Jacky Cheung graduated from Hong Kong Chongwen English College and worked successively in the Hong Kong Trade Development Council and Hong Kong Cathay Pacific Airways. Until 1984, he stood out from more than 20,000 contestants with his song "The Love of the Earth". , won the championship in the first 18-district Amateur Singing Competition. Later, he signed a contract with PolyGram Records to become its singer, and released his first album "Smile", which sold 300,000 copies in Hong Kong, making him a leader among newcomers in the Hong Kong music scene at that time. Jacky Cheung was considered the successor of the "decent singer" Kwan Ching-kit at the time. During his subsequent career as a singer, Jacky Cheung was also selected to sing theme songs for public welfare undertakings and government agencies many times. His second album "Distant Her AMOUR" released in 1986 is still a hot seller, with sales of up to 400,000 copies. Among them, "Half Moon" has become one of the classic Cantonese pop songs. Another Cantonese classic pop song "Sun Stars" was also released at the same time. Just two years after his debut, Jacky Cheung held his first concert at the Hong Kong Coliseum (referred to as the "Coliseum"), and then held 6 consecutive concerts at the Coliseum in 1987 (August 1 to August 6, 1987) The solo concert was a success. Low period However, 1987 was also the lowest period in Jacky Cheung's career as a singer. Sales of newly released records plummeted. At several major music awards ceremonies in Hong Kong in 1988, Jacky Cheung, who had previously been considered a new leader, received nothing. At this time, he began to drink heavily, and the media repeatedly reported unfavorable news about him. This state lasted until 1989. There are many different accounts of his low point. According to his own information in interviews with the media in recent years, because he was young and energetic at the time, he quickly lost his way after becoming famous overnight and had a pessimistic attitude towards the future, which directly led to his giving up and being abandoned in his career. During the period of the Four Kings from 1989 to 1990, Alan Tam and Leslie Cheung successively withdrew from the Hong Kong Music Awards. Jacky Cheung seized the opportunity and successfully became one of the main singers of PolyGram Records. In 1990, he released the album "I Only Want to Love One Person in My Life". Once again attracted the attention of the music industry. His songs returned to several major music charts in Hong Kong, and were a hit at several major music awards ceremonies in the same year, successfully inheriting the award-winning status of his predecessor Alan Tam at PolyGram Records. During this period, he released several classic songs of Chinese pop music, such as "Li Xianglan" and so on. He has also covered Du Dewei's "Illusion" (worked by Huaxing) and Zhen Chuqian's "How to Say It" (worked by Sony Boardman), which became "Meet You Again" and "Earthquake" (both produced by PolyGram). In 1991, Jacky Cheung began to hold concert tours in Hong Kong, Guangzhou, Shanghai, Beijing and other cities. In the same year, two albums were released, "I Can't Help It" and "An Unchangeable Heart". Among them, "Love You More Every Day" included in the album "I Can't Help It" (adapted from the famous Japanese band Southern All Stars' song " "Manatsu no Fruit") was very popular. In addition to winning song awards at major music awards that year, it also won the honors of "The Most Powerful Song" and "Top Ten Favorite Golden Songs in the Past 20 Years" by commercial radio stations in 1997 [ 3] and won the "Top Ten Chinese Golden Songs of the Century" award from Radio Hong Kong in 1999[4]. The success of "Can't Help It" and "Unchangeable Heart" made Jacky Cheung compete with Andy Lau and Lai Lai at major awards ceremonies in Hong Kong. The three of them, together with Aaron Kwok, who later succeeded Hacken Lee, 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 its songs have been on the Hong Kong music pop charts and have occupied the top spot many times. It has become one of the music albums with the most songs on the Hong Kong pop music charts. Among them, "Breaking Up" "On a Rainy Day" and "Lovesickness in the Storm" have also become one of the classic Cantonese pop songs. At its peak, in 1993, he released his second Mandarin album "Kiss Goodbye", which became a hit in Taiwan, Singapore, mainland China and other overseas markets. It also broke the record sales record in many places, earning Jacky Cheung the title of "Singing God". His singing career has reached its highest peak.

The main tracks of this album include: "Kiss Goodbye", "Love Network", "With You Along the Road" (the original song is sung by Japanese singer Wataru Maeda; the Cantonese version is "Breaking Up Always on a Rainy Day"), etc. At the end of the same year, another Mandarin album "Blessing" was released, which was still a hot seller. Jacky Cheung also held his first world tour that year. In 1994, he released the EP Cantonese album "Legend of the Hungry Wolf", the album "This Winter Is Not Too Cold" and the Mandarin album "Stealing Heart". Among them, the song "This Winter Is Not Too Cold" was composed by himself and won the top ten of Radio Hong Kong. Chinese Golden Melody Award. The Four Heavenly Kings began to develop independently in the late 1990s, and each achieved widespread recognition and success. Jacky Cheung is considered by most to be the one with the most singing skills among the Four Heavenly Kings. He was also the one who won the most music awards among the four during the Four Heavenly Kings period. In 1995, Jacky Cheung released the album "True Love - New Songs + Selections", which has the highest sales volume of Chinese music so far. The main tracks include "True Love", "A Thousand Reasons for Sadness", "I Wait Until the Flowers Fade" and Other selected old works. In the same year, he won two awards at the World Music Awards, namely "The World's Highest-Selling Asian Pop Singer" and "The World's Highest-Selling Chinese Singer". Andres) presented the award. In 1995, the "Jacky Friends 95 World Tour Concert" was held, and the "Jacky Friends Taiwan Tour Concert 10 Years of Love 95" broke the record of 100 concerts. In 1996, after her marriage, she announced that she would take a break from acting to focus on the development of her music career, and began planning the large-scale original musical Snow Wolf Lake. In addition, she collaborated with the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra and Hong Kong conductor Yip Wing-shi to hold several performances combining classical music and pop music. concert. The singing part of this concert is included in the album "Love and Symphony" (the orchestral 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 when he successfully developed a huge overseas market. At that time, Jacky Cheung's record sales also attracted the attention of the international pop music scene or the media, including the American "Time Magazine". 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 began to hold more than 50 consecutive world tour concerts, named "Jacky Cheung Music Journey Live Concert". In this concert, Jacky Cheung continued the 1999 "Friends Solo Concert", continuing to focus on the overall musical effect and re-scoring most of the classic songs, which received a certain degree of praise. The finale of the concert was held in Hong Kong in 2003, and CD and DVD were released. In 2003, he took advantage of his layoff during SARS to compose a large number of songs, and released his first completely composed album "Life Is Like A Dream" in early 2004. Some songs in the album also have special meanings, such as the single " "To Friends" was sung to his friends Leslie Cheung, Anita Mui, Ke Shouliang and others who passed away at different times in 2003. "Tell What You Know" was created by him for his wife Luo Meiwei. The record received unanimous praise after its release in Hong Kong, with songs such as "Tell You What You Know" and "For Friends" once topping the charts. In the autumn of 2004, he and his partner Du Zizi*** collaborated on a charity concert "Jacky Cheung Lives 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 covered by Jacky Cheung. Since they were only performed once, they did not cause a sensation after the concert. After the CD and DVD of the concert were released, sales continued to boom, and many music fans lamented Jacky Cheung's impressive ability to perform other people's music. At the end of 2004, the record also won the IFBI International Recording Association's Hong Kong Record Sales Award. Jacky Cheung, who had not attended the music awards ceremony for a long time, also rarely appeared at the award ceremony to accept 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, and Jacky Cheung was one of them.

[6] Jacky Cheung sang the theme song "Together Now" in the last performance segment accompanied by tens of thousands of drummers. The organizing committee introduced Jacky Cheung as "The most popular Asian performer in the world, from Hong Kong, China - Jacky Cheung!". Generally speaking, he was previously considered an influential singer in East and Southeast Asia. However, after the West Asian country Qatar invited him to be the theme song singer for such an important event, it can be seen that his popularity and influence have also changed. Covers the entire Asia region. In August 2007, his Jacky Lightyear World Tour held 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. He ran 200 meters holding the Olympic flame from Athens, becoming one of the torchbearers representing Hong Kong and one of the representatives of the entertainment industry. Career as an Actor Jacky Cheung has also performed well in film performances. So far, he has starred in more than 60 films, and won the "Best Actor" at the New Delhi International Film Festival in India in 2002. He also won the Hong Kong Film Awards and Taiwan Film Awards in 1988 and 1990 respectively. "Best Supporting Actor" at the Golden Horse Awards, and has been nominated for Best Actor and Supporting Actor at the Hong Kong Film Awards and Golden Horse Awards many times. He has a wide range of acting roles, and can play roles in action films, comedies, literary films, villains, etc., and his salary is not high, so he is called "the most valuable" and "the most affordable" by many people in the Hong Kong film industry. A powerful actor. Jacky Cheung's first movie was the second year after he entered the music industry. He was invited to star in the Hong Kong film "Thunderbolt" directed by Sammo Hung. Since then, he has appeared in many commercial movies. He began to attract attention for his acting skills in 1988 when he starred in "Carmen" directed by Wong Kar Wai. In the film, he played an ignorant and self-righteous young and Dangerous boy. His acting skills were unanimously praised by people in the film industry. This role won him the Best Supporting Actor Award at the Hong Kong Film Awards that year. Jacky Cheung subsequently had smooth sailing in his film career. In 1990, he starred in "The Swordsman" directed by Tsui Hark, playing the role of Dongchang lackey Lin Pingzhi/Ouyang Quan in the film. He was recognized by professionals and audiences, and won the Taiwan Film Golden Horse Award that year. Later, he also acted in the movie "Blood on the Street" directed by John Woo. The character "Xi Hui" in the movie was specially created for him by John Woo. He collaborated with Tony Leung Chiu-wai in the film. Although it failed miserably at the box office in Hong Kong, it was well received by many countries after it was released, especially in the United States. While winning the box office, it was also named one of John Woo's classic films by many movie fans. In 1993, Jacky Cheung starred in the comedy film "A Little Mermaid" adapted from "Ashes of Time", cooperating with Tony Leung, Leslie Cheung and others and achieving success. In the same year, he starred in the movie "Legend of the Prince". From then on, he gradually became the leading actor. His major works during the same period were "The New Marginal". Jacky Cheung's pawprint on Hong Kong's Avenue of Stars is worth noting that Jacky Cheung and Tony Leung had a certain tacit understanding when they collaborated in the early 1990s, and the two became close friends in the future. The two have collaborated on films such as "A Chinese Ghost Story 3: A Chinese Ghost Story", "Ya Fei and Ya Qi", "Blood on the Street", "Ashes of Time", "Easter and West", etc. Since the mid-1990s, Tony Leung has turned to the art film market, while Jacky Cheung, who was at his peak as a film actor, quit the film market and began to focus on his music career. In 2001, he returned to film the film "Man 40" directed by director Ann Hui. The film is considered to be a remake of Ann Hui's successful 1995 film "40". Jacky Cheung starred as the leading actor in the film and was crowned emperor at the New Delhi International Film Festival in India that year. In 2004, he was invited to film the musical "If Love" directed by Peter Chan. He brought music elements into the film and achieved success. On June 30, 2007, Jacky Cheung was nominated to leave his palm print and signature on Hong Kong's Avenue of Stars.