69 years ago today, on September 12, 1956 (August 8, 1956 in the lunar calendar), the famous Hong Kong singer and actor Leslie Cheung was born. Leslie Cheung was born in Hong Kong on September 12, 1956, a singer, actor, musician, and one of the representatives of the versatile development of film and television songs in the entertainment industry. Formerly known as Zhang Fazhong, he went to study in the UK when he was a teenager, but later dropped out of school due to his father's serious illness and returned to Hong Kong. In 1977, he won the runner-up in the Asian Song Contest and started a 26-year artistic career. In 1983, he became famous in the music world with "The Wind Continues to Blow". In 1984, he established his position in the music world with "Monica". Since then, he has been unable to accept it. His mellow voice, sexy dancing, dashing typhoons and moving performances have made him win the "Top Ten Chinese Golden Songs Award", "Top Ten Powerful Songs Golden Songs Award", "Best Male Singer Award", "Most Popular Male Singer Award", "Annual Sales Champion Award", "IFPI Album Award" and other awards, becoming an irreplaceable king superstar in the pop music industry and a name with the highest status in the Chinese music industry. He has won the highest honors in the music industry such as "Lifetime Achievement Award", "Honor Award", "Salute Award", "Asia's Most Outstanding Artist Award", and "National Achievement Award". He has sung more than 300 songs, officially produced 89 albums and collections, with a total sales of over 10 million. He has held 121 solo concerts in the Hong Kong Red Pavilion and toured more than 300 times around the world. Not only in Hong Kong, but also in the Chinese mainland, Taiwan and South East Asia and Japan, South Korea, the United States, the United Kingdom and other places have extensive popularity and great influence. He is a veritable international superstar. In the late 1980s, he moved his career focus to the film industry. He participated in the production of a total of 56 films and successfully interpreted different types of roles such as Ning Caichen, Xu Zai, Cheng Dieyi, Ouyang Feng, etc. Starring in the film "Hero", "Rouge Button", "The Ghost of a Beautiful Woman", "The True Story of Ah Fei", "Farewell My Concubine", "Golden Branches and Jade Leaves", "Eastern Heretic Western Poison", "Spring Breaks", "King of Guns", etc. He has won the Palme d'Or Award at the Cannes Film Festival in France, the Best Foreign Language Film Award at the Golden Globe Awards in the United States, the Gold Medal Award for the highest artistic achievement at the Venice International Film Festival, and the Best Film Award at multiple film festivals on both sides of China. He has been nominated by 18 film champions, including the Best Actor at the Cannes Film Festival, and has been elected as the Best Actor at the Hong Kong Film Awards, the Best Actor at the Hong Kong Film Critics Association Award, and the Best Actor at the Japan Film Critics Association Award. He has been invited to serve as In 1993, he served as a judge of the Tokyo International Film Festival; in 1998, he became the first Asian actor to serve as a judge of the Berlin International Film Festival; in 2005, he was selected as one of the 100 outstanding actors of Chinese film; in 2010, he was selected as "the 20 most famous singers or orchestras in the world in the past 50 years" by CNN in the United States. On April 1, 2003, he committed suicide in Hong Kong.