Sandy Lam Profile

Chinese Name : 林憶蓮
Name (E) : Sandy Yik-lin Lam
Birth Date : 1966 April 26
Birth Place : Hong Kong
Horoscope : Taurus
Chinese Horoscope : Horse
Height : 1.59m
Weight : 48kg
Eye Sight : 300 degree short sighted on left eye
Nationality : Chinese Hong Kong with Canadian passport

Label for Mandarin Market : Capitol Music

Label for Cantonese Market : EMI/Gold Label

Past Labels : CBS/SONY, WEA, Capital Artist, Rock Records, virgin Records

Music Production : Saraswati Music Limited

Management Company : Music & Movement, Singapore
Past management company : Creative Artists Management & Productions Ltd. formerly known as Stardust Factory

Status : Married to Jonathon Lee (æŽå®—ç››), famous Taiwan producer a.k.a. the godfather of Chinese music in Taiwan, on Feb 23, 1998. Seperated in 2004. Sandy was in a relationship with Chan Fai Hung, ex-903 DJ and currently managing various departments in EMI and Gold Label (EMI 亞太å€æ–°åª’體總è£ï¼Œé‡‘牌娛樂è—人部總經ç†), afterward, yet broke up in summer 2006. Now single.

Family Members : Two younger brothers; mother and father passed away in 2001 and 2004 respectively; One daughter named Lee Xi-er (æŽå–œå…’) was born in 1998 (with Jonathon Lee æŽå®—ç››)

Education : Secondary – Form 5 graduate with a Business Diploma, Marymount Sisters’ School (瑪利曼書院), Happy Valley, HK (Photos); Primary – North Point K.F. Assn. Madam Chan Wai Chow Mem. School, Hong Kong, 北角街åŠæœƒé™³ç¶­å‘¨å¤«äººç´€å¿µå­¸æ ¡

Who is Sandy Lam?

In the Chinese pop music scene in Asia, especially to those who used to listening to radio from mid-80s and on in Hong Kong, SANDY LAM is a name equivalent to transformation, perfection, hard working, feminine, and talent.

Her career began as a part-time DJ at Commercial Radio Hong Kong in 1982, in which she got an unique nick name 611 (6+1+1=8, in Cantonese ‘8’ means being talkative and always questioning about gossips and other topics). Sandy joined SONY in 1983 and her debut in her Chinese name Lam Yik Lin was released in 1984. She rapidly became the most popular up-and-raising star. Yik Lin, her third album released in 1987, reached double platinum and that when her music career truly kicked off.

With heavy influences from Western music, Sandy’s music style started from cheesy Japanese teen pop to Light Jazz; and from there to R&B, Soul, or even Fusion. In fact, she is considered the only Hong Kong female singer with the best ad-libs. She has 27 full studio albums in Cantonese, Mandarin, English and Japanese, and adding other EPs, live recordings, compilations and co-operations, there is more then 80 or more on the list.

Unlike many other singers in Hong Kong, audience recognizes Sandy as a true musician/performer, rather then an entertainer. You don’t find shocking make-up or extreme outfits from her; it is her pure voice which captured everyone’s heart. She rather spends her time work producing an album instead of attending meaningless shows. Her fans admire her as who she is and the willingness to improve herself vocally, and such improvement is well-know in the industry like a miracle. In recent years, she is transforming herself, not only a singer, but singer songwriter. To put it in a simple way, Sandy is serious about music, it is her life.

2005 marks the 20th Anniversary of her music career. Being able to survive this long in Hong Kong entertainment scene is not an easy task, because of the high competition and people are being so forgetful. Looking back, it shouldn’t be a surprise after all, Sandy is the very first singer to blend in Jazz & R&B elements into Chinese music; she is one of the pioneers who marches into the Japanese music scene and the first singer to have two Chinese songs entering the Japan J-Wave Tokio Hot 100 music chart.

Moreover, she was the most successful Hong Kong singer to make it big in Taiwan by her first Mandarin release selling a record of 600,000 copies; she also participated in Asia’s first 47 days sold out Chinese musical Snow Wolf Lake; she was hand picked by Andrew Lloyd Webber to perform in The Music Of Andrew Lloyd Webber with Elaine Paige in Shanghai in 2001, and she was also picked to sing the Chinese version of Les Miserables’s theme song On My Own. A new kind of flower in Singapore is named after her name called Dendrobium Sandy.

The list goes on and on, but most of her, it is her music that put us together. Let’s hope Sandy is going to continue to sing for the years to come.

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Dendrobium Sandy

Dendrobium Sandy was successfully hybridised in 2nd quarter of 1993, having the 1st flower cuts available in early 1995. Aspiring to penetrate into the vast overseas market, a suitable name for the flower was then deemed to be highly crucial.

The dendrobium is much more than just a flower. It symbolizes love, tenderness, joy and friendship. In short, Dendrobium Sandy, is a most elegant tribute to Ms Sandy Lam.

Main Characteristics of Dendrobium Sandy : – Sweet purplish pink blushing on the petals, with deeper tone lip. – Produce multiple spikes with an abundance of flowers. – Color of petals’ll change slightly to a deeper tone at night under lamp lights. – Flower cuts has a life span of 2.5 weeks. – A frequent bloomer.

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