Profile | Cantopop star, scandal, redemption: Andy Hui’s turbulent 40-year career

Profile | Cantopop star, scandal, redemption: Andy Hui’s turbulent 40-year career

This is the 79th instalment in a biweekly series profiling major Hong Kong pop culture figures of recent decades. “Are Hongkongers forgetful? Not when there’s a scandal,” Andy Hui Chi-on told HK Magazine in 2006. It was a casual, tongue-in-cheek observation at the time, but the Hong Kong pop singer could not have known that those words would come to define the darkest chapter of his life 13 years later. With a career spanning four decades, 58-ye…