Tam was born in 1950 in a small village in Hong Kong with two older sisters and three younger sisters.
His father was tan Jiangbai, a soccer star, who represented China in the 1930s to participate in the Olympic Games in Germany, but sports were not taken seriously by everyone at that time.

Tan Yonglin admired his father very much when he was a child, and even formed a football team when he was in school.
However, at that time, the family was not rich, and even in difficult times, they could not even pay the tuition fees, so Tan Yonglin did not play football again.
Later, his father borrowed money to send Tam Wing Lin to a school in Singapore to study economics.
However, Tan Yonglin, who was not good at snacks and did not wear warm clothes, contracted a vicious disease in his junior year and returned to Hong Kong to recuperate.
Step by step into the king of songs
Because her mother likes music, Tan Yonglin listens to music at home to recuperate.
A seed of music was like this, and it was during this time that Tan Yonglin came up with the idea of dropping out of school.
At first, this idea was strongly opposed by parents. However, at the repeated insistence of Tan Yonglin, his father promised to drop out of school if he found a job by his own ability.
So at first, Tan Yonglin went to work as a postman, and ran around every day to save some money.
Later, by chance, I came into contact with the singing industry and fell in love with this industry. So Tan Yonglin worked during the day and went back at night to start practicing songs.
I met yang jiewei, designer, when I went to a nightclub. The two fell in love at first sight and were together soon after.
Yang Jiewei resigned from the company's position, and this life was only designed for Tan Yonglin.
However, in order to have a better development in the entertainment industry, Tan Yonglin has not announced the relationship between the two.
Yang Jiewei was also pregnant several times, but all of them were miscarried, so the two met together.
In 1968, Tan Yonglin felt that the time was ripe and formed his own band losers.
Although I have participated in some competitions, my results have not been satisfactory. Finally, it was dissolved in 1971.
Tan Yonglin, who had been silent for two years, found several more team members to form the Wenna Band, and called himself "Wenna Five Tigers".
In 1974, the first song "Sunshiner" was released, although the song was relatively popular at the time, but the band still disbanded.
Although the two bands were formed, Tan Yonglin's singing skills have also improved significantly.
In 1979, Tan Yonglin released his first solo album "Anti-Fighting Star", which sold well and won gold records, and Tan Yonglin also became popular.
Tan Yonglin hit the iron while it was hot and continuously issued "Bounce Up! Sing it! Albums such as "Can't Forget You" and "Your Gaze" quickly gained popularity and word of mouth.
In the subsequent concert, the fans were also more enthusiastic than one.
In 1986, Zhang Guorong won the Golden Melody Award for "Who Resonates", breaking Tan Yonglin's two-year monopoly.
However, after the award ceremony, the fans of both sides had a large-scale group fight, and the scene was a mess.
After that, the fans of the two were very incompatible, and they could fight on the street. There are even Tan Yongyi's fans who send blades and coins to Zhang Guorong.
This also made the two companies and major media see the gimmick. The company just found the point of publicity and hype, and the media wanted to make things bigger and write news.
So with the help of the waves, the song lost its mind and was even more violent.
At the 1987 awards ceremony, Tam Wing Lin, who was annoyed by the "buy award incident", announced that she would never participate in any song contest program again.
Although Zhang Guorong has since been alone and defeated, Tan Yonglin's fans have become more fierce in their scolding of Zhang Guorong.
Finally, in 1989, Zhang Guorong sealed Mai and never sang again, and the "Zhang Tan" competition also came to an end.
Since then, not only Tan Yonglin, Zhang Guorong, but even Xu Guanjie and Mei Yanfang have also bid farewell to the stage. The kings of the older generation generously left the stage to the newcomers behind.
Married cheating fans
In 1991, at the age of 41, Tan Yonglin met 19-year-old fan Zhu Yongting. The two began to secretly engage in an underground affair, and Zhu Yongting also gave birth to a son for Tan Yonglin.
The son was exposed by the media on his birthday, and the relationship was made public.
The cheating of the bastard son and Tan Yonglin has been hammered, and Yang Jiewei, who has been silently paying behind Tan Yonglin for decades, has collapsed. At the same time, I felt very powerless.
Tan Yonglin is in order to calm the people, but also to protect his illegitimate son. Just promise Yang Jiewei that she will never be wrong again, and give the financial power to Yang Jiewei.
Although Yang Jiewei was reluctant, she had no choice but to accept it in the end.
Yang Jiewei has been silently paying in order to make Tan Yonglin change her mind, but she did not expect that it was just wishful thinking.
It didn't take long for Tan Yonglin to move in with Zhu Yongting, and slowly recovered her assets.
When Tan Yonglin's father died in 2006, he corrected Zhu Yongting on the grounds of his father's will. Yang Jiewei was disheartened, and two years later she entered the Buddhist gate and cut her hair as a nun.
On the other hand, Yuan Yonglin has a child, a wife, a new family, and money, and everything looks so happy. But I didn't think that behind happiness there was also a person who was deeply hurt.