Albert Leung | |||||||||||
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林夕 | |||||||||||
 Leung in 2013 | |||||||||||
| Born | Leung Wai Man (梁偉文) 7 December 1961 | ||||||||||
| Alma mater | University of Hong Kong (BA) | ||||||||||
| Occupation | Lyricist | ||||||||||
| Awards | Golden Needle Award 2008 Lifetime Achievement | ||||||||||
| Chinese name | |||||||||||
| Chinese | 林夕 | ||||||||||
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| Musical career | |||||||||||
| Also known as | Lam Zik | ||||||||||
| Genres | Cantopop, Mandopop | ||||||||||
Albert Leung (born 7 December 1961, Chinese: 林夕; Jyutping: lam4 zik6)[1] is a Hong Kong lyricist and writer.
Education
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Leung attended all-boy secondary schools in Kowloon at Chan Sui Ki (La Salle) College and La Salle College. He received a bachelor of arts with a major in translation studies from the University of Hong Kong in 1984.
Songwriting career
He has been a Cantopop lyricist since 1985, using the pen name Lam Chik. The Chinese characters for this name, 林夕, written vertically, look like the compound (simplified) character 梦 (jyutping: mung6, pinyin: mèng), meaning "dream".
He has written over 3500 song lyrics.[2][3][4] He is well known for composing lyrics very quickly. On TVB's show Be My Guest, he admitted that his fastest record for writing the complete lyrics to a song is 45 minutes.
His most noted songwriting partnership is with composer Zhang Yadong for Faye Wong,[5] but he has also written with Leslie Cheung, Andy Lau,[1] Miriam Yeung and many others.
He composed the lyrics to the song "Beijing Welcomes You", a six-minute song which was performed for the 2008 Beijing Olympics by a panoply of popular Chinese singers, and which proved extremely popular with the Chinese public.[6]
In May 2009 he published a book about his creative work in the previous decade, 曾經—林夕90前後 ('Once–Lin Xi's 1990s from beginning to end').[7]
In November 2019, over thousands of songs written by Leung were reportedly taken down from online music stores in China after voicing support for the 2019–20 Hong Kong protests,[8] after collaborating with Taiwanese band Fire EX. to write a song in support of the protests.[9]
References
- 1 2 Andy Lau's new album Coffee or Tea released Archived 27 May 2011 at the Wayback Machine, sina.com, 2004-08-19 (in English)
- ↑ "每個人心中都有一首「林夕」：這10大詞神近期作品，哪首最得你心？". The News Lens (in Chinese). August 2015. Archived from the original on 13 February 2020. Retrieved 13 February 2020.
- ↑ "【填詞30年作品逾3500首】林夕作品遭內地封殺 大量香港歌手受影響". 壹週刊 (in Chinese). 22 November 2019. Archived from the original on 13 February 2020. Retrieved 13 February 2020.
- ↑ "數據解讀作詞之王–林夕". 联合新闻网 (in Chinese). Archived from the original on 13 February 2020. Retrieved 13 February 2020.
- ↑ 林夕與張亞東因王菲而結緣 稱不要總問王菲何時複出 Archived 6 April 2009 at the Wayback Machine (in Chinese), Sina.com, 2009-03-02
- ↑ "Hanwang: Why is "Beijing Welcomes You" so popular?". Archived from the original on 23 September 2015. Retrieved 23 May 2009.
- ↑ 新书推介 Archived 22 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine (in Chinese) Sina.com, 2009-05-21
- ↑ "China scraps over 3,000 songs by HK lyricist Albert Leung for his speech in Taiwan: report". 23 November 2019. Archived from the original on 11 December 2019. Retrieved 11 December 2019.
- ↑ "Taiwan rock band Fire Ex., lyricist Albert Leung write HK protest song". 16 November 2019. Archived from the original on 11 December 2019. Retrieved 4 January 2020.