Chris Babida

Chris Babida is a Hong Kong composer, arranger, conductor, music director and record producer. He has also done numerous film soundtracks. His film work includes Dragon Force which was released in 1982, Happy Sixteen also released in 1982, Sworn Brothers which was released in 1987, Armour of God II: Operation Condor which was released in 1991, C'est la vie, mon chéri which was released in 1993 and Bishonen which was released in 1998. He has produced albums for Andy Bautista, Sam Sorono and Mona Richardson. At the 15th Hong Kong Film Awards, he won an award in the Best Original Film Score category for The Phantom Lover.

Background By 2015, Babida had composed at least 50 film scores. He is of Filipino descent. He married actress and singer Betty Chung (Chinese: 鍾玲玲) but then divorced.

Film work 1980s One of the early films he worked on was the Po-Chih Leong directed film You ni mei ni which starred Paul Che, Ching Yee Chong and Lee Chun-Wa. The film was released in 1980. He provided music for the Michael Mak directed martial arts film Dragon Force which starred Bruce Baron, Frances Fong, Sam Sorono and Bruce Li.

2000s He provided music for the 2016 film, The Last Race which was directed by Stephen Shin and Michael Parker.

Production

+ Productions Artist Album title Release Year Notes # Andy Bautista Best Disco In Town The Gramophone Company Of India Ltd. EMC-E 1043 1977 Sam Sorono Sam Sorono Sings Tom Jones' Greatest Hits EMI SPR 1002 1978 Mona Richardson Disco Dazzler EMI EMGS 6054 1979 梅艷芳 淑女 Capital Artists CAL-04-1079 1989 梅艷芳 Brasil Capital Artists CAL-04-1087 1989 Geoff Chang張信哲 Generossity寬容 EMI (Taiwan) ED-5029 1995 蔡琴 沒有男人的房子不算家 / 天使不夜城 歌舞劇原聲帶 Warner Music Taiwan 3984-26698-2 1999 鮑比達 & 蔡琴akaChris Babida & Tsai Chin 遇見 Better Music Corp. BM10005H