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Hacken Lee Hak Kan (born 6 December 1967) is an award winning Hong Kong based Cantopop singer and lyricist, actor, Master of Ceremonies and Association football sportscaster.
While Hacken Lee was still studying at Wah Yan College, Hong Kong, he entered the TVB new talent show along with Alex To, William So, Vivian Chow, Grasshopper, and Template:Eddie Ng. He did not get into the top thirty. Lee won the 1985 Hong Kong 18 District Singing Contest singing "Love in the Fog" (霧之戀), a song made famous by Alan Tam, and was offered a contract with PolyGram Records. The sales of his first EP album "李克勤 (EP)" did not reach the 5,000 mark. In 1988, he appeared in a TVB television series "Teenage No More" (不再少年時).
In 1992, Hacken released "Red Sun" (紅日), for which he penned the lyrics. His first concert, held at the Hong Kong Coliseum in 1993 was very well received; all the tickets sold out in a couple days.
In 1995 Hacken was involved in various contract disputes with his record company and one of his concerts had a very low turnout. For a time, Hacken had no recording contract and worked instead as a TVB presenter for shows such as the music programme Jade Solid Gold, Miss Hong Kong and numerous sports events, notably soccer. At the same time, he turned to acting and appeared occasionally in dramas for TVB. He record songs for TVB such as the TVB theme song for the 1998 World Cup.