Raymond Lam
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| Chinese name | 林峯 (traditional) | ||||||||||||
| Jyutping | Lam4 Fung1 (Cantonese) | ||||||||||||
| Birth name | Lam Wui Man (林匯文) | ||||||||||||
| Origin | Hong Kong | ||||||||||||
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8 December 1979 Xiamen, Fujian, China |
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| Other name(s) | Lam Yat Fung (林逸峯)，Chok 王, Soft Wind | ||||||||||||
| Occupation | Actor, singer | ||||||||||||
| Genre(s) | Cantopop, R&B | ||||||||||||
| Instrument(s) | Piano, Guitar, Clarinet, Keyboard | ||||||||||||
| Label(s) | Emperor Entertainment Group | ||||||||||||
| Years active | 1999 - present | ||||||||||||
| Influenced by | Jacky Cheung, Whitney Houston, Leslie Cheung | ||||||||||||
| Website | http://weibo.com/u/5786412422 http://fungforever.net/ | ||||||||||||
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Raymond Lam (born 8 December 1979) is a Hong Kong actor and singer. He is best known for his roles in the television dramas A Step into the Past, Moonlight Resonance, Highs and Lows and Line Walker, as well as being the "King of Chok" for his role in The Mysteries of Love.
Raymond Lam was born into a wealthy family. His father, Lam Kwok-Wah (林國華), is a real-estate property developer in the mainland referred to as "Xiamen's Li Ka-shing" (廈門李嘉誠) who sits on the board of seven real estate and construction companies.
His birthname was Lam Wui-man (林匯文), which later changed to Lam Yat-fung (林逸峯), and stage name is Raymond Lam Fung. He calls himself Raymond as the pronunciation of it is similar to his birthname 'Wui-man'. The name was changed to give him a "feng shui advantage".
While his first languages are Cantonese and Hokkien, Lam studied in Kiangsu and Chekiang Primary School, a primarily Mandarin-speaking primary school in pre-Handover Hong Kong and is thus also fluent in Mandarin and English. He studied in St. Paul's College, Hong Kong for Secondary School. Following that, he studied architecture in Xiamen University for 1st Year, and then completed the rest at University of Southern California, majoring in architecture and minoring in music.
Raymond Lam's childhood dream was to become a professional dancer. He has a younger sister and a younger brother. His paternal great-grandmother is Spanish, making Raymond 1/16th Spanish.
Lam attended the 13th TVB artists training class in 1998 as an auditing student and was offered a contract with TVB upon graduation in September 1998. In the earlier part of his career, Lam appeared as a walk-on in numerous television series and as a host for TVB8. Lam rose to fame for his portrayal of the ruthless Ying Ching in the historical/science fiction drama A Step into the Past (2001). He was then offered his first lead role in Eternal Happiness (2002). In 2003, Lam won the TVB Anniversary Award for "Most Improved Male Artiste" for his performance in Survivor's Law.
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