Hong Kong Music lost its golden age talents! The famous lyricist Yin Kui passed away at the age of 60 and wrote a legend in the Cantonese music industry throughout his life

Jiuzhi Network News On May 7, 2026, sad news came to Hong Kong music circles. The famous lyricist Yin Kui (real name Lu Qianyou) passed away on the same day at the age of 60. The Tai Chi band, which has been with him for more than 40 years and has worked closely with him, was the first to publish a long memorial message through the official social platform to confirm the bad news. Once the news broke out, it quickly swept the Chinese music scene. Fans of singers such as Leslie Cheung, Jacky Cheung, and Zheng Xiuwen who had worked with him, and Hong Kong music fans spontaneously mourned, and countless people lamented that another star in the golden era of Hong Kong music has fallen.
The Tai Chi band cried blood every word in the mourning: "After receiving the news, we all felt really sad. Over the years, you have not only been the most important lyricist in our Tai Chi, but also a good brother who grew up and went crazy with us. You have given us musical soul with words. Thank you for writing so many classics for us." At the end of the article, he sent a message from afar, wishing him to reunite with the late Tai Chi band keyboardist Tang Yicong in heaven and continue to play music happily. The brotherhood was touching.
As one of the core lyricists in the golden era of Hong Kong's music industry in the 1980s and 1990s, Yin Kui's creative career almost completely coincides with the heyday of Cantonese pop music. His real name is Lu Qianyou. He is a Chinese-Italian mixed-race. He grew up in North Point, Hong Kong since he was a child. Although he has never received professional lyric training, he has created his own unique creative world with his innate talent for writing and his ultimate perception of music.
In 1985, Yin Kui wrote the first publicly published lyricist "Red Sports Car" in his life for the Tai Chi band where his middle school classmate Lei Youhui belonged. This song broke out of the regular lyrical framework of Cantonese lyrics at that time, using montage images such as "red sports cars, scattered street lights, and silver cigarette boxes" to outline a cool and romantic atmosphere. It became a hit as soon as it was launched. It not only became a passed down classic of the Tai Chi band, but also made the music industry remember the highly spiritual name "Yin Kui".
Since then, Yin Kui has become the "royal lyricist" of the Tai Chi band. In more than 40 years, she has created more than 60 golden songs for the band such as "Lost","Forbidden Zone","All Humanity Sing" and "Crystal", and has contracted almost all the Tai Chi band's classic works are an important shaper of the band's rock soul. Even when the Tai Chi Band's 40th anniversary tour in 2026, the classics sung on the stage are still inseparable from Yin Kui's pen and ink.
Yin Kui's creative landscape has never been limited to the field of rock and roll. His creative style spans a great span. He can not only control the blood and edge of rock, but also write through the delicacy and tenderness of popular love songs. He can also adapt to the diverse themes of film, television and animation works. He is recognized as an "all-round lyricist" in the music industry. For more than 40 years, he has cooperated with dozens of heavenly kings and queen-level singers such as Leslie Cheung, Jacky Cheung, Zheng Xiuwen, Miriam Yang, Nicholas Tse, and Zhang Jingxuan, leaving behind countless masterpieces that have been handed down.
Among them,"Interlude", which he filled out for Zheng Xiuwen in 1999, won the "Golden Melody Award" of the Top Ten Golden Melody Awards Ceremony of that year, breaking the multi-year monopoly of the four great kings on the award and becoming a classic scene in the history of Hong Kong music;"I Only Wish to Love One in my Life", which he filled out for Jacky Cheung, is still a benchmark for Chinese love songs; The Cantonese theme song he filled in for classic animations such as "Dragon Ball Z" has accompanied generations of childhood and become a collective memory of a generation.
As of press time, musicians such as Zhou Qisheng in the circle have successively posted messages to mourn. The comment areas of major music platforms for Yin Kui's classic works have been swiped by music fans saying "Go Well All the Way". Some music fans left a message: "Who grew up listening to Hong Kong music in the 1980s and 1990s didn't have a song written by Kui in their youth? He used words to inject soul into the melody and also wrote footnotes to our youth."
From "Red Sports Car" in 1985 to the last lyricist "Overactive Cat" published in 2025, Yin Kui has used thousands of works to witness and participate in the golden age of Hong Kong music. His departure is an irreparable loss to the Hong Kong music industry, and the blood, gentleness, romance and edge that he wrote into the lyrics will eventually be passed down forever with the melody and remain in the long river of the Chinese music industry.
The man is gone, and the melody lasts forever. May Mr. Yin Kui go all the way and continue to be accompanied by music in heaven.