Peter Lai (黎彼得)

Peter Lai (黎彼得) was born on May 13, 1950, formerly known as Li Chengcheng. He is the only child in his family. He lost his father at the age of nine. Lai was deeply influenced by his uncle, the famous Cantonese opera actress, Liang Cibo, and was once helped by him. At the age of 10, Lai and his mother sold newspapers in Central to earn a living. He also worked as an Indian business associate, a gas station clerk, a red card (rental car) driver, and a personal driver. When he was a private driver,he freely contributed articles, and later wrote a column for the "Young People Weekly" headed by Le Shi. The column is titled "Tchaikov Driver's Notes". From the 1970s to the early 1980s, Lai collaborated with Xu Guanjie to fill in the lyrics of a large number of popular songs. The lyrics are written in the authentic Cantonese of Hong Kong, and they are popular, cordial, lively and interesting. The content reflects the current social situation, satirizes the current evils, Therefore, Lai is known as the "joking lyricist". For example, in the early days, "Price Increase Craze" and "Selling Deeds" which were co-filled with Xu Guanjie, later there are classic love songs by Alan Tam, such as "Lover-Goddess", "A Goose in the Sky", Anita Mui's "Split the Iceberg" and Leslie Cheung's "Monica" "Wait. Peter Lai, Huang Zhan, Lu Guozhan, and Zheng Guojiang belong to the first generation of Cantonese pop lyrics writers in Hong Kong. Huang, Lu, and Zheng are said to be important poets at the time. At that time, only the combination of Xu Guanjie and Lai Peter could fight against them with the help of the Xu brothers' films. Lai worked as a screenwriter, film producer and creative manager at Golden Harvest Film Company and Hong Kong TVB. In 1977, Peter Lai was introduced by Xu Guanjie to Liu Tianci, and Liu Tianci introduced him to radio as the script of "Happy Tonight". In the 1990s, he often acted in TV dramas, and also made guest appearances in movies asl green leaf, most of his roles are greedy and fearful marketers, wretched guys and lonely old fellow. And the most classic is that he was the teacher played in "Tang Bohu Spots Autumn Fragrance". He also hosted the commercial radio personal program "Night Talk". He left TVB in September 2012 and ended his many years of guest-host relationship with TVB, and switched to the Hong Kong media production (Hong Kong TV Network) under the City Telecom's subsidiary. In 2016, he filmed TV dramas for TVB and ViuTV. In the same year, he switched to radio as a basic artist contract artist.