Justin Lo's bio

Justin Lo is a Hong Kong Chinese American singer-songwriter, actor and record producer.

Lo was born in New York and moved with his parents to Hong Kong when he was two years old. While in Hong Kong, he studied at St Paul's Co-educational Primary School and St. Paul's Co-educational College. In 1989, Lo moved to Seattle, Washington, in the United States to further his studies. He spent two years in the University of Washington and finished his degree in Graphics Design at Rhode Island School of Design in Providence, Rhode Island in 1999. After graduation, he worked as a web designer at Yahoo! in Sunnyvale, California.

Lo grew up in a family where music has always played an important role. His uncle, Ted Lo, is a famous music arranger and record producer in Hong Kong. In addition, the singer song writer was a member in the Hong Kong Children's Choir and he developed vast interest in music as he was growing up. In 1981, composer Joseph Koo Ka-Fai invited Justin, aged 5 at the time, and his younger sister Roxane to sing in a commercial for Barbie.

Lo felt the work at Yahoo! was challenging and exciting but because his true love was creating music, he decided to move back to Hong Kong to pursue his dream.

In 2006, Lo made his feature film debut with Love @ First Note, co-starring alongside youthful singers such as Kary Ng, Alex Fong, Stephy Tang, and Theresa Fu. That same year, Lo also co-starred in 2 Become 1 opposite Miriam Yeung and Richie Ren.

Name variations

Lo was born as Lo Ting Wai, and has the English name Justin. His Chinese stage name Zak Tin (側田) derives from the transliteration of his English name. Sometimes, he is also credited as "Justin Lo"

Music

For a while Lo did some freelance design work while sending numerous demo tapes to record and label companies. In 2003, his uncle Ted Lo introduced him to Mark Lui, one of the most popular pop-composers and producers in Hong Kong. Recognizing the talent in Justin, Lui signed him to his music producing company On Your Mark Ltd and Lo officially began his musical career in Hong Kong. He produced the album Day & Night for Janice (衛蘭) and wrote two songs "大雄" and "傷追人" for Leo Ku.

In 2005, he performed in an a cappella section in Ku's Solid Gold Hits Concert. His outstanding performance was validated by Mr. Paco Wong from Gold Label Music Ltd. and Wong signed him up as a singer. His plugged songs "好人" (Good Person), "Erica", "命硬" (Hard Life) and "我有今日" (I Got It Going For Myself) (he wrote the latter three) received very positive responses. He is considered as one of the leading contenders of this year's New Male Artist Award.

His debut CD album Justin was released on 29 November 2005. Over half of the songs found in this album are written by him. It was a hit: 15,000 copies were sold on the first day. Sales reached 25,000 copies on 20 December 2005.

He held his debut concert in the Hong Kong Coliseum on 26 March 2006. The title of the show is One Good Show.The tickets were sold out in just within 10 minutes at 13 February and thus two more concerts XX( his 2nd and 3rd concert in 2006 )had been held on 18 & 19 April 2006.[1] In Sydney, Australia, in May 2006, he was in a concert, accompanied by Stephy Tang, Alex Fong and Wilfred Lau at Sydney Entertainment Centre and Melbourne Arts Centre on the 19 and 21 May 2006 respectively. The title of the concert was J.A.W.S.: each letter representing the first letter of each artist. Justin held his fourth concert in Canton, China on 1 September 2006. The title of the concert was "Watson's Distilled Water: Listen to Justin Sing", followed by another show with the same title in Hong Kong Exhibition Center( his 5th concert for 2006) on Sept 13,2006. His sixth concert was held in Macau on 21 October 2006, One Good Show. His seventh concert in 2006 will be held in Malaysia on 24 December 2006. Title of the show is Justin Christmas Party Concert 2006, at the MIECC, The Mines in Malaysia. His seventh concert in February 2007, titled "Justin In Love With Hong Kong Philharmonic" was again in the Hong Kong Coliseum, and were sold out as well. His eight concert was on 14 February 2007, Valentine's Day, held at Macau's Open Coliseum.

Justin released his second album, "No Protection", on 24 March 2006, two days before his debut concert "One Good Show" in the Hong Kong Coliseum.

In 2007 and 2008, he performed at the S.U.C.C.E.S.S. Charity Gala at Vancouver, Canada with many other artists.

Also, Justin went on a 3rd visit to Sydney to have another performance on the 26 May 2007 at the Sydney Entertainment Centre with Theresa Fu.

Justin has recently released his third album, "JTV", in November 2007. Current hits from this new album include "男人KTV" and "紅地氈."

Justin is known to always wear a hat as his signature accessory.

From 1-7 October 2008, Justin will be holding yet another concert titled 'Air Justin Live 08' in Hong Kong. Again releasing his new album, "阿田" one day prior to the first show of his concert. close