Romeo Diaz () is a Filipino music composer, record producer and music director. He was one of the members of the popular band

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in Hong Kong in the 1960s along with his two brothers, Danny Diaz and Rudy Diaz.

Biography

Romeo Diaz began his musical career in the 1960s as a member of the Hong Kong pop group “The Diaz Brothers”. In the 1970 he started to compose for many singers in

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. In 1983 he became the resident musical director for EMI records in Hong Kong. In 1984 he started music production company, ''Musicad'', that won a lot of awards for advertising campaigns throughout its operation. He has worked in close partnership with a composer and talk-show host, James Wong, and he has also collaborated with film directors such as

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, Tsui Hark,

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and John Woo. He has also won film awards for his work such as ''“Chinese Ghost Story”'' and ''“A Terra Cotta Warrior"''. He lives in Hong Kong.

Works

*Music for the movie ''

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'' in 1991 *Music for the movie ''

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'' () in 1989 with James Wong *Music for the movie '' A Chinese Ghost Story'' () in 1987 with James Wong *Music for the movie '' Righting Wrongs'' () in 1986

Accomplishments

*Best Original Film Score for the film ''

'' at the

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*Silver place of the Best Commercial Song Awards at the RTHK Top 10 Gold Songs Awards in 1991

Personal life

Romeo Diaz has two children.

Children

* Adam Diaz () is a music composer arranger. record producer, and guitarist of Hong Kong local bands. * Krystal Diaz () is a singer songwriter and a Certified Level 2 vocal coach of peech Level Singing(SLS) in Hong Kong.

References

Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Filipino film score composers {{Philippines-musician-stub