Career
Yam played the male lead in many Cantonese opera stage productions in Hong Kong, most often opposite Bak Sheut Sin. The two singers reprised many of those roles when the operas were adapted for the screen between 1951 and 1968. Some of Yam's major roles include Liu Mengmei in the Cantonese opera version of The Peony Pavilion, Pei Yu (裴禹) in The Reincarnation of Lady Plum Blossom, Li Yi (李益) in The Legend Of The Purple Hairpin and Zhou Shixian (周世顯) in Tai Nui Fa.
Her last public performance was in 1972, when she and Bak Sheut Sin sang the final scene from Tai Nui Fa together for the TVB telethon event that was hosted for the victims in the 18 June landslide. Yam retired afterwards and moved to Canada during the early 80s. In 1989, she died at her home in Hong Kong due to pleural effusion.
One of her best students was Connie Chan Po-chu, the other being Loong Kin Sang (龍劍笙).
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