Hello and welcome to the third episode of the CantoTalk Music Podcast! I’m your host Edgar. To our Cantonese-learning friends, please check out the link in the description, which contains the transcript, translation, Cantonese pinyin, and some vocabularies for this episode. From American superhero movies, we know that Batman’s secret identity is Bruce Wayne, Spider-Man’s secret identity is Peter Parker, and Iron Man is Tony Stark. In the third episode, the singers we’re talking about today all have something in common with these superheroes—an alter ego. Whether in Hong Kong or in Western countries, it’s common for artists to take on pseudonyms, usually to separate their singer identities from their other occupations, or that, though both identities sing, they engage in very different musical styles. For example, in the West, the bold, artistic Miley Cyrus has once released songs under the identity of Disney teenage idol Hannah Montana. The Hong Kong male singer Hins Cheung has also held a concert under the name “Gonlando” (lit. Lower Two Tones), since people said many female Cantopop songs sound like Hins’ voice when lowered by two tones. However, the alter egos that we’re talking about today are even more extreme: some has their identities’ musical styles located on the opposite end of a spectrum; some, in interviews or social media, would act out different personalities depending on the identity displayed, or even pretend that their alter ego is a different person.