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林夕 | |||||||||||
Born | Leung Wai Man (梁偉文) 7 December 1961 | ||||||||||
Other names | God of Lyrics (詞神) | ||||||||||
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Alma mater | University of Hong Kong ( BA) | ||||||||||
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Chinese | 林 夕 | ||||||||||
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Traditional Chinese | 梁 偉 文 | ||||||||||
Simplified Chinese | 梁 伟 文 | ||||||||||
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Also known as | Lam Zik | ||||||||||
Origin | Hong Kong | ||||||||||
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Albert Leung Wai Man ( simplified Chinese: 梁伟文; traditional Chinese: 梁偉文; Jyutping: Loeng4 Wai5 Man4, born 7 December 1961), [2] better known by his stage name Lin Xi ( Chinese: 林夕; Jyutping: Lam4 Zik6) [3] is a Hong Kong lyricist and writer.
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.
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. [4] [5] [6] 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, [7] but he has also written with Leslie Cheung, Andy Lau, [3] 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. [8]
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'). [9]
In November 2019, over thousands of songs written by Leung were reportedly taken down from online music stores in China after he voiced support for the 2019–20 Hong Kong protests [10] and collaborated with Taiwanese band Fire EX. to write a song in support of the protests. [11]
Since 2015, Leung has resided in Taiwan, citing the Island's freedom and democracy as one of the main reasons for moving there. [1]