Eric Moo Chii Yuan (, born 9 February 1963), better known as Eric Moo or Wu Qixian, is a

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singer-songwriter and record producer.

Personal life

Moo was born in Mambang Diawan, Kampar,

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on 9 February 1963. He moved to

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with his family when he was 8 years old. Moo is married to Taiwanese model Pang Meijun and they have two daughters. Moo's eldest daughter Yonghuan is attending

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Career

Moo studied in Shuqun Primary School, The Chinese High School and

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in Singapore. He started his first band, "Subway Band" (地下铁), in high school and began performing on stage in 1983. A year later, he released his first album, which topped Singapore's

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s for

Mandopop Mandopop or Mandapop refers to Mandarin popular music. The genre has its origin in the jazz-influenced popular music of 1930s Shanghai known as Shidaiqu; later influences came from Japanese enka, Hong Kong's Cantopop, Taiwan's Hokkien pop ...

. Subsequently, he launched his singing career in the Taiwan. Since then, Moo has released more than 40 albums in Mandarin and Cantonese, and performed in over 40 concerts. During the 1980s and 1990s, Moo was part of the ''

xinyao ''Xinyao'' ( zh, s=wikt:新謠, 新謠, p=Xīnyáo) is a genre of songs originating from Singapore. It is a contemporary Mandarin vocal genre that emerged between the late 1970s to 1980s. ''Xinyao'' songs are typically composed and sung by Singapo ...

'' movement and his peers included Lee Wei Song, Lee Shih Shiong, Billy Koh and

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. One of his more memorable songs is "Kopi O" (咖啡乌), which he performed himself for the popular SBC 1985 drama series ''The Coffee Shop''. At the Star Awards 2007 anniversary special, he revealed that he had insisted on using the term " Kopi O" in its original Hokkien rather than transliterating it into Mandarin according to the

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regulations. In early 2006, Moo shifted his focus to the mainland Chinese market. He was a judge on four Chinese singing competition TV shows, '' Super Girl, Happy Girl,

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'' and '' Voice Legend''. He held a controversial concert on 27 May 2012 at Suntec City. After having the understanding by the show's organisers that it was an evangelical concert, he sang only two of his own songs and decided to spread Christianity for the rest of his concert, sparking fury in many fans young and old who was not informed that it was an evangelical event. The concert organisers later offered refunds. From July to August 2014, 12 of his classic hits were featured in the musical ''Innamorati'', directed by Goh Boon Teck and written by Jiang Daini, sung by various Singapore

singers. Moo most recently performed at the xinyao-themed ''Tomorrow 32'' series of concerts in August 2014, ''The Songs We Sang'' showcase in the same year and ''Eric Moo in Concert'' in November 2014, which was dedicated to xinyao.

Discography

Mandarin albums

* 新马：心情 (1985) * 新马：年輕的心 (1986) * 新马：何必孤独（1987） * 新马：唱不完的爱情（1987） * 新马：城市情歌（1988） * 新马：作品集（1988） * 台湾：個性生活寫真集 ��是我的唯一(1988) * 新马：奇迹（1989） * 台湾：個性生活寫真集2 ��必孤獨(1989) * 新马台：為了你 ��個像我這樣的男子(1989) * 台湾：唱不完的情歌 ��啟賢的柔情之旅(1990) * 新马台：傷心情話 ��心的人更傷心(1991) * 新马台：赤子心情 ��否你曾偷偷的哭(1992) * 新马台：我真的要走了 ��到自己身邊(1992) * 新马台：紅塵來去一場夢 (1993) * 新马台：这次不是流言（等你等到我心痛） (September 1993) * 新马台：湊熱鬧 (1994) * 新马港台: 太傻 ''Too silly'' (January 1994) EMI * 新马台：愛情傀儡 ''Love Puppet'' (October 1994) EMI * 新马台：愛那麼重 (August 1995) * 新马台：思念誰 (January 1996) * 新马台：我感覺不到你 (July 1996) * 新马台：賢言賢語 (August 1997) * 新马台：啟賢留文正 (March 1998) * 新马台：我是你的（只愛一點點） (October 1998) * 新马台：團圓（感動） (November 2000) * 新马台：都是路彎彎 (March 2002) * 新马台：好经典 (November 2009)

Cantonese albums

* 浪子心聲 (1989) * 心酸的情歌 (23 June 1994) * 有心 ��因你傷心(1995) * 風中有你 (1996) * 因為你 (1996) * Denon Mastersonic - 巫啟賢 (1997) * 日语单曲碟 (1998)

Compilations/Live albums

* 巫啟賢的傻情歌 (December 1996) * 演唱會精選 (1997) * 尋賢啟事 (December 1999)

References

External links

*
2007 interview in English
{{DEFAULTSORT:Moo, Eric 1963 births Living people Malaysian people of Hakka descent People from Kampar, Perak Malaysian musicians Singaporean Mandopop singers 20th-century Singaporean male singers Mandopop singer-songwriters Cantonese-language singers People from Perak People from Dongguan 20th-century Malaysian male actors Hakka musicians Malaysian Hokkien pop singers Malaysian male pop singers Malaysian rock singers Malaysian Christians