He later became pupils of Sit Kok-Sin, Kai Chiao-tien and other famous Chinese opera singers in Shanghai.

Scientists wanted to study his skeleton to understand how people with a small frame like him could hit ultra-high notes.

Sun Ma Sze Tsang was appointed, in 1977, an honorary professor of the University of Cambridge.

After his death, his sons, including TVB artist Johnny Tang, fought a court battle with their birth mother, Hung Jin-Mui, over their father's assets.

[3] Sun Ma Sze Tsang was buried at Tseung Kwan O Chinese Permanent Cemetery after a funeral service on 1 May 1997.