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Alan Tam
Alan Tam, MH (English: Alan Tam Wing-lun, August 23, 1950 -), is a Hong Kong male singer, songwriter, actor, and the son of football player Tan Jiangbai. He was awarded the 18th Golden Horse Award for Best Actor for the 1981 Taiwanese film "If I Am Real". His active period spans from the 1970s to the present, and he is one of the dual lead singers of the Winger Band. From 1981 to 1987, Alan Tam won 23 Golden Song Awards. From 1984 to 1987, he won the Golden Song "Most Popular Male Singer" award for four consecutive years. In 1984, he set a record of winning 10 of the 40 songs in the "Top Ten Songs" season. In 1985, he won the Most Popular Male Singer, Golden Melody Award and Best-Selling Record Award. He was the only singer to win these three awards in the same year. After winning the "Ten Years Golden Melody Award" in the 10th Top Ten Chinese Golden Songs in 1988 and winning the "IFPI Award" for four consecutive years, he announced his withdrawal from receiving the award. In 1989, he was selected as the first Chinese male singer to participate in Japan's NHK Red and White Song Competition, and was selected as Shanghai Radio's "Top Ten Contemporary Chinese Singers" with the highest number of votes, becoming the idol of many singers. In 1996, he won the Golden Needle Award, the highest honor in the Hong Kong music industry. In 2000, he was selected as the second place in the "Top Ten Chinese Music Stars of the 20th Century" and the seventh place in the "Top 100 Most Influential Chinese Pop Stars of the 20th Century" by Malaysia's "Nanyang Siang Pau". Won the highest-selling album award for the fifth time, "Love Trap" sales exceeded 8 platinum and 400,000 copies, with a total of more than one million copies. In 2003, he collaborated with Hacken Lee on "Zuo Lin You Li" and performed 100 concert tours together. In the same year, he was awarded the second place among the highest-paid Hong Kong artists. He has composed more than 100 songs and lyrics. In 2007, he won the CASH Music Achievement Award and served as the president of the 8th Hong Kong Performing Artists Association. He was also awarded the Hong Kong Government Medal of Honor. In 2010, he was selected into the "Chinese Golden Melody Award" for the 30 years of Chinese music "30 people, 30 songs, 30 discs". In 2014, he won the IFPI Hong Kong Popular Music Culture Singer Award.
- Category
- Musicians
- Nationality
- British Hong Kong
- Born
- 1950-08-23
- Wikidata
- Q714449