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Profile | How Hong Kong boy band Grasshopper, protégés of Cantopop legend Anita Mui, blazed a trail with their intoxicating dance pop music
- Mirror are far from the only home-grown boy band to make it big in Hong Kong – before them there was Grasshopper
- The trio formed in 1985, were a supporting act for Anita Mui Yim-fong and are still going strong – they are currently on yet another world tour
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Mirror may be the most popular home-grown music act in Hong Kong now, but the city is no stranger to falling in love with boy bands. Before Keung To and his fellow group members, there was Grasshopper.
The three-member group, who owe much of their success to Hong Kong icon Anita Mui Yim-fong, formed in 1985 – and are still going strong today. They have made multiple albums, received many accolades, and have held innumerable sold-out concerts.
The trio comprises brothers Calvin Choy Yat-chi and Remus Choy Yat-kit, and their friend Edmond So Chi-wai. They all grew up in the working-class neighbourhood of Kwun Tong, in Kowloon, in the 1970s and ’80s.
“There used to be a lot of record stores on the levels beneath the cinema. That was where I bought my first Sam Hui Koon-kit vinyl. I had to save a lot of money from my summer job for that,” Calvin Choy said in 2021 at an event in the same area. (Hui is a Hong Kong singer.)
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