Printemps (album)
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| Chinese name | 張國榮 (traditional) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Chinese name | 张国荣 (simplified) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Pinyin | Zhāng Guóróng (Mandarin) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Jyutping | Zoeng1 Kwok3wing4 (Cantonese) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Birth name | Cheung Fat-chung (張發宗) | ||||||||||||||||||||
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12 September 1956 Kowloon, British Hong Kong |
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| Died | 1 April 2003 (aged 46) Central, Hong Kong |
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| Other name(s) | Gor Gor (meaning "Older brother") (哥哥) | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Genre(s) | Cantopop, Mandopop | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Instrument(s) | Vocals | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Years active | 1977–2003 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Partner(s) | Daffy Tong | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Ancestry | Meizhou, Guangdong | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Education | University of Leeds | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Leslie Cheung Kwok-wing, born 12 September 1956 – 1 April 2003) was a Hong Kong-born Canadian singer and actor. He is considered "one of the founding fathers of Cantopop" by "combining a hugely successful film and music career."
Cheung rose to prominence as a teen heartthrob and pop icon of Hong Kong in the 1980s, receiving numerous music awards including both Most Popular Male Artist Awards at the 1988 and 1989 Jade Solid Gold Best Ten Music Awards. In 1989, Cheung announced his retirement from the music industry as a pop singer. Returning to the music scene after a five-year hiatus, Cheung released his chart-topping comeback album Most Beloved (寵愛) which achieved a huge market success. In 1999, he won the Golden Needle Award for his outstanding achievement as a musician at the RTHK Top 10 Gold Songs Awards, and his 1984 hit song Monica was voted as Hong Kong's "Song of the Century". He was honoured as "Asia's Biggest Superstar" at the 2000 CCTV-MTV Music Honours.
Cheung won the 1991 Hong Kong Film Award (Days of Being Wild) and the 1994 Hong Kong Film Critics Society Award (Ashes of Time) for best actor. He had also won the 1994 Japan Film Critics Society Award for best actor for his performance in Farewell My Concubine and ten other best actor nominations, five Golden Horse Awards, three Cannes Film Festival Awards, a Asia Pacific Film Festival Award, and a Venice Film Festival Award.
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