A report on Cantopop

Dubbed the "God of Songs", he is regarded as one of the Four Heavenly Kings of Hong Kong pop music.

Anita Mui Yim-fong (10 October 1963 – 30 December 2003) was a Hong Kong singer and actress who made major contributions to the Cantopop music scene and received numerous awards and honours.

In 2000, she was recognised by Guinness World Records as the Best Selling Canto-Pop Female.

The genre has its origin in the jazz-influenced popular music of 1930s Shanghai known as Shidaiqu; with later influences coming from Japanese enka, Hong Kong's Cantopop, Taiwan's Hokkien pop, and in particular the Campus Song folk movement of the 1970s.

He was one of the most prominent pioneers that shaped the identity of Cantopop during the 1980s and became known for his flamboyant, often outrageous stage appearance.

In the 1990s, Lau was branded by the media as one of the Four Heavenly Kings of Cantopop and was named as "Fourth Tiger" among the Five Tiger Generals of TVB during the 1980s.

There are currently three main subgenres within C-pop: Cantopop, Mandopop and Hokkien pop.

She is a member of the Cantopop duo Twins, along with Charlene Choi.

He played a major role in developing the Cantopop scene in the 1980s as he was known for singing romantic ballads with modern arrangements.

He is an operatically trained vocalist and is also a Cantopop and Mandopop star, having released a number of music albums and sung many of the theme songs for the films in which he has starred.