Music 音樂
This section gives some idea about LGBT music in Hong Kong.
Disclaimer – Not all those mentioned below are LGBT themselves. Their inclusion here only indicates that their work is of LGBT interest.
Leslie Cheung Kwok-wing
Hong Kong mega-star, a singer and song writer from 1977 to 2003, when he committed suicide. Albums include: The Wind Blows On (1983), Leslie (Monica) (1984), Stand Up (1986), Hot Summer and Virgin Snow (1988), Red (1996), Crossover (2002). Acknowledged his partner, Daffy Tong, at 1997 World Tour 97 concert in Hong Kong but thereafter maintained he was bisexual.
Anthony Wong Yiu-ming
Hong Kong singer, composer and producer, started as a DJ in 1984. Founded music production company People Mountain People Sea in 1996. Albums from 1991 to King of the Road (2008). Gay icon who has not confirmed his sexuality in public.
Chet Lam
Independent singer and song writer. In 2005, endorsed Hong Kong Gay Pride and made headlines in the cross-over concert with Miriam Yeung singing ‘Boys Like Me’. In 2008 kissed a male audience member in The Storyteller Show. Openly addressed his sexual identity in the Advocate. Own label LYFE Music in 2003. Debut album Pillow Songs (2003). His second album Travelogue, One brought him a Best New Artist Award and a Top Ten Album of the Year in the Chinese Music Media Awards. Back to the Stars album (2010). Appeared in Kit Hung’s I Am Not What You Want (2001).
Frankie Ho
Born and studied music in Hong Kong. Trained as a classical composer/musician. Works with the electronic medium. Composer for the stage, plays, musicals, dance, etc. Musical director. Shows include Homo Superus (2008) and My Very First Time (2010). Working on Animal Farm for late 2010.
Rick Lau
Hong Kong born, Australian educated actor and cabaret artist. One man shows in Hong Kong and the Edinburgh Festival include Sun Rice, How Now Rick Lau, Men in Love (2008), Rick at the Fringe (2008), My Queer Valentine (2009)
Derek Wong
Hong Kong born actor and composer trained in America. One man show My Very First Time (2010).
Bak Sheut-sin and Yam Kim Fai
Opera singers, actresses, performed and lived together in Hong Kong and Canada for many decades. Yam often took male roles due to her deep voice. Bak was born in 1926 and is still alive. Yam lived 1912-1989.
Roman Tam
Singer, actor, ‘The Godfather of Cantopop’. Mentor of many younger stars. Flamboyant dresser, he seized the Hong Kong music scene by storm in the ’70s. Ahead of his time, Roman was often decked out in shiny costumes and colourful shoes, and was the first major Hong Kong singer to pose in drag and to pose in nude, he died still single but never commented publicly about his sexuality. He died of liver cancer in 2002.
Danny Chan
Singer, song writer, actor. Started singing in 1977. His release, Tears for You, established him as a teen idol. His hits included Ripple, Just Loving You and What One Wants in Life. He is mostly remembered for his Cantonese romance ballads and high quality compositions. He was a close friend of Leslie Cheung from the late seventies and remained single, though never commented publicly about his sexuality. He died in 1993 after being in a coma for 17 months after what was widely rumoured to have been a drug and/or drink overdose or even suicide, though this was never confirmed.
Sandy Lam
Singer, gay idol. Started singing career in 1984. Mega Cantopop star to the present.
Pichead Amornsomboon
Singer, actor and dramatist. Founded theatre group 2 On Stage in 2005 with Tony Wong Lung-pun. In 2007, for Homo Superus, their only work so far with a gay theme, and probably the most flamboyantly gay show yet shown in Hong Kong, they collaborated with music writer and director Frankie Ho and lyricist Renson Chan.
Pichead joined Asia Television Limited as a singer, actor and presenter in 1991. He has appeared in a series of musicals on the Hong Kong stage and starred in Scrooge, the Musical in 2009.
Appeared in one man cabaret show at the Fringe Club in 2008, A Cabaret of Booze, Sex and Money.
