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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 ...
Joseph Koo Kar-Fai MBE GBS ( Chinese: 顧嘉煇; 25 February 1931 [ 1] – 3 January 2023) was a Hong Kong composer. He used the pen name Moran (莫然) for Mandarin songs early in his career. [ 2] According to the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts, Koo was one of the most respected composers in Hong Kong. [ 3]
Wong Ka Kui ( Chinese: 黃家駒; Jyutping: Wong4 Gaa1-keoi1; 10 June 1962 – 30 June 1993) was a Hong Kong musician, singer and songwriter and the leader and co-founder of the rock band Beyond, where he was the lead vocalist, rhythm guitarist and primary songwriter. His younger brother Wong Ka Keung was the band's bass guitarist.
In December last year, John Lee said it was Google’s ‘moral obligation’ to remove ‘Glory to Hong Kong’ from searches Hong Kong demands probe as protest song again replaces Chinese ...
1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre Part of the Cold War, the Revolutions of 1989 and the Chinese democracy movement Protesters in Tiananmen Square on 2 June (top), and tanks in Beijing in July (bottom) Date Initial protests: 15 April – 4 June 1989 (1 month, 2 weeks and 6 days) Massacre: 3–4 June 1989 (1 day); 35 years ago Location Beijing, China and 400 cities nationwide Tiananmen ...
v. t. e. Hong Kong English pop ( Chinese: 英文歌) is a genre of music consisting of English-language songs that are made, performed and popularised in Hong Kong. It is known as simply English pop by Hong Kongers. The height of the English pop era in Hong Kong was from the 1950s to mid- 1970s. [1]
[1] [2] Beginning in 1978, it is the oldest major award in Hong Kong, even earlier than the Jade Solid Gold Awards. The ceremony is usually held in January following the end of the previous music season. It usually takes place at the Hong Kong Coliseum, sometimes at the Sha Tin Racecourse.
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.