繁體中文
林夕1961年12月7日在香港出生，本名梁偉文，祖籍廣東東莞。他先後就讀石籬天主教小學、九龍塘宣道小學、陳瑞祺（喇沙）書院及喇沙書院，1984年畢業於香港大學文學院中文系，主修翻譯。1984年，他參加香港電台舉辦的「非情歌創作比賽」，以《曾經》奪冠，該曲由鍾鎮濤主唱，成為他首度發表的詞作；1986年他為樂隊Raidas填寫《吸煙的女人》，以朦朧而富意象的筆觸正式打響名堂。他的筆名取自前輩詞人林振強，夕字則來自「夢」的寫法。此後他為張國榮、王菲、張學友、楊千嬅、陳奕迅、黃耀明等歌手填詞，至今作品逾四千首，代表作有《約定》《至少還有你》《富士山下》《給自己的情書》，並為張國榮寫下《追》《左右手》，為王菲寫下《暗湧》《臉》，為楊千嬅寫下《少女的祈禱》。在商業電台叱咤樂壇流行榜，他由1995年起連續九屆奪得填詞人大獎，是該獎最長的連續紀錄保持者，其後於2006至2009年再奪四屆。1999年他以王菲《臉》獲台灣金曲獎最佳作詞人，2010年再憑張惠妹（阿密特）《開門見山》獲同一獎項。2008年北京奧運，他為宣傳活動寫下七首歌詞，其中《北京歡迎你》最為人熟悉。2009年他獲十大中文金曲「金針獎」，2012年獲CASH音樂成就大獎。他與黃偉文並稱詞壇「兩個偉文」，其作品把流行曲由單純情歌推向都市心理書寫，成為粵語流行曲的共同語言。他亦出版散文集，近年移居台灣，仍持續為陳奕迅等歌手填詞；2017年起其作品在內地逐步被下架。
English
Albert Leung, better known by the pen name Lin Xi, was born in Hong Kong on 7 December 1961 under the real name Leung Wai-man, with ancestral roots in Dongguan, Guangdong. He attended Shek Lei Catholic Primary School, Kowloon Tong Alliance Primary School, Chan Sui Ki (La Salle) College and La Salle College, and graduated from the arts faculty of the University of Hong Kong in 1984, majoring in translation. In 1984 he won an RTHK non-love-song lyrics competition with Once, sung by Kenny Bee, the first of his lyrics to be published; in 1986 he wrote Smoking Woman for the band Raidas, making his name with a hazy, image-rich style. His pen name is drawn from the veteran lyricist Richard Lam, with the second character taken from the Chinese word for dream. He went on to write for Leslie Cheung, Faye Wong, Jacky Cheung, Miriam Yeung, Eason Chan and Anthony Wong, producing more than four thousand songs, among them The Promise, At Least I Have You, Under Mount Fuji and A Letter to Myself, as well as Leslie Cheung's Chase and Left and Right Hand, Faye Wong's Deep and Face, and Miriam Yeung's A Maiden's Prayer. On Commercial Radio's Ultimate Song Chart Awards he won the lyricist award for nine consecutive years from 1995, the longest such run, and took it four more times between 2006 and 2009. In 1999 he won Best Lyricist at Taiwan's Golden Melody Awards for Faye Wong's Face, and in 2010 for A-Mit's Open the Door, See the Mountain. For the 2008 Beijing Olympics he wrote seven promotional songs, the best known being Beijing Welcomes You. He received the Golden Needle Award at the Top 10 Gold Songs Awards in 2009 and the CASH Music Achievement Award in 2012. Known with Wyman Wong as the two Wymans of the lyric trade, he has pushed Cantopop beyond simple love songs into the writing of urban psychology, and his phrasing has become a shared language of the genre. He has also published essay collections and in recent years has moved to Taiwan, still writing for singers such as Eason Chan; from 2017 his work was progressively removed from mainland platforms.
