Honestly, I don't even know the originator to them new wave songs. I was exposed by the Viet singers to the likes of Lynda Trang dai, the Viet version of Madonna. I seriously thought it was the viets that created new waves. Boy was I wrong. It took me till a decade later to figure out who modern talking were and pet shop boys and their gay profile.
Other new waves worth mentioning is omd and early sounds of depeche mode.
My Viet people is big with coping other people's ideas and make money out of it but only within their Viet community. We are not known as originator. We just take things and make it better.