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(From left) Gawin, Katherine Tang, Sunny Yang and Joel Low sing souful shiyue tunes from the 1970s.
PHOTO: TUCKYS PHOTOGRAPHY
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Toy Factory Productions
Singapore Chinese Cultural Centre
Last Saturday, 7.30pm
Before homegrown Mandopop stars JJ Lin and Stefanie Sun, there was xinyao. What came before xinyao – the flourishing of Mandarin songs in Singapore’s 1980s – is the subject of Toy Factory Production’s new musical.
