Jacky Cheung's peak of his musical career

In the 1990s, Jacky Cheung's musical career reached the peak. From 1991, he began to hold his personal concerts in China Mainland. At the same year, he released two albums: Love is Not Disabled and A Heart Forever.

Among these two albums, there is a song adopted from the work of a Japanese band named Loving You More Every Day. That song became so famous later and has won many musical festival awards in the following years. Just the success of these two albums made Jacky Cheung one of the top singers in Hong Kong and made him one king of the Cantopop Four Heavenly Kings with other three kings: Andy Lau, Aaron Kwok and Leon Lai.

In 1992, Jacky Cheung released his Cantonese album named True Love Expression, nine songs of which have been on the Hong Kong pop songs rank. Therefore, this album became one of the most famous albums in Hong Kong music field.

The beginning of 1990s was just the time when Jacky Cheung began his peak road on his musical career.

Jacky Cheung, One of the Cantopop Four Heavenly Kings

As one of the Cantopop Four Heavenly Kings, Jacky Cheung is really talented on music. Only after two years experience in singing in Hong Kong, he held his first concert at famous Hong Kong Coliseum. Even more, just in 1987, he held six concerts in row at Coliseum from August 1st to 6th and all achieved great successes.

From the year of 1989 to 1990, Alan Tam and Leslie Cheung quit the competition of Hong Kong musical award and Jacky Cheung just took this opportunity and become one of the most important singers under the records company of PolyGram Records. In the new decade of 1990s, he released his new album Only to Love One person and received much attention from Hong Kong musical industry. Just in the same year, he received many large awards in some musical awarding festivals and became indispensible for the PolyGram Records. Just during this period, he released some classic pop singles such as Li Xiang-lan. Jacky Cheung also re-sung some old classic songs.

From 1991, Jacky Cheung began his tour in Hong Kong and China Mainland cities such as Guangzhou and Shanghai and Beijing. Just from this year, Jacky Cheung became one king of the Cantopop Four Heavenly Kings.

How Jacky Cheung Started His Musical Career?

After graduated from a Hong Kong English college, Jacky Cheung didn’t plan to develop on music direction. By the contrary, he first worked in a trade company and then Cathay Pacific Airways Limited. Until the year of 1984, he won the champion from more than 20 thousand competitors in an amateur singing contest with the song Fatherland.


After the success of his song Fatherland, he signed with PolyGram Record Company and became a singer of this record company. Then he released his first record album named Smile and reached a sale number of 200+ thousand, which also make Jacky Cheung the outstanding freshman in Hong Kong musical field. During his musical career, he has been chosen many times by some charity business and governments to sing the theme songs.


In 1986, he released his second album named Amour and also reached a big success. Even more, the song Half Moon in this album became a classic song within Hong Kong residents. Another classic popular song Sun and Stars was also released at the same period. Only two years after Jacky Cheung entered the area of music, he held his first concert at famous Hong Kong Coliseum.

Chinese God of Songs: Jacky Cheung

Jacky Cheung, an influential musical giant star and famous movie actor in Asian areas and among the whole Chinese communities, was born on June 10th, 1961. In addition, he is one king of the Cantopop Four Heavenly Kings in Hone Kong and even called as Chinese God of Songs.


In the middle of 1990s, Jacky Cheung's career reached the peak and according to the statistics of IFPI, his albums sold the second best only behind the albums of Michael Jackson. As of 2006, his global albums sale number reached 12,000 million and ranked the first among Chinese musical field. Besides the musical field, Jacky Cheung also reached great achievements on the film industry and has got many Hong Kong and international festival events.


Besides his musical and movie career, Jacky Cheung is also a talented person. Among the Hong Kong musical and movie community, Jacky Cheung has a good reputation. In addition, he also likes swimming and playing tennis. He has been called as the good man by many people and has ever helped many his friends finish their dreams.


Still until now, Jacky Cheung's album sale record hasn’t been broken and his many songs are still sung by Chinese in KTV.

Wu Bai in 2010s

In the end of 2009, Wu Bai held one unplugged concert in Chengdu, Sichuan province. His energetic singing and enthusiastic live performance caught and shocked the musical fans of south-western China, which showed his King of Live and kingly way again.

From the year of 2009 to 2010, Wu Bai held his Space Bomb concerts all over the world. In Dec. 24th, 2009, Wu Bai held Space Bomb concert in Xi'an, where he brought surprise to all the Shaanxi rock fans. At the end of 2009, just the last day of 2009, his same name concert was held in Malaysia. In the next year, Wu Bai went on his concerts named Space Bomb. On the 10th, April, he and Chen Chong co-held the concert in Macao. Just at the rest of the year, Wu Bai held the same name concerts at Beijing, Shenzhen, Dongguan and Beijing Nest building.

On 5th, June in the year of 2011, Wu Bai took part in the Beijing 2011 KAMA musical festival, which was also Wu Bai's first time to take part in the China Mainland musical festival. In Nov, Wu Bai released his latest album One Way Ticket and started his series of performance named Wu Bai Tonight. Although he was older than 40 in this year, he was still the King of Live.

Wu Bai's Music Career Development in Chinese Mainland

In 2003, Wu Bai, the evergreen tree in Taiwan musical field, represented the whole line of products of Taiwan Beer for third time due to its long lasting popularity. Besides Taiwan Beer, he also represented for a gold decoration manufacturer and sale and an online game. In addition, he tried for the first time to take the leading role in a TV series. At the end of this year, he released his newest mandarin album named Tear Bridge. On Dec. 24th this year, Wu Bai and his band held their first successful concert in Tianjin, Chinese Mainland.

In the beginning of 2004, Wu Bai held successfully the concert named Wanderer's Love Song in Capital Gymnasium. On Feb. 29th, in Taipei Xinzhuang stadium he held successfully his first charity concert named Wu Bai&China Blue Life Power. The year of 2004 was really busy for Wu Bai. In June, he corporate with Aihui Records Cutting Edge to release a series of new musical records. In September, the live performance of Life Power CD/DVD was released. At the later half year, he held eight concerts in Taiwan, which all reached great success. Just in the same year, the classic single song.

Wu Bai Goes on His Way in the New Century

The year of 1998 was big for Wu Bai, in which he achieved great success, no matter his album or his live concerts. It is difficult to imagine the popularity of Wu Bai in Taiwan. Just in this year, Wu Bai represented the Taiwan Beer in the advertisement, which renewed the expression of this beer brand. Just in this year, the sale of Taiwan Beer increased by 40 percent.

In 1999, after the Taiwan earthquake, Wu Bai released his new album named White Dove. This album still reached a high sale of 500,000 even facing the shrinking records market. Until now, the title song White Dove is still popular now. This song records a hurt dove that still dreams of the sky and freedom.

In 2000, Wu Bai took the leading role for the first time in Tsui Hark's movie, Time and Tide. At the same time, Wu Bai released some records of his songs recollections, which recorded another side of Wu Bai in his musical career.

Wu Bai is also named the evergreen tree in the musical field. In tens of years, he has been brought surprises to his fans and the audience and the whole musical industry.

Wu Bai Started His Music Business from 1990

After failing the college entrance exam, Wu Bai sang for Dust of Angels Soundtrack with his born name. Then he released his first album named Loving Others is a Happy Thing with his born name too.

After his first album, he formed a band named Wu Bai&China Blue with other three members, Dean Dino Zavolta on drums, Yu Ta-hao(as known as "Big Cat)on keyboards, Chu Chien-hui on bass guitar. Wu Bai himself was lead guitar and lead vocals within the band.

After the establishment of the band, they began to sing in the PUBs all around Taiwan, including Growing Earth, The Gate and Live Ago-Go. Wu Bai and his band gained much popularity from these performances. From then, when it comes up to Wu Bai, live performance appears in music fans brain. For them, Wu Bai means Live. Not to mention his albums, all of Wu Bai's live concerts have reached to great success.

Wu Bai is a versatile singer. Besides his own music business, he also wrote songs and composed for so many famous Asian and Hong Kong singers.

Beyond his musical business, he also has taken roles in movies and TV series.

Beyond's Musical Career in Taiwan

Wong Ka Kui

From the year of 1997, Beyond actively recorded the Mandarin Chinese record, which showed that they paid much attention on the music market in Taiwan. After the traditional Chinese spring festival of 1998, Beyond again released its new Mandarin Chinese record named Here and There. Although most of the songs in this album were the old songs in the past, Beyond interpreted all those songs in the new way on the aspect of music. In addition, the electronic music became the mainstream of Beyond music. The light cold tune of the song Slow was better than other songs in this album. The publication of Beyond in Taiwan was more since this year.

In March 14th, Beyond held a concert in Taiwan. Besides the fans in Taiwan, there were audience from Hong Kong and South Korean, which made the Taiwan press feel the charm of Beyond. In addition, in April and May, Beyond took part in a few campus concerts, which showed their wish to expanded their music career in the Taiwan market. In April, they released a record of best Beyond songs. The song Leave Me Along was changed into Cantonese edition and the bands from the Hong Kong universities were invited to accompany with Beyond in this song.

Beyond Tried New Musical Style in 1997

Beyond didn't recruit new member after the death of Wong Ka Kui

After a long time since the last album, Beyond eventually released its new album named Please Let Go of Your Hands. The whole album could be seen as a completely new experiment. In addition, psychedelic electronic music was added in their music. The songs such as Let Go of Your Hands and Big Era were excellent in describing Hong Kong citizens' inside world in the end of the 20th century. They also composed songs for the animal welfare fund and deaf persons such as Who Names Me and Echo. However, the song of Echo was criticized that it imitated the style of Oasis. This whole album was recorded in their own record studio, which made them being proud.

At the end of the year, Beyond released another album Surprise and the style of electronic style was still contained in this album. In this album, the members of Beyond tried to change their singing voice and gave the audience completely new experience. However, the musical critic thought that the style of Beyond music was fixed and the pure rock music was not as popular as in the past.

Just in the year of 1997, Beyond worked hard to change their music style and did a lot of attempts.

Wong Ka Kui's Death in the Year of 1993

The year of 1993 could be a turning point for the young band of Beyond. Just in this year, the lead vocalist, rhythm guitarist and the founder of Beyond, Wong Ka Kui died after an accident in filming a game show in Japan.

After Beyond ended their propaganda in Taiwan, they returned to Japan to make their new album and worked hard in releasing their new album in Japan. In the end of May, they returned to Hong Kong and brought Hong Kong fans with the album of Rock and Roll. In this album, there was a song that is still sung by people now named Boundless Ocean Vast Skies. This song summoned the ten years of Beyond's pursuit of music. In the end of June in this year, they released their Japanese album.

This year was the tenth anniversary of the foundation of Beyond and they also planned to hold a large concert in the end of the year to celebrate their anniversary.

No one would have thought of the death of Wong Ka Kui on the day of June 24, which was a heavy and tragic shock for Beyond. In addition, his death was a tune point for the whole band.

Beyond in 1989

After Beyond finished their concert in Beijing, they returned back to Hong Kong and took the job of writing music in a movie and sang the theme song for the movie. Just in this year, Beyond released an EP record and a video disc named Beyond IV, among which the song I Really Love You became well known and sung by people at various ages. In addition, during this time, Beyond developed towards different fields and their music became more commercialized.

In this year, Beyond became the idol band among the people. In addition, they were also invited to play in the movie and write music for the movie. We could see them in the movie often and found their songs in the movie.

At the same time, Beyond released its another video disc named The Real Testament, which enlisted many songs that they wrote for other singers. In the November, 1989, Beyond took part in the concert named Friends Forever with another rock and roll band in Taiwan. Just in this concert, they sang the mandarin songs for the first time. At the end of the year, in a newly built stadium, they held another concert named The Real Testament, which promoted the band to a higher level.

Beyond in the Year of 1987

The year of 1987 could be an important year for the young band of Beyond. Just in this year, Beyond released an extend-play record named Waiting Forever, in which the songs such as The Dance Music in the Past, Water Boy and the title song Waiting Forever later became the popular songs of Disco. In addition, The Dance Music in the Past once has been on the pop roll of the Radio Television Hong Kong and was made into MTV by the television station, which was also the first song of Beyond to be made into MTV. In addition, this record was a natural springboard for Beyond in advancing in the popular music circles.

Although Beyond made a small success in this year, they were still not accepted by the public. Even their dressing was criticized to be not worth a penny. In addition, their original fans criticized that Beyond had abandoned their faith and became commercialized. However, the people who just began to know about Beyond said that they were too fashionable. Even in their first interview, they were laughed at and were given a nickname.

The year of 1987 may be tough for the Beyond, but they still pinned hopes of a successful future on their career of the music.

The Tough Road for the Band Of Beyond

In 1985, there were four members in the band of Beyond: Wong Ka Kui, Wong Ka Keung, Yip Sai Wing and Chen Shi An. They composed many musical works together that year. Therefore, they tried to give a concert to share their songs. However, Chen Shi An planned to go broad. The band tried to look for a guitarist. In addition, Yip Sai Wing was acquainted with Paul Wong, who had taken part in another band and designed the post for beyond. Therefore, Beyond asked Paul Wong to help them and then the four people prepared for the concert together.

Beyond rented a place, stereo system, costumes and so on by themselves. In addition, they sold the tickets by themselves. They prepared all the things of the concert by themselves. Then they held the concert named Waiting Forever. Although the audience was not so keen, they were still active during the concert. Beyond had invited many record companies to their concert, but no record company had attended their concert.

They secured a loan of 16 thousand Hong Kong dollars from the bank for their concert. However, lastly they suffered a loss of six thousand Hong Kong dollars after the concert. This concert was an adventurous try for the band and showed their determinations. Their original plan was to introduce their works to other friends and make some money to pay the cost of publishing their cassette tape.

Although we could not call this concert a success, it was still a good start for the Beyond.

Jet Li and His One Fund

After the adventurous experience in the Indian Ocean tsunami, Jet Li founded the charity fund: One Fund

The idea of the One Fund
The One Fund came up with the idea that one person plus one Yuan plus one month equal to one big family. With this idea, bringing everyone's donation together can sum up to a large number of charity money. In turn, the large number of charity money can help everyone at any time.

With the Red Cross spirits of humanity, fraternity and devotion and the idea of the whole world as a family, One Fund devotes itself to spreading the public welfare culture, establishing the public welfare platforms and promoting the development of public welfare business. At the same time, One Fund provides as much humanitarian assistance as possible for the people who are suffering from the disasters and emergencies. Based in China, One Fund is developing into a international public welfare brand.

In January 11, 2011, One Fund was registered as the public foundations in Shenzhen, which means that One Fund has become a separate legal entity and can raise money publicly.

One Fund has changed the traditional practice of raising money after the disaster. It raises money in regular times and can act quickly after the disaster happens. In addition, now One Funds pays more and more attention on the problems of mental health of youths.

Jet Li and His Movie Experience

Jet Li is mostly well known for his action movies. Opportunities always favor those who are prepared. In 1980, Jet Li was chosen by the director Chang Hsin-yen to play the hero in the movie Shaolin Temple, which was Jet Li's first movie and made a great success. In addition, this film made Jet Li embark on his career as action actor.

The scripts about Chinese folk hero Wong Fei-hung may be the oldest in the world. There are more than 60 editions of the scripts about Wong Fei-hung in all, among which the most impressed Wong Fei-hung was the edition played by Jet Li. There are five Wong Fei-hung related movies played by Jet Li, which all made great success. In these five movies, the oriental elegance and courteous manners are interpreted perfectly by Jet Li. The featured posture in these movies as following became so classic and was imitated countless times.

Wong Fei-hung

Happy days do not last long. After the Wong Fei-hung series moves, Jet Li broke up with the Golden Harvest on bad terms. Then Jet Li founded his own film company: Eastern (HK) Film Production Co. Ltd. His new film company released many famous movies such as Fong Sai-yuk and The Bodyguard from Beijing.

Jet Li and World Famous Leaders: Deng Xiao-Ping and Richard Milhous Nixon

Because of Jet Li's great achievements in traditional Chinese martial arts: Wushu, he was well known among the world famous leaders.

Jet Li felt confused after he became famous. When he was at the age of twenty, he has written letters to Chinese leaders including Deng Xiao-Ping, Deng Ying-Chao, Yang Shang-Kun and Wang Zhen for help. He also received the letters from them. Jet Li also said that their care and encourage have a deep effect on his establishment of the charitable foundation: One Fund.

When Jet Li was a child

Three weeks after he wrote the letters to the Chinese leaders, Jet Li was received by the leaders in Peking and Deng Xiao-Ping wrote him a letter to encourage him. Two more weeks later, a person conveyed Deng Ying-Chao's wishes to him but forgot the pears that Deng Ying-Chao gave to him. The reason that Jet Li devoted himself into his One Fund was partially because of the advices from those leaders.

Jet Li in the movie The Bodyguard from Beijing

The Bodyguard from Beijing

We all know that Jet Li has shot a film named The Bodyguard from Beijing. However, nobody would imagine that former US president Richard Milhous Nixon has invited the young Jet Li to be his personal bodyguard but was refused by Jet Li. It was in 1974 when he performed in US, after the performance, Nixon asked Jet Li whether he would like to be his bodyguard. Jet Li replied that he wanted to safeguard one billion Chinese, not a single person. Kissinger added that Jet Li could be a diplomat in the future. This incidence has become a piece of headline news on New York Times.