First Job: Work for Hong Kong Trade Development Council Favorite Cities: Hong Kong, Tokyo Favorite Taste: Sweet Favorite Sports: Swimming Favorite Animals: Horses Favorite Foods: Ice Cream, Skinny Eggs, Bean Curd, Chicken Dislikes: Beef Favorite Movies: Shinning Favorite Colors: White Favorite Places: Home Favorite Countries: China Favorite Books: Buddhist Books Favorite Singers: Michael Joseph Jackson, Deep Purple, Barry Manilow, Sam Hui, Alan Tam Favorite Actors: Chow Yun-Fat, Robert De Niro Favorite Leisure: Watching TV Favorite TV Genre: Sci-fi Movie Series Favorite Movie Genre: Romance and Sci-fi Jacky Cheung
Favorite Leisure Source: Home Favorite Ways to Dress: Casual Favorite way to dress: Casual Favorite place to travel: Eastern Europe Favorite Chinese/foreign singer to collaborate with: Elton John Favorite acting style to try: Something more free-form Self-expectation for career: Do better One book that has helped me the most: There are too many to pick one Most memorable event: Being the winner of the Amateur Singing Competition of the 18 districts of Hong Kong (the song entered at that time was: "Love of the Earth") Impressions Deeply impressed TV drama: X-FILE Unforgettable life stage: Sad time Please write a word of encouragement: Work hard! The secret formula to stay young: young heart, good body The person I would like to thank most: my mom and dad One thing I am impressed by: Best Actor of Asian Film Festival in New Delhi, India --- the award-winning "Man 40"
Editorial Singer's Career
Becoming a singer
Jackie Cheung graduated from Hong Kong's Shung Man College of English, and worked at the Hong Kong Trade Development Council and Cathay Pacific Airways until 1984, when he became the first singer in the world to be awarded the title of "The Best Actor of Asian Film Festival in New Delhi, India. He worked for the Hong Kong Trade Development Council and Cathay Pacific Airways until 1984, when he won the inaugural 18th District Amateur Singing Contest with his song "Earthly Love" out of more than 20,000 entries. He then signed with PolyGram Records as a singer and released his first album "Smile", which sold a whopping 200,000 copies in Hong Kong, making him the leading newcomer in the Hong Kong music scene at the time. Jacky Cheung was regarded as the successor of "decent singer" Kwan Ching Kit at the time, and he was selected to sing the theme songs for public welfare and governmental organizations many times in his career since then. 1986, he released his second album, "AMOUR", which was still a big hit, with sales of as many as 200,000, and his song, "Half Bend of the Moon" became a classic Cantonese pop song. The song "Half Bend of the Moon" has become one of the classic Cantonese pop songs. The song "Half Bend of the Moon" has become one of the classic Cantonese pop songs. Another classic Cantonese pop song "Sun and Stars" was also released at the same time. Only two years after his debut, Jacky Cheung held his first concert at Hong Kong's Hung Hom Coliseum, followed by a series of six successful solo concerts in 1987 (from August 1 to August 6, 1987) at the Coliseum. Jacky Cheung
The downturn
But 1987 was also the lowest point in his career as a singer, with sales of his new albums plummeting, and Jacky Cheung, who had previously been considered the leader of the newcomers, winning nothing at the 1988 Hong Kong music awards. He began to drink heavily at this time, and the media repeatedly reported unfavorable news about him, a state of affairs that lasted until 1989. There are many different stories about his downturn. According to his own interviews with the media in recent years, it was due to his youthful exuberance that he had quickly lost his way after becoming an overnight success, and his pessimistic attitude towards the future directly led to his career abandonment and abandonment.
The Four Heavenly Kings period
Xueyou Zhang Attending activities (20 pictures) Between 1989 and 1990, Alan Tam and Leslie Cheung successively withdrew from the Hong Kong Music Awards, Xueyou Zhang seized the opportunity to successfully become one of the main singers of PolyGram Records, and in 1990, he released the record "only wish to love one person for a lifetime", and once again received the attention of the music industry. His songs returned to several of Hong Kong's major music charts and he made a big splash at several major music award shows in the same year, cementing his position at the PolyGram Convergence Awards. During this period, he released several Chinese pop classics such as "Li Xiang Lan". He also covered Dewey To's "False Image" (a Huaxing production) and Yan Chuqian's "How to Begin" (a Sunnyside Boardman production), which became the songs "Meeting You Again" and "Earthquake" (both PolyGram productions). Jacky Cheung
In 1991, Jacky Cheung began a concert tour in Hong Kong, Guangzhou, Shanghai and Beijing. In the same year, he released two albums, "Love Can't Be Held Back" and "An Unchanging Heart", in which "Love Can't Be Held Back" album included "Love You More Every Day" (adapted from the song "True Summer Fruits" by the famous Japanese band Southern All Stars) was a big hit, and not only won the song awards of major music awards in that year, but also won the commercial radio station "Shouting Hall of Fame" award in 1997, and "The Best of the Best" award of the Commercial Radio. In addition to winning awards at major music awards, the song was also awarded the Commercial Radio's "Shouting at Heaven and Earth" and "Golden Melody Top Ten Favorites of the Past Twenty Years" in 1997[3] and the Radio Television Hong Kong's "Top Ten Chinese Gold Songs of the Century" in 1999[4]. The success of "Can't Help It" and "A Heart That Never Changes" led to Jacky Cheung competing with Andy Lau and Leon Lai at major awards ceremonies in Hong Kong. Together with Aaron Kwok, who later replaced Hacken Lee, the three were recognized as the "Four Heavenly Kings" who later influenced the Chinese music industry for an era. In 1992, Jacky Cheung released the Cantonese album "True Feelings", in which nine songs were on the Hong Kong music pop charts and topped the charts for many times, making it one of the most charted albums in Hong Kong pop music, and "Break Up in the Rain" and "Love in the Storm" have also become one of the classic Cantonese pop tunes.
Peak
In 1993, he released his second Mandarin album "Kiss Me Goodbye", which became a hit in Taiwan, Singapore, mainland China and other overseas markets, selling more than 4 million copies worldwide, and breaking the all-time record sales record in many places, which earned him the title of "God of Songs". The album's main repertoire was "The God of Songs", and his singing career was at its peak. The album's main tracks include: "Kiss Goodbye", "Love Net", and "All the Way to You" (the original song was sung by Japanese singer Hana Fai Maeda; the Cantonese version is "Breaking Up is Always in the Rain"). At the end of the same year, he released another Mandarin album, Blessing, which continued to sell well. Jacky Cheung also organized his first world tour that year, and in 1994 released the EP-type Cantonese album Legend of the Hungry Wolves, the album This Winter is Not Too Cold and the Mandarin album Stealing Hearts, of which the song This Winter is Not Too Cold was composed by him and won the RTHK Top Ten Chinese Gold Songs Award. The Four Heavenly Kings began their own development in the late 1990s and each gained wide recognition and success. Jacky Cheung is considered by most to be the most accomplished singer among the Four Heavenly Kings, and the one who has won the most music awards among the four during the Four Heavenly Kings period. Jacky Cheung
In 1995, Jacky Cheung went on a 100-consecutive concert tour around the world, including New York's Madison Square Garden, becoming the first Asian singer to hold a concert at Madison Square Garden, and in the same year, he released a record with amazing sales: "True Love - New Songs + Selections", with the main tracks "True Love", "1,000 Reasons for Sadness", "I'll Be There When the Flowers Are Gone", and "I'll be There When the Flowers Are Gone". The main tracks include "True Love", "One Thousand Reasons to be Sad", "I'm Waiting for the Flowers to Shine" and other selected old favorites. True Love - New Songs + Selections" became the first album in Chinese music history to reach the cumulative sales of Diamond Records, and was certified by IFBI, with the cumulative sales of "True Love - New Songs + Selections" exceeding 10 million copies to date, making it the highest-selling Chinese album in history. In the same year, he won two awards at the World Music Awards, namely the "World's Highest Selling Asian Pop Artist" and the "World's Highest Selling Chinese Artist", which were presented by the first James Bond Bond girl Ursula Andress. The award was presented by the first James Bond Bond girl Ursula Andress. He was inducted into the Universal Records U.S.A. Hall of Fame for the 1990s in 2000, and was listed in Time Magazine's list of the 50 most influential people in Asia. In 1995, he organized the "You Xueyou 95 World Tour" and "Ten Years of Love 95 You Xueyou Taiwan Tour", which broke the record of 100 concerts. 1996, he won the "World's Best-Selling Asian Artist" award again, and in the same year, he entered into a marriage with his long-time love, Luo Mei-wei. In the same year, he entered into marriage with his longtime love, Mavis Law. After his marriage, he announced that he would take a break from filming and focus on his music career, and began to plan a large-scale original musical, Snow Wolf Lake, in addition to performing a number of concerts combining classical and popular music with the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra and Hong Kong conductor, Yip Wing-sie. The singing part of this concert is included in the album "Love and Symphony" (the orchestral part is not included). The peak of Jacky Cheung's career is also considered to be the period when Hong Kong pop music made its greatest contribution to the overseas market, especially in terms of its success in opening up huge overseas markets. Jacky Cheung's record sales at that time also attracted the attention of the international pop music industry and media, including Time Magazine, the most authoritative music magazine in the United States. Billboard, the most authoritative music magazine in the U.S., also began to pay attention to Hong Kong pop music to a certain extent because of Jacky Cheung's rise. In 1997, Jacky Cheung participated in planning, directed and starred in the original musical "Snow Wolf Lake", which was staged for 42 consecutive performances in Hong Kong. It created quite a stir in Hong Kong at the time and is still the record holder for the number of musical performances in Hong Kong, and was released in Mandarin in 2005. Before the musical performance, Jacky Cheung traveled to New York to study musical theory, dance and audition. In the United States, he said, "Hong Kong has a history of more than 10 years of one-person concerts, the audience's enthusiasm for concerts is not as strong as before, and the emergence of musicals will be a breakthrough for the audience and artists. I think the development of my career, to this day, is an opportune time for people to identify with the stage plays that I do." The storyline of "Snow Wolf Lake" is a more through story of two sisters of an aristocrat who are attracted to the personality of a common gardener. There are three main characters*** including Jacky Cheung, and artists who have played the female lead before include Sandy Lam, Carol Chan, Chen Songling, Joyce Chan, Tang Chan, and Vivian Hsu. Some critics have argued that the performance component of Snow Wolf Lake is too close to pop music. 2005, Jacky Cheung participated in the song-and-dance film If Love, directed by Chen Kexin, in which some of the songs were sung in a Western operatic style, which was widely acclaimed, and received positive reviews from experts at the Venice Film Festival that year. After "Snow Wolf Lake", he also told the media that he will start preparing another musical and shift his focus to behind-the-scenes production. Early days of Jacky Cheung
In 2002, Jacky Cheung embarked on a 50-concert world tour named "Jacky Cheung Music Tour Live Concert". The concert, which was a continuation of Jacky Cheung's 1999 "Friends Solo Concert", continued to focus on the overall musical effect and re-soundtracked most of the classic songs to a certain degree of critical acclaim. The finale of the concert was held in Hong Kong in 2003 and was released on CD as well as DVD. In 2003, Jacky Cheung took advantage of his free time during the SARS period to compose a large number of songs, and in early 2004, he released his first full-length album, Life Is Like A Dream, which contained songs of special significance, such as the single "For a Friend", which was dedicated to his friend, Leslie Cheung, who passed away in 2003 at different times. For example, the single "For Friends" is dedicated to his close friends Leslie Cheung, Anita Mui and Shane Ko who passed away in 2003 at different times, while the song "Speak Your Mind" was created by him for his wife, Luo Mei-wei. The album was released in Hong Kong and received unanimous acclaim, with songs such as "Tell You Know" and "For Friends" topping the charts for a time. In the fall of 2004, he and his partner Du Zi Zhi Zhi *** with the new wing of the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Center to cooperate in a public welfare concert "Jacky Cheung live out of life Live Concert". Most of the songs in the concert were sung by other singers and covered by Jacky Cheung, which did not cause a sensation after the concert because it was only staged once. After the concert's CD and DVD were released, sales went through the roof and many fans marveled at Jacky Cheung's impressive ability to perform other people's music. At the end of 2004, the album won the IFBI Hong Kong Top Sales Award, and Jacky Cheung, who had not attended any music awards ceremony for a long time, made a rare appearance at the ceremony to receive the award. In November 2006, the organizing committee of the Doha Asian Games announced on the official website of the Games that four singers had been invited to attend the opening ceremony of the Games on December 1, and Jacky Cheung was one of them. Jacky Cheung sang the theme song "Together Now" in the final performance, accompanied by tens of thousands of drummers. The organizing committee announced the opening of the Asian Games with "The most popular Asian performer in the world, from Hong Kong, China - Jacky Cheung! The most popular Asian performer in the world, from Hong Kong, China - Jacky Cheung!") to introduce Jacky Cheung on stage. Previously considered an influential singer in East and Southeast Asia, Jacky Cheung was invited by Qatar to sing the theme song for such an important event in West Asia, which shows that his popularity and influence has spread to the whole Asian region as well. In August 2007, he organized the Hak Yau Light Years World Tour, which held 105 concerts around the world***, breaking his record for the number of concerts. In May 2008, Jacky Cheung took part in the Hong Kong Torch Relay for the 2008 Beijing Olympics, running 200 meters holding the Olympic flame from Athens, making him one of the torchbearers representing Hong Kong, and one of the representatives of the performing arts industry. In April 2010, Zhang Liangying, Jacky Cheung and the original singer K'naan sang the Chinese version of the theme song of the World Cup soccer tournament in South Africa, "Flag Off".
Editing Actor's Career
Players of Jacky Cheung's Movie Stills (20 photos)Jacky Cheung also has a notable performance in movie performances. So far, he has **** appeared in more than 60 films, and has won the "Best Actor" at the New Delhi International Film Festival in India in 2002, and the "Best Supporting Actor" at the Hong Kong Film Awards and the Taiwan Golden Horse Awards in 1988 and 1990 respectively. "He has been nominated for Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor at the Hong Kong Film Awards and the Golden Horse Awards. He has been nominated for Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor at the Hong Kong Film Awards and the Golden Horse Awards. He has a wide range of roles, including action movies, comedies, literary movies, and villains and antagonists, and his pay is not too high, which is why he has been described by many Hong Kong filmmakers as "the most valuable" and "the best value for money" of the powerful actors. Jacky Cheung's first movie was in the second year after he started singing, when he was invited to star in a Hong Kong movie directed by Sammo Hung, "The Horn", and since then he has appeared in many commercial movies. He began to receive attention for his acting skills in 1988 when he appeared in "Carmen of Mongkok", directed by Wong Kar Wai, in which he played an uneducated and self-righteous gangster, and his acting skills were unanimously acclaimed by film industry insiders, and he won the Best Supporting Actor Award at the Hong Kong Film Awards for this role. Afterwards, Jacky Cheung's movie career was smooth sailing. In 1990, he appeared in Tsui Hark's The Laughing Pride of the Wanderer, in which he played the role of Lin Pingzhi / Ouyang Quan, a lackey of the East Chamber, which was recognized by both professionals and the audience and won him the Golden Horse Award at the Taiwan Film Awards that year. He also acted in John Woo's movie "Streets of Blood", in which he played the role of "Siu Fai", a character tailor-made for him by John Woo. In the movie, he worked well with Tony Leung and although it was a box office failure in Hong Kong, it was released in many countries, especially in the U.S., where it won the box office and was recognized by many fans as one of John Woo's classic movies. 1993, Jacky Cheung performed in the comedy movie "East Meets West", which was adapted from "East Meets West", and worked with Tony Leung and Leslie Cheung and gained great success. In the same year, he performed in the movie "The Legend of Prince", since this time he gradually became the first male lead, and his main works in the same period are "New Edge". It is worth noting that Jacky Cheung and Tony Leung had a certain tacit understanding when they worked together in the early 1990s, and the two became even closer friends later on. The two have worked together in films such as Sinister 3 Way Way Way Way, Yafei and Yaki, Blood on the Streets, East Meets West, and East Meets West. Since the mid-1990s, Tony Leung has shifted to the literary film market, while Jacky Cheung, at the peak of his career as a film actor, faded out of the film market to start focusing on his music career. Jacky Cheung
In 2001, he made his comeback in the movie "Man 40", directed by Ann Hui. The movie was considered to be a remake of Ann Hui's successful 1995 film "40 Women". Jacky Cheung played the lead role in the movie and won the award at the New Delhi International Film Festival in India that year. 2004, he was invited to shoot the song-and-dance movie "If Love" directed by Chen Kexin, which brought music elements into the movie and was a success. On June 30, 2007, Jacky Cheung was nominated to leave his palm print and signature on the Avenue of Stars in Hong Kong.