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SINGAPORE – Jo Heng, an award-winning Singapore lyricist known for penning the lyrics to hits like singer Eric Moo’s You Are My Only One, has died at the age of 59.
Reports say she had suffered from lymphoma, a type of blood cancer, and died on Thursday (Jan 9) morning.
Heng, also known as Xing Zenghua, wrote the lyrics to Hong Kong Heavenly King Jacky Cheung’s 1995 song A Thousand Sad Reasons, which won the Top Local Chinese Song at the third Composers and Authors Society of Singapore (Compass) awards in 1997.
In addition, she wrote the lyrics to Hong Kong singer Andy Lau’s The Path Winds Through High Peaks, which was released in 1994.
She had studied in Bukit Panjang Government High School and Thomson Secondary School, and was good at Chinese composition.
She read novels by Chinese writer Lu Xun, liked the works of Taiwanese writer San Mao, and listened to the songs of Taiwanese singers Feng Fei Fei and Lo Ta-yu.
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