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...admit she was a nerd, an academic junkie. She won a scholarship to study Italian literature in Trieste and followed it with three years at the University of London. There she met Hong Kong music student Mark Lui, who now writes for Canto-pop royalty Kelly Chen and Leon Lai. Together they formed a group that performed on-campus concerts. Johanna Ho recalls the first time she saw Mok perform: "I could hardly recognize her. Suddenly, there she was on stage with curly long hair?she was sex on legs?and I thought ... yeah ... okay...
...Birmingham, Ala., recalls Jones, black kids felt it was O.K. to date an Indian, Korean or Latino, but they frowned on dating whites. Asian-white couples have it relatively easy, observes L.E. Hartmann-Ting, 32, a white grad student who lives in Medford, Mass., with her husband Dr. Leon Ting, 30, a fellow in pulmonary medicine at Harvard. She feels curiosity rather than hostility from neighbors in her suburban apartment building about her Chinese-American husband...
...Leon Jaroff. Reported by Janice M. Horowitz
Once again in the name of his affection and concern for children, Jackson held concerts in Seoul and in Munich to raise money for charity. Entitled “Michael Jackson and Friends,” the superstar was joined by Mariah Carey, Chinese popstars Andy Lau and Leon Lai, Andrea Bocelli, Ringo Starr, Boyz II Men and many other music stars in the extravaganza which raised over $3.3 million for the Red Cross, UNESCO, and the Nelson Mandela Childrens’ Fund...
Amid the hype and hard work, Cantopop is maturing. "We Chinese have changed so much over the years," says crooner Leon Lai. "Our position in the world changed. So our music has changed too." But no one wants it to change too much. Any music that has so many millions of fans around the world has to be doing something right...