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Joseph Koo wife-The late Joseph Koo started taking piano lessons at the age of 17 from a Filipino music instructor who was also teaching his sister to sing.

Koo was funded by Sir Run Run Shaw to attend Boston’s Berklee College of Music in the early 1960s.

He returned to Hong Kong after receiving his degree and worked with the Shaw Brothers and Golden Harvest film companies, scoring Bruce Lee movies like Fist of Fury and Way of the Dragon in 1972. As their director of music, Koo joined TVB in 1973 and remained there until his 1990s immigration to Canada.

Joseph Koo has composed more than 1,200 songs throughout his career, many of which are now regarded as classic Cantopop. He only has two significant lyrics, both of which are relatively brief in both word count and duration.

The first was a kids’ song about the ten numerals, while the second was the Enjoy Yourself Tonight “Goodnight” jingle. His sister Koo Mei sang “Dream,” the first song he ever wrote and published, in 1961. Later in his career, “Suburban Road” became another one of his hits. In 1974, he composed The Fatal Irony, the first Cantonese TV theme song, which went on to become one of the first well-known Cantopop songs.

Joseph Koo received the designation of Member of the Order of the British Empire in 1982. (MBE). He received the Bronze Bauhinia Star from the Hong Kong government in 1998.

Other accolades include the Composers and Authors Society of Hong Kong Ltd.’s Music Accomplishment Award, the RTHK Ten Best Chinese Music Program’s Highest Honour Award, the Asia Film Festival’s Best Music and Best Lyric Awards, the Hong Kong Film Awards, Taiwan’s Golden Horse Film Festival and Awards, and the Best Music and Best Lyric Awards (from the Asia Film Festival).

Koo died in Vancouver, Canada on 3 January 2023, at age 92.