Grasshopper is a
Hong Kong
Hong Kong ( (US) or (UK); , ), officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China ( abbr. Hong Kong SAR or HKSAR), is a city and special administrative region of China on the eastern Pearl River Delt ...
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 ...
male group formed in 1985.
The band consists of Edmond Chi-Wai So (Chinese:
蘇志威), Calvin Yat-Chi Choy (Chinese:
蔡一智) and Remus Yat-Kit Choy (Chinese:
蔡一傑).
Career
Calvin and Remus are brothers and grew up with neighbour Edmond in a poor neighbourhood in Hong Kong.
It was Remus who was interested in dancing and singing at the beginning. His mother was his dancing teacher. In order to enter a talent competition, the 16-year-old Remus enlisted Calvin and Edmond as his back-up dancers. The act did not make it far in the competition but began to perform as a trio. They later named themselves Grasshopper inspired by their agility and favourite cocktail.
In 1985, the trio auditioned in the Hong Kong
New Talent Singing Awards
New Talent Singing Awards (Traditional Chinese: 新秀歌唱大賽) or ''NTSA'' for short, later re-organised into New Talent Singing Awards International Finals (Traditional Chinese: 全球華人新秀歌唱大賽) or ''NTSA International Fina ...
where
Anita Mui
Anita Mui Yim-fong (; 10 October 1963 – 30 December 2003) was a Hong Kong singer and actress who made major contributions to the Cantopop music scene and received numerous awards and honours. She remained an idol throughout her career, and i ...
was one of the judges.
Before their turn to perform during the audition, the venue had a black-out. While waiting for candles to be lit to illuminate the venue, Anita chatted with the trio and were impressed with them.
They would later reached the finals but failed to be placed in the top three. Mui subsequently invited them to be her back-up dancers/singers.
The trio released their first album in February 1988 and continued to go on tour with Anita Mui. In 2000, Edmond was approached by
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 ...
to star in a series. This started a period where the Grasshopper members pursued their respective solo careers. Contrary to popular belief, the band never was dissolved.
They stopped singing and focused on acting for a few years, but returned to music in 2005 when they opened a few successful concerts. They are best known for their talent and their physical features.
The band currently hold concerts all over the world including in
Las Vegas
Las Vegas (; Spanish for "The Meadows"), often known simply as Vegas, is the 25th-most populous city in the United States, the most populous city in the state of Nevada, and the county seat of Clark County. The city anchors the Las Vegas ...
.
Edmond So has 2 daughters, Yumi (born in 1999) and Ina (born in 2007), with his wife, former singer
Winnie Lau Siu Wai. The pair met and began dating in the early 1990s and got married in 1998. This caused anger from fans of
Roger Kwok
Roger Kwok Chun-on is a Hong Kong television actor and former singer, who works for the TV station TVB. Kwok was born in Hong Kong, and his native family roots are in Zhongshan, Guangdong. He is one of the three actors who won Best Actor three t ...
as Winnie was Roger's girlfriend at that time. Roger and Edmond starred in a TVB series together in 2003 called the Greed Mask. Calvin Choy has a daughter and a son, but also a stepdaughter Gigi from his wife's previous marriage, but his brother, Remus Choy, is still unmarried.
In 2020, Remus Choy has created his own YouTube channel (傑少煮意RemusKitchen) that mainly focuses on his love for cooking and teaching recipes. His channel has been a huge success, renewing public interest of him not only as a singer, but also as a 'chef'. Then in 12 December 2021, Grasshopper launched their official YouTube channel called "GRASSHOPPER CHANNEL" focusing on just about everything such as their career, with touches of variety show - talk and having fun.
Discography
Cantonese
# Grasshopper I (26 February 1988)
# Grasshopper II (烈火快車) (18 October 1988)
# Grasshopper III (21 June 1989)
# Grasshopper IV (1 March 1990)
# Grasshopper The Best (7 September 1990)
# Grasshopper (物質女郎) (20 December 1990)
# Lonely EP (19 April 1991)
# You Are Everything (18 July 1991)
# 永遠愛著您 (23 January 1992)
# Grasshopper 限時忘情- Remix (27 April 1992)
# La La Means I Love You (13 August 1992)
# 捨不得的感覺 (18 December 1992)
# 世界會變得很美 (18 May 1993)
# 與你在一起 (13 January 1994)
# 音樂昆蟲 (17 October 1994)
# 三人主義 (1995)
# Present (1996)
# 草蜢音樂店 (Grasshopper Shop) (1996)
# 照常營業 (Now Open) (1997)
Mandarin
# 失戀陣線聯盟 (1990)
# 寶貝,對不起 (1993)
# 暗戀的代價 (1994)
# 愛不怕 (1995)
# 有緣來做伙 (1996)
# Ba-ba-ba 不屬於 (1997)
# Music Walker音悅行者 (2016)
References
External links
Grasshopper Channel
Cantopop musical groups
Hong Kong boy bands
New Talent Singing Awards contestants
Vocal trios
Musical groups established in 1985
1985 establishments in Hong Kong
Hong Kong idols
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