34 Facts About Jacky Cheung

Jacky Cheung Hok-yau was born on 10 July 1961 and is a Hong Kong singer and actor.

One of the most influential artists in the Greater China region, Cheung is widely regarded as a Heavenly King of Cantopop music and an icon of Hong Kong popular culture.

Jacky Cheung is often dubbed as the "God of Songs" for his vocal delivery and live performances.

Jacky Cheung debuted in 1985 with his first studio album Smile, which sold over 400,000 copies in Hong Kong.

In 1999, Jacky Cheung was honored by Junior Chamber International as one of the Ten Outstanding Young People in the World.

Jacky Cheung is the best-selling music artist of all time in Taiwan and Hong Kong, and has sold an estimated total of 25 to 60 million albums worldwide.

Jacky Cheung has embarked on ten concert tours during his 40-year career, including A Classic Tour, which ranks as one of the most-attended concert tours of all time with a total attendance of more than 4.5 million people.

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Jacky Cheung was born and grew up in Quarry Bay in the eastern part of Hong Kong Island.

Jacky Cheung's father is from Tianjin and his mother is from Shanghai.

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Jacky Cheung attended North Point Government Primary School from 1967 to 1973, and graduated from Literary College in 1978.

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In 2007, Jacky Cheung revealed that the paternal side of his family are mostly seamen, including his father, paternal cousin, and older brother.

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Jacky Cheung is known for his rich baritone voice, but his dramatic vibrato by rapidly moving his pronounced Adam's Apple.

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Jacky Cheung originally started working as a reservation officer for the airline Cathay Pacific.

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Jacky Cheung's subsequent albums included 1993 Me and You and 1994 Born to be Wild.

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Jacky Cheung received numerous music awards both in Hong Kong and elsewhere, including the best-selling Asian artist in the World Music Awards for two consecutive years in 1995 and 1996 held at Monaco.

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Jacky Cheung is regarded by some sources as the best singer of the four.

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In 1995, Cheung staged his record-breaking 100-show world tour titled "Yau Hok Yau", literally a pun of "friendship Jacky Cheung" reusing the same Chinese characters found in his name.

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In 1997, Jacky Cheung was named best-selling Chinese singer in the world by Time, which reported record sales of more than 25 million worldwide.

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Jacky Cheung expressed his astonishment upon receiving the award, as he was the least experienced living recipient at only 16 years, and this award was awarded to singers, producers and lyricists that are late in their careers or are semi-retired, in which he was not, but to quash any negative publicity, he clarified that according to his research, there was no stipulation of this sort.

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In 2004, Cheung released Life Is Like A Dream, an album in which Jacky co-produced with long-time collaborative partner Michael Au, and Jacky composed the melody for all songs, and penned the lyrics for 3 of the songs.

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In 2009, Jacky Cheung recorded Private Corner, his first jazz album for which he coined the phrase "Canto-jazz".

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Jacky Cheung is the only Chinese language singer to make it into the Top Ten.

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Jacky Cheung won the 35th Anniversary Golden Song Award at the 2012 RTHK Top 10 Gold Songs Awards, as he has the greatest number of RTHK Golden Songs since the award has been started.

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Jacky Cheung helped to bring 4 wanted criminals to be captured between April and June 2018 during Cheung's Chinese leg of the world tour.

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Jacky Cheung performs, singing and dancing with a dance troupe of 20 members with new choreography and dazzling production sets.