Leslie Cheung Kwok Wing

Biography

Leslie Cheung Kwok Wing was a Hong Kong singer, actor, songwriter, film composer, choreographer, music video director, art director, and film director, born on September 12, 1956 and passed away on April 1, 2003. He rose to fame in music in 1983 and 1984 with the songs "Wind Continues to Blow" and "Monica," and won the Gold Song Gold Award at the Top Ten Chinese Gold Songs Award ceremony consecutively in 1986 and 1987. He also won the Most Popular Male Singer award consecutively in 1988 and 1989, and won the first Male Singer Gold Award at the Ultimate Song Chart Awards in 1988, retaining the title the following year. He was the first Hong Kong singer to enter the Korean album market in the 1980s, breaking the sales record for Chinese albums in Korea. His 1995 album "Beloved" sold over 500,000 copies in Korea, breaking the record again and still holding it today. He received the highest honor in Hong Kong music, the Golden Needle Award, in 1999, and ranked third in CNN's poll of the top five global musicians of the past fifty years in 2010. In film, he won the Best Actor award at the 10th Hong Kong Film Awards for "Days of Being Wild" in 1991, and received the Best Actor award from the Japan Film Critics Association for "Farewell My Concubine" in 1993. He became the first Asian male actor to serve as a judge at the Berlin International Film Festival in 1998, and was selected by the Japanese film magazine as one of the top 100 foreign actors of the 20th century in 2000. In 2005, eight of his films were selected among the best 100 Chinese films of the century, the most for any Chinese actor, and he was also chosen as one of the top 100 Chinese actors of the century. In 2010, CNN selected him as one of the greatest 25 Asian actors in history.