葉振棠

简介

Johnny Yip Chun Tong was born in Macau in 1944 to a family of Vietnamese-Chinese descent. As a child, he suffered from scarlet fever that damaged his eye nerves and weakened his eyesight. He received his education in Macau before moving to Hong Kong at age eighteen seeking work. He began his music career as a bass player in Hong Kong bars, then joined the band The New Topnotes in the mid-1970s and released five English albums with them. Later he formed the band "Ma Zheng Tong" with other musicians, singing Cantonese pop songs. He achieved his breakthrough in 1980 when music director Lai Siu-tin hired him to record theme songs for RTV television dramas, recording six major themes including "Fu Sheng Liu Jie" and "Da Xia Huo Yuan Jia". In 1982 he signed with TVB and performed songs composed by Koo Kar-fai, notably "Wang Jin Xin Zhong Qing" which became his signature song. He is renowned for his sorrowful, rugged voice closely associated with 1980s Hong Kong television drama themes.