葛民輝

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葛民輝1966年出世，係香港電台節目主持、演員同導演，最為人熟悉嘅身分係流行組合「軟硬天師」嘅「軟天師」。佢父親係泥頭車司機，佢喺荃灣福來邨長大，家中排行第四，讀大窩口寶血會德貞小學，1984年喺九龍華仁書院畢業，之後喺明愛白英奇專業學校讀設計並認識林海峰，做過時裝設計師 Walter Ma 嘅櫥窗設計師，又同林海峰一齊喺 Esprit 做時裝售貨員同櫥窗設計。1988年3月21日佢哋兼職加入商業電台做DJ，組成軟硬天師，葛民輝主力報告交通消息，以「馬路天使 葛of the road」打響名堂，九十年代成為香港流行文化標記。佢1990年代後期主力拍電影，1995年憑《三個相愛的少年》獲香港電影金像獎最佳男主角提名，1998年首次執導《初纏戀後的二人世界》；佢亦係香港潮流界代表人物，1994年同蔡一智成立設計公司 Double X Workshop。

English

Eric Kot Man-fai, born in 1966, is a Hong Kong radio host, actor and director best known as the 'soft' half of the pop duo Softhard. The son of a tipper-truck driver, he grew up in Fuk Loi Estate in Tsuen Wan, the fourth child of the family, and after graduating from Wah Yan College Kowloon in 1984 studied design at the Caritas Bianchi College of Careers, where he met Jan Lamb. He worked as a window dresser for the fashion designer Walter Ma and sold clothes with Lamb at Esprit before the pair joined Commercial Radio as part-time DJs on 21 March 1988 to form Softhard, Kot reporting traffic as 'Road Angel' and becoming a fixture of 1990s Hong Kong pop culture. From the late 1990s he concentrated on film acting, earning a Hong Kong Film Awards Best Actor nomination in 1995, and directed his first feature in 1998. A leading figure of Hong Kong street fashion, he set up the design house Double X Workshop with Calvin Choy of Grasshopper in 1994.