Hup Hup Sdn Bhd,

doing business as A trade name, trading name, or business name is a pseudonym used by companies that do not operate under their registered company name. The term for this type of alternative name is fictitious business name. Registering the fictitious name with ...

Life Records, is a Malaysian

record label "Big Three" music labels A record label or record company is a brand or trademark of Sound recording and reproduction, music recordings and music videos, or the company that owns it. Sometimes, a record label is also a Music publisher, ...

founded in 1949. It has subsidiaries in

Hong Kong Hong Kong)., Legally Hong Kong, China in international treaties and organizations. is a special administrative region of China. With 7.5 million residents in a territory, Hong Kong is the fourth most densely populated region in the wor ...

which founded in 1960 and

Singapore Singapore, officially the Republic of Singapore, is an island country and city-state in Southeast Asia. The country's territory comprises one main island, 63 satellite islands and islets, and one outlying islet. It is about one degree ...

which founded in 1966.

History

According to the company itself it was officially established based in Malaya on as King's Musical Industrial Sdn Bhd, King's Musical Industries Limited and Hup Hup Sdn Bhd. Subsidiaries in

British Hong Kong Hong Kong was under British Empire, British rule from 1841 to 1997, except for a Japanese occupation of Hong Kong, brief period of Japanese occupation during World War II from 1941 to 1945. It was a crown colony of the United Kingdom from 1841 ...

(The Life Records Limited ()) was officially established based in

on and

(Life Record Industries Pte Ltd ()) was officially established based in

on , according to the company. According to the company it was the first Malaya–

–

licensee for international record labels including

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, KAPP and MCA. Life's recording artists have included

Teresa Teng Teng Li-Chun ( zh, t=鄧麗君, s=, p=Dèng Lìjūn; 29 January 1953 – 8 May 1995), commonly known as Teresa Teng, was a Taiwanese singer, television personality, musician, and philanthropist. Referred to by some as the "Honorific nicknames i ...

and Frances Yip. In this year, the factory in

started production. The

subsidiary was chaired by millionaire Aw Cheng Chye at that time, The parent company was chaired by Ng Lian Chin () and Life Records (Hong Kong) was exported to

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and

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. Life Records (Hong Kong) started to produce

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that recorded directly from the original master recording.

Artists

* Teresa Teng (鄧麗君) * Frances Yip (葉麗儀) * You Ya (尤雅) * Qing Shan (青山) * Lee Yee (李逸) * Li Ya Ping (李亞萍) *Yang Xiao Ping (楊小萍) *Elaine Kang (江梦蕾) * Huang Qing Yuan (黃清元) *Kang Qiao (康乔) * Xie Lei (謝雷) *Mimi Gan (顏秋霞) * Rebecca Pan (潘迪華) *Tam Soon Chern (譚順成) * Mary Xie (謝玲玲) * Lisa Wong (麗莎) * Vansalrang (萬沙浪) *Chew Chin Yuin (邱清雲) *Wong Foong Foong (黃鳳鳳) * Yao Su Jung (姚苏蓉) * Wong Shiau Chuen (黄晓君) * Broery Marantika

References

External links

* Record label distributors 1949 establishments in Malaya 1960 establishments in Hong Kong 1966 establishments in Singapore Malaysian record labels Singaporean record labels Hong Kong record labels {{HongKong-company-stub