Samantha Lui is a GRAMMY.com contributor.
The last few weeks have been nonstop for Jackson Wang. After travelling to Mumbai, India, for a media tour, he headed to Paris Fashion Week to attend the Louis Vuitton show as a brand ambassador. And as he connects with GRAMMY.com over Zoom, he's in Seoul, South Korea, prepping for the release of his new album, MAGICMAN 2. "A lot…
As genres like K-pop and J-pop have become dominant forces in the international music scene, the Chinese music market has gradually been gaining popularity on a global scale — especially when it comes to Mandopop. Short for Mandarin popular music, Mandopop is a subgenre of Chinese-language music that often pulls from Western influences like pop, rock, R&B, and hip-hop. While…
South Korean indie rock band the Rose have reached new heights over the past year. The quartet — which began six years ago as a group of street performers — have toured the world and performed at major music festivals including BST Hyde Park and Lollapalooza, but have never forgotten their busking roots. During a Lollapalooza midnight aftershow, the Rose…
Written in Chinese and sung in Cantonese, Cantopop is a melting pot of global influences much like the city of Hong Kong itself. A direct product of Hong Kong popular culture, Cantopop — or HK-pop (short for Hong Kong pop music) — is inspired by Western pop, rock, jazz, disco and ballads. And while it may have been eclipsed by…
In recent years, the music industry has made strides when it comes to giving artists of Asian descent a platform. At this year's Oscars, "Naatu Naatu" from the film RRR became the first Indian-Telugu language song to win Best Original Song. At Coachella, Diljit Dosanjh made history as the first South Asian artist to perform in Punjabi; BLACKPINK became the…
