Romeo Diaz
Romeo Diaz | |||||||||||
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| Born | 1948 or 1949 | ||||||||||
| Other names | Lo-dik Tai Lok-man | ||||||||||
| Occupations | Composer, record producer, music director | ||||||||||
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| Genres | Film score, beat, rock, Cantopop | ||||||||||
| Years active | 1960s-1994 | ||||||||||
| Formerly of | Danny Diaz & The Checkmates, Musicad | ||||||||||
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| Traditional Chinese | 戴樂民 | ||||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 戴乐民 | ||||||||||
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| Alternative Chinese name | |||||||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 羅迪 | ||||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 罗迪 | ||||||||||
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Romeo Diaz (born 1948 or 1949), known in Chinese as Tai Lok-man (戴樂民), is a Hong Kong composer, record producer, and musician of Filipino descent.
He was one of the members of the popular band Danny Diaz & The Checkmates in Hong Kong in the 1960s along with his two brothers, Danny Diaz and Rudy Diaz. He later became a composer of film scores, particularly working with filmmakers Tsui Hark, Corey Yuen, and Ching Siu-tung, and musician James Wong Jim. He won the Hong Kong Film Award for Best Original Film Score for A Terra-Cotta Warrior (1990).