Songs of Love Peace & Tolerance WOMEX 2002

 


Peter Wu


Hongkong




HEAVEN KNOWS


a soft ballad in Mandarin


Peter Wu Tung Ming



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Peter Wu has inherited his love for music from his family. His father was a leader of a music band. His two elder sisters are experienced teachers and instructors in music & in piano-playing in particular. Growing up in a musical environment, Peter discovered his talents in writing musical scores and became a member of CASH, Hongkong's performing rights society.

In 1986, Peter Wu, who first worked as a piano teacher, took the chance to join the record production industry. From 1986 to 1998, he was associated with Capital Artists, World Records, Cinepoly Records, Music Impact & Rock Records, taking part in all kinds of music production with a lot of singers and artists including Roman Tam, Elisa Chan, Jackie Chan (Rush Hour Movie - Kung Fu action movie star), Faye Wong, Eason Chan, Jenny Yan, Leo Koo, Alex To, Karen Mok, Sam Hui, Ricky Hui, Rain Lau, Man Fong, Jessica Chow, Allan Moo, Aaron Kwok, Wong Yik,.etc. During this time he displayed an immense capacity as a producer, composer, writer and arranger and was stationed in Taiwan, Hong Kong and China.

After 10 years of intensive work in commercial records production, Peter became aware that he had deviated from his original orientation, that of creation. So instead of satisfying himself as a secure player in the commercial record production game for the rest of his life, he determined to re-create for himself after the expiry of his contract with Rock Records in 1998. He then wrote, arranged and produced the original soundtrack of the gospel movie "Sky Knows".

Peter has performed at, and has been interviewed by, one of our famous broadcasting companies called "Cable TV", and the news of his musical success has spread through all our media in Chinese, English & Japanese. As the only Asian Winner of this competition, Peter Wu Tung Ming has made Asians feel proud the world over. With this win, his influence will certainly go beyond that on bona fide musical artists and discerning consumers of the Asian market... As a representative of the musical industry of the East, he has raised the profile of Hong Kong on the world.


Cyndi Chan - Rockmusic


(c 2002) CyndiChan for Peter Wu & JM Schroeder (interpretation, adaptions, graphical design) for the forum of authors.
Many thanks to Ms Ann Houng, CASH's CEO and Ms Cyndi Chan for their kind assistance in contacting Peter, and the contributions by Rockmusic/Hongkong. JM Schroeder