{"id":97928,"date":"2026-11-06T17:48:59","date_gmt":"2026-11-06T09:48:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=97928"},"modified":"2026-11-06T17:48:59","modified_gmt":"2026-11-06T09:48:59","slug":"violinist-and-tv-celebrity-danny-koo-on-fame-and-purpose-im-just-a-musician","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=97928","title":{"rendered":"Violinist and TV celebrity Danny Koo on fame and purpose \u2013 \u2018I\u2019m just a musician\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.i-scmp.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/1280x720\/public\/d8\/images\/canvas\/2026\/11\/04\/a0e6e764-b3e1-4bb2-bdb1-508e53eb5e12_d3887b8c.jpg?itok=X9GY9_iI&amp;v=1793784097\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Although he had visited Hong Kong a couple of times before, American-Korean violinist, singer and television personality Danny Koo performed in the city for the first time when he headlined the opening concert of the Hong Kong Generation Next Arts (HKGNA) Music Festival on October 30.<\/p>\n<div datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1xdhyk6 ec74h0k0\">The 38-year-old\u2019s debut came about after he befriended <span data-qa=\"Component-Text\" class=\"css-0 ef9u0v00\">Hong Kong conductor-violinist Andrew Ling<\/span> when the two played together at the Busan Chamber Festival in 2024. Hitting it off immediately, Ling introduced Koo to HKGNA founder Michelle Kim, who was born in South Korea.<\/div>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Even after playing for over two decades, Koo says his Hong Kong debut made him feel like a \u201cnewbie\u201d again.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<center><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/lifestyle\/arts\/article\/3373258\/violinist-and-tv-celebrity-danny-koo-fame-and-purpose-im-just-musician\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><br \/>\n<center\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although he had visited Hong Kong a couple of times before, American-Korean violinist, singer and television personality Danny Koo performed in the city for the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":97929,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[5128,24396,10155,14702,17319,7953,11589],"class_list":["post-97928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bored-interesting","tag-celebrity","tag-danny","tag-fame","tag-koo","tag-musician","tag-purpose","tag-violinist","wpcat-33-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=97928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97928\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/97929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=97928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=97928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=97928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}