Tam wing Lin

essential information

Early experience

Mr. Tam was born in health village, North Point, Hong Kong. Apart from his parents, he has two older sisters and three younger sisters. He is the only boy in his family. His father, Tan JiangBai, is a football player. Influenced by his father, he has loved football since childhood. During his college years, he followed his family's advice and went to Singapore's Yi'an Polytechnic to study economics.

After finishing his junior year in college, Mr. Tam suspended his studies because of a bad illness, and then returned to Hong Kong to rest. After getting well, he didn't want to study any more, so he began to work. He found a job as a postman, carrying two bags full of letters out every day, and his salary was only HK $220. Later, because he loved singing and wanted to go to a nightclub in the evening, he quit his job as a postman and went to the store to sell stationery.

Acting experience

The loosers period

In 1968, Mr. Tam organized a band with Chen you, Peng Jianxin, ye Zhiqiang, Chen Baixiang and Chen baishen.

In 1970, the band failed to take part in the music competition. When they went out to the door, they found an application form named loosers. Then they took part in the competition with this form and won the Champion Award. So the band used the name of loosers and took part in the performance of a music program "starshow" on wireless TV.

In 1971, loosers broke up.

The period of the Weiner band

In 1973, Tam Yonglin, Chen you, Peng Jianxin and ye Zhiqiang formed the Weiner band and acted as the lead singer of the band. With the help of the manager, Zhong Zhentao joined the Weiner band, known as the "five tigers of Weiner". At the end of 1973, he filmed the youth song and dance film "everybody" with the band of Weiner.

In 1974, winner signed with Polaroid (the predecessor of Polaroid) and published its first compact disc "sunshine", which became a popular song in Hong Kong. In the same year, with the release of the second mini disc "Sha la la la la la" by Weiner, the mini disc received a warm response and occupied the top of RTHK's pop charts for three weeks. After that, he released his first album "listen to the Wynners" with the band of Weiner, which achieved good results in Hong Kong and Southeast Asia.

In 1975, he released "love and other pieces" and "under the Lion Rock" with Weiner. The style of the band has gradually evolved from covering English songs in the early stage to independent creation in the later stage. At this time, Tam Yonglin also has his own works.

In 1976, he released such albums as "same kindof magic" and "the Wynners' special tvhits75-76" with Weiner band, and starred in the film "Weiner and uncle Jiao" with Weiner band, while Tan Yonglin won the "top ten singers award of overseas Chinese daily".

In 1977, he released the album "making it" with Weiner, and in the same year, he released the album "Mian Meng Xin Jing" with Weiner.

In 1978, Weiner band was disbanded. The band members made personal development and agreed to release an album every five years. In the same year, Tam signed a contract with wireless and made a long TV series Tianhong. In addition, he co hosted the program "sounds like Bang" with Zheng Yuling.

Polaroid record period

In 1979, Tam went to Taiwan to develop his film career, and made more than 20 films in Taiwan, most of which are love films. On February 20, he released his first Cantonese album "anti duel star", and won the Gold Record Award for it. The song "child" in the album won the first Hong Kong Commercial Radio Golden Melody Award, which is also the first award-winning individual work of TAM.

On January 3, 1980, he released his second Cantonese album "love to your madness"; the album won the platinum sales award; the song "don't talk about love again" won the second Golden Melody Award of Hong Kong commercial radio; on December 25, he released his first Mandarin album "play up! Sing! Looking for.

On January 16, 1981, he recorded the album "love in Song" with Wenner band. On April 12, he released his third Cantonese album "never forget you", which won four Platinum medals. The album not only established the status of Hong Kong's top singer, but also selected 20 best albums of the 20th century from baolijin in 1999. The album's title song "never forget you" was adapted from Japan The singer's five round song "lover", which makes Hong Kong music fans begin to know Japanese pop music, and set off a wave of adaptation of Japanese pop music in Hong Kong music circle. On October 10, he released his second Mandarin album "your gaze"; on October 30, he won the best man award of the 18th Golden Horse Award for Taiwan film for his plot film "if I were true" Horn Award;

In 1982, at the 5th top ten Chinese Golden Melody Award Ceremony held by RTHK, he won the top ten Chinese Golden Melody Award with the song "think about the future" from the album "I can't forget you"; from January 24 to 26, he held six concerts in Atlantic City of the United States; on April 12, he released his fourth Cantonese album "love goddess", and the song "rainy sorrow" from the album won the award of RTHK In October, she was invited to help her friend Teresa Teng shoot a radio TV special and perform "love goddess" with Teresa Teng. In November, she released her fifth Cantonese album "hardcover Tam wing Lin", which is also her first new and selected album. From December 24 to 25, she held two solo concerts at the Hong Kong government stadium.

On April 19, 1983, the Cantonese album "late spring" was released. The title song "late spring" of the album won the Golden Melody Awards of radio's top ten strong songs, Radio Hong Kong's top ten Chinese Golden Songs and Hong Kong commercial radio. From September 3 to 4, Weiner band held a "10th anniversary" concert in Hong Kong's honghom sports center. On September 12, Weiner band released the album "Weiner's top ten Chinese Golden Songs" The anniversary collection.

The theme of the album is "love in Yuegu", which was released on July 27, 1984 Shinji and Zhao rongbi held the "84 year Asian Peace Concert" in Japan; from August 4 to 9, they held six concerts in Hong Kong's Hung Hom gymnasium, breaking the record of Hong Kong Singers' first concert in Hong Kong's Hung Hom gymnasium; from August 16 to September 1, they went to Singapore and Canada to hold a concert tour; on September 3, they released the Japanese album "cold wind in summer" in Hong Kong; on December 19, they held a concert tour In 1984, he won the most popular male singer award and Golden Melody Award at the top ten Golden Songs Award Ceremony in Hong Kong. Three songs, root of love, phantom and love in late autumn, were selected into the top ten Golden Songs Award. At the top ten Chinese Golden Songs Award Ceremony, he won the Top Ten Golden Songs Award with root of love and love in deep autumn Autumn won Radio Hong Kong's top ten Chinese songs and IFPI award. The success of the two albums "the root of love" and "love in the fog" also laid the foundation for the superstar status of Alan Tam in the Hong Kong singing circle.

On February 15, 1985, the Cantonese album "love trap" was released. The main song of the album "love trap" is one of the representative works of Tan Yonglin's fast songs. The three records with the main style of romantic love songs, namely "love Trilogy", are known as "love Trilogy", which makes Tan Yonglin's singing career to the peak. From July 9 to 28, the album was published in honghom, Hong Kong The stadium held 20 consecutive "Tam Yonglin's super platinum concerts"; from November 8 to 10, it successfully held an Asian Peace Concert in Hong Kong with Tanura Xinsi and Zhao rongbi; on December 12, it released its 10th personal Cantonese album "Lorelei", in which the song "friends" is the interlude of the film "brother dragon and brother tiger".

On July 18, 1986, he released the Cantonese album "the first drop of tears", in which the song "speechless gratitude" is an important work of his music career. From August 15 to 30, 20 "Fuji Tam's Carnival concerts" were held in Hong Kong's Hung Hom stadium. In the same year, he and Jackie Chan co starred in the action comedy film "brother dragon and brother tiger". At the year-end award ceremony, Tam sang the following songs "Friends" and "speechless gratitude" won the top 10 Chinese golden melody and top 10 Jinge Golden Melody Awards; the first tear won the Golden Melody Award of Hong Kong commercial radio; and Tam Yonglin won the most popular male singer award of top 10 Jinge golden melody in Hong Kong.

In January 1987, the Cantonese album "portrait on the wall" was released, which included two songs of "once" and "infatuated ruins" composed by TAM Yonglin; in the same year, he cooperated with zaojianyou in the film "catching Iraqis with love"; in July of the same year, he held 17 individual concerts in the Hong Kong Red Mansion, which was his personal concerts for three consecutive years; on July 7 of the same year, he released the Cantonese special album Goodbye!? In the same year, he won the most popular male singer award at the Hong Kong Top Ten Golden Melody Awards ceremony, and his songs don't say goodbeye and don't say goodbeye were included in the album

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