19 Facts About Sandy Lam

Sandy Lam Yik-lin, is a Hong Kong singer, actress and producer.

Sandy Lam rose to fame in the 1980s, before expanding her fan base significantly in Asia, releasing more than 30 stylistically diverse albums in Cantonese, Mandarin, English and Japanese.

Sandy Lam has recorded not only with CBS Sony Records and Stardust Label in 1980s, but with Warner Music, Rock Records, Virgin Records, Capitol Records, EMI Music, and now Universal Music.

Sandy Lam's father, emigrated from Shanghai, was a professional Erhu musician with the Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra and her mother performed Yue opera at local venues.

In 1982, while still a secondary school student at Marymount Secondary School, Sandy Lam was asked by a classmate to audition for a disc jockey position at the Commercial Radio Hong Kong.

Yet despite the popularity of this style in Hong Kong, Sandy Lam failed to strike a chord with the general public.

Sandy Lam further showed her ability to transcend genres on the jazz-influenced Ready.

The song selection was interesting: Sandy Lam covered the songs of artists such as Martika and Taylor Dayne, positioning her as a fresh and youthful artist.

Simultaneously, Sandy Lam was developing her Taiwanese market and establishing herself in the world of Mandopop.

Sandy Lam made a brief foray onto the stage in 1997 when she was cast as the female lead in Hong Kong's biggest musical Snow.

From 2009, Sandy Lam slowly began working on an album that she wanted to be different from anything she had done previously.

Rather than playing safe and being too reliant on other producers and songwriters, Sandy Lam wanted to make a fundamental change to the way she made music.

Sandy Lam continued to challenge herself in other avenues, for example in 2017 she was a surprise entrant in a Hunan Television show Singer 2017, which introduced her as a pop icon to a whole new generation of fans.

In January 2017, Sandy Lam joined Hunan Television's show Singer 2017, as one of the eight initial singers.

Sandy Lam was declared the winner in the final on 15 April 2017.

In 2018, Sandy Lam released her 12th Mandarin album 0 under negligible promotional-fanfare.

Sandy Lam won "Best Mandarin Female Singer" and "Best Recording Vocal Album" awards for this album at the 30th Golden Melody Awards in 2019.

Sandy Lam married Taiwanese singer-songwriter and producer Jonathan Lee in 1998.

Sandy Lam was in an eight-year relationship with the drummer-songwriter Jun Kung from 2011 to 2019.