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Albert Au Shui Keung () is a
Hong Kong English pop Hong Kong English pop () is a genre of music consisting of English-language songs that are made, performed and popularised in Hong Kong. It is known as simply English pop by Hong Kongers. The height of the English pop era in Hong Kong was from th ...
and
Cantopop Cantopop (a contraction of "Cantonese pop music") or HK-pop (short for "Hong Kong pop music") is a genre of pop music written in standard Chinese and sung in Cantonese. Cantopop is also used to refer to the cultural context of its production ...
singer-songwriter and DJ of
RTHK Radio Television Hong Kong (RTHK) is the public broadcasting service in Hong Kong. GOW, the predecessor to RTHK, was established in 1928 as the first broadcasting service in Hong Kong. As a government department under the Commerce and Econom ...
. Albert grew up in Hong Kong, and his ancestral hometown is Zhaoqing city, Guangdong province. A graduate of
Hong Kong Baptist University Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU) is a publicly funded tertiary liberal arts education, liberal arts institution with a Christian ethics, Christian education heritage. It was established as Hong Kong Baptist College with the support of Ame ...
, he debuted in 1979 and achieved considerable fame in the 1980s with his
folk music Folk music is a music genre that includes traditional folk music and the contemporary genre that evolved from the former during the 20th-century folk revival. Some types of folk music may be called world music. Traditional folk music has b ...
. He also appeared in movies and on TV. He is also operating some music educational establishments. Albert will have two live shows to be performed at the Hong Kong Cultural Centre on June 21 and 22, 2021, titled "My Home You Will Reunite Concert 2021". Before that, he performed an online gig on May 14, accompanied by his friends on piano and guitar, it was billed as a prelude to the two live shows. The Straits Times. 2021-05-21


Filmography

* McDull, the Alumni (2006) *''Throw Down'' (2006) *'' Tigers, The Legend of Canton'' (''Guang Dong wu hu zhi tie quan wu di Sun Zhong Shan'') (1993) *''Let Us Flirt, Partner'' (''Pai dang chuang qing guan'') (1985) *''
The Return of Pom Pom ''The Return of Pom Pom'' (Chinese: 雙龍出海) is a 1984 Hong Kong comedy film directed by Philip Chan and starring Richard Ng and John Shum. It is the second film in the ''Pom Pom'' film series which is a spin-off the ''Lucky Stars'' series. ...
'' (1984) *''The Militarism Revival'' (''Nu ba tai yang qi'') (1983) *''Return of the Condor Heroes'' (''Sun diu hap lui'') (1983) *''
Love Encore Love encompasses a range of strong and positive emotional and mental states, from the most sublime virtue or good habit, the deepest interpersonal affection, to the simplest pleasure. An example of this range of meanings is that the love o ...
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TVB Television Broadcasts Limited (TVB) is a television broadcasting company based in Hong Kong SAR. The Company operates five free-to-air terrestrial television channels in Hong Kong, with TVB Jade as its main Cantonese language service, and ...
1982) *''Sealed with a Kiss'' (''Liang xiao wu zhi'') (1981) *''
Dangerous Encounters of the First Kind ''Dangerous Encounters of the First Kind'' () is a 1980 Hong Kong crime film directed by Tsui Hark. The initial cut of the film was banned for its violence, generating public interest in the film that caused its edited version to become a box o ...
'' (''Di yi lei xing wei xian'') (1980)


Albums

* ''Folk Together'' (Disc 1) * ''Folk Together'' (Disc 2) * ''Folk Together'' (Disc 3)


Covered Songs

* "The Sound of Silence" * "I'll Have To Say I Love You in a Song" * "Longer" * "Vincent" * "If" * "You've Got a Friend" * "Windflowers" * "Bridge over Trouble Water" * "Danny's Song" * "Dust in the Wind" * "Diary" * "Perhaps Love" * "The End of the World" * "Visions" * "Love Me Tender" * "Both Sides Now" * "Rhinestone Cowboy" * "Streets of London" * "House of Rising Sun" * "Yellow Bird" * "Try to Remember" * "Country Roads" * "
When a Child Is Born "When A Child Is Born" is a popular Christmas song. The original melody was "Soleado", a tune from 1974 by Ciro Dammicco (alias Zacar), composer for Italy's Daniel Sentacruz Ensemble, and Dario Baldan Bembo. The tune was based on Damicco's earlie ...
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Discography


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{{DEFAULTSORT:Au, Albert Hong Kong male singers Cantonese-language singers Cantonese people English-language singers from Hong Kong Living people 1955 births Alumni of Hong Kong Baptist University