K-pop, J-pop or Mando-pop? No thanks, say young fans drawn to Hong Kong's legendary Canto-pop stars | South China Morning Post


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Ian Wan Tsz-ho was 15 and in his school uniform when he sat enthralled at the Hong Kong Coliseum in 2016, watching a concert by Canto-pop legend Paula Tsui Siu-fung. The singer was 67 at the time, and the thousands of people in the audience and singing along to her hits were mostly in their 50s and 60s. "Those grannies kept looking at me and some even asked if I was forced to go there," recalled Wan, now 21 and a university student. In fact, he was a big fan too. He was drawn to Canto-pop classics from watching reruns…