Teresa Carpio is a Hong Kong English popular and Cantopop singer, actress, and singing teacher.
Background
Carpio"s father is Filipino and her mother Chinese. (Her grandfather was a concert violinist 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.
Career
She is the mother of singer Television Carpio. Born into a musical family. She released many albums in Hong Kong from 1976 onwards.
Her early releases under Electric and Music Industries such as the Electric and Music Industries"s "Sound Hit" series on vinyl record.
Eventually six of her album under Electric and Music Industries 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 television in Japan. She has performed in many other countries as far apart as Singapore, Malaysia, Tahiti, Australia, Japan, Thailand, Brunei, the United States of America 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 Mission Saigon. 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, Malaysia to help save the life of a 14-year-old girl needing heart surgery.
She helped raise $8000. 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 Civil Defense and Digital Video Disc. 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 has since moved and resides in Hong Kong again.