Chinese name 黃耀明 (traditional) Name Anthony Wong Chinese name 黄耀明 (simplified) Role Singer | Birth name Wong Yiu Ming Music group Tat Ming Pair Ancestry Chaozhou, Guangdong | |
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Pinyin Jyutping wong4 jiu6 ming4 (Cantonese) Albums 愈夜愈美麗, King of the Road, 明日之歌廳, 若水 Movies Kiss Me Goodbye, Golden Swallow Awards Hong Kong Film Award for Best Original Film Song Similar People Lin Xi, Tats Lau, Wyman Wong, Leslie Cheung, Cass Phang | ||
Anthony Wong, also known as Wong Yiu-Ming (黃耀明), is a Hong Kong singer and record producer. He is the vocalist of duo Tat Ming Pair in the 1980s and the director for music production company People Mountain People Sea.
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Career
Wong began his career as a DJ at Commercial Radio Hong Kong in 1984. In the following year, he answered a singer-wanted advertisement in a music magazine posted by a composer and guitarist Tats Lau. They then formed the group Tat Ming Pair, which was later signed by Polygram. After the group disbanded in 1990, Wong continued as a solo singer and later as a producer. In the mid 90s, he reached the peak of his musical career with songs like '’Blow Up'’ (春光乍洩), 每日一禁果 (literally "A Forbidden Fruit-Once a Day").
In 1999, he founded the music production company People Mountain People Sea with a group of artists and musicians in Hong Kong. The company produced and published albums not only for high-profiled Pop singers like Leslie Cheung, Faye Wong, Sandy Lam, Eason Chan, Nicholas Tse and Miriam Yeung, but also published works for other relatively "alternative/ experimental" singers, composers, bands and groups, such as at17 and PixelToy.
On 7 July 2007, Wong performed at the Chinese leg of Live Earth in Shanghai.
Personal life
Wong had been noted in the past as "deliberately ambiguous – or better: opaque – about his sexual identity". Following the conclusion of his concert series at the Hong Kong Coliseum in April 2012, Wong publicly came out as gay, stating "People don't need to guess whether or not I'm a tongzhi (同志) anymore...I'm saying, I'm gay. I'm a homosexual. G-A-Y."
Discography
