Complex sentence: The recording industry in Singapore in particular thrived, and a genre of Mandarin ballads called "xinyao" developed there in the 1980s by singers/songwriters such as Liang Wern Fook.
Split into simpler sentences: The recording industry in Singapore in particular thrived. A genre of Mandarin ballads called "xinyao" developed in Singapore in the 1980s by singers/songwriters such as Liang Wern Fook.