JONATHAN KOH {許華強}
Jonathan started playing professionally at the age of 24. Gaining experience and discovering his own playing style at the Singapore night scene, he decided to become a recording engineer after 8 years of playing in various clubs. He was also playing in some recording sessions by then.
Joining Midi-Citi Recording studio as a recording engineer in 1989, he was exposed to numerous Taiwanese and local artistes and producers like Sky Wu Su Rei, Eric Moo and Dick Lee. He was also involved in most Taiwanese recordings at that time playing various roles including guitar sessions and recording. He was asked to produce Eric Moo million selling album "太傻 " and was subsequently involved in most of Eric albums that followed. Following that he was also called to produce for various artistes such as AMei[張惠妹], Jeff Chang, Dick lee and others.
After leaving Midi-Citi studio in 1992, he was heavily involved in concerts, producing, writing and guitar sessions. In 1997, he wrote the hit song "解脫"{She’s Gone} for Taiwanese Amei [張惠妹]which became a major hit and was also involved in 3 major Amei’s asia concert tour in 1998, 1999 and 2004. Jonathan has also written songs for Jeff Chang, Panda Xiong, Eric Moo, Power Station, Chiang Mei Chi, Fish Leong, Sammi Cheng, William So, Fan Fan and various Taiwanese artistes.
As a guitar player, apart from Amei he has also toured with Sally Yeh and George Lam, Eric Moo, Chang Yue, Singapore’s own Dick lee, Corrine May and various others. He was also involved in local musicals Beauty World, A Soldier and his virtuous wife, Tien Len, Lao Jiu and Admiral’s Odyssey and produced the music for the Christian musical “Hope for the hopeless.”
Nowadays, Jonathan is using his creative gifts in preaching the Gospel of Christ and teaching worship teams locally as well as in China, Malaysia, Taiwan and North America.
As an avid photography hobbyist too, Jonathan resides in Singapore with his wife, Dora and his children Kelly. Sara and Luke.You can email him @ jonko@singnet.com.sg
You can hear his various works at his website @http://www.reverbnation.com/jonathankoh
