Imee Ooi Huáng Huìyīn (黃慧音)
Background information
Born	Taiping, Perak,Malaysia[1]
Genres	Buddhist music
Occupation(s)	Composer, record producer, singer
Instrument	Piano
Years active	1999–present
Labels	I.M.M. Musicworks
Website	immmusic.com

Imee OoiFRSA^{[citation needed]} (/ˈiːmiːˈwuːi/EE-meeWOO-ee;Chinese:黃慧音;pinyin:Huáng Huìyīn;Jyutping:Wong4 Wai6 Jam1;Pe̍h-ōe-jī:Ûiⁿ Hūi-im) is a Chinese-Malaysian record producer, composer, and singer who composes andarranges music for classicBuddhist chant,mantra, anddharani. She performs her compositions inSanskrit,Pali,Tibetan, andMandarin. In 1997 she founded a record label, I.M.M. Musicworks, to publish her music. She has released more than 50 albums (55 between 1998 and 2020^[2]).

Ooi also composed anddirected three highly acclaimedstage musicals:Siddhartha,Above Full Moon, andPrincess Wen Cheng (akaJewel of Tibet).

Ooi was born inTaiping,Malaysia to a musically inclinedHoklo family.^{[citation needed]} Her grandfather, who was a writer and dramatist, emigrated to Malaysia fromGuangdong, China. Ooi's mother was a piano teacher; Imee and her four siblings all learned piano^{[citation needed]}. Ooi continued her study of piano and trained as aclassical pianist.^[3]

In the early 1990s, after training as a classical pianist, she followed her mother's example and in turn became a piano teacher, before moving into composition, creatingfilm music for cinema or television series.^[4]

Buddhist vegetarian,^[5] she decided to specialize inBuddhist music,^[4][3] creating from sacred texts (dharanis,mantras,sutras) which she performs inSanskrit,Pali,Tibetan andMandarin,^[6] some are translated into English. She also composes musicals and performs in concerts.^[4]

In 1997 she founded a record label, I.M.M. Musicworks, to publish her music.^[7][4]

In 2015, she formed the male vocal group (8 singers aged between 25 and 38), named theJing Shi Jin Gang which means "Guardians of theDharma" with whom she toured internationally inMalaysia, Hong Kong and Shanghai.^[4]

Imee is a discreet person. Her private life never comes up in the interviews she gives, preferring to talk only about her art and her spiritual path:

The power of music is very strong. We are trying to use music to convey positive messages. I’m a person who don't plan ahead. It is very much like Buddhist teaching – live for now, don't let the future tie you down, don't let the past trouble you and things will turn out well^[3]

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All songs composed, produced, and some performed by Imee Ooi arranged by Praveen maddhali

• Meet Imee the mantra musician
• I.M.M. Music Works
• An interview by 劉潔芬 in Chinese: 俗世慧音

• Living people
• Malaysian Buddhists
• Malaysian people of Chinese descent
• 21st-century Malaysian women singers
• 20th-century Malaysian women singers
• Performers of Buddhist music
• Malaysian composers
• Malaysian women composers
• 1964 births
• Fellows of the Royal Society of Arts

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