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Lai Xiaotian, a 73-year-old Hong Kong all-round musician, was reported to be seriously ill and hospitalized earlier, and today his secretary posted a statement on social media confirming that he died peacefully this morning. On the road of music, Li Xiaotian has won many singers, such as Zhang Guorong, Mei Yanfang, Lü Fang, Du Dewei, etc., and he has also written many well-known classic songs.
Li Xiaotian was born in a musical family, dedicated his life to the music cause, we are familiar with "Nong Ben Amorous", "Rouge Buckle", "When People Shed Tears on the Journey", "The Great Wall Never Falls" and other classic songs, are all from Li Xiaotian's hand.
Although he has great achievements in his career, Li Xiaotian is not a two-sided love career. Although he is relatively short, but as the saying goes, "short boy is affectionate", he has experienced two marriages that are divorced, and he himself has admitted in interviews that feelings are the most failed things in his life.
At the age of 24, Li Xiaotian met his first wife, and after marriage, the two had a son, but after the divorce, Li Xiaotian rarely mentioned his ex-wife and son, and rarely contacted them. Li Xiaotian's second wife is the famous Hong Kong singer TVB actor Kwan Ju Ying, the two fell in love for 8 years, during the love period, Li Xiaotian often distracted, lived together for many years and did not intend to get married.
The two finally married in 1982. That year, the wedding banquet was very grand, with 100 tables of banquets, but unfortunately the marriage only lasted for two short years, and the divorce ended, according to Hong Kong media reports, the trigger for divorce was because Li Xiaotian was too close to the opposite sex.
Li Xiaotian once revealed the reason for the divorce in an interview, saying that the two sides were still young and had a more subjective personality, plus Guan Juying said to him when filming the drama "Falcon": "You can't act, it's better to sing." It struck Guan Juying deeply. After Guan Juying and Li Xiaotian divorced, they immigrated to Canada to treat their love injuries, and once retired from the entertainment industry until 2007, when they returned to TVB to shoot dramas, and Guan Juying met close friends of the same sex at that time.
In 2006, Lai Xiaotian and his ex-wife Guan Juying hosted TVB's TV music program "Super Beautiful Voice Acting Foyer", and the two later maintained a good relationship after divorce.
According to Hong Kong media reports, Lai O-tin, who has been wandering in the bar for many years, has been attacked twice in 1998 and 2005. Once, he was beaten and injured by seven big men on the streets of Causeway Bay, accompanied by his former sister Zhu Yanzhen, who was arguing with people because of protecting Zhu Yanzhen and suspected of seeking revenge. Another time it happened at a Happy Valley Pub, where many entertainers like to drink. Li Xiaotian was attacked by three big men, causing his face to be puffy, and his right eye was almost damaged by glasses fragments.
Another rumor said that Xue Jiayan was the object of Li Xiaotian's pursuit for many years, but unfortunately it has not been successful. The two are also good partners and old friends for many years. Lai Xiaotian's death Xue Jiayan was heartbroken, revealing to the Hong Kong media that when he visited each other in the hospital yesterday, a group of good friends in the music industry were in front of the hospital bed, singing to Li Xiaotian. At that time, Xue Jiayan was so excited that he wept with grief, and for the death of Li Xiaotian, Xue Jiayan said that the other party was a "good partner of the palace level", and praised the other party for making many contributions to the music scene, and he was very sad about the bad news.
Li Xiaotian is a child star who began making movies at the age of 5. In the 1960s, Lai began to serve as the foreman of the orchestra. In 1973, Lai Xiaotian won the third place in the first composition invitational competition of TVB Television and began his music writing career. In 1975, Li Xiaotian and Xue Jiayan began to co-host the variety show "Jiayan and Oda" on Li's TV station. The show became the ace of Leigh's television station, and at this time Lai Xiaotian began to release records.
The mid-1970s was the take-off stage of Li Xiaotian's career, and at that time, the theme song of the TV series was basically completed by Li Xiaotian. In 1982, Li Xiaotian joined TVB's Huaxing Records as a music director, and in addition to discovering tomorrow's stars Mei Yanfang, Lü Fang, Du Dewei and others, he was also a great benefactor of Zhang Guorong. His personal album "The Wind Continues to Blow" tailored for Zhang Guorong rewrote Zhang Guorong's song path and laid the foundation for Zhang Guorong's irreplaceable position in the music world.
After that, Li Xiaotian expanded his career territory, officially entered the film circle, invested in the film industry, and opened an advertising agency in Beijing. In 1989, Lai Xiaotian won the "Best Film Score" at the 8th Hong Kong Film Awards for his classic work "Rouge Buckle" by Mui Yanfang.
The departure of Lai Xiaotian is indeed a big loss to the Hong Kong music scene, and I wish him all the best.