] She is known for songs which deal with social issues and the struggle for democracy in Hong Kong.
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 Dennis Mak in 2005. In 2006, William Chan joined the group, forming the trio Sun Boy'z. The trio disbanded in 2008, but Kwan and Cheung came back together as a duo in 2010.
Wai6 Laan4. Vidal in 2007. Janice M. Vidal (born 13 April 1982) is a Hong Kong Cantopop singer and actress. Vidal was first discovered by music producer Mark Lui and initially began her career as a back-up singer for Leon Lai. She debuted as a solo artist in 2004 under Lai's label, Amusic, where she remained until signing with Warner Music in 2015.
HONG KONG — Mirror, the most popular boy band in Hong Kong, is hoping to expand its global reach and promote Cantopop in the process with the release on Friday of its first English-language song ...