Leon Lai
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| Background information | |||||||||||||
| Chinese name | |||||||||||||
| Pinyin | Lí Míng (Mandarin) | ||||||||||||
| Jyutping | Lai4 Ming4 (Cantonese) | ||||||||||||
| Birth name | Lai Chit ()/Lai Ming () | ||||||||||||
| Origin | Hong Kong | ||||||||||||
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11 December 1966 Beijing, China |
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| Occupation | Singer, actor, record company manager | ||||||||||||
| Genre(s) | Cantopop, Mandopop | ||||||||||||
| Instrument(s) | Vocals, guitar, piano | ||||||||||||
| Voice type(s) | Baritone | ||||||||||||
| Label(s) | 1990–1998 PolyGram 1998–2004 Sony Music 2004 -Amusic |
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| Years active | 1985 – present | ||||||||||||
| Spouse(s) | Gaile Lok (2008– 2012) | ||||||||||||
| Ancestry | Meixian, Guangdong, China (Hakka) | ||||||||||||
| Website | Official website | ||||||||||||
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Leon Lai-ming, BBS, MH (born 11 December 1966) is a Hong Kong actor and Cantopop singer. He is one of the "Four Heavenly Kings" of Hong Kong. He uses the stage name "Li Ming" or "Lai Ming" which literally means "dawn."
Lai was born in Beijing, China as Lai Chit (), initially, but opted for Lai Ming instead. He is of Hakka ancestry. His family was originally from Meixian. His parents divorced when he was four. He migrated with his Indonesian Chinese father, Lai Xinsheng to Hong Kong during the Cultural Revolution in China. At the age of 15, he attended Kingsway Princeton College in the United Kingdom and returned to Hong Kong at the age of eighteen in 1984.
Lai initially worked as a salesperson for a mobile phone company. After being awarded Third-runner-up in the 1986 New Talent Singing Awards, Lai received vocal coaching from Dai Si Zong (戴思聰). In the same year he also obtained an artist contract from Capital Artists. He did not release any albums for four years. As a result, his teacher, Dai, arranged to have him signed a contract with Polygram, later known as Universal Music.
In Polygram, he released his first album "Leon" and subsequent album "Meet in the Rain". His debut album went gold. After several years at Polygram, he signed a new contract with Sony Music on 23 March 1998. Together with Jacky Cheung, Andy Lau and Aaron Kwok, Lai was among the four most popular male singers during the 1990s, when the media referred to them as Cantopop Four Heavenly Kings.
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