64 years ago today, on July 10, 1961 (May 28, 1961 lunar calendar), Hong Kong singer Jacky Cheung was born. Jacky Cheung was born on July 10, 1961. He graduated from Chongwen English College in Hong Kong and worked for the Hong Kong Trade Development Council and Hong Kong Cathay Pacific Airways until 1984. With the song "The Grace of the Earth", he stood out from more than 20,000 contestants and won the championship of the first 18 District Amateur Singing Contest. He later signed a contract with Polygram Records to become a singer under his label and released his first album "Smile", which sold up to 300,000 copies in Hong Kong, becoming a leader among newcomers in the Hong Kong music scene at that time. Jacky Cheung was considered the successor of "decent singer" Guan Zhengjie at the time, and he was also selected as the lead singer of public welfare undertakings and government entities many times in his career. His second album "Far Away Her AMOUR" released in 1986 is still a hit, selling 400,000 copies, of which "Half Bend of the Moon" became one of the classic Cantonese pop songs. Another Cantonese classic pop song "Sun and Stars" was also released at the same time. Just two years after his debut, Jacky Cheung held his first concert at the Hung Hom Coliseum in Hong Kong (referred to as "the Red Hall"), and then held a series of six solo concerts at the Red Hall in 1987 (August 1 to August 6, 1987), which was a success. During the period of the Four Heavenly Kings from 1989 to 1990, Alan Tam and Leslie Cheung successively withdrew from the Hong Kong Music Awards. Jacky Cheung seized the opportunity to become one of the lead singers of Polygram Records and released the album "I Only Want to Love One Person in My Life" in 1990, which attracted the attention of the music industry again. His songs returned to several large music charts in Hong Kong and made a big splash at several large music awards ceremonies in the same year, successfully inheriting the status of his predecessor Alan Tam in the Polygram Records. During this period, he released several classic songs of Chinese pop music, such as "Li Xianglan". He has also covered Du Dewei's "Illusion" (by Huaxing) and Zhen Chuqian's "How to Say It" (by Xinli Boardman), which became "Meet You Again" and "Earthquake" (both by Polygram). In 1991, Jacky Cheung began touring in Hong Kong, Guangzhou, Shanghai, Beijing and other cities. In the same year, two albums "Love Can't Help" and "A Heart That Never Changes" were released, among which "Love You More Every Day" (adapted from the song "Real Summer Fruit" by the famous Japanese band Southern Star) was very popular. In addition to winning the song awards at major music awards that year, he also won the awards of "Supreme Song of the Hall" and "Top Ten Favorites in Twenty Years" on commercial radio in 1997 and "Top Ten Chinese Golden Songs of the Century" on RTHK in 1999 [4]. The success of "Love Can't Help" and "A Heart That Never Changes" made Jacky Cheung rival Andy Lau and Liming at major awards ceremonies in Hong Kong. The three of them, together with Guo Fucheng, who succeeded in replacing Li Hakqin, were named the "Four Heavenly Kings" who later influenced the Chinese music scene for an era. Jacky Cheung released the Cantonese album "True Love" in 1992. Nine of the songs have been on the Hong Kong music pop chart and have occupied the top position many times. It has become one of the most popular music albums in Hong Kong. Among them, "Breaking Up Always on a Rainy Day" and "Acacia in the Wind and Wind" have also become one of the classic Cantonese pop tracks. At its peak, the second Mandarin album "Kiss Goodbye" was released in 1993, which was very popular in Taiwan, Singapore, the Chinese mainland and other overseas markets. It also broke the record sales of records in many places, and gave Jacky Cheung the title of "God of Song". His singing career also reached its peak. The main tracks of this album include: "Kiss Goodbye", "Love Network", "I Have You All the Way" (the original song was sung by Japanese singer Genghui Maeda; the Cantonese version is "Breaking up always on a rainy day"), etc. At the end of the same year, another Mandarin album "Blessings" was released, which was still a hit. Jacky Cheung also held his first world tour that year. In 1994, he released the EP type Cantonese album "The Legend of the Hungry Wolf", the album "This Winter Is Not Too Cold" and the Mandarin album "Stealing Heart", in which the song "This Winter Is Not Too Cold" was composed by him, and won the RTHK Top Ten Chinese Golden Melodies Award. The Four Heavenly Kings began to develop their own in the late 1990s and achieved wide recognition and success respectively. Jacky Cheung is considered by most to be the most talented singer among the Four Heavenly Kings, and the one who won the most music awards among the four people during the Four Heavenly Kings' period. In 1995, Jacky Cheung released the best-selling album in Chinese music to date, "True Love - New Song, Selected", with the main tracks including "True Love", "A Thousand Reasons to Be Sad", "I'll Wait for the Flowers to Thank You" and other selected old works. In the same year, he won two awards at the World Music Awards, namely "World's Highest Selling Asian Pop Singer" and "World's Highest Selling Chinese Singer", and was awarded by Ursula Andress, the first generation of 007 Bond Girl. In 1995, "Youxueyou 95 World Tour" was held, and "95 Youxueyou Taiwan Tour in Ten Years of Love" broke 100 records. In 1996, after his marriage, he announced a temporary retirement to focus on the development of his music career, and began to plan a large-scale original musical Snow Wolf Lake. In addition, he cooperated with the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra and Hong Kong conductor Yip Wing-shih to hold several concerts combining classical and pop music. The performance part of this concert is included in the album "Love and Symphony" (the orchestra's music performance part is not included). Jacky Cheung's peak period is also considered to be the period when Hong Kong pop music made the greatest contribution to overseas, especially his success in exploring the huge overseas market. At that time, Jacky Cheung's record sales also attracted the attention of the international pop music community or the media, including Time Magazine in the United States. Billboard, the most authoritative music magazine in the United States, also began to pay attention to Hong Kong pop music to a certain extent because of the rise of Jacky Cheung. In 2002, Jacky Cheung started a series of more than 50 world concerts, titled "Jacky Cheung's Music Journey Live Concert". This concert continued the 1999 "Friends Personal Concert", continued to focus on the overall musical effect, and re-scored most of the classic songs to a certain extent. The concert finale was held in Hong Kong in 2003 and released on CD and DVD. In 2003, he took advantage of his leisure time during SARS to create a large number of songs, and in early 2004 released his first fully composed album "LifeIsLikeADream". Some of the songs on the album also have special significance, such as the single "To Friends" was sung to his friends Cheung Guorong, Anita Mui, Ke Shouliang and others who died at different times in 2003, and "Tell You Know" was created for his wife Luo Meiwei. After the album was released in Hong Kong, it received unanimous praise. Among them, "Tell You Know", "To Friends" and other songs once occupied the top of the major charts. In the autumn of 2004, he and his partner Du Zichi jointly collaborated on a public welfare concert "Jacky Cheung Live Life Live Concert" in the new wing of the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Center. Most of the songs in the concert were originally sung by other singers, and Jacky Cheung covered them. Since it was only performed once, it did not cause a sensation after the concert. It was not until the CD and DVD of the concert were released that sales went viral, which made many music fans sigh at the strength of Jacky Cheung's ability to perform other people's music. The album also won the Hong Kong Record Sales Award of IFBI International Record Association at the end of 2004, and Jacky Cheung, who had not attended the music awards ceremony for a long time, also rarely appeared at the awards ceremony to receive the award. In November 2006, the Doha Asian Games Organizing Committee announced on the official website of the Asian Games that it would invite four singers to attend the opening ceremony of the Asian Games on December 1. Jacky Cheung was one of them. [ 6] Jacky Cheung sang the theme song "TogetherNow" under the backing track of tens of thousands of drummers in the last performance session. The organizing committee introduced Jacky Cheung with "ThemostpopularAsianperformerintheworld, fromHongKong, China-Jacky Cheung!" ("The most popular Asian singer in the world - Jacky Cheung from Hong Kong, China!"). Generally speaking, he was generally regarded as an influential singer in East and South East Asia, but after the West Asian country Qatar invited him to be the theme song singer of such an important event, it can be seen that his popularity and influence have also covered the entire Asian region. In August 2007, his Xueyou Lightyear World Tour held a total of 105 concerts around the world, breaking his record for the number of concerts. In May 2008, Jacky Cheung participated in the Hong Kong Torch Relay event of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, running 200 meters with the Olympic flame from Athens, becoming one of the torchbearers representing Hong Kong and one of the representatives of the entertainment industry.