Jacky Cheung 張學友

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Jacky Cheung Hok-yau (born 10 July 1961) is a Hong Kong singer, songwriter, and actor.

He is regarded as one of Hong Kong's "Four Heavenly Kings" on record, and has been dubbed the "God of Songs" by more than 25 million people as of 2003.

Early life

Jacky Cheung was born and grew up in Quarry Bay, Hong Kong's eastern part. His father is from Tianjin, and his mother is from Shanghai. He attended North Point Government Primary School from 1967 to 1973, and graduated from Literary College in 1978.

Cheung said in 2007 that the paternal side of his family is mainly seamen, including his father, paternal uncle, and older brother. Cantonese is his first language, but Mandarin and English are also spoken. He performs Cantonese, Mandarin, Japanese, Korean, and modern English pop songs. Cheung is best known for his rich baritone voice but also his amazing vibrato by swiftly moving his pronounced Adam's Apple.

Personal life

Cheung married Hong Kong actress May Lo Mei-mei on February 15, 1996 in London. They met during the filming of Devoted to You in 1986. Zoe, a b. They have two daughters. Zia, 2000, b. 2005. He is a Buddhist and a vegetarian.

He was the first Cantopop/Mandopop artist to contribute to the Hard Rock franchise memorabilia collection in March 2009. Items will be on display at Macau's Hard Rock Hotel. The Children's Cancer Foundation and ORBIS Macau also received a joint donation. Cheung, one of the founding members of End Child Sexual Abuse Foundation (ECSAF), established by Josephine Siao in September 2009, attended the charity fundraising function for ECSAF's 10th anniversary in Hong Kong.

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Musical career

Cheung started working as a reservation officer for airline Cathay Pacific. Michael Kwan's "Fatherland" () started his music career in 1984, when he won the Amateur 18-Hong Kong district singing competition. He defeated more than 10,000 other contestants. After winning the competition, he was signed by Polygram Records, now Universal Music Group. Despite being boosted by a good start, he did not succeed in Cantopop right away, and then was dominated by Leslie Cheung, Alan Tam, Anita Mui, and Danny Chan. He received his first two major awards with the 1985 Jade Solid Gold Top 10 Awards in 1985.

He released the album "Life You More Every Day" in 1991 (), a translated version of the Japanese Southern All Stars' hit "Midsummer's Fruit" (). The album True Love Expression () in 1992, as well as its sequel, Love Sparks () in 1992, has achieved sales of over 400,000 copies in Hong Kong alone.

Me and You (1996) and Born to be Wild () were two of his later albums, 1993 Me and You () and 1994 Born to be Wild (). He was named the most popular singer in Asia in the 1994 Billboard Music Awards in the United States. He has received many music awards in Hong Kong and elsewhere, including the best-selling Chinese artist at the World Music Awards for two years in 1995 and 1996, which were held in Monaco. In 1999, Cheung was named one of the world's Top Ten Outstanding Young People.

Among his hit songs were "Amour," "Just want to spend my life with you" (), and "Goodbye Kiss" (). The 1993 album The Goodbye Kiss () is one of the best-selling Chinese music albums of all time, with more sales in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Southeast Asia than ever before, with more than 5 million copies sold in 1993, making him one of PolyGram's top ten artists of the year. It made him the first artist with non-Taiwanese citizenship to win Taiwan's Golden Melody Awards. The album was also responsible for Cheung's ascension to the mandopop market. Cheung is generally regarded as the pre-eminent member of Cantopop's Four Heavenly Kings. According to some, he is regarded as the best singer of the four generations.

Cheung's record-breaking 100-show world tour named "Yau Hou" (), literally a pun on "friendship Jacky Cheung") reusing the same Chinese characters found in his name in 1995. From 8 April to September at the Hong Kong Coliseum, the tour began with 34 performances. Then the tour continued in Perth, Australia, and then returned to Taipei and mainland China. In the United States, it was then extended to Madison Square Garden in Madison Square Garden in New York, various parts of Europe, Singapore, India, Malaysia, and Japan.

He was named as one of the Top Young People of the World by JCI (Junior Chamber International), a worldwide association of young professionals and entrepreneurs. By RTHK, he was given the Golden Needle Award in 2000. This award, which is equivalent to a lifetime achievement award, was given for outstanding contributions to the music industry. According to his review, he expressed surprise at being named the least active living recipient for only 16 years, and said he was genuinely shocked, not concerned with any negative buzz, although he denied there was no such thing.

Cheung released Life Is Like A Dream, an album in which Jacky co-produced with long-time collaborator Michael Aud and Jacky composed the melody for all songs and wrote the lyrics for three of the songs in 2004.

In 2005, Cheung received the Best Selling Cantonese Album Award at the Hong Kong IFPI Awards with his live album, Jacky Live Performance, which he accepted in person for the first time in years. Despite poor ticket sales despite the fact that the performance was supposed to be a one-night-only charity concert in nature, Jacky attempted to perform a song by other artists for the first time. Cheung has remained popular and lucrative for more than 20 years after his debut in Hong Kong pop music, an astonishing feat in Hong Kong pop music.

Cheung's "Year of Jacky Cheung World Tour 2007" was staged in Hong Kong. At The Colosseum at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, the tour began on February 18, 2007. After touring 58 cities around the world on February 3, 2008, a total of 105 shows had been presented in Hong Kong, attracting more than 2 million viewers. 105 set the highest number of shows in a Chinese artist's tour, surpassing the previous record of 100, which was also set by Cheung. For the first time after Michael Audou left Beijing to further his studies in 2005, he also released By Your Side, a Mandopop album in which he was the sole executive producer of the album for the first time.

Cheung released Private Corner, his first jazz album on which he coined the phrase "canto-jazz" in 2009. Andrew Tuason produced the album. "Everyday Is Christmas" "Which Way, Robert Frost? Roxanne Seeman, co-written "Let It Go," "Lucky in Love," and "Double Trouble" were co-written by her in partnership with Tuason, which was tailor-made for Cheung. "Lucky in Love" is the end-credit song on "Crossing Hennessy," a Hong Kong film starring Jacky Cheung and Tang Wei, and Bill Kong's "Lucky in Love" features Jacky Cheung and Tang Wei. In 2010, Nokia's music download service (Ovi.com) reported that "Everyday Is Christmas" was the 10th most downloaded Christmas song in the world, alongside Wham's "Last Christmas" and Mariah Carey's "All I Want for Christmas is You." Cheung is the only Chinese language singer to make it to the Top ten.

Cheung's "Jacky Cheung 1/2 Century World Tour" began in 2010. This tour began in Shanghai on December 30, 2010 and ended in Hong Kong on May 30. His tour included 5 countries and 5 months, total 146 shows, more than 2,800,000 viewers, in one year and 5 months. In a one-tournament by a Chinese artist, 146 performed the most shows. Jacky Cheung also set a new record of 105 on his 2007-2008 World Tour. Both the 2007 and 2010 World Tours were led by Andrew Tuason as Cheung's Musical Director. He also experimented with new musical styles at the start of the year. Private Corner, his debut Jazz album in Cantopop history, also included other non-mainstream Cantopop styles, such as strings quartet, Waltz, and Hymn. The special edition also had a unique glass-CD, which was also the first in Chinese pop history. In the "Jacky Cheung 1/2 Century World Tour," Private Corner's "Double Trouble" was a featured produced number.

He set a Guinness World record for the biggest combined audience for a live performance in 12 months in "Jacky Cheung 1/2 Century World Tour," with 2,048,553 viewers. With 105 live performances in 61 cities around China, the United States, Singapore, and Australia, 105 live concerts were held from December 2010 to November 29th in 61 cities over the first 12-months of the tour.

Cheung was named '35' Honor of Golden Song 35th Anniversary Award' in the 2012 RTHK Top 10 Gold Songs Awards, despite the fact that the award has not begun.

In 2018, he gained the nickname "Fugitive Bait" or "Fugitive Krytonite" in China as his shows attracted fugitive criminals in China to buy tickets to watch his concerts in China. During Cheung's Chinese leg of the world tour, he helped bring four fugitive criminals to be arrested between April and June 2018. In June, two ticket scalpers were also arrested. This was also part of his "Jacky Cheung A Classic Tour" world tour, which surpassed the previous tour record. After a string of 15 concerts in Hong Kong, the entire tour, which lasted for 27 months with performances in 97 cities, came to an end on January 29, 2019.

Cheung is not only a soloist, but she also appears in duets with female singers. Cheung performed a duet with Filipino singer and Asia's Songbird Regine Velasquez in the album "In Love with You"; the song was included in her multi-platinum album Listen Without Prejudice. In 2008, Cheung and A-Mei, the well-known Taiwanese singer, performed Zhu Fu ("Blessing") as a duet in a charity concert for victims of the 2008 Sichuan earthquake.

Other duet partners include:

Both audiences and commentators applauded his work on the pioneering Cantonese Broadway-style musical Snow.Wolf.Lake's success in 1997. Cheung was not only the male lead, but also the artistic director for this performance. Sandy Lam in Hong Kong and Nadia Chan in Singapore were the first female leads. Kit Chan was the second female lead. They played in the historic Hung Hom Coliseum, which remains the highest record today. Cheung and his concert manager, Florence Chan Suk-fan, worked on a new Mandarin version of Snow.Wolf.Lake in November 2004 so as to reach a larger audience. Evonne Hsu and Nadia Chan respectively, the female leads this time. The market expenditure alone outstripped HK$15 million. This updated production was priced at HK$100 million, and the premiere took place in Beijing on December 24.

Acting career

Though Cheung is best known for his singing, he has appeared in several films. In the 8th Hong Kong Film Awards for his role in As Tears Go By (1988), as well as the Best Supporting Actor Award for his role in The Swordsman (1990). He worked with John Woo and Tony Leung on the film Bullet in the Head earlier this year. In July Rhapsody (2002), he received the Best Actor Award at the International Film Festival of India for his role. His album Perhaps Love, which is the theme song for the 2005 Hong Kong Film Award and the CASH Best Song Award at the 2006 CASH Gold Sail Music Awards, received both the Best Song Award and the CASH Best Song Award.

Jerry Yan and Karen Mok, a F4 player, appeared in Love Scar (2002), where he played Jerry Yan's older brother.

Cheung plays Lefty, the best friend and right-hand man of crime boss Hung Yan Chau in the 2004 drama film Jiang Hu directed by Wong Ching-po (Andy Lau). Several other actors from Infernal Affairs appear in the film. He is one of a select few Chinese singer-actors who have never appeared in a television drama as of 2021.

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