Eric Moo

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Eric Moo
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Eric Moo and His Fans
Born
Eric Moo Chii Yuan [1]

(1963-02-09) 9 February 1963 (age 61)
Occupation(s)Singer-songwriter, record producer, actor
Years active1983–present
Awards Hong Kong Film Awards Best New Performer
1996 Those Were the Days...

Chinese name
Traditional Chinese 巫啟賢
Simplified Chinese 巫启贤
Musical career
Also known asMoo Kai Yin
GenresRock, Mandopop, Cantopop
Instrument(s)Vocals, guitar
Labels EMI Sony Music (2009–present)

Eric Moo Chii Yuan [1] (born 9 February 1963), better known as Eric Moo or Wu Qixian, is a Malaysian Chinese award-winning singer-songwriter [2] [3] and record producer.

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Personal life

Moo was born in Mambang Diawan, Kampar, Perak in 1963. He moved to Singapore with his family when he was 8 years old. [4] Moo is married to Taiwanese model Pang Meijun and they have two daughters. [5] Moo's eldest daughter Yonghuan is attending Berklee College of Music [6] .

Career

Moo studied in Shuqun Primary School, The Chinese High School and Jurong Junior College in Singapore. [7] [8] He started his first band, "Subway Band" (地下铁), in high school and began performing on stage in 1983. A year later, he released his first album, which topped Singapore's record charts for Mandopop. Subsequently, he launched his singing career in the Taiwan. Since then, Moo has released more than 40 albums in Mandarin and Cantonese, and performed in over 40 concerts.

During the 1980s and 1990s, Moo was part of the xinyao movement and his peers included Lee Wei Song, Lee Shih Shiong, Billy Koh and Liang Wern Fook. One of his more memorable songs is "Kopi O" (咖啡乌), which he performed himself for the popular SBC 1985 drama series The Coffee Shop. [9] At the Star Awards 2007 anniversary special, he revealed that he had insisted on using the term "Kopi O" in its original Hokkien rather than transliterating it into Mandarin according to the Speak Mandarin Campaign regulations.[ citation needed ]

In early 2006, Moo shifted his focus to the mainland Chinese market. He was a judge on four Chinese singing competition TV shows, Super Girl, Happy Girl, The King Returns and Voice Legend . [10]

He held a controversial concert on 27 May 2012 at Suntec City. After having the understanding by the show's organisers that it was an evangelical concert, he sang only two of his own songs and decided to spread Christianity for the rest of his concert, sparking fury in many fans young and old who was not informed that it was an evangelical event. The concert organisers later offered refunds. [11]

From July to August 2014, 12 of his classic hits were featured in the musical Innamorati, directed by Goh Boon Teck and written by Jiang Daini, sung by various Singapore Mandopop singers. [12] Moo most recently performed at the xinyao-themed Tomorrow 32 series of concerts in August 2014, The Songs We Sang showcase in the same year and Eric Moo in Concert in November 2014, which was dedicated to xinyao. [13]

Discography

Mandarin albums

Cantonese albums

Compilations/Live albums

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  14. Billboard – 1994 12 10 p45 "His second Mandarin album for EMI, "Tai Sha," stole the spotlight from Cheung and Lau as the biggest-selling Chinese album of 1994. It brought two Solid Gold awards from Hong Kong's tastemaker TV station, TVB, and the album's title track "Tai Sha" dominated Taiwan's charts from March to June, and helped push Moo's Cantonese-dialect compilation album, "Too Silly," and a new release, "Sad Love Songs," into Hong Kong's top 10. A new Mandarin album, "Puppet of Love," .