顧嘉煇

简介

Joseph Koo Kar-fai was born in 1931 in Guangzhou, and his family moved to Hong Kong in 1948. He grew up in modest circumstances, and his sister, the singer Koo Mei, was his first inspiration to enter the world of music. He began his professional career in 1961 when he participated in Shaw Brothers' film "Unforgettable Love" composition contest and won with his first song "Dream". He received a scholarship from Run Run Shaw and Fong Yew Wah to study music at Berklee College of Music in Boston, USA, between 1961 and 1963, becoming its first Chinese student. After graduation, he worked at Shaw Brothers and Golden Harvest film companies and composed scores for Bruce Lee's famous films such as "The Big Boss", "Fist of Fury", "Way of the Dragon", and "Game of Death". In 1968, he joined TVB as music director and remained in this position until his retirement in 1986. He composed hundreds of television theme songs and worked with a host of Hong Kong's top singers. Koo, alongside Lai Siu-Tin and Sam Hui, is regarded as a pioneer of Cantonese popular music. His career peaked from the 1970s to the mid-1980s, after which he gradually withdrew from the limelight in the 1990s and lived in Vancouver, Canada, dedicating himself to artistic creation.