Tats Lau Yee-Tat (; born 23 February 1963) is a Hong Kong musician, songwriter and actor.
Music career
During the 1980s, Tats Lau was active in Hong Kong's independent music scene. He established several underground bands including DLLM and OEO (Oriental Electric Orchestra, which was influenced by
YMO).
Lau's career reached its climax when he established classic
Cantopop
Cantopop (a contraction of "Cantonese pop music") is a genre of pop music sung in Cantonese. Cantopop is also used to refer to the cultural context of its production and consumption. The genre began in the 1970s and became associated with Hon ...
duo
Tat Ming Pair with
Anthony Wong Yiu Ming. Tats Lau is the chief music composer and instrumentalist in Tat Ming Pair while Anthony Wong is the lead singer. Unlike other Cantopop musicians in the same generation, Tats Lau has strong influence of
Synthpop
Synth-pop (short for synthesizer pop; also called techno-pop; ) is a music genre that first became prominent in the late 1970s and features the synthesizer as the dominant musical instrument. It was prefigured in the 1960s and early 1970s ...
music from UK. Tat Ming Pair, along with
Beyond and Tai Chi, eventually became one of the most important music groups in Hong Kong history.
After the disbandment of Tat Ming Pair, Tats Lau has formed several music groups such as Tats Lau and Dream (), Tats Lau Government School () and . However, those groups only enjoy limited success in comparison with Tat Ming Pair. In 2009, Tats Lau formed the new band LOVE MISSION, and the other members are Charis Chung (, vocal), Rita Ip (, keyboard + background vocal), Man Kit Wong (, bass + background vocal), Anson Tang (, drums).
Film composer
Tats Lau is an active film score composer. He has collaborated with director
Clara Law and won the Best Original Film Score awards (shared with Wai Kai Leung) in both
Hong Kong Film Awards and
Golden Horse Film Festival by participating Clara Law's ''
Temptation of a Monk''.
Acting career
For the younger generation, Tats Lau would be more famous for his performance in many comedy films by
Stephen Chow such as ''
The God of Cookery'', ''
Forbidden City Cop'' and many other Hong Kong comedy films.
Filmography
*''
Cageman'' (1992)
*''
The God of Cookery'' (1996)
* ''
Forbidden City Cop'' (1996)
* ''
The Tricky Master'' (1999)
* ''
Fatal Contact'' (2006)
* ''
The Jade and the Pearl'' (2010)
* ''
Perfect Wedding'' (2010)
* ''
The Way We Were
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'' (2011)
* ''I Love Hong Kong 2012'' (2012)
* ''Good-for-Nothing Heros'' (2012)
* ''When C Goes with G7'' (2013)
* ''
Just Another Margin'' (2014)
* ''
Aberdeen
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'' (2014)
* ''
Kung Fu Angels'' (2014)
* ''
Ip Man 3'' (2015)
* ''Paws Men'' (2018)
* ''Lucid Dreams'' (2018)
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References
External links
*
HK cinemagic entry
* https://web.archive.org/web/20100126015058/http://www.lovemission.com.hk/
* https://web.archive.org/web/20110224215958/http://www.lauyeetat.com.hk/
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1963 births
Living people
Cantopop artists
Hong Kong rock guitarists
Hong Kong songwriters
Hong Kong male comedians
Hong Kong male film actors
Hong Kong male television actors
20th-century guitarists
21st-century guitarists
20th-century Hong Kong male actors
20th-century Hong Kong male singers
21st-century Hong Kong male actors
21st-century Hong Kong male singers