Teresa Carpio
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Teresa Carpio is a Hong Kong English pop
and Cantopop singer, actor
and singing teacher, born in Hong Kong. She is the mother of singer T. V. Carpio
.
and her mother Chinese
. Born into a musical family. (Her grandfather was a concert violin
ist and jazz guitarist
, her father Fernando, a jazz drummer, and several uncles were also professional musicians.) Carpio began her career as a child star
, winning Hong Kong's first Amateur Talent Quest in 1963 at the age of 6.
Teresa Carpio is a Hong Kong English pop
and Cantopop singer, actor
and singing teacher, born in Hong Kong. She is the mother of singer T. V. Carpio
.
and her mother Chinese
. Born into a musical family. (Her grandfather was a concert violin
ist and jazz guitarist
, her father Fernando, a jazz drummer, and several uncles were also professional musicians.) Carpio began her career as a child star
, winning Hong Kong's first Amateur Talent Quest in 1963 at the age of 6.
Teresa Carpio is a Hong Kong English pop
and Cantopop singer, actor
and singing teacher, born in Hong Kong. She is the mother of singer T. V. Carpio
.
and her mother Chinese
. Born into a musical family. (Her grandfather was a concert violin
ist and jazz guitarist
, her father Fernando, a jazz drummer, and several uncles were also professional musicians.) Carpio began her career as a child star
, winning Hong Kong's first Amateur Talent Quest in 1963 at the age of 6.
, on which she performed both solo and with several of her siblings. She released many albums in Hong Kong from 1976 onwards; her early releases under EMI
such as the EMI's "Sound Hit" series on vinyl record. Eventually six of her album under EMI went gold, in which she featured cover versions in English
of western hits, including an album with George Lam
. She made numerous television appearances in Hong Kong, in the late 1970s.
Carpio was the first and the youngest Hong Kong singer ever, to appear on national TV, in Japan. She has performed in many other countries as far apart as Singapore
, Malaysia, Tahiti
,Australia, Japan, Thailand, Brunei
, the USA and Canada
.
With the growing popularity of Cantopop
, Carpio started to record in Cantonese along with English
, remaining popular despite increasing competition from newer stars, notably Anita Mui
. Carpio broadened her career into acting with appearances in a number of films, and auditioned for the lead role in Miss Saigon
. Though this eventually went to Lea Salonga
, Teresa took the lead role in the 1979 San Jose, California
production of the stage musical City of Broken Promises, based on the book by Austin Coates
, a story set in Macau
which won "Best Original Musical" for 1975. Another starring stage role was in 68 performances of I Have A Date With Spring in Hong Kong in 2001. Carpio appeared on the cover of the December 1986 issue of the Hong Kong edition of Playboy
magazine, which featured a topless pictorial of her.
In 1980, Carpio sang for a charity in Penang
, Malasia to help save the life of a 14 year old girl needing heart surgery. She helped raise $8000 Dollars.
Following her second marriage, Carpio moved to Canada and focused her attention on bringing up her family (she has three daughters; the eldest, T. V. Carpio
, by her first marriage, also an actor, singer and songwriter
). However, Carpio still makes occasional concert appearances, including a series of performances with the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra
in 2003 that became a Hong Kong bestseller on CD and DVD.
Carpio now teaches singing to children, and has established her own music schools in Canada and Hong Kong. She has also coached Hong Kong stars including Sandy Lam
, Sammi Cheng
, Jade Kwan, Cecilia Cheung, Joey Yung, Gigi Leung
, Alex To, Edmund Leung, Twins, Wong Cho Lam and many more. Gigi Leung and other popular local singers including Jacky Cheung
and George Lam
have appeared as guest performers in some of Carpio's concerts. She and Lam gave a series of joint concerts at the Hong Kong Coliseum
in 2007. More recently she appeared on Hong Kong television as a judge and head vocal coach on season two of the singing competition The Voice
.
She lived in Springfield, Missouri
with her second husband, journalist Andreas Panayi. She has since moved and resides in Hong Kong again.
Hong Kong English pop
Hong Kong English pop are English language songs that are made, performed and popularized in Hong Kong. Known as simply English pop by Hong Kong people...
and Cantopop singer, actor
Actor
An actor is a person who acts in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio in that capacity...
and singing teacher, born in Hong Kong. She is the mother of singer T. V. Carpio
T. V. Carpio
-Life and career:Carpio was born in Oklahoma City. She is the daughter of Hong Kong Chinese-Filipina singer Teresa Carpio, with whom she has performed on stage as a backup singer. Her mother has also recorded one of her compositions. Her father is Peter Mui, who co-founded Tungtex Co Ltd, a Hong...
.
Family background
Carpio's father is FilipinoFilipino people
The Filipino people or Filipinos are an Austronesian ethnic group native to the islands of the Philippines. There are about 92 million Filipinos in the Philippines, and about 11 million living outside the Philippines ....
and her mother Chinese
Chinese people
The term Chinese people may refer to any of the following:*People with Han Chinese ethnicity ....
. Born into a musical family. (Her grandfather was a concert violin
Violin
The violin is a string instrument, usually with four strings tuned in perfect fifths. It is the smallest, highest-pitched member of the violin family of string instruments, which includes the viola and cello....
ist and jazz guitarist
Jazz guitarist
Jazz guitarists are guitar players who play jazz music on the guitar using an approach to playing chords, melodies, and improvised solo lines which is called jazz guitar playing. The guitar has fulfilled the roles of accompanist and soloist in small and large ensembles and also as an unaccompanied...
, her father Fernando, a jazz drummer, and several uncles were also professional musicians.) Carpio began her career as a child star
Child star
Child star can refer to:* a child actor* a child singer*"Child Star," a song by The Unicorns from their 2003 album Who Will Cut Our Hair When We're Gone?...
, winning Hong Kong's first Amateur Talent Quest in 1963 at the age of 6.
Teresa Carpio is a Hong Kong English pop
Hong Kong English pop
Hong Kong English pop are English language songs that are made, performed and popularized in Hong Kong. Known as simply English pop by Hong Kong people...
and Cantopop singer, actor
Actor
An actor is a person who acts in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio in that capacity...
and singing teacher, born in Hong Kong. She is the mother of singer T. V. Carpio
T. V. Carpio
-Life and career:Carpio was born in Oklahoma City. She is the daughter of Hong Kong Chinese-Filipina singer Teresa Carpio, with whom she has performed on stage as a backup singer. Her mother has also recorded one of her compositions. Her father is Peter Mui, who co-founded Tungtex Co Ltd, a Hong...
.
Family background
Carpio's father is FilipinoFilipino people
The Filipino people or Filipinos are an Austronesian ethnic group native to the islands of the Philippines. There are about 92 million Filipinos in the Philippines, and about 11 million living outside the Philippines ....
and her mother Chinese
Chinese people
The term Chinese people may refer to any of the following:*People with Han Chinese ethnicity ....
. Born into a musical family. (Her grandfather was a concert violin
Violin
The violin is a string instrument, usually with four strings tuned in perfect fifths. It is the smallest, highest-pitched member of the violin family of string instruments, which includes the viola and cello....
ist and jazz guitarist
Jazz guitarist
Jazz guitarists are guitar players who play jazz music on the guitar using an approach to playing chords, melodies, and improvised solo lines which is called jazz guitar playing. The guitar has fulfilled the roles of accompanist and soloist in small and large ensembles and also as an unaccompanied...
, her father Fernando, a jazz drummer, and several uncles were also professional musicians.) Carpio began her career as a child star
Child star
Child star can refer to:* a child actor* a child singer*"Child Star," a song by The Unicorns from their 2003 album Who Will Cut Our Hair When We're Gone?...
, winning Hong Kong's first Amateur Talent Quest in 1963 at the age of 6.
Teresa Carpio is a Hong Kong English pop
Hong Kong English pop
Hong Kong English pop are English language songs that are made, performed and popularized in Hong Kong. Known as simply English pop by Hong Kong people...
and Cantopop singer, actor
Actor
An actor is a person who acts in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio in that capacity...
and singing teacher, born in Hong Kong. She is the mother of singer T. V. Carpio
T. V. Carpio
-Life and career:Carpio was born in Oklahoma City. She is the daughter of Hong Kong Chinese-Filipina singer Teresa Carpio, with whom she has performed on stage as a backup singer. Her mother has also recorded one of her compositions. Her father is Peter Mui, who co-founded Tungtex Co Ltd, a Hong...
.
Family background
Carpio's father is FilipinoFilipino people
The Filipino people or Filipinos are an Austronesian ethnic group native to the islands of the Philippines. There are about 92 million Filipinos in the Philippines, and about 11 million living outside the Philippines ....
and her mother Chinese
Chinese people
The term Chinese people may refer to any of the following:*People with Han Chinese ethnicity ....
. Born into a musical family. (Her grandfather was a concert violin
Violin
The violin is a string instrument, usually with four strings tuned in perfect fifths. It is the smallest, highest-pitched member of the violin family of string instruments, which includes the viola and cello....
ist and jazz guitarist
Jazz guitarist
Jazz guitarists are guitar players who play jazz music on the guitar using an approach to playing chords, melodies, and improvised solo lines which is called jazz guitar playing. The guitar has fulfilled the roles of accompanist and soloist in small and large ensembles and also as an unaccompanied...
, her father Fernando, a jazz drummer, and several uncles were also professional musicians.) Carpio began her career as a child star
Child star
Child star can refer to:* a child actor* a child singer*"Child Star," a song by The Unicorns from their 2003 album Who Will Cut Our Hair When We're Gone?...
, winning Hong Kong's first Amateur Talent Quest in 1963 at the age of 6.
Career
For several years from 1975 onwards Carpio had her own TV variety show in Hong KongHong Kong
Hong Kong is one of two Special Administrative Regions of the People's Republic of China , the other being Macau. A city-state situated on China's south coast and enclosed by the Pearl River Delta and South China Sea, it is renowned for its expansive skyline and deep natural harbour...
, on which she performed both solo and with several of her siblings. She released many albums in Hong Kong from 1976 onwards; her early releases under EMI
EMI
The EMI Group, also known as EMI Music or simply EMI, is a multinational music company headquartered in London, United Kingdom. It is the fourth-largest business group and family of record labels in the recording industry and one of the "big four" record companies. EMI Group also has a major...
such as the EMI's "Sound Hit" series on vinyl record. Eventually six of her album under EMI went gold, in which she featured cover versions in English
English language
English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...
of western hits, including an album with George Lam
George Lam
George Lam Chi Cheung, also known professionally by his surname Lam, is a Hong Kong-based veteran Cantopop singer and actor of Xinhui area origin. Lam studied at the Diocesan Boys' School in Kowloon, Hong Kong...
. She made numerous television appearances in Hong Kong, in the late 1970s.
Carpio was the first and the youngest Hong Kong singer ever, to appear on national TV, in Japan. She has performed in many other countries as far apart as Singapore
Singapore
Singapore , officially the Republic of Singapore, is a Southeast Asian city-state off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, north of the equator. An island country made up of 63 islands, it is separated from Malaysia by the Straits of Johor to its north and from Indonesia's Riau Islands by the...
, Malaysia, Tahiti
Tahiti
Tahiti is the largest island in the Windward group of French Polynesia, located in the archipelago of the Society Islands in the southern Pacific Ocean. It is the economic, cultural and political centre of French Polynesia. The island was formed from volcanic activity and is high and mountainous...
,Australia, Japan, Thailand, Brunei
Brunei
Brunei , officially the State of Brunei Darussalam or the Nation of Brunei, the Abode of Peace , is a sovereign state located on the north coast of the island of Borneo, in Southeast Asia...
, the USA and Canada
Canada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
.
With the growing popularity of Cantopop
Cantopop
Cantopop is a colloquialism for "Cantonese popular music". It is sometimes referred to as HK-pop, short for "Hong Kong popular music". It is categorized as a subgenre of Chinese popular music within C-pop...
, Carpio started to record in Cantonese along with English
English language
English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...
, remaining popular despite increasing competition from newer stars, notably Anita Mui
Anita Mui
Anita Mui Yim-fong was a popular Hong Kong singer and actress. During her prime years she made major contributions to the cantopop music scene, while receiving numerous awards and honours. She remained an idol throughout most of her career, and was generally regarded as a cantopop diva...
. Carpio broadened her career into acting with appearances in a number of films, and auditioned for the lead role in Miss Saigon
Miss Saigon
Miss Saigon is a musical by Claude-Michel Schönberg and Alain Boublil, with lyrics by Boublil and Richard Maltby, Jr.. It is based on Giacomo Puccini's opera Madame Butterfly, and similarly tells the tragic tale of a doomed romance involving an Asian woman abandoned by her American lover...
. Though this eventually went to Lea Salonga
Lea Salonga
Lea Salonga-Chien is a mezzo-soprano singer and actress from the Philippines well known for originating the lead role of Kim in the musical Miss Saigon, for which she won the Olivier, Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics and Theatre World awards.She was the first Asian to play the roles of Éponine and...
, Teresa took the lead role in the 1979 San Jose, California
San Jose, California
San Jose is the third-largest city in California, the tenth-largest in the U.S., and the county seat of Santa Clara County which is located at the southern end of San Francisco Bay...
production of the stage musical City of Broken Promises, based on the book by Austin Coates
Austin Coates
Austin Coates was a British civil servant, writer and traveller. He was the son of noted English composer Eric Coates.Austin Coates wrote extensively on topics related to the Asia-Pacific region, particularly Hong Kong and Macau...
, a story set in Macau
Macau
Macau , also spelled Macao , is, along with Hong Kong, one of the two special administrative regions of the People's Republic of China...
which won "Best Original Musical" for 1975. Another starring stage role was in 68 performances of I Have A Date With Spring in Hong Kong in 2001. Carpio appeared on the cover of the December 1986 issue of the Hong Kong edition of Playboy
Playboy
Playboy is an American men's magazine that features photographs of nude women as well as journalism and fiction. It was founded in Chicago in 1953 by Hugh Hefner and his associates, and funded in part by a $1,000 loan from Hefner's mother. The magazine has grown into Playboy Enterprises, Inc., with...
magazine, which featured a topless pictorial of her.
In 1980, Carpio sang for a charity in Penang
Penang
Penang is a state in Malaysia and the name of its constituent island, located on the northwest coast of Peninsular Malaysia by the Strait of Malacca. It is bordered by Kedah in the north and east, and Perak in the south. Penang is the second smallest Malaysian state in area after Perlis, and the...
, Malasia to help save the life of a 14 year old girl needing heart surgery. She helped raise $8000 Dollars.
Following her second marriage, Carpio moved to Canada and focused her attention on bringing up her family (she has three daughters; the eldest, T. V. Carpio
T. V. Carpio
-Life and career:Carpio was born in Oklahoma City. She is the daughter of Hong Kong Chinese-Filipina singer Teresa Carpio, with whom she has performed on stage as a backup singer. Her mother has also recorded one of her compositions. Her father is Peter Mui, who co-founded Tungtex Co Ltd, a Hong...
, by her first marriage, also an actor, singer and songwriter
Songwriter
A songwriter is an individual who writes both the lyrics and music to a song. Someone who solely writes lyrics may be called a lyricist, and someone who only writes music may be called a composer...
). However, Carpio still makes occasional concert appearances, including a series of performances with the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra
Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra
The Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra , is the largest symphony orchestra in Hong Kong. First established in 1895 as an amateur orchestra, under the name Sino-British Orchestra, it was renamed the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra in 1957, and became a professional orchestra in 1974 under the funding...
in 2003 that became a Hong Kong bestseller on CD and DVD.
Carpio now teaches singing to children, and has established her own music schools in Canada and Hong Kong. She has also coached Hong Kong stars including Sandy Lam
Sandy Lam
Sandy Lam, also known as Lam Yik Lin, is a Cantopop singer who sings in Cantonese, Mandarin, English, and Japanese.-Career:...
, Sammi Cheng
Sammi Cheng
Sammi Cheng Sau-Man is a Hong Kong Cantopop singer and actress. Having enjoyed much success in the Hong Kong music industry, Sammi has been known as a diva and has been one of the most successful female singer in Hong Kong since the 1990s. Her albums have sold more than 25 million copies through...
, Jade Kwan, Cecilia Cheung, Joey Yung, Gigi Leung
Gigi Leung
Gigi Leung Wing-kei is a Hong Kong Cantopop singer and actress.-Biography:Given the name Leung Bik-Zi at birth, at the age of 7 her mother changed her name changed to 'Wing-Kei' for superstitious reasons; as a child, Leung suffered from frequent asthma attacks and it was believed a change of name...
, Alex To, Edmund Leung, Twins, Wong Cho Lam and many more. Gigi Leung and other popular local singers including Jacky Cheung
Jacky Cheung
Jacky Cheung is a Hong Kong singer-songwriter and actor. The Chinese language media refers to him, Aaron Kwok, Andy Lau and Leon Lai as the Cantopop Four Heavenly Kings , with more than 60 million records sold as of 2000....
and George Lam
George Lam
George Lam Chi Cheung, also known professionally by his surname Lam, is a Hong Kong-based veteran Cantopop singer and actor of Xinhui area origin. Lam studied at the Diocesan Boys' School in Kowloon, Hong Kong...
have appeared as guest performers in some of Carpio's concerts. She and Lam gave a series of joint concerts at the Hong Kong Coliseum
Hong Kong Coliseum
Hong Kong Coliseum is a multi-purpose indoor arena, in Hung Hom, Kowloon, Hong Kong.It was built by the Urban Council and inaugurated on 27 April 1983....
in 2007. More recently she appeared on Hong Kong television as a judge and head vocal coach on season two of the singing competition The Voice
The Voice (Hong Kong singing competition program)
The Voice 超級巨聲 is a Hong Kong reality show style singing competition broadcast by TVB, and also selects Hong Kong's representative to the New Talent Singing Awards International Finals. It is unrelated to the singing competition franchise, The Voice of Holland.The first season was presented by...
.
She lived in Springfield, Missouri
Springfield, Missouri
Springfield is the third largest city in the U.S. state of Missouri and the county seat of Greene County. According to the 2010 census data, the population was 159,498, an increase of 5.2% since the 2000 census. The Springfield Metropolitan Area, population 436,712, includes the counties of...
with her second husband, journalist Andreas Panayi. She has since moved and resides in Hong Kong again.
External links
- Teresa Carpio, Asia's First Lady of Song - Official website; includes an incomplete discography
- HK cinemagic entry