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World Service,5 mins

Should pop music be dominated by the English language?

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Why are more and more pop songwriters rejecting the English language and expressing themselves through other languages? Emma-Lee Moss is a singer-songwriter also known as Emmy the Great. She was born in Hong Kong to a British father and Chinese mother and grew up speaking English and Cantonese. She told Dan Damon why she's started writing songs in Mandarin. (Photo: Emmy the Great / Credit: www.emmythegreat.com)

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