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Joseph Koo
real name 顧嘉煇 (Joseph Koo Kar-Fai)
People's Republic of China
Joseph Koo is credited on 246 albums across 750 pressings tracked on Gatefold, active 1966–2025 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.
750
Credits
246
Albums
7
Decades active
29
In collections
Biography
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Joseph Koo MBE, GBS (25 February 1932 - 3 January 2023) was a Hong Kong composer.
Koo joined TVB as their director of music in 1973, where from the late 1970s until immigrating to Canada in the 1990s, he collaborated with the lyricist James Wong on many memorable TV theme songs. Koo composed over 1,200 songs in his career, many of his songs are now considered as classic Cantopop.
Koo received Member of Order of the British Empire (MBE) in 1982. In 1998, he received the Bronze Bauhinia Star from the Hong Kong Government. He also received other awards including Music Accomplishment Award (from Composers and Authors Society of Hong Kong Ltd.), Highest Honour Award (from RTHK Ten Best Chinese Music Program), Best Music Award and Best Lyric Award (from Asia Film Festival), Hong Kong Film Awards, Taiwan's Golden Horse Film Festival and Awards and many others.
Bio from Discogs
Credited work
750 releases · 246 albums · active 1966–2025
- Performance · 1,157
- Other credits · 1,125
- Production · 8
Studios: Hong Kong Coliseum · CBS/Sony Studio, Hong Kong · Crown Recording Studio · Dragon Studio (2)
Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.
Frequent collaborators
- Various
- The Film Studio Orchestra
- Jenny Tseng
- Ground Zero (3)
- John Barry
- Bruce Lee
- Ken Kazama
- Amina
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