Jason Lo

Jason Lo is a Malaysian music artist, music producer, DJ and entrepreneur. He is sometimes known by the nicknames "LO" and "J Lo".

Biography

Early life

Lo was born in Kuching, Sarawak to a Chinese father and Irish mother. He was educated in Singapore and the United Kingdom. He graduated from the University of Hull with a BSc in Accounting, and then did an MBA in Finance at Webster Graduate School in London, before returning to Malaysia to pursue a career in the music industry.

Music career

In 1996, Lo recorded a ten-track demo in England with his band 'Sunday Man'. In 1997, he recorded another ten-track album with his renamed band 'Drop Circle'. In 1998, the band went their separate ways and Lo returned to Malaysia. His first Malaysian album, the self-financed "Days Without Dawn", was released in Malaysia at the end of 1999. Since then, he has released two further albums – "Firefighter" (2002) and "The Fall" (2005).

Lo was the first Southeast Asian artist to reach the top 3 on Pepsi Top 20 international chart. His songs 'Evening News' and 'So Julie' were No. 1 on the Malaysian Top 10 for 7 and 5 weeks respectively. Lo's music videos have had regional airplay on both MTV Asia and Channel V. He has been a winner of the Asian People's Choice Award for Much Music Asia, and at the Malaysian MTV Music Video Awards. He has been nominated for six AIM Awards (local Malaysian music awards), and for MTV Viewers' Choice Awards. He has headlined live events in Malaysia, and also been an opening act for top international touring bands including Deep Purple, Good Charlotte and Big Country.

Lo is also the CEO of his own record label and event promotion company, Fat Boys Records. He has produced albums for Malaysian bands including Disagree and SingleTrackMind, and organised a series of successful concerts called 'Rock the World', which showcased Malaysian talent.

Lo has also worked as a DJ at the Malaysian radio station hitz.fm, and been a TV talk show host on the show "Latte@8".

ports

In 2006, Lo teamed-up with the Malaysian politician Khairy Jamaluddin (who he attended high school with in Singapore at the United World College of South East Asia) to produce the reality TV show "MyTeam". The show, which was televised on TV3, brought together a squad of unknown soccer players selected at trails held around Malaysia to form a team to take on the Malaysian national football team in an exhibition match. The event drew much publicity, and MyTeam put up a creditable performance in losing 2-1 against the national side. MyTeam were invited to enter the Malaysian Premier League in 2007. The team merged with an existing club, Perak UPB FC, to form UPB-MyTeam FC, at which Khairy Jamaluddin became the President and Lo the Deputy President. After finishing runners-up in the Premier League in 2007, the club was promoted to the Malaysian Super League for the 2008 season. A second season of the show, "MyTeam2", was broadcast in 2007 (MyTeam2 took on the Indonesian national football team, losing 2-0).

Finance

In December 2007, Lo was appointed the Chief Executive Officer of Tune Talk, a no-frills mobile virtual network operator, owned by Tune Ventures Sdn Bhd, in which AirAsia Group Chief Executive Tony Fernandes holds a 40% stake. [cite news|title=http://www.btimes.com.my/Current_News/BTIMES/Wednesday/Nation/tunecel.xml/Article/index_html|author=Goh, T.E., Jeeva A.|publisher="Business Times"|date=2007-12-04|url=http://www.btimes.com.my/Current_News/BTIMES/Wednesday/Nation/tunecel.xml/Article/index_html|accessdate=2008-03-12] [cite news|title=Local celebrity appointed Tune Talk CEO|publisher="The Edge Daily"|date=2007-12-03|url=http://www.theedgedaily.com/cms/content.jsp?id=com.tms.cms.article.Article_9e253dc6-cb73c03a-38d46000-f769c579|accessdate=2008-03-11]

References

External links

* [http://www.lorocks.com/ The official Jason Lo website]
* [http://www.think.com.my/review.cfm?rev_ID=96 Review of "The Fall"]
* [http://www.fatboysrecords.com/ Fat Boys Records website]
* [http://www.myteam.com.my/ MyTeam website]