Albert Leung


Albert Leung, is a prolific and award-winning lyricist and writer based in Hong Kong.

Education

He was educated at the boys school Chan Sui Ki 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 Lam Zik. The Chinese characters for this name, 林夕, written vertically, look like the compound character , 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 Ya Dong for Faye Wong, but he has also written with Leslie Cheung, Andy Lau, 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.
In May 2009 he published a book about his creative work in the previous decade, 曾经—林夕90前后.
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 a Taiwanese band ‘'Fire Ex.'’ to support the protestors.