Singer-Actor Leo Ku
Leo Ku claims to live life in the slow lane, but the singer and sometime cartoonist has been busy with his latest album, “Guitar Fever.” Funny, seeing as he can’t play the instrument himself. He talks about his rise to fame and why he would rather just be forgotten.
I’m a slow-paced person. I talk slow, I walk slow. This is my secret to keeping young. If you rush around all the time, your cells die faster.
Hong Kong is a fast-paced city, but I find my slowness balances out my hectic surroundings.
My brain runs fast, though. It keeps coming up with new ideas, probably because I don’t like being bored. All my recent albums have a concept behind them. The latest one is about guitars.
I didn’t play the guitar on the album. I don’t even know how to! I learned to play a song many years ago for a live performance, but I’ve completely forgotten how by now.
I don’t regret that I didn’t learn guitar as a kid. I have another talent—drawing. You can’t have it all.
I once dreamed of becoming a cartoonist. But that was just a childhood dream. When I was 19, I enrolled in TVB’s artist training course after encouragement from some friends. That’s how I started in show business. A bit of a cliché, really.