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The singer-songwriter also known as Emmy the Great reflects on her career, influences, childhood and more as she launches her debut memoir, My Cantopop Nights. Emma-Lee Moss appears in conversation with Nicola Dinan. The evening also features a short musical performance. In contemplating a childhood in Hong Kong, moving to the UK and the influence of Cantopop’s icons upon her work as Emmy the Great, Moss reconciles the dual nature of her heritage and artistry. For Moss, the sound of the summer of 1995 is Cantopop. The Cantopop stars she idolises, at the height of their stratospheric fame, are seen on every billboard and heard on every street corner in Hong Kong. Later that year, she and her family leave for England, pushing Moss’s love of Cantopop underground. My Cantopop Nights is the story of how she began listening to Cantopop again as an adult, following its close harmonies and stadium-rock guitars back to Hong Kong, and to the person that she used to be. Nicola Dinan grew up in Hong Kong and Malaysia and now lives in London. Bellies, her debut, was nominated for six literary prizes and won the Polari First Book Prize. Disappoint Me, her second novel, won the New Adult Book Prize.

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