Chinese name 林振強 | Name Richard Lam Siblings Eunice Lam | |
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Pinyin Jyutping lam4 zan3 koeng4 (Cantonese) Ancestry Huizhou, Guangdong (Hakka) Education University of California, Berkeley Awards Hong Kong Film Award for Best Original Film Song, Hong Kong Film Award for Professional Achievement Similar People Sam Hui, Sally Yeh, Dick Lee, Mahmood Rumjahn, Chris Babida | ||
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Richard Lam Chun-Keung was a Cantopop lyricist with several hundred Cantopop songs to his name, and a columnist for Apple Daily and Next Magazine in Hong Kong. He is a Hakka of Huizhou, Guangdong ancestry.
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Career
Lam graduated from Salesian English School in Hong Kong and the University of California, Berkeley. He started out as a copywriter for an advertising agency owned by Wong Jim and Lam's sister Eunice. Lam was inspired by Wong to become a lyrics writer.
Lam was hired as creative director for Giordano clothing chain in 1988 by the then-owner Jimmy Lai. When Jimmy Lai entered into the media industry, Lam followed him, becoming a consultant and later a columnist for Apple Daily and Next Magazine.
Between 1980s and the 1990s, Richard Lam wrote more than a thousand pieces of lyrics until the 2000s. He slowed down on writing lyrics subsequent to being diagnosed with lymphoma. He died on 16 November 2003.