Vancouver Fund Raising Karaoke For Flood Victims In China.

Vancouver Fund Raising Karaoke For Flood Victims In China.

Leslie Cheung's Music

Leslie Cheung is one of the first pioneers in the musical genres of Mandopop and Cantopop, reflected in his performance at a Vancouver Fundraising event for flood victims in China in 1990. While Mandopop and Cantopop are popular forms of music across Mainland China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan, it's not always acknowledged how they originated as cultural products of Chinese Canadian artists. Not simply importing music from China, nor solely adopting the musical stylings of Canada, these artists used hybridized forms of both countries’ popularized genres. Cheung’s performance here is especially meaningful as a way to connect diaspora in Canada to issues surrounding their country of ancestral origin internationally.

Leslie Cheung

The audio clip used of this performance (0:20 - 2:28) can be found in the following:

Cheung, Leslie. “Vancouver Fund Raising Karaoke for Flood Victims in China.” Produced in 1990.
Archived on Youtube, September 17, 2007. Video, 3 min., 59 seconds.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXzVazCLkM8.

Leslie Cheung's Website

1990

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Video file

Cantonese

Sound