Roy Tsui
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Lam Yat Hey | |
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| 徐家豪 | |
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| Born | Tsui Ka Ho 徐家豪 30 September 1980 |
| Employer | Most Kwai Chung |
| Spouse | Dejay Choi Ming-Lai (m. 2010) |
Tsui Ka Ho (Chinese: 徐家豪;[1] born 30 September 1980), better known by his pen name Lam Yat-heiy[2][3] (Chinese: 林日曦) or Roy Tsui, is a Hong Kong lyricist, who has composed over 80 pieces of lyrics since 2007. He is also a writer and the founder of Blackpaper Limited (Chinese: 黑紙有限公司), a local publisher involved in multimedia creation and advertising campaigns. Multiple business and media channels are owned by Tsui under Blackpaper Limited, including Whitepaper Publishing (Chinese: 白卷出版社), periodical magazine Blackpaper (Chinese: 黑紙),[3][4] satirical weekly magazine 100 Most (Chinese: 100毛)[3][5] and multimedia platform TVMost (Chinese: 毛記電視).[6][7]
Tsui is also the author of columns for several papers, including the Mingpao Weekly and the Oriental Daily News.
Tsui was born in Hong Kong and grew up in a public housing estate in Tai Wo Hau with his parents, grandparents, and aunt. He changed schools numerous times due to his poor academic record and conduct. After secondary school, he took a 3-year graphic design course at IVE,[8] but he later dropped out and did not pursue further higher education.
In 2003, Tsui joined Commercial Radio Hong Kong as a sound editor and later became the coordinator of their online forums, which Tsui convinced his boss & upper management to keep open. Tsui also allowed his boss, Yu, to see some lyrics he had been composing. Yu requested that Tsui compose 10 more sets of lyrics, which changed Tsui's career path from clerk to production staff. He recommended himself to be on the backstage design team for CR1 (FM 88.1–89.5) 電台雷霆881 and CR2 (FM 90.3–92.1) 叱吒903.
Tsui then changed jobs every few months between the ages of 23 and 31.[9] He was also creative director at Skyhigh Creative Partners.[9] He quit in 2012, as he doubted his mentorship.[4]
In 2007, Tsui composed the lyrics to the theme song "Gulugulu" for the movie Tokyo Tower: Mom and Me, and Sometimes Dad. This is considered his first signature piece. The song entered the Ultimate Song Chart in the same year.
In 2009, Tsui founded the creative unit "Black Paper" with Ah Bu and Chan Keung.[9][10] He then started working on different creative projects, like publishing magazines, directing music videos, and graphic design.
Tsui published the one-page magazine Black Paper in January 2010. His career as a columnist at the Ming Pao Weekly and RoadShow, City Magazine newspapers, Oriental Daily News and Hong Kong Economic Times began in 2011. A year later, he published his first book, Idiot (《白痴》). In March 2013, he published the magazine 100 Most, which reached the break-even point within half a year. Tsui also founded White Paper Publishing in 2013, focusing on publishing popular culture titles including fiction, prose, and picture books. In the same year, he published his second book, Green Veins (《青筋》), and published Black Face (《黑面》) a year later. He later published his first fiction novel, Happy Never After (《快樂有限》), then Excessively Romantic (《肉麻》), and then published Grey Eurasian Collared (《灰鳩》) in 2015. In 2015, Tsui and his team also created the TV website, TVMost.
