Hot Summer | ||||
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Released | 29 July 1988 | |||
Recorded | Cinepoly Records | |||
Genre | Cantopop | |||
Label | Cinepoly | |||
Producer | Leslie Cheung, Patrick Yeung, Masa Sakuma | |||
Leslie Cheung chronology | ||||
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Hot Summer was a Cantopop album by Leslie Cheung released in 1988 by Hong Kong record company Cinepoly and followed on the heels of the success of Cheung's Summer Romance the year before. Like Summer Romance, the album also featured a collaboration with Japanese musicians.
Its songs were considerably popular and these included "Hot Summer", 貼身 ("Close Proximity"), 無需要太多 ("Don't Need Too Much"), 沉默是金 ("Silence is Golden"), 繼續跳舞 ("Keep on Dancing"), and 内心爭鬥 ("Inner Struggle"). The song "Close Proximity" won the Jade Solid Gold Award in 1988 and was among the popular songs in Hong Kong for that year. Track 10 ("Love Again") is a Cantonese cover of Glenn Frey's 1982 song "The One You Love" from album No Fun Aloud .
Anita Mui Yim-fong was a Hong Kong singer and actress who made major contributions to the Cantopop music scene and received numerous awards and honours. She remained an idol throughout her career, and is regarded as a Cantopop diva. She was dubbed as the "daughter of Hong Kong" and is considered one of the most iconic Cantopop singers.
Jolin Tsai is a Taiwanese singer, songwriter, and actress. Referred to as the "Queen of C-Pop", she is considered one of the most influential people in Chinese popular culture. She is known for her continual reinvention and versatility in musical style and visual image, and she has achieved reputation and popularity in the Chinese-speaking world. She maintains in charge of every aspect of her career, and she is regarded as a key figure of popularizing dance-pop as mainstream music in Greater China. Her works, which incorporate social themes, have generated both commercial success and critical acclaim.
Samuel Hui Koon-kit, usually known as Sam Hui, is a Hong Kong musician, singer, songwriter and actor. He is credited with popularising Cantopop both via the infusion of Western-style music and his usage of vernacular Cantonese rather than written vernacular Chinese in biting lyrics that addressed contemporary problems and concerns. Hui is considered by some to be the first major superstar of Cantopop, known as the God of Song. As an actor, he is well-known for portraying the main character King Kong in five installments of Aces Go Places film series.
Kwan Wai-Man, better known professionally as Jade Kwan Sum-Yin, is a Cantopop singer and philanthropist based in Hong Kong. Originally from Vancouver, she entered the music industry after winning the 1999 New Talent Singing Awards Canada Finals and the Best Potential Newcomer Award at the New Talent Singing Awards International Finals of the same year. She debuted under BMA Records in July 2002 with the album Jade-1, winning multiple best new artist awards and has since released more than 13 albums and extended plays. Kwan is known for her philanthropic work and has been awarded the 2012 Ten Outstanding Young Persons Selection and the Hong Kong Volunteer Award in 2011. She is the founder and chairperson of charitable organization Shining Life Limited 妍亮生命慈善基金.
Edmond Leung Hon-man is a Hong Kong singer-songwriter, record producer, actor and television host.
George Lam Tse Cheung, also known professionally by his surname Lam, is a Hong Kong-based veteran Cantopop singer, singer-songwriter, music producer and actor, with a career that has so far lasted more than four decades. Lam produces most of his own albums, writes many of his own songs, occasionally writes for other artists, and covers other people's songs. Lam has a wide vocal range and is capable of interpreting and performing many different genres of music. He is heavily involved with planning and designing his concerts and his LP/CD covers. He was the one who came up with the first Cantopop rap, "Ah Lam's Diary", and he also pioneered the stringing together of multiple hit Cantopop songs to create a 10-minute long medley which is called "10 Minutes 12 Inches". In 2019, Lam interwove his songs together to put on a musical-like concert, Lamusical.
Joi Chua is a Singaporean female pop singer. Her most famous songs are "Waiting for a Sunny Day" (《等一个晴天》), "Watching the Sunrise With Me" (《陪我看日出》), the Chinese version of "Nada Soso" and "Wind Chimes" (《风铃》). She is also well known in Mainland China and Taiwan.
Vincy Chan is a Hong Kong-Singaporean Cantopop singer. She began her singing career after winning 1st runner up at the 2005 New Talent Singing Awards and has since been signed with Emperor Entertainment Group. Her best known songs include "Feeling" (感應) and "My Memories are Not My Own" (我的回憶不是我的).
Live in Unity is a series of concerts held by a Hong Kong female singer, Denise Ho (HOCC). It started on 26–28 October 2006 called "Hocc Live in Unity 2006" at Hong Kong Coliseum. Due to the great feedback from the audience, Ho continued the show by performing a part two on 19–20 January 2007 called "Hocc Live in Unity 2007" at the same venue. She started her world tour of the Live in Unity series on 14 January 2007 at Macau Fisherman's Wharf and extended it to Toronto in Canada and Atlantic City in the United States. The slogan and theme of Live in Unity are "We Stand As One" and to "Live in Unity".
Richard Ng Yiu-hon, also known as Richard Woo, is a Hong Kong actor known for playing comedic roles, particularly in Hong Kong films of the 1980s and 1990s.
Bai Hong was a Chinese actress and singer born Bai Lizhu (白麗珠) in Beijing. By the 1940s, she became one of the Seven Great Singing Stars.
Wong Shun-leung (Chinese: 黃淳樑; pinyin: Huang Chunliáng; Jyutping: Wong4 Seon4loeng4; was a Hong Kong martial artist who studied Wing Chun kung fu under Yip Man and was one of Ip Man's senior students who helped with training Bruce Lee. Due to his reputation, his students and admirers referred to him as 'Gong-sau Wong'.
Jade Solid Gold (勁歌金曲) is an album by Cantopop singer Leo Ku, released on February 7, 2005. It include some of the previous popular hit songs like Nobita (大雄), Love and Honesty (愛與誠), Second Most Loved (第二最愛), Killing Move (必殺技) and Let Heaven Shed Its Tears (任天堂流淚). The album also include a DVD with Karaoke of some of the hit songs.
Chan Fai-young is a Hong Kong Cantopop composer. Chan was born in Macau in 1970. He attended Berklee College of Music, an American college in Boston, Massachusetts.
Jeannie Hsieh is a Taiwanese singer-songwriter, dancer, actress, and model. She is known for writing and performing electronic dance music which combines techno and hip-hop, as well as synth-pop, house, bubblegum with slow sentimental ballads, often in Taiwanese Hokkien, but sometimes mixed with Mandarin, Cantonese and English. She become an idol to fans both Taiwan and mainland China. The music video for Hsieh's 2013 single Sister (姐姐) has been viewed over 33 million times on YouTube.
Michael Yeung Ming-cheung was the eighth Roman Catholic bishop of Hong Kong. He was consecrated on 30 August 2014.
George Leong is a Singaporean musician, producer and composer.
The Contract is a 1978 Hong Kong comedy film written, directed by and starring Michael Hui. The film also co-stars Hui's brothers, Samuel Hui and Ricky Hui. It was very successful at the Hong Kong box office being the second-highest-grossing film there at the time.
Sunny Lam is a Hong Kong singer-songwriter and YouTuber. Lam is known for rewriting lyrics to the tune of existing well-known songs as satirical political commentary during the 2014 Hong Kong protests and the 2019–20 Hong Kong protests.