1. Hacken Lee, is a Hong Kong singer, television host and actor, active since the 1980s.
35 Facts About Hacken Lee
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Hacken Lee lived in Arts Mansion in Happy Valley during his teenage years.
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Hacken Lee studied in Pun U Association Primary School and Wah Yan College, Hong Kong.
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Hacken Lee then participated in the Second Hong Kong 19 District Singing Contest in 1985, a competition which he won with his rendition of Alan Tam's song "Love in the Fog".
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Hacken Lee was offered a contract with PolyGram Records.
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Hacken Lee however continued his studies at Wah Yan College while singing part-time.
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Hacken Lee turned full-time in the summer of 1987 after failing to gain a university place due to poor HKALE results.
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In 1992, Hacken Lee's career began to rise when he released the song "Red Sun", for which he penned the Chinese lyrics that made it popular.
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In 1993, Hacken Lee switched to Star Record Company and released the song "Look Back," which boosted his singing career and allowed him to win TVB Jade Solid Gold's Golden Award as well as reach the top five nominees for the Most Popular Singer Award.
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In 1994, Hacken Lee was crowned the title of "Zero Defect Vocals," alongside Jacky Cheung who was named "Perfect Vocals" the year before, and as well as the successor of the famous Alan Tam.
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In 1995, after the unprecedented success of his first solo concert, Hacken Lee held his second concert again at the Hong Kong Coliseum, "Dragon '95 Hacken Lee's Contact of Hear Concert", for a span of 10 days.
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In 1996, Hacken Lee was signed on to another company where he released the album "When I Found You", with which sales and popularity improved slightly.
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In summer 1998, Hacken Lee was chaired as TVB for World Cup association football's sportscaster, and he composed and sang the song for the program, "Adventure of Football Fans", with the success of it leading to the release of a compilation album.
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In late 1999, Hacken Lee eventually signed onto Universal Music and issued his album "A Year Or So".
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Hacken Lee won the "Most Favourite Character" award at the "2002 TVB Anniversary Awards" for his role in the series.
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Hacken Lee won his first Most Popular Male Singer in TVB Jade Solid Gold Award.
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In 2003,2004 and 2009, Hacken Lee partnered with Alan Tam in a series of concert tours around the world, including multiple shows in Hong Kong and Las Vegas.
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Hacken Lee was called one of the "New 4 Heavenly King" by Alan Tam.
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In 2005, Hacken Lee released his fourth Mandarin album Ask About Love, and he started a series of promotion activities in mainland China.
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Hacken Lee then won "My Favorite Singer" award and 5 song awards at "Metro Music Awards".
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Hacken Lee participated in the concert held by Hong Kong Government, to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the establishment of the HKSAR organization.
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Hacken Lee announced that his wife had given birth to his first son, Ryan Lee at Hong Kong Sanatorium and Hospital.
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Hacken Lee hosted a 2008 Chinese New Year concert series, which sold out 11 shows in Hong Kong from 8 to 18 February 2008; because it overlapped Valentine's Day, he featured the new song "Every Day is a Valentine's Day" and followed with a world tour.
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Hacken Lee sent only two new songs to radio that year, "She merciful and I'm Sad" and "What Year Is Now".
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Hacken Lee was a host for the Beijing Olympics broadcast in 2008, as well as the ambassador of Standard Chartered Marathon and ambassador of the East Asian Games 2009.
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In 2011, Hacken Lee was awarded again at RTHK "Top Ten Chinese Gold Songs Awards", making him the first singer to receive song awards through four decades.
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At 10 December, Hacken Lee appeared and sang for "Tung Wah Charity Show" on TVB, he was the first artist of HKRIA who can participate in TVB show after ice-breaking of HKRIA Copyright Controversy since 2010.
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Hacken Lee was invited to attend the Jade Solid Gold Awards Ceremony, as a performer and guests of honor.
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In January 2013, Hacken Lee attended for "Top Ten Chinese Gold Songs Awards" held by RTHK and won the award for the song "What's The Things Alive For".
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In 2016, Hacken Lee participated in the singing competition I Am a Singer as the host and starting competitor and began the competition with his rendition of Alan Tam's song "Love in the Fog", the song that brought him into the music industry via the singing competition he participated in 30 years ago.
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On November 28,2006, Hacken Lee married his long-time girlfriend, Emily Lo Suk Yi, the winner of the 1992 Miss Hong Kong Pageant.
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Apart from his singing career, Hacken Lee is an actor and one of the most popular singer-turned-actor in Hong Kong.
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Hacken Lee has appeared in numerous Hong Kong dramas, movies, and commercial advertisements.
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Hacken Lee has appeared in many large-scale charity drives as a guest performer.