Billy Koh

Billy Koh () is a music producer, best known for producing Singaporean singers, such as Kit Chan, A-Do, JJ Lin and BY2. He is one of the founders of record label, Ocean Butterflies Music And Co-founder of the Composers and Authors Society of Singapore, COMPASS.

Career

In 1994, Koh successfully produced and launched Kit Chan's Taiwan debut album, Heartache.

In 2002, Koh crafted a then construction foreman, A-do, to a singer. A-do's debut album sold for more than 2 millions copies within six months across Asia. Billboard magazine covered the story of A-Do in Feb 8th 2003’s issue.

In 2003, Koh produced & launched another young Singapore composer-singer, JJ Lin. JJ’s debut album lead him to win the Best New-comer in 15th Taiwan’s Gold Melody Awards.

In 2004, Koh was awarded the 'Best Producer' for JJ’s second album, Second Heaven (album) (第二天堂) in China National Music Award (中國原創歌曲獎). This is the first time for Singaporean to received musical awards & recognition from China National Statutory Board.

In 2007, Koh was invited to speak at a high-level conference held in Brussels, jointly organized by the European Commission, SABAM (Belgium Society of Authors, Composers & Publishers) and the Music Copyright Society of China. In the same year, he was invited to lecture to a master class at Peking University.

Since 2008, Koh has spoken at several international music forums including: 1)MidemNet held in Cannes (2008). 2)Canadian Music Industry Mission to Asia held in Tokyo, Japan (2008) 3)Canadian Music Week held in Toronto, Canada (2009) 4)Asia Pop Music Festival held in Hong Kong, China (2011)

Currently, he is the Director of Ocean Butterflies International Pte Ltd and Regional ‘Artiste & Repertoire Director’ of Ocean Butterflies Music. Ocean Butterflies International is the leading independent music powerhouse in Asia which operates in China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore and Malaysia (www.ob-i.com).

Awards

Reference

{{‘SINGAPORE: THE ENCYCLOPEDIA’ published by the National Heritage Board of Singapore (ISBN 981-4155-63-2)}} {{ http://www.compass.org.sg/cIndex82.aspx}}