Alan Tam Wing Lung
Alan Tam was born Tam Win Lung in Hong Kong. Alan had Five sisters.. In 1968, he joined a band called The Losers, in the band there were: "Ah Lak" Chan Bak Chun, his brother ChanBak Song, "Chan Friend", "Ah Cuan", and Pang Kin Sun.after school, they will practice in Peng Kin Sun's home. In 1970, they entered into a singing contest and won, then they joined TVB's show "Star Show".
The Losers stopped in 1971 when Alan was 18, and his father wanted him to attend a university in Singapore, "Ah Lak" and his brother also went into in business.
Alan Left the university and came back to Hong Kong to work as a sales when he was 21. He met up with his The Losers members, and they formed a new band, The Wynners, however this time "Ah Lak" and his brother were not in it, they got new member, Kenny Bee "Ah B". Alan and "Ah B" were the lead singers of the band.
At that time, Alan has to work in the day, and at night the band performed in clubs. They performed Everywhere, but the sung songs were all in only engish. In 1976, People stared cantonese songs, and the wynners would sing them from now on. they were very popular. The Wynners were intoduced to southeast asia when they made a movie in 1977. They were an international hit.
"Ah B" was the first one to leave the band in 1978, he went to Taiwan to make movies. The band was in a temporary breakup. Alan went on to made a TV show "Rainbow". Then Alan went to Taiwan and made movies too. In that period, he made 32 movies, they were mostly dramas. In 1981, he won best actor in "Golden Horse Awards" with the film "What If I Am Real".
In His 3 year in Taiwan, Alan had also recorded albums, he went back and forth from Hong Kong and Taiwan. In 1982, Alan went back to Hong Kong, he continued to put out albums, and he also made a bunch of Cantonese movies, movies like: "Lover-Love Goddess"; "Yin Yang Wrong", and many more.
Alan made Music History. in 1984, in the TVB music award "Super Song Golden Melody", of all the entries into the award, 10 out of 40 songs was his, and at the final, he took 3 out of the 10 songs. The following yr. (up until he announced that he won't be accepting any more awards in 1988), this percentage stay the same.
In 1988 Alan Made his best film, "Rich And Famous" Along with Chow Yun Fat, Alex Man, And Andy lau. In this feature, Two Brothers, Yung and Kwok, and their friend Ying Huang (Alan) attempt to join the Triad underworld, Ying Huang, always stuttering and sneezing when he gets nervous, Sneezes in big boss chai's face. Ying Huang doesn't make it into the gang, but continues to be friend with Kwok, however Yung loves to make fun of his allergies and everything else about him. Eventually Yung betrays His boss, Chai, and kill his boss' friend, Yung is expelled from chai's business, and joins a rival gang. Chai marries Po-lee, Ying Huang's sister.Yung comes looking for Kwok, but Ying Huang stands in the way. Yung and his gang beat him and chop off his Finger. In the end, at chai's wedding. Yung attempts to assent Chai, Ying Hung Begs him to stop, but Yung calls him a chicken and shoots him in the stomach. Ying Hung then picks up the fender of a crashed car and best Yung brutally with it. Ying Hung dies from his wound and Yung is sent to prison, to return in Tragic Hero.
He was also the one who started the "many show" concerts, he started off with 20 shows, which is a very high number back then, and the shows numbers kept on increasing.
In 1989 Alan went into semiretirement, Giving no reason, he would not, and will not, Attend press conferences, or attend award ceremonies. But he continued to release award winning albums. Now days he spends his time managing private investments, among them are A film company and the "Star East" chain of Cantonese food resturantes.
Many people have asked why I, a hard rock and rap fan, and average (strait) American male teenager listens to this slow and crazy music. My answer is American guys are always curious about things they don't understand, and I don't speak Mandarin. Plus I am majorly obsessed with Ancient Chinese culture, and a Hong Kong Cinema buff. So I would obviously get into the music. I have thought him the coolest guy ever (next to me) ever sense he fought Alex Man in Rich and Famous.
Alan, along with Leslie Cheung and Andy lau, formed China's music industry into what it is today, whether you like him or not, there's no denying that.
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