Roman Tam

Roman Tam
Roman Tam
Born	Tam Pak-sin (譚百先); 12 February 1945; Baise, Guangxi, China
Died	18 October 2002 (aged 57); Queen Mary Hospital, Pok Fu Lam, Hong Kong
Occupation	Singer
Years active	1960s–2002
Awards	RTHK Top 10 Gold Songs Awards; 1991 RTHK Golden Needle Award
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese	羅文
Simplified Chinese	罗文
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin	Luó Wén
Yue: Cantonese
Jyutping	Lo4 Man4
	Musical career
Also known as	Law Kee (羅記); Saint of Singing (歌聖)
Genres	Cantopop; Hong Kong English pop;
Instruments	Vocals
Labels	EMI; BMG; EEG;
Associated acts	Roman and the Four Steps

Roman Tam Pak-sin (Chinese: 譚百先; pinyin: Tán Bǎixiān; 12 February 1945 – 18 October 2002), known professionally by his stage name Law Man (Chinese: 羅文; pinyin: Luó Wén), was a Hong Kong singer. He is regarded as the "Grand Godfather of Cantopop".[1]

Career

Born in Baise, Guangxi, China, with family roots in Guiping, Guangxi. He moved to Guangzhou (Canton) in 1947 at the age of 2. He later emigrated to Hong Kong in 1962 at the age of 17.[2] After forming a short-lived band known as Roman and the Four Steps,[3] he became a contract singer under studios term at TVB. He briefly switched to Asia Television in the early 1990s.

During the 1990s, he accepted many budding singers as his students. Some of whom that became famous included Shirley Kwan, Joey Yung and Ekin Cheng. He had sung many well-known solos and duets for various TV series including Below the Lion Rock, and the famous 1983 TVB TV series The Legend of the Condor Heroes main theme duet with Jenny Tseng.

Tam never married. He died in Hong Kong at Queen Mary Hospital from liver cancer.

References

HKVPradio, "Roman Tam: The Grand Godfather of Cantopop". Archived from the original on 18 April 2008. Retrieved 10 November 2011., Retrieved 7 April 2007. Article archived in 2008. Excerpted from the original article in Rhythm magazine by Lucia Chan, 8 June 2004.
(in Chinese)"你记得吗？他来自广州..." Southern Metropolis Daily. 18 October 2012. Archived from the original on 29 October 2012. Retrieved 15 March 2014.
Allen Chun; Ned Rossiter; Brian Shoesmith, eds. (2004). Refashioning Pop Music in Asia: Cosmopolitan Flows, Political Tempos, and Aesthetic Industries. Routeledge. ISBN 9781135791506.

External links

Applauding Hong Kong Pop Legend: Roman Tam – About the collection, Hong Kong Memory
"Hong Kong pop icon Tam dies", BBC News, Saturday, 19 October 2002

Awards and achievements
Preceded by Wong Jim	Golden Needle Award of RTHK Top Ten Chinese Gold Songs Award 1991	Succeeded by Leslie Cheung

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[1] HKVPradio, "Roman Tam: The Grand Godfather of Cantopop". Archived from the original on 18 April 2008. Retrieved 10 November 2011., Retrieved 7 April 2007. Article archived in 2008. Excerpted from the original article in Rhythm magazine by Lucia Chan, 8 June 2004.

[2] (in Chinese)"你记得吗？他来自广州..." Southern Metropolis Daily. 18 October 2012. Archived from the original on 29 October 2012. Retrieved 15 March 2014.

[3] Allen Chun; Ned Rossiter; Brian Shoesmith, eds. (2004). Refashioning Pop Music in Asia: Cosmopolitan Flows, Political Tempos, and Aesthetic Industries. Routeledge. ISBN 9781135791506.