"Tomorrow Will Be Better" ( zh, t=明天會更好, p=Míngtiān huì Gènghǎo) is a Taiwanese

Mandopop Mandopop or Mandapop refers to Mandarin popular music. The genre has its origin in the jazz-influenced popular music of 1930s Shanghai known as Shidaiqu; later influences came from Japanese enka, Hong Kong's Cantopop, Taiwan's Hokkien pop ...

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written by

Lo Ta-yu Lo Ta-yu (; born 20 July 1954), also known as Luo Dayou and Law Tai-yau, is a Taiwanese singer and songwriter. During the 1980s, Lo became one of the most influential Mandopop singer-songwriters with his melodic lyrics and love songs, and his ...

and sung by over 60 artists. It was recorded on 15 September 1985 and released on 25 October 1985 in order to raise money for ''

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'' to help with aid to Africa.

Artists

The song was originally sung in

Mandarin Chinese Mandarin ( ; zh, s=, t=, p=Guānhuà, l=Mandarin (bureaucrat), officials' speech) is the largest branch of the Sinitic languages. Mandarin varieties are spoken by 70 percent of all Chinese speakers over a large geographical area that stretch ...

and performed by more than 60 artists from Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore, and Malaysia. The artists involved in the original recording were from the four main Chinese music industry markets of

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and

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. In 1985, various Hong Kong singers sang a re-written Cantonese version of the song in 1985 Jade Solid Gold Awards Presentation. In 2010, many Taiwanese singers made their own music video versions of the song.

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External links

*{{YouTube, id=s6T4DXRKYHM, title=【明天會更好 Tomorrow Will Be Better】Official Music Video
香港512關愛行動-張靚穎、孫楠、楊坤、羽泉等合唱《明天會更好》
1985 singles 1985 songs All-star recordings Charity singles Mandarin-language songs Pop ballads