Justin Lo

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occupation = Singer
genre = Cantopop
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label = Gold Label Records
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Justin Lo (born July 1, 1976) is a Hong Kong-based Chinese American singer-songwriter, actor and record producer.

Biography

Lo was born in New York and moved with his parents to Hong Kong when he was two years old. While in Hong Kong, he studied at St Paul's Co-educational Primary School and St. Paul's Co-educational College. In 1989, Lo moved to Seattle, Washington, in the United States to further his studies. He spent two years in the University of Washington and finished his degree in Graphics Design at Rhode Island School of Design in Providence, Rhode Island in 1999. After graduation, he worked as a web designer at Yahoo! in Sunnyvale, California.

Lo grew up in a family where music has always played an important role. His uncle, Ted Lo, is a famous music arranger and record producer in Hong Kong. In addition, the singer song writer was a member in the Hong Kong Children's Choir and he developed vast interest in music as he was growing up. In 1981, composer Joseph Koo Ka-Fai invited Justin, aged 5 at the time, and his younger sister Roxane to sing in a commercial for Barbie.

Lo felt the work at Yahoo! was challenging and exciting but because his true love was creating music, he decided to move back to Hong Kong to pursue his dream.

In 2006, Lo made his feature film debut with "Love @ First Note", co-starring alongside youthful singers such as Kary Ng, Alex Fong, Stephy Tang, and Theresa Fu. That same year, Lo also co-starred in "2 Become 1" opposite Miriam Yeung and Richie Ren.

Name variations

Lo was born as Lo Ting Wai, and has the English name Justin. His Chinese stage name "Zak Tin" (側田) derives from the transliteration of his English name. Sometimes, he is also credited as "Justin Lo".

Music

For a while Lo did some freelance design work while sending numerous demo tapes to record and label companies. In 2003, his uncle Ted Lo introduced him to Mark Lui, one of the most popular pop-composers and producers in Hong Kong. Recognizing the talent in Justin, Lui signed him to his music producing company On Your Mark Ltd and Lo officially began his musical career in Hong Kong. He produced the album "Day & Night" for Janice (衛蘭) and wrote two songs "大雄" and "傷追人" for Leo Ku.

In 2005, he performed in an a cappella section in Ku's Solid Gold Hits Concert. His outstanding performance was validated by Mr. Paco Wong from Gold Label Music Ltd. and Wong signed him up as a singer. His plugged songs "好人" (Good Person), "Erica", "命硬" (Hard Life) and "我有今日" (I Got It Going For Myself) (he wrote the latter three) received very positive responses. He is considered as one of the leading contenders of this year's New Male Artist Award.

His debut CD album "Justin" was released on November 29, 2005. Over half of the songs found in this album are written by him. It was a hit: 15,000 copies were sold on the first day. Sales reached 25,000 copies on December 20, 2005.

He held his debut concert in the Hong Kong Coliseum on March 26, 2006. The title of the show is One Good Show.The tickets were sold out in just within 10 minutes at February 13 and thus two more concerts XX( his 2nd and 3rd concert in 2006 )had been held on April 18 & 19, 2006. [ [http://orientaldaily.orisun.com/cgi-bin/nsrch.cgi?seq=522657 Orientaldaily.orisun.com] ] In Sydney, Australia, in May 2006, he was in a concert, accompanied by Stephy Tang, Alex Fong and Wilfred Lau at Sydney Entertainment Centre and Melbourne Arts Centre on the 19th and 21st of May 2006 respectively. The title of the concert was J.A.W.S.: each letter representing the first letter of each artist.Justin held his fourth concert in Canton, China on Sept 1, 2006. The title of the concert was "Watson's Distilled Water: Listen to Justin Sing", followed by another show with the same title in Hong Kong Exhibition Center( his 5th concert for 2006) on Sept 13,2006.His sixth concert was held in Macau on October 21, 2006, One Good Show.His seventh concert in 2006 will be held in Malaysia on December 24, 2006. Title of the show is Justin Christmas Party Concert 2006, at the MIECC, The Mines in Malaysia. His seventh concert in February, 2007, titled "Justin In Love With Hong Kong Philharmonic" was again in the Hong Kong Coliseum, and were sold out as well. His eight concert was on February 14,2007, Valentine's Day, held at Macau's Open Coliseum.

Justin released his second album, "No Protection", on March 24, 2006, two days before his debut concert "One Good Show" in the Hong Kong Coliseum.

In 2007 and 2008, he performed at the S.U.C.C.E.S.S. Charity Gala at Vancouver, Canada with many other artists.

Also, Justin went on a 3rd visit to Sydney to have another performance on the 26th May, 2007 at the Sydney Entertainment Centre with Theresa Fu.

Justin has recently released his third album, "JTV", in November 2007. Current hits from this new album include "男人KTV" and "紅地氈."

Justin is known to always wear a hat as his signature accessory.

From October 1-7, 2008, Justin will be holding yet another concert titled 'Air Justin Live 08' in Hong Kong. Again releasing his new album, "阿田" one day prior to the first show of his concert.

Discography

*November 29, 2005 - "側田 Justin" (Debut Studio Album)
*March 24, 2006 - "No Protection" (Second studio album)
*March 26, 2006 - "側田 One Good Show" (Concert)
*April 18, 2006 - "側田 Two Good Shows" (Concert)
*August, 2006 - "Love At First Note" CD+DVD
*July 5, 2006 - "No Protection (Dual Disc Version)"
*March, 2007 - "港樂Ⅹ側田In Love with the Philharmonic Live CD" (Concert)
*April, 2007 - "港樂Ⅹ側田In Love with the Philharmonic Live CD + Karaoke DVD" (Concert)
*November 16, 2007 - "JTV" (Third Studio Album)
*September 30, 2008 - "阿田" (Fourth Studio Album)

Awards

*2005:
** Metro Radio Hong Kong - 2005 Hits Award - I-Tech Best New Artist (I-Tech勁爆新人王)
** Metro Radio Hong Kong - 2005 Hits Award - New Generation Singer-Songwriter (勁爆新一代創作歌手)
** Radio Television Hong Kong - 28th Top Ten Chinese Gold Songs Award - Best Pop Artist (優秀流行歌手)
** Radio Television Hong Kong - 28th Top Ten Chinese Gold Songs Award - Best Male New Artist (Gold Award) (最有前途新人獎男歌手金獎)
** Radio Television Hong Kong - 28th Top Ten Chinese Gold Songs Award - Top 10 Song Award (十大中文金曲獎: 好人)
** Commercial Radio Hong Kong - Ultimate Song Chart 2005 - Best Male New Artist (Gold Award) (叱咤樂壇新力軍男歌手金獎)
** TVB - Jade Solid Gold Best Ten Award - Best Male New Artist (Gold Award) (最受歡迎新人獎(男) 金獎)
** Guangzhou Television - Award Show 2005 - Best New Singer-songwriter Award (創作新人獎)
** TVB - Jade Solid Gold Best Ten Award - New Artist Award (新人飆升獎)
** Fairchild Radio - Hit Music Chart 2005 - Canadian Recommended Male New Artist (全國推崇男新人)
** Fairchild Radio - Hit Music Chart 2005 - Top 10 Canadian Recommended Songs (全國推崇十大歌曲：好人)

** Yahoo!! - Search "Buzz" Award 2005 - New Musical Force Award (搜尋人氣大獎2005 - 「樂壇新勢力」獎)
** one2free - Hong Kong Mobile Phone Entertainment Awards - Top 10 Ring Tone (香港頻道十大手電鈴聲 - 好人)
** Friday Magazine - College Students' Favorite - Best Male Artist (大專生熱愛歌手選舉 - 最佳男新人)
** Private Magazine - Music Awards - New Male Singer-songwriter Award (唱作男新人)
** RoadShow - Roadshow Awards 2005 - Best Male Artist (Roadshow至尊新人男歌手)
** i-tech MetroRadio New Artist Show - Best New Artist - 2nd Place (新城新人巡禮 - 現場票選全城鋒湧新星 - 第二位)
** Ming Pao - My Favourite Entertainment Awards - Top 10 Favourite Songs (我最喜愛娛樂大賞 - 最喜愛歌曲選舉 - 十大歌曲: 好人)
** Sprite - Chinese Music Chart Awards - New Artist (Hong Kong and Taiwan) (優秀新人獎(港台))

** Commercial Radio Hong Kong - Ultimate Song Chart 2005 - My Favorite Male Artist - Top 10 Finalist
** Commercial Radio Hong Kong - 903 Music First Anniversary - Best Song Online Election - 2nd Place (網上全民投票年度十大作品 - 第二位 - 好人)

References

External links

* [http://www.gold-label.com.hk/artist_profile.php?lang=chi&id=4 Official website]
* [http://squatmagazine.com/article.php?articleId=235 Justin interview]
* [http://www.pinkwork.com/news/read1207.htm Justin interview (sound,photo & video, about jtv) ]
* [http://pinkmessage.com/talk/viewtopic.php?t=140 photo & info of Justin]