- Tats Lau
Tats Lau Yee Tat (劉以達) (born
February 23 ,1963 ) is a musician and comedy actor inHong Kong .Music career
At early 1980s, Tats Lau has been active in Hong Kong independent music scene has established several underground bands including DLLM and OEO (Oriental Electric Orchestra, which Tats Lau has admitted that the band imitates
YMO ).Tats Lau reached his musical career climax while he established classic Cantopop duo
Tat Ming Pair withAnthony Wong Yiu Ming . Tats Lau is the chief music composer and instrumentalist in Tat Ming Pair while Anthony Wong is the lead singer. Unlike other Canotpop musicians in the same generation, Tats Lau has strong influence ofNew Romantics music from UK. Tat Ming Pair, along with Beyond and Tai Chi, eventually became one of the most important music groups in Hong Kong history.After the disband of Tat Ming Pair, Tats Lau has formed several music groups such as Tats Lau and Dream (劉以達與夢), Tats Lau Government School (劉以達官立小學) and most recently 達與璐. However, those groups only enjoy limited success in comparison with Tat Ming Pair.
Film Score Composer
At 1990s, Tats Lau is an active film score composer. He has collaborated with director
Clara Law and won the Best Original Film Score awards (shared with Wai Kai Leung) in bothHong Kong Film Awards andGolden Horse Film Festival by participating Clara Law's "Temptation of Monk".Filming career
For the younger generation, Tats Lau would be more famous for his performance in many comedy films by
Stephen Chow such as "God of Cookery ", "Forbidden City Cop " and many other Hong Kong comedy films.External links
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* [http://www.hkcinemagic.com/en/people.asp?id=954 HK cinemagic entry]
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