#I grew up on 80s canto pop bc both my parents like listening to the classics

[nako-doodles]

hi! i was wondering if you might have some canto song recs? a while ago you made a list of mandarin songs to check out, and i really liked a lot of them. but if i remember correctly (i hope i’m not making this up) you said you also knew a ton of good artists from hk?? if it’s not too much trouble, would you be able to list a few? if so, thank you!! and if not, that’s totally fine too. i’m sure the last time you made one of those lists was a lot of work

i made a canto song rec here a gosh darn while back but here another list of artists :)

imma try to keep the recs more modern bc the last one was very much a glowing endorsement for 80s cantopop aka The 80s Era Songs everyone should listen to ((srly there was leslie cheung and alan tam and beyond and teresa teng and sally yeh and frances yip like faM)) and there has been a lot of good songs because/despite of the protests. 

anyways im rambling again here are some awesome artists (i left most of their names in traditional chinese so itll be easier for you to find them 🥺) to check out:

ni.ne.mo

ella koon (官恩娜)

sammi cheng (鄭秀文)

whizz

george lam (林子祥)

gdjyb (雞蛋蒸肉餅)

dear jane

kay tse (謝安琪) (yes of the protest song egg and lamb fame)

phoon

albert leung (林夕) (he wrote the ‘raise your umbella’ song w pan for the 2014 protests)

clave

joey yung (容祖兒)

twins

kelly chen (陳慧琳)

olivia dawn

olivier cong

james ng (吳業坤)

restate the moira

ivana wong (王菀之)

24k band

rubberband

alfred hui (許廷鏗)

aga (江海迦)

txmiyama

g.e.m. (鄧紫棋)

live 8

rapunzel

heyo

khalil fong (方大同)

eason chan (陳奕迅)

soul of ears

lazyboi dri

tomfatki

billy choi

thebakerie

vivian chow (周慧敏)

fiona sit (薛凱琪)

wesley jamison

kary ng (吳家穎)

jb (no not the got7 member and not the famous one)

merry lamb lamb

esimorp

cilla kung