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...prove. Products of Hong Kong's labyrinthine government housing estates, the potty-mouthed hip-hop collective is an affront to the scrubbed-clean Canto-pop starmakers who package and micromanage saccharin-sweet crooners as carefully as Madison Avenue launches a new line of soap. Warning labels decree their albums may not be distributed, circulated, sold, rented, given, lent, shown, played or projected to anyone under the age of 18. Even LMF's schoolyard acronym grates on Hong Kong's frantic, money-obsessed culture: lazy muthaf...
...these guys don't need the mainstream Hong Kong music machine. LMF writes its own songs, designs its own album covers and has its own recording studio. They've performed in South Korea, Taiwan, Malaysia, Shenzhen and Macau. Lazy Clan, the latest album, wasn't a breakout seller by Canto-pop standards, but fans bought about 80,000 copies. The best measure of LMF's success: its wide-ranging influence on Cantonese youth culture. LMF members have spawned their own clothing lines, inspired a line of popular action figures and are the subject of a documentary that is spinning through...
Another key to Samba Raro's charm is that some of De Castro's songs mix in bits of Brazilian classics. For example, the gritty Afrosamba incorporates elements of Brazilian guitarist Baden Powell's 1966 song Canto de Ossanha. "The techno admirer likes Samba Raro because of the beats," says De Castro. "The soul fan loves my songs because of my soulful guitar, and the traditional Brazilian popular-music admirer catches the influences from Jorge Ben and Wilson Simonal that I put in." Yet De Castro doesn't use the past as a crutch. His originals, such as the elegiac...
...released five or six albums," says proto-hunk Nicholas Tse, 20. "For most artists that's almost a law. Sometimes your companies just need fast cash and you gotta make this album on time. By the time it's released, you don't even remember what you sang." Canto-stars sing lyrics in Cantonese, Mandarin or English. Now they're turning Japanese, in a push to woo that huge market. Kelly Chen recently went into the studio to record five songs in Japanese; the whole session took one hour...
...That's our Leslie: suave, cocksure, with a touch of the brute (they love him for it) and a hint of sad solitude. A Canto-pop idol and film star since the late '70s, Cheung has been called "the Elvis of Hong Kong" by Canadian critic John Charles. He gets top dollar for film work, his new CD Forever Leslie is climbing the charts, and his concerts still pack 'em in around the world; for a pre-Christmas gig at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, tickets went?fast?for as much...