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許冠傑祖籍廣東番禺，1948年9月6日生於廣州，1950年隨家人移居香港。他1966年與友人組成演唱歐西流行曲的蓮花樂隊，任主音歌手，1967年為無綫電視主持流行音樂節目，七十年代初畢業於香港大學心理學系。1971年他與兄長許冠文聯合主持笑話節目《雙星報喜》，收視極佳，二人迅即成為家喻戶曉的電視紅星；1972年4月14日，他在該節目首次公開演唱由他譜曲、許冠文作詞的粵語歌《鐵塔凌雲》（當時歌名顯示為《就此模樣》），該曲其後收錄於1974年的《鬼馬雙星》專輯並正式改名。1972年他獲嘉禾羅致為基本演員，主演《馬路小英雄》（1973）、《小英雄大鬧唐人街》（1974）等片。1974年，許冠文轉投嘉禾，自編自導自演《鬼馬雙星》，許冠傑除聯合主演外，更為同名主題曲及插曲《雙星情歌》作曲、填詞及主唱，該曲在電影上映前已流行，電影公映後以逾600萬港元打破當時香港票房紀錄。此後他接連演出《天才與白痴》（1975）、《半斤八両》（1976）、《賣身契》（1978）、《摩登保鑣》（1981）等「許氏兄弟」喜劇，多數成為該年票房冠軍，其中《半斤八両》以約850萬港元刷新開埠紀錄；由他作曲、填詞及主唱的電影歌曲亦同時成為最熱門的流行曲。1981年他轉投新藝城，主演的《最佳拍檔》（1982）再破香港票房紀錄，系列續集《最佳拍檔大顯神通》（1983）、《最佳拍檔女皇密令》（1984）亦極賣座。他在尼泊爾拍攝《衛斯理傳奇》（1987）時患病，自此減產，其後演出《笑傲江湖》（1990）、《新半斤八両》（1990）等，1993年主演《水滸笑傳》後淡出影壇，至2000年復出主演《大贏家》。他1985年獲第8屆十大中文金曲頒發金針獎，是首位獲此榮譽的香港歌手；他在作曲、填詞及主唱方面成就卓著，有「歌神」之稱。
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Sam Hui was born in Guangzhou on 6 September 1948 to a family from Panyu, Guangdong, and moved to Hong Kong in 1950. In 1966 he formed the Lotus, a band singing Western pop, as its lead singer; he hosted a pop-music programme for TVB in 1967 and graduated in psychology from the University of Hong Kong in the early 1970s. In 1971 he co-hosted the comedy show The Hui Brothers Show with his elder brother Michael, and the pair quickly became household names; on 14 April 1972, on that programme, he first performed in public a Cantonese song, then shown as Such Is the Way, which he composed to lyrics by Michael and which was later retitled and included on the 1974 album Games Gamblers Play. Signed by Golden Harvest in 1972, he took leading roles in Back Alley Princess (1973) and Chinatown Capers (1974). In 1974, when Michael moved to Golden Harvest and wrote, directed and starred in Games Gamblers Play, Sam co-starred and wrote, composed and sang its title song and the number Double Star Love Song; the title song was a hit before the film opened, and the film broke the Hong Kong box-office record with more than HK$6 million. There followed a run of Hui Brothers comedies, including The Last Message (1975), The Private Eyes (1976), The Contract (1978) and Security Unlimited (1981), most of them the year's top-grossing film; The Private Eyes alone took about HK$8.5 million, again a record, and his songs again became the biggest hits. He joined Cinema City in 1981 and starred in Aces Go Places (1982), another box-office record, along with its sequels in 1983 and 1984. He fell ill while shooting The Legend of Wisely (1987) in Nepal and cut back on work, later appearing in Swordsman (1990) and The New Private Eyes (1990); after All's Well, Ends Well Too in 1993 he stepped back from films, returning to star in Winner Takes All (2000). In 1985 he received the Golden Needle Award at the 8th Top Ten Chinese Gold Songs Awards, the first Hong Kong singer so honoured, and he is known as the 'God of Song'.
