The Cantopop composer Chan Fai-young was born in Macau in either 1968 or 1970, before the country was transferred to Chinese rule. After relocating to Boston to attend Berkley School of Music, Chan Fai-young returned home and began earning a reputation as a behind-the-scenes songwriter for pop singers, rock stars, and even film projects. "Romantic White Paper," his first composition, was written n 1994 and performed by Eric Suen Yiu-wai. Often working in tandem with lyricist Lin Xi, he wrote songs by fellow Hong Kong musicians Faye Wong, Candy Lo, Eason Chan, and Miriam Yeung. Eason Chan's "K goh chi wong" and Mariam Yeung's "Prayer of a Young Woman" were both honored at the 2000 RTHK Top 10 Gold Songs Awards. One year later, Chan Fan-young earned three additional awards from the 2001 RTHK Top 10 Gold Songs Awards, this time for the songs "Beauty for Life" (which appeared in the 2001 film Love on a Diet and won a Hong Kong Film Award for "Best Original Film Song"), the Sammi Cheng/Eason Chan duet "Shall We Talk," and Joey Yung's "Painful Love." He continued working with many of his past collaborators throughout the 2000s and 2010s, while also writing popular duets like Cass Phang and Anthony Wong Yiu-ming's "Vortex," Hacken Lee and Kelly Chen's "Love Someone," Jacky Cheung and Sandy Lam's "Day and Night," and Jacky Cheung and Anita Mui's "Loving Each Other is Hard."