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Western-influenced music first came to China in the 1920s, specifically through Shanghai. [7] Artists like Zhou Xuan (周璇) acted in films and recorded popular songs.. When the People's Republic of China was established by the Chinese Communist Party in 1949, one of the first actions taken by the government was to denounce pop music (specifically Western pop) as decadent music. [7]
"Tomorrow Will Be Better" (Chinese: 明天會更好; pinyin: Míngtiān huì Gènghǎo) is a Taiwanese Mandopop charity record written by Lo Ta-yu and sung by over 60 artists. It was recorded on 15 September 1985 and released on 25 October 1985 in order to raise money for World Vision International to help with aid to Africa.
In 1995, a tribute album, A Tribute to Teresa Teng, was released, which contained covers of Teng's songs by prominent Chinese rock bands. [71] In May 2002, a wax figure of Teng was unveiled at Madame Tussauds Hong Kong. A house she bought in 1986 in Hong Kong at number 18 Carmel Street, Stanley also became a popular fan site soon after her death.
[4] [6] [3] [7] She was multilingual, recording tracks in Mandarin, English, Taiwanese, and Cantonese, and Japanese. Chen contributed to theme songs for various movies and TV series, including the award-winning "Red Dust" (滾滾紅塵; 27th Golden Horse Award) and "Samsui Women" (紅頭巾; 2007 Singapore Television Top 5 Original Theme Songs ...
G.E.M.'s "Light Years Away", the Chinese theme song for the sci-fi film Passengers, [66] is the most-viewed Chinese music video on YouTube at 291 million as of February 2025. [67] While Xue's Extraterrestrial World Tour is one of the most attended concert tours of all-time and ranks first among C-pop artists with more than 4.9 million tickets ...
No One Knows is an extended play (EP) by Hong Kong actress and singer Stephy Tang (鄧麗欣, 邓丽欣), released on July 16, 2010 by Gold Typhoon. [1] The title song was released as the first single and MV; it is the first of four tracks and was written by Roxanne Seeman, Kine Ludvigsen-Fossheim, and Olav Fossheim, with Cantonese lyrics by Yan Kin Keung.
Tarcy Su (Chinese: 蘇慧倫; pinyin: Sū Huìlún; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: So͘ Hūi-lûn; born 27 October 1970) is a Taiwanese singer and actress who was most popular in the 1990s during her recording career with Rock Records. [2] She has released three albums since 2002.
"Below the Lion Rock" (Chinese: 獅子山下) is a Cantopop song by Hong Kong singer Roman Tam. It was composed and arranged by Joseph Koo, with lyrics written by James Wong. It was written and used as the theme song of RTHK's TV show of the same name in 1979. In the 1970s, Cantonese pop songs were starting to gain traction.