Joseph Koo
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Joseph Koo SBS(Chinese: 顧嘉煇; Cantonese IPA: [kʊ33 kɑ55 fɐɪ55], Yale: Gu Gà Faì, Jyutping: gu3 gaa1 fai1; Mandarin Pinyin: Gù Jiāhuī), or Gu Gaa-fai (born 1933) is one of the most repected composers in Hong Kong.
He used the pen name Moran (莫然) for Mandarin songs. He is the younger brother of famous Chinese singer Gu Mei (顧媚).
[edit] Career
Gu was sponsored by Run Run Shaw to attend the Berklee College of Music in Boston in the early 60s. Upon graduation he returned to Hong Kong and worked for both the Shaw Brothers and Golden Harvest movie studios. Later he joined TVB as their director of music, where from the late 1970's until immigrating to Canada in the 1990s, he collaborated with the lyricist Wong Jim on many memorable TV theme songs. Gu has composed over 1,200 songs in his career, many of his songs are now considered as classic Cantopop.
In 1962, he composed his first hit (Mandarin Chinese) song 夢 and later another hit song 郊道. In 1974, he wrote the first Cantonese TV theme song (啼笑姻緣) which was the first actually popular Cantopop song.
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