Legendary Cantopop singer Frances Yip Lai-yee has come full circle, returning to her roots in Hong Kong to celebrate the city’s rich musical heritage. But while her 55-year career has been illustrious ...
Faced with following up 2019’s inaugural Freespace Jazz Fest, but finding engaging programming difficult with international travel amid pandemic uncertainty, in-house curator Kung Chi-shing conceived ...
Adrian Lee is an editor in The Globe and Mail’s opinion section and the host of The Globe’s future of cities podcast, City Space. For a surprising number of Hong Kongers of a certain age, April 1, ...
Constance Chan, the daughter of Hong Kong Cantopop star Eason Chan, has fueled dating speculation after publicly celebrating ...
Jolland Chan is one of the most prolific songwriters in the history of Cantonese pop music, with over 1,000 titles to his name, including two of the most popular karaoke songs of 2018, "Can Never Say… ...
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. The ...
In Hong Kong in 2014 the song Raise Your Umbrella by Denise Ho and Anthong Wong became an anthem for the pro-democracy movement known as the Umbrella Revolution. The song was written after police ...
Hong Kong's Cantopop has been given a new boost of creativity by singers who aren't afraid to get political Like many Hong Kongers I grew up singing along to syrupy Cantopop ballads, both loving and ...
Life in Hong Kong has been reshaped as Beijing has increasingly tightened its grip over almost every aspect of life in the city. But Cantopop remains a venue for those in the city to seek solace and ...