新馬師曾

繁體中文

新馬師曾（1916–1997），原名鄧永祥，暱稱「新馬仔」、「祥哥」，MBE，廣東順德人，係香港粵劇及電影男演員、粵曲演唱家、慈善家，香港八和會館創會理事會主席，曾拜何世杞為師。佢8歲時父母離異，父親鄧祺以賭為生且是粵劇迷，母親羅蓮離異後獨自住港當傭工，留在家中的鄧永祥常被庶母刻薄捱罵，終離家出走流浪街頭；1925年9歲嘅佢遇上江湖藝人收留並學藝，茶座表演期間獲老行尊何世杞賞識，經轉介到何壽年學藝，經傳統功架訓練後成績突進，10歲已在利舞臺戲院演出。新馬師曾一生積極行善，多次參與公開獻唱粵曲或演出粵劇嘅慈善籌款，包括多年參與東華三院及無綫電視舉辦嘅《歡樂滿東華》電視籌款節目，並獻唱《萬惡淫為首之乞食》、《光緒皇夜祭珍妃》、《臥薪嘗膽》、《胡不歸》及《客途秋恨》等作為壓軸環節，深入民心，故有「慈善伶王」稱號。1950年代佢多次獲讀者票選為「文武生王」，並於《華僑晚報》「十大明星選舉」中14度當選粵語十大（影劇）明星。

English

Sun Ma Sze Tsang (1916–1997), born Tang Wing-cheung and known as Sun Ma Jai or Brother Cheung, was a Cantonese opera and film actor, operatic singer and philanthropist from Shunde, Guangdong, and the founding chairman of the Chinese Artists' Association of Hong Kong; he trained under Ho Sai-kei. His parents separated when he was eight: his gambling-addicted father was an opera devotee, his mother left to work as a domestic servant in Hong Kong, and the boy was mistreated by his stepmother until he ran away to live on the streets. In 1925, aged nine, he was taken in by itinerant performers and learned the trade; spotted by an established master while singing in teahouses, he was sent to study with a noted teacher, and after rigorous traditional training his skills advanced rapidly — by ten he was performing at a major theatre. He spent his life in charitable work, singing at fundraisers for the Tung Wah hospitals and a televised charity gala for many years, where his renditions of laments from Cantonese opera served as the finale and became deeply familiar to audiences, earning him the title of the charitable opera king. In the 1950s readers repeatedly voted him the leading civil and military male role, and he was chosen as one of the top Cantonese film and opera stars fourteen times.