https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cantopop It was at this time that the term Cantopop was first coined. The Billboard correspondent Hans Ebert, who had earlier coined the term Cantorock in 1974, noted a change in its style to something similar to British-American soft rock, therefore started to use the term Cantopop instead in 1978.[3] Being the person who came up with the term “Canto Rock”, which eventually became the more mainstream “Canto Pop” when writing for the American mus

Before she and her partner quietly slipped out of Hong Kong for Dubai, someone I had got to know reasonably well for over a period of 2-3 years, kept mentioning how Hong Kong was finished as an international city. There was a quiet desperation to what she was saying. Sure, everyone’s who’s interested in this subject is going to have a different view of things, or the same one with maybe a few deletions and additions. It was both interesting and therapeutic thinking about who

by Hans Ebert It’s always bothered me that there’s been so little international coverage of what’s happening in music in this region, let alone in Hong Kong. The quick reply, of course, is that there’s nothing much happening out here and so there’s nothing to write about as there’s no interest in this news. Could be as this is such a disparate region for music, something MTV discovered when they marched into this region with their army of VJs and launched a one-size-fits-all