Albert Leung (born 7 December 1961, ) is a lyricist and writer based in

Hong Kong Hong Kong ( (US) or (UK); , ), officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China (abbr. Hong Kong SAR or HKSAR), is a city and special administrative region of China on the eastern Pearl River Delta i ...

Education

Leung attended all-boy secondary schools at Chan Sui Ki (La Salle) College and La Salle College. He received a

bachelor of arts Bachelor of arts (BA or AB; from the Latin ', ', or ') is a bachelor's degree awarded for an undergraduate program in the arts, or, in some cases, other disciplines. A Bachelor of Arts degree course is generally completed in three or four yea ...

in translation from the

University of Hong Kong The University of Hong Kong (HKU) (Chinese: 香港大學) is a public university, public research university in Hong Kong. Founded in 1887 as the Hong Kong College of Medicine for Chinese, it is the oldest Higher education in Hong Kong, tertia ...

in 1984.

Songwriting career

He has been a

Cantopop Cantopop (a contraction of "Standard Cantonese, Cantonese pop music") or HK-pop (short for "Hong Kong pop music") is a genre of pop music written in standard Chinese and sung in Standard Cantonese, Cantonese. Cantopop is also used to refer to ...

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 (

jyutping Jyutping is a romanisation system for Cantonese developed by the Linguistic Society of Hong Kong (LSHK), an academic group, in 1993. Its formal name is the Linguistic Society of Hong Kong Cantonese Romanization Scheme. The LSHK advocates f ...

: mung6,

pinyin Hanyu Pinyin (), often shortened to just pinyin, is the official romanization system for Standard Mandarin Chinese in China, and to some extent, in Singapore and Malaysia. It is often used to teach Mandarin, normally written in Chinese fo ...

: mèng), meaning "dream". He has written over 3500 song lyrics. 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, but he has also written with Leslie Cheung,

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,Andy Lau's new album ''Coffee or Tea'' released
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Miriam Yeung Miriam Yeung (born 3 February 1974) is a Hong Kong actress and Cantopop diva. As of 2020, she has released more than 35 albums and has starred in more than 40 films. In 2012, Yeung won the Award for Best Actress at the 32nd Hong Kong Film Award ...

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. 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'). 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, after collaborating with Taiwanese band Fire EX. to write a song in support of the protests.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Lin, Xi 1961 births Alumni of the University of Hong Kong Alumni of St. John's College, University of Hong Kong Cantopop artists Faye Wong Hong Kong Buddhists Hong Kong lyricists Living people