Gu Jiahui's information, "Wan Shui Qian Shan is always in love" composition.

Joseph Koo

Gu Jiahui is a famous music master in Hong Kong and one of the most important creators of Cantonese pop music, and is known as the godfather of Hong Kong music.

Gu Jiahui's ancestral home is Wuxian (now Suzhou), Jiangsu. 193 1 Born in Guangzhou, his family moved to Hong Kong and settled down 1948. At first, he and his sister, Mei Ku, lived in a wooden house in Kowloon and lived in poverty. I work in the laboratory of a foreign company during the day and go to night school at night. Mei Ku became popular in 1950s and 1960s. Under the influence of her sister, Gu Jiahui gradually became interested in music.

In the late 1950s, Gu Jiahui worked as a pianist in Zhangxian Nightclub in Wan Chai and Dongying Mansion Nightclub successively, and formed a small band called "Gu Jiahui Big Band". 196 1 year, the principal of the Berklee Conservatory of Music in Boston, USA, after listening to Gu Jiahui's performance in a nightclub, took the initiative to apply for a scholarship for him and invited him to continue his studies. He also received strong support and funding from Xiao, so Gu Jiahui lost to the United States and accepted a two-year music training course. While studying in the same year, Gu Jiahui took part in the composition competition of the film "Can't Love" with his work "Dream". As a result, he stood out and became an interlude in the film, which was his first appearance in the music world. 1963, after Gu Jiahui returned from school, he began to compose, arrange and score music for Shaw, Jiahe and other film companies, and won "Wan Hua Ying Chun", "Come Again" and "Autumn" at 1965, 1967 and 1977.

1967, the radio TV station started broadcasting. At the invitation of Cai Heping, Gu Jiahui joined the TV station, responsible for composing music and music planning. 1973, Gu Jiahui was invited by TV director Wang Tianlin to compose the theme song for the wireless TV series "In distress situation", which set off an upsurge of Cantonese pop music, and was called the pioneering work of Cantonese pop music together with Samuel Hui's "Ghost Horse". Since then, Gu Jiahui has created many well-known TV series theme collections, among which the songs of series such as Legend of the Condor Heroes, Shanghai Beach and Wan Shui Qian Shan always have feelings are most familiar to mainlanders. 198 1 year, Gu Jiahui, who has a long reputation in music, went to the United States to study music again, and studied electronic music and twelve-tone series for six months, and made further progress. There are many lyricists who have cooperated with him, among which James J.S.Wong has cooperated with him the most. Together, they are called "Huang Hui". During 1998 and 2000, Gu Jiahui and David Henry Hwang held concerts twice and invited many powerful singers, which received unprecedented response. Later, they led many powerful singers to perform in Guangzhou, the United States, Canada and Southeast Asia.

Gu Jiahui's works are huge, with more than 65,438+065,438+000 songs registered in cash (Hong Kong Writers Association), and they are quite diversified, including TV songs, movie songs, songs with singers, children's songs and various advertising songs.

Appendix 1: List of major honors won by Gu Jiahui.

1965 Golden Horse Award for Best Music Film Music "Spring in bloom"

1966 The best movie songs of the Asian Film Festival "Flowers in Flowers" and "Flower Selling Songs"

The film "When will you come again" won the Golden Horse Award for Best Music.

1975 Composition Competition jointly organized by TVB and Japan Yamaha Music Foundation "Laughter"

1977 golden horse award for best non-music music "summer and autumn"

198 1 Radio Television Hong Kong and CASH jointly organized the Top Ten Golden Melody Awards in Chinese "the highest honor award" (predecessor of the Golden Needle Award).

Radio Television Hong Kong (RTHK) and CASH jointly awarded the Best Chinese Pop Song Award "Forget My Feelings"

1982 British Master of Engineering Medal awarded by Commonwealth Government.

1985 TVB "18-year Theme Golden Melody Award"

1987 Hong Kong Commercial Radio's "Most Contributing Composer" Award

Wireless TV Emerald Pure Gold "Honor Award"

1990 Hong Kong Film Awards Best Music "Qin Samurai"

1997 cash "Music Achievement Award"

1998 "Bronze Bauhinia Medal" awarded by the Hong Kong SAR Government

2002 Golden Melody Award, Silver Nuo Honor Award

Lifetime Achievement Award of Pepsi Music Chart in 2005

Appendix 2: List of Major Projects

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