Chris Babida


Chris Babida is a 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, 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

Babida is well recognized for his work and an award-winning composer and by 2015 he had composed at least 50 film scores. He has been referred to as the Godfather of Pop and Cross-Over music. He is of Filipino descent.

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

ArtistAlbum titleReleaseYearNotes #
Andy BautistaBest Disco In TownThe Gramophone Company Of India Ltd. EMC-E 10431977
Sam SoronoSam Sorono Sings Tom Jones' Greatest HitsEMI SPR 10021978
Mona RichardsonDisco DazzlerEMI EMGS 60541979
梅艷芳淑女Capital Artists CAL-04-10791989
梅艷芳BrasilCapital Artists CAL-04-10871989
Geoff Chang
張信哲
Generossity
寬容
EMI ED-50291995
蔡琴天使不夜城 歌舞劇原聲帶Warner Music Taiwan 3984-26698-21999
鮑比達 & 蔡琴
aka
Chris Babida & Tsai Chin
遇見''Better Music Corp. BM10005H