Lo (aka Teen) was born in New York and moved with his parents to Hong Kong when he was two years old. While in Hong Kong, he studied at St Paul's Co-educational Primary School and St. Paul's Co-educational College. In 1989, Lo moved to Seattle, Washington, in the United States to further his studies. He spent two years in the University of Washington and finished his degree in Graphics Design at Rhode Island School of Design in Providence, Rhode Island in 1999. After graduation, he worked as a web designer at Yahoo! in Sunnyvale, California.
Lo grew up in a family where music has always played an important role. His uncle, Ted Lo, is a famous music arranger and record producer in Hong Kong. In addition, the singer song writer was a member in the Hong Kong Children's Choir and he developed vast interest in music as he was growing up. In 1981, composer Joseph Koo Ka-Fai invited Justin, aged 5 at the time, and his younger sister Roxane to sing in a commercial for Barbie.
Lo felt the work at Yahoo! was challenging and exciting but because his true love was creating music, he decided to move back to Hong Kong to pursue his dream.
In 2006, Lo made his feature film debut with Love @ First Note, co-starring alongside youthful singers such as Kary Ng, Alex Fong, Stephy Tang, and Theresa Fu. That same year, Lo also co-starred in 2 Become 1 opposite Miriam Yeung and Richie Ren.
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For a while Lo did some freelance design work while sending numerous demo tapes to record and label companies. In 2003, his uncle Ted Lo introduced him to Mark Lui, one of the most popular pop-composers and producers in Hong Kong. Recognizing the talent in Justin, Lui signed him to his music producing company On Your Mark Ltd and Lo officially began his musical career in Hong Kong. He produced the album Day & Night for Janice and wrote two songs "大雄" and "傷追人" for Leo Ku.
In 2005, he performed in an a cappella section in Ku's Solid Gold Hits Concert. His outstanding performance was validated by Mr. Paco Wong from Gold Label Music Ltd. and Wong signed him up as a singer. His plugged songs "好人" (Good Person), "Erica", "命硬" (Hard Life) and "我有今日" (I Got It Going For Myself) (he wrote the latter three) received very positive responses. He is considered as one of the leading contenders of this year's New Male Artist Award.
His debut CD album Justin was released on November 29, 2005. Over half of the songs found in this album are written by him. It was a hit: 15,000 copies were sold on the first day. Sales reached 25,000 copies on December 20, 2005.
He held his debut concert in the Hong Kong Coliseum on March 26, 2006. The title of the show is One Good Show.The tickets were sold out in just within 10 minutes at February 13 and thus two more concerts XX( his 2nd and 3rd concert in 2006 )had been held on April 18 & 19, 2006.[1] In Sydney, Australia, in May 2006, he was in a concert, accompanied by Stephy Tang, Alex Fong and Wilfred Lau at Sydney Entertainment Centre and Melbourne Arts Centre on the 19th and 21st of May 2006 respectively. The title of the concert was J.A.W.S.: each letter representing the first letter of each artist. Justin held his fourth concert in Canton, China on Sept 1, 2006. The title of the concert was "Watson's Distilled Water: Listen to Justin Sing", followed by another show with the same title in Hong Kong Exhibition Center( his 5th concert for 2006) on Sept 13,2006. His sixth concert was held in Macau on October 21, 2006, One Good Show. His seventh concert in 2006 will be held in Malaysia on December 24, 2006. Title of the show is Justin Christmas Party Concert 2006, at the MIECC, The Mines in Malaysia. His seventh concert in February, 2007, titled "Justin In Love With Hong Kong Philharmonic" was again in the Hong Kong Coliseum, and were sold out as well. His eight concert was on February 14, 2007, Valentine's Day, held at Macau's Open Coliseum.
Justin released his second album, "No Protection", on March 24, 2006, two days before his debut concert "One Good Show" in the Hong Kong Coliseum.
In 2007 and 2008, he performed at the S.U.C.C.E.S.S. Charity Gala at Vancouver with many other artists.
Also, Justin went on a 3rd visit to Sydney to have another performance on the 26th May, 2007 at the Sydney Entertainment Centre with Theresa Fu.
Justin has released his third album, "JTV", in November 2007.
Justin is known to always wear a hat as his signature accessory.
Discography
November 29, 2005 - 側田 Justin (Debut Studio Album)
March 24, 2006 - No Protection (Second studio album)
March 26, 2006 - 側田 One Good Show (Concert)
April 18, 2006 - 側田 Two Good Shows (Concert)
August, 2006 - Love At First Note CD+DVD
July 5, 2006 - No Protection (Dual Disc Version)
March, 2007 - 港樂Ⅹ側田In Love with the Philharmonic Live CD (Concert)
April, 2007 - 港樂Ⅹ側田In Love with the Philharmonic Live CD + Karaoke DVD (Concert)
November 16, 2007 - JTV (Third Studio Album)
Awards
Metro Radio Hong Kong - 2005 Hits Award - I-Tech Best New Artist Metro Radio Hong Kong - 2005 Hits Award - New Generation Singer-Songwriter
Radio Television Hong Kong - 28th Top Ten Chinese Gold Songs Award - Best Pop Artist
Radio Television Hong Kong - 28th Top Ten Chinese Gold Songs Award - Best Male New Artist (Gold Award)
Radio Television Hong Kong - 28th Top Ten Chinese Gold Songs Award - Top 10 Song Award
Commercial Radio Hong Kong - Ultimate Song Chart 2005 - Best Male New Artist (Gold Award)
TVB - Jade Solid Gold Best Ten Award - Best Male New Artist (Gold Award)
Guangzhou Television - Award Show 2005 - Best New Singer-songwriter Award
TVB - Jade Solid Gold Best Ten Award - New Artist Award
Fairchild Radio - Hit Music Chart 2005 - Canadian Recommended Male New Artist
Fairchild Radio - Hit Music Chart 2005 - Top 10 Canadian Recommended Songs
Yahoo!! - Search "Buzz" Award 2005 - New Musical Force Award
one2free - Hong Kong Mobile Phone Entertainment Awards - Top 10 Ring Tone
Friday Magazine - College Students' Favorite - Best Male Artist
Private Magazine - Music Awards - New Male Singer-songwriter Award
RoadShow - Roadshow Awards 2005 - Best Male Artist
i-tech MetroRadio New Artist Show - Best New Artist - 2nd Place
Ming Pao - My Favourite Entertainment Awards - Top 10 Favourite Songs
Sprite - Chinese Music Chart Awards - New Artist (Hong Kong and Taiwan)
Commercial Radio Hong Kong - Ultimate Song Chart 2005 - My Favorite Male Artist - Top 10 Finalist
Commercial Radio Hong Kong - 903 Music First Anniversary - Best Song Online Election - 2nd Place
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