Going into the 90's, Dominic fell in love with pretty Crystal Leung (梁晶瑩) who competed for Miss HK in 1990. Here's an absolutely beautiful song sung by Sally Yeh, called "Passing Times" (流金歲月), with lyrics by Poon Wai Yuen (潘偉源): "Eternity" (天長地久) sung by himself, Music & Arrangement by Dominic Chow, Lyrics by Jolland Chan, Year: 1989 "Hot Babe from Asakusa" (淺草妖姬) sung by himself, Music & Arrangement by Dominic Chow, Lyrics by Richard Lam, Year: 1989 Being a big fan of Chick Corea, some of this music carry underlying influences of him. This song was illegally appropriated by his close friend 陳斐立, who bore all the credits for the work, including the "best melody" award presented in the same year.Īfterwards he decided to step away from traditional Chinese style writing, coming up with more modern, jazzy, electronic, fusionistic sounds. Then in 1984, Dominic composed one of the best everlasting classics for Alan Tam, "Origins Of Love" (愛的根源). "Helpless" (無奈) sung by Paula Tsui (徐小鳳), Music by Ogawa Ron, Arrangement by Dominic Chow, Lyrics by Cheng Kwok Kong, Year: 1982 "Why Must We Know Before?" (何必曾相識) sung by Ken Choi (蔡楓華), Music & Arrangement by Dominic Chow, Lyrics by Cheng Kwok Kong, Year: 1983 "Emotion's End" (感情的段落) sung by Samantha Lam (林志美), Music & Arrangement by Dominic Chow, Lyrics by Cheng Kwok Kong, Year: 1982
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Dominic emerged in the early 80's with a series of melodic, flowing Chinese style songs, which pushed him into fame almost instantly. In his early days, he studied composition with HK's godfather of Canto-pop Joseph Koo (顧嘉煇), whilst receiving a well-rounded music education including classical, jazz, rock, and pop. This is Dominic Chow, another super talented composer/pianist/singer/arranger/conductor from the 80's who wrote and arranged more than 300 songs. When you hear this guy's music, you clap your hands hard. If we're talking about quantity over quality on my iTunes, then I have more Mandopop songs.When you see this guy play the piano, you stare in amazement. The thing is, young people tend to enjoy Mandopop because it's trendier, older people enjoy Cantopop more because of its popularity in the early 80s and 90s.Īnyways, getting back to topic (lol), I'm about 50/50 in both languages. This explains why many Cantopop singers have WORLD tours. If it's small, would we have a thread comparing the two languages here in soompi? XD Believe orit not, Cantopop has quite a lot of fans in overseas markets, especially in Canada and USA. The fact that Mandarin is the second largest native-speaking language in the world also contributes to the popularity of Mandopop.Īctually, I don't think the Cantopop market is small. I listen to a bunch of Asian music in general, and old-school Cantopop still gets me. I love listening to Cantopop, still do, especially old-school Cantopop. she was extremely popular all over Asia). Most of the classic, renowned, and EXTREMELY popular singers back in the day had sung in Cantonese at some point in their career (such as Teresa Teng. Geeze.Ĭantopop was probably the largest music industry in terms of Chinese music back in the early 1980s. It's their fault that most of the songs playing are ballads. I dont know if the HK music industry is just scared of doing something different because the market is small, but I really hope for improvements in it.īut I think that the HK ppl need to start accepting other varieties of music. who each cover different kinds of genres and not just mostly on one particular one like in HK. You got people like Xiao Yu, Mayday, Wang Lee Hom, Gary Cao, MC HOT DOG, FIR, Jam Hsiao,JJ Lin etc. With the Taiwanese music industry, theres a lot of diversity in music genres. But I can say that the HK music industry is somewhat improving (but very slowly). The only way you can find the likes of HK rock or rap is pretty underground(well with the exception of 24 HERBS and FAMA and MR., but again thats only a few).Thats why I miss the old BEYOND and LMF cuz they brang actual creativity to HK. Most of the songs that come out is ballad. Thats why you see so many actors in HK become singers as well(which is just stupid, cuz 90% of them are pretty bad).Another problem is theres not a lot of diversity in genres in the HK music industry. The problem is it seems like the HK industry is mostly too focused on making ballad and karaoke-friendly songs rather than producing actual talented artists who can write their own music. Like the only HK artists i do enjoy listening to is GEM and Khalil but even then Khalil's songs are still strictly Mando. As a half Honger/Vietnamese (I actually kind of speak canto, my viet is non-exsistent tho), I do prefer listening to Taiwanese music than HK music for the most part.
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