Shang Kuan Liu Yun

Biography

Shang Kuan Liu Yun was a Malaysian artist of Chinese descent, born in 1922 in Selangor, Malaysia. He was a singer and songwriter active in Southeast Asia during the 1940s and 1950s, and also worked as an actor in Hong Kong's Amoy and Cantonese films. He composed the famous song "Midnight Kiss" in 1941 at a seaside location in Penang as a memory of his first love, and the song became a major hit when sung by Singaporean singer Wu Mei-ling. In 1965, he reworked two Cantonese songs from Beatles tracks, "Walk a Little Faster" and "Thinking of My Beauty", which became hugely popular in Hong Kong and were among the early Cantonese pop songs. He acted in numerous Amoy and Cantonese films during his decades-long career. He passed away in 2002.