Yin Guang, known as the "King of Temple Street Singers", is a Vietnamese overseas Chinese, who began to learn to sing Cantonese opera at the age of 7 and took the stage at the age of 11, when he did it for interest; yin Guang was of course very happy to get applause from the audience, and then because of the outbreak of the Vietnam War, Yin Guang and his family came to Hong Kong to settle down.
As a singer in Hong Kong, Yin Guang's representative works are numerous, including "Hollywood Hotel", "Counting Waves", "Seven Friends of Snow Gu", "Fourteen Seats", "Shaoli Abba", "Your Aunt Big Sale", "Old Bean Is the Strongest", etc. He pointed out that he was dedicated to his profession and music in order to make the audience and fans happy. Earlier, he was interviewed by chen Tu'an's Hong Kong and Taiwan program "An Ge Alumni Association", mentioning that when he first entered the industry, he looked at people's faces, Yin Guang said: "In the 70s, I sang Chinese songs, I spoke Cantonese in Vietnam, although I was OK Chinese, but the pronunciation was accurate, and the Cantonese people always sang Chinese songs, and at that time I sang a dance hall, picked a slow song "Blue Melancholy" to audition, and I Chinese my words to sing like Cantonese songs, and I sang like Cantonese opera, fine road, go'! Tell me to do the path, I was twenty years old at the time... Blind face mouth, terrier with a snout! ”
Yin Guang did not give up, bought Aoyama's records, continued to practice songs, and then went to the dance hall to audition, and finally successfully passed, so he began his career as a singer, he said: "Artificial 200 mosquitoes a month, a lot of horns, at that time there were dou zero messengers, dou zero to buy an egg tart, and you can cross the sea, enough to use the horn!" I can go to Kai Tak every night to sing two Cantonese songs, 7 mosquitoes a night. Returning to work in the dance hall every night, Yin Guang has never been bad, he said that from fine to large, "smoke and wine, coffee and milk tea."
However, Yin Guang once fell in love with gambling money and suffered a painful experience, tried to appear on stage in Australia, lost twenty thousand a night, at that time, the price of a floor was only more than 100,000, after returning to Hong Kong to pay off debts in installments, it was necessary to sing 9 times a night, but he still did not want to quit gambling, and then because he had a family, he had a wife and a son, Yin Guang woke up, he said: "I went to Hong Kong in Vietnam, and a friend taught me to gamble 9... Lose money because of winning money, syllable a night to win hundreds of mosquitoes, I sing 1 month first to get hundreds of mosquitoes, 1,000 mosquitoes are afraid, I mi (sink) confused to go to the bed! Until the birth of a boy in 1984, I quit gambling. In this experience, Yin Guang admitted that he had no regrets, he believed that people are at ease with the encounter, the heavens have long been doomed to people's lives, he feels that the most important thing is peace and health, "I am almost 78 years old, someone asked me to sing... Money and possessions. ”
Mrs. Li Liyi is Yin Guang's singing partner, the two have been married since 1982, still very affectionate, Yin Guang is not afraid of meat and hemp said: "Terrier love you!" Oh my other half! He said that every time there was a concert, his wife would sing a light and funny song with him to make the audience happy, laughing: "Sometimes the boss asks you to sing one or two songs by yourself, and you sing it, because every time I go in to change my shirt, I take care of me." Because if you want to sing and sing, you have to practice singing, and you will do a lot of things. ”