Roy Tsui


Tsui Ka Ho, better known by his pen name Lam Yat-heiy or Roy Tsui, is a Hong Kong lyricist, who has composed over 80 pieces of lyrics since 2007. He is also a writer and the founder of Blackpaper Limited, a local publisher involved in multimedia creation and advertising campaigns. Multiple business and media channels are owned by Tsui under Blackpaper Limited, including Whitepaper Publishing, periodical magazine Blackpaper, satirical weekly magazine 100 Most and multimedia platform TVMost.
Tsui is also the author of columns for several papers, including the Mingpao Weekly and the ''Oriental Daily News.''

Biography

Tsui was born in Hong Kong and grew up in a public housing estate in Tai Wo Hau with his parents, grandparents, and aunt. He changed schools numerous times due to his poor academic record and conduct. After secondary school, he took a 3-year graphic design course at IVE, but he later dropped out and did not pursue further higher education.
In 2003, Tsui joined Commercial Radio Hong Kong as a sound editor and later became the coordinator of their online forums, which Tsui convinced his boss & upper management to keep open. Tsui also allowed his boss, Yu, to see some lyrics he had been composing. Yu requested that Tsui compose 10 more sets of lyrics, which changed Tsui's career path from clerk to production staff. He recommended himself to be on the backstage design team for CR1 電台雷霆881 and CR2 叱吒903.
Tsui then changed jobs every few months between the ages of 23 and 31. He was also creative director at Skyhigh Creative Partners. He quit in 2012, as he doubted his mentorship.
In 2007, Tsui composed the lyrics to the theme song "Gulugulu" for the movie Tokyo Tower: Mom and Me, and Sometimes Dad. This is considered his first signature piece. The song entered the Ultimate Song Chart in the same year.
In 2009, Tsui founded the creative unit "Black Paper" with Ah Bu and Chan Keung. He then started working on different creative projects, like publishing magazines, directing music videos, and graphic design.
Tsui published the one-page magazine Black Paper in January 2010. His career as a columnist at the Ming Pao Weekly and RoadShow, ''City Magazine newspapers, Oriental Daily News and Hong Kong Economic Times began in 2011. A year later, he published his first book, Idiot. In March 2013, he published the magazine 100 Most, which reached the break-even point within half a year. Tsui also founded White Paper Publishing in 2013, focusing on publishing popular culture titles including fiction, prose, and picture books. In the same year, he published his second book, Green Veins, and published Black Face a year later. He later published his first fiction novel, Happy Never After, then Excessively Romantic, and then published Grey Eurasian Collared'' in 2015. In 2015, Tsui and his team also created the TV website, TVMost.

Works

Lyrics

2007

  • Freeze – Stepping on the wire
  • Freeze – Maria
  • Terence Chi Iong CHUI – Time Machines
  • Arumimihifumi – gulugulu
  • Arumimihifumi – Last day Today

    2008

  • At17 – The Date to the Moon
  • I Love You Boyz、HotCha – Let's Play La La La
  • Square – ASAP
  • Rannes Man – Entertainment
  • Arumimihifumi – Sleepless Actress
  • Eunix Lee – One on One
  • Eric Suen – Story of seven million
  • Justin – Cloud
  • Miriam Yeung – La La Kua La La
  • Lowell Lo Feat. Farmer – 2050

    2009

  • Alex Fong – Rush
  • Alex Fong – Butterfly Flies
  • Jonathan Wong Chee Hynn – Roswell
  • Jonathan Wong Chee Hynn – In the Dark
  • Jonathan Wong Chee Hynn – North South Pole
  • Jonathan Wong Chee Hynn – 1+1
  • Jonathan Wong Chee Hynn – 300 Love Poems
  • Elanne Kwong – Next, Please
  • Sukie Tong – Clear
  • Janet Yung – Plan A
  • Keeva Mak – Detective
  • Kearen Pang – Goodbye
  • Kearen Pang 彭秀慧) – Under the Moon
  • Cilla Kung – Smiling Fish
  • Cilla Kung – Countdown of Death
  • – The Great Teacher

    2010

  • ToNick – T.O.N.I.C.K
  • Jonathan Wong Chee Hynn – East West
  • Fainche Che – Trophy
  • Fainche Che – The Weather Girl
  • Edison Chan – Love in this World
  • Jason Chan – Don't let it stop before sun rise
  • Bosco Wong – The Master
  • Bosco Wong – Over the hills
  • Cilla Kung – Snowman
  • Cilla Kung – Human Figure
  • Cilla Kung – Christmas Nobody
  • Cilla Kung Feat. Luk Wing Kuen@Farmer – Queen of himono-onna

    2011

  • HotCha – Not Used To
  • ToNick – Day Dream
  • Taichi – Alcohol this morning
  • Yu Kiu, Ava – The Gorgeous-ist
  • Det Dik – Out of City
  • Mag Lam, Sheldon Lo, James Ng Yip Kwan, Stephanie Ho Ngan Si, Alfred Hui, Ryan Lam – Super Voice
  • Mag Lam – Water
  • Kate Tsui – 'Wax and Wane' Opening Theme Song
  • Miya – Bearable
  • Alfred Hui – Water
  • Bosco Won g – Water
  • Michael Tse Tin Wah – Walking Alone
  • Linda Chung, Ron Ng – 'L'Escargot' Opening Theme Song
  • Susanna Kwan – 'Curse of the Royal Harem' Opening Theme Song

    2012

  • Jonathan Wong Chee Hynn – Online Game'Tales Runner'Theme Song 2012
  • Det Dik,Rainky Wai – Old Camera
  • Mag Lam – 'Three Kingdoms'Ending Theme Song
  • Raymond Lam – End of Innocence
  • Raymond Lam – Same Forest
  • Yu Kiu, Ava – Escape
  • Myolie Wu, Johnson Lee – 'Wish and Switch' Opening Theme Song
  • Joey Yung – 'The Hippocratic Crush 2'Sound Track
  • Sita Chan – Noise
  • Sita Chan – For Thousands of Years
  • William Chan – Queen
  • William Chan Feat. – Who Am I （Rap Lyrics: 馮曦妤）
  • Wayne Lai, Wu Ting Yan Nancy – 'The Confidant'Ending Theme Song
  • Fiona Sit – 'Silver Spoon, Sterling Shackles'Opening Theme Song- At This Very Moment
  • Michael Tse Tin Wah, Niki Chow – 'Sergeant Tabloid' Opening Theme Song
  • Linda Chung – 'Missing You' OpeningTheme Song
  • Shirley Kwan – 'The Confidant'Opening Theme Song

    2013

  • J.Arie – 'A Secret Between Us'Theme Song
  • Jonathan Wong Chee Hynn – 'Midnight Munchies'Opening Theme Song
  • Joey Yung – 'The Hippocratic Crush 2'Opening Theme Song – Sequel
  • Niki Chow – 'A Change of Heart 'Opening Theme Song
  • Mag Lam – University of the Weird
  • Raymond Lam – BB（與莊冬昕、林峯合填）
  • Edwin Siu – 'A Great Way To Care II'Opening Theme Song
  • Alfred Hui – 'Will Power'Opening Theme Song
  • Bosco Wong – Final Blessing
  • Cai Jun Tao – 'Detectives and Doctors'Opening Theme Song
  • Rainky Wai – 'Knock Knock Who's There' Theme Song
  • Miriam Yeung – Classmate
  • Ruco Chan, Edwin Siu – 'Brother's Keeper'Opening Theme Song
  • Ryan Lau – 'When Lanes Merge'Opening Theme Song
  • Shirley Kwan – 'Always And Ever' Opening Theme Song

    2014

  • Mag Lam – Safety Zone
  • Rainky Wai – Toys

    2015

  • Jan Lamb – TV Most 'Time of Dog'Theme Song-Heartless Years
  • Raymond Lam – 'Detectives and Doctors'Opening Theme Song- Interlinked hearts
  • Eunice Chan – Drama of Love
  • Eunice Chan – Stupid
  • Gloria Yip – Rashomon of Women
  • Stephanie Cheng – The God of Black Face
  • Tang Chi Wai – Epic
  • Michael Lai – Slow Happiness
  • Michael Lai – Near
  • Michael Lai – Escalator
  • Michael Lai – The Strange Familiar
  • Michael Lai – Hong Kong Outstanding Junk Youngsters
  • Michael Lai – Fell Right Where I Fall
  • Michael Lai – Real Fake Literary Youngsters

    2019

  • Lam Yat-hei – Little Person

    Magazines

  • Black Paper
Black Paper is a magazine criticising the 'normal' society. It is a one-page A5-size magazine with one side of pictures of people and the other side filled with ‘black sentence’. ‘Black sentence’ is a short sentence about the monthly theme. His idea is to make the sentences as short as possible so that people will have the patience to finish reading them. The overall style of the magazine is meant to be humorous and critical.
  • 100 Most
100 Most is a lifestyle magazine that was started by Roy Tsui, Bu and Chan Keung in 2013. The magazine is mainly about popular culture in Hong Kong.

Multimedia channel

  • TV Most
Tsui stated that ‘A single sheet of paper could be a magazine, so why must TV be on TV?’. He started the TV website, TVMost.

Books

Columns

  • Column at Sharp Daily – White Paper
  • Column at Apple Daily – Sink All Other than Books
  • Column at MingPao Weekly – Drama of Relationship
  • Column at RoadShow – Farewell Love
  • Column at City Magazine – Bookstory
  • Column at Oriental Daily News – Why not idiotic
  • Column at Hong Kong Economic Times – Off Topic

    Talk show

In December 2019, Lam Yat-hei held his personal talk show, Sad But True, as promised one year ago, which had allowed ticket reservations one year before the performance. There were 13 sessions from 11–22 December, including new-added sessions at MacStadium. All the tickets were sold out on 17 September. In the talk show, he talks about how an incident made him and his friend feel embarrassed when they were with each other. Then he found his friend again during the preparation of this talk show. He initiates mentioning that incident, and his friend is no longer mad at him. Secondly, he thought that he failed to play guitar because his guitar was borrowed by his classmates and he did not return it. Then, he started learning guitar again before the talk show and played guitar during his show to promote his new song, "Little person".

Influences

He switched his secondary school five times and decided to drop out of IVE himself. For his career path, he first worked as a clerk, later as a producer, and later as the owner of two magazines and a publisher.

Family

His father thinks that the secondary school Tsui chose for himself does not fit him, he gives a simple criticism of his decision. He thinks it is alright to challenge authorities with one's own reason. This view is solidified after he reads the book The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind, published in 1895.