Jimmy Lo Kwok-tsim
Jimmy Lo Kwok-tsim is a lyricist active in the Hong Kong music scene who began writing Cantonese lyrics in 1975; his works include "小李飛刀", "大地恩情", and "前程錦繡", and he received the CASH Music Achievement Award in 2001 and the Golden Needle Award at the Top Ten Chinese Gold Songs Awards in 2015.
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Jimmy Lo Kwok-tsim is a lyricist active in the Hong Kong music scene, born in May 1949 in Chaolian, Xinhui County, Guangdong Province. A report in "香港文匯報" records that Jimmy Lo Kwok-tsim studied journalism at The Chinese University of Hong Kong and held senior posts at major television stations.
A March 2025 obituary from the Hong Kong Arts Development Council records that Jimmy Lo Kwok-tsim began writing Cantonese lyrics in 1975 and wrote the lyrics for more than three thousand songs. A "香港文匯報" column records that while working at a television station Jimmy Lo Kwok-tsim was invited to write lyrics for the theme song of the TV drama "巫山盟" and the sub-theme song "田園春夢", sung as a duet by 伍衛國 and Susanna Kwan. In 1977, Jimmy Lo Kwok-tsim wrote lyrics for the title theme song of the TV drama "前程錦繡", sung by 羅文. The title theme song of the TV drama "小李飛刀" appeared with the series in January 1978, with lyrics by Jimmy Lo Kwok-tsim and music by 顧嘉煇.
Hong Kong SAR Government materials list "大內群英", "每當變幻時", and "大地恩情" among Jimmy Lo Kwok-tsim's classic works. Jimmy Lo Kwok-tsim's lyric works also include "浮生六劫", "人在旅途灑淚時", and "天蠶變".
"小李飛刀" ranked among the "十大中文歌曲" at the first Top Ten Chinese Gold Songs Awards. Jimmy Lo Kwok-tsim received the CASH Music Achievement Award from the Composers and Authors Society of Hong Kong in 2001, the Golden Needle Award at the Top Ten Chinese Gold Songs Awards from RTHK in 2015, and the Outstanding Arts Contribution Award of the 12th Hong Kong Arts Development Awards from the Hong Kong Arts Development Council in 2018. That awards ceremony was held on May 11, 2018 at TVB City in Tseung Kwan O and presented 34 awards in total; recipients of the Outstanding Arts Contribution Award included Jimmy Lo Kwok-tsim. The winners list of the 37th Top Ten Chinese Gold Songs Awards lists Jimmy Lo Kwok-tsim as receiving the Golden Needle Award.
A review article in "虛詞" records that Jimmy Lo Kwok-tsim promoted the 1980s "非情歌運動", of which songs such as "螳螂與我" and "傲骨" were representative works.
From the 1990s onward, Jimmy Lo Kwok-tsim often lectured on lyric-writing experience at tertiary institutions in Hong Kong. The Hong Kong Arts Development Council records that in 1989 Jimmy Lo Kwok-tsim co-authored "話說填詞" with 黃志華 and in the same period published "歌詞的背後", written solely by Jimmy Lo Kwok-tsim. A lyric-studies article on the writing platform Matters records that "歌詞的背後" was published in 1988, with a further expanded edition in 2014.
Jimmy Lo Kwok-tsim passed away on March 19, 2025. On June 7, 2025, "致敬詞聖盧國沾作品演唱會" was held at the Hong Kong Coliseum, with performances by 葉振棠, 徐小明, 羅嘉良, Rosanne Lui, 李龍基, Teresa Cheung Tak-lan, 米雪, 溫兆倫, 雷安娜, and 張與辰 and 劉洋 from "中年好聲音3", among others. The concert closed with an all-star chorus of "前程錦繡".
Overview
- Born
- May 2, 1949
- Born in
- Jiangmen · Mainland China
- Died
- March 19, 2025aged 75
- Died in
- Hong Kong
- Career start
- First single · June 1975
- Active
- from June 1975
- Gender
- Male
- Aliases
- 卢国沾, 盧國沾
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