盧凱彤

Hong Kong

Ellen Joyce Loo (27 March 1986 – 5 August 2018) was a Canadian-Hong Kong musician, singer and songwriter. She was a co-founder of the folk-pop rock group at17. Loo was born in Toronto, Canada, on 27 March 1986, and moved to Hong Kong, when she was four. She learned classical guitar from her father at the age of nine. When she was 14, she, together with her older brother P. J. Loo, entered the musical competition Original Music 2000 (原音2000), which was held by Tom Lee Music in Hong Kong. Loo and her brother won third prize in the competition. When she was 15, Loo formed the group at17 with Eman Lam, and was signed by the music production company People Mountain People Sea. Apart from writing songs for her own group, Loo was also involved in the production and song writing of other artists' albums such as Kay Tse, Miriam Yeung and Sally Yeh. Loo was diagnosed with bipolar disorder in 2013, and made her first public statement regarding the disorder in April 2015. She came out as a lesbian at the Golden Melody Awards in Taiwan in 2017. She married Taiwanese cinematographer Fisher Yu in 2016. The couple registered their marriage in Canada. Loo died after falling from her apartment building in Happy Valley, Hong Kong on 5 August 2018, at the age of 32. The case was classified as suicide by police after checking CCTV footage of the building. No suicide note was found. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; addit...