Lin Xi

Albert Leung
Background information
Chinese name 林夕
Pinyin Lín Xī (Mandarin)
Jyutping Lam4 Zik6 (Cantonese)
Born Leung Wai Man (梁偉文)
(1961-12-07) 7 December 1961
British Hong Kong Hong Kong
Other names Lin Xi
Origin  Hong Kong
Occupation Lyricist
Genre(s) Cantopop, Mandopop
Awards
Golden Needle Award
2008 Lifetime Achievement

Albert Leung (born 7 December 1961), whose pen name is Lin Xi[1] (林夕), is a prolific and award-winning lyricist based in Hong Kong.

Education

He was educated at the boys school Chan Sui Ki (La Salle) College and La Salle College, and graduated from the University of Hong Kong in 1984.

Songwriting career

He has been a Cantopop lyricist since 1985, using the pen name Lin Xi. The Chinese characters for this name, 林夕, written vertically, look like the compound (simplified) character 梦 (pinyin: mèng), meaning "dream".

He has written over 2500 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 Ya Dong for Faye Wong,[2] 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.[3]

In May 2009 he published a book about his creative work in the previous decade, 曾经—林夕90前后 ('Once–Lin Xi's 1990s from beginning to end').[4]

References

  1. 1 2 Andy Lau's new album Coffee or Tea released, sina.com, 2004-08-19 (in English)
  2. ↑ 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
  3. ↑ Hanwang: Why is "Beijing Welcomes You" so popular?
  4. ↑ 新书推介 (in Chinese) Sina.com, 2009-05-21
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