Longest working Hong Kong DJ, ‘Uncle Ray’ dies at 98

Radio host Reinaldo Maria Cordeiro was known as “Uncle Ray”. Pic/AFP

Ray Cordeiro, who interviewed music acts including the Beatles during a six-decade career on Hong Kong radio that earned him the title of the world's longest-working disc jockey, has died, his former employer announced. He was 98.

Cordeiro died late Friday, according to Radio Television Hong Kong, where he worked until 2021. It gave no cause of death. Cordeiro, who was born in Hong Kong in 1924 WAS of Portuguese descent. He joined Hong Kong's public broadcaster in 1960 after working as a prison warden and bank clerk. His "All the Way With Ray" show of easy listening music, was on RTHK Radio 3 for 51 years until his retirement.

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"The audience followed me, grew up with me, and they're all over the world now," Cordeiro said in 2021 after his retirement. "They still listened to me on the internet." Cordeiro interviewed the Beatles, then the world's biggest music act, in 1964. Cordeiro said all four members of the Beatles autographed a magazine cover for him.

1924
The year when Ray Cordeiro was born in Hong Kong

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