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Wednesday, December 21, 2011

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.

Saturday, December 17, 2011

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.

Thursday, December 15, 2011

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.

Wednesday, December 14, 2011

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.

Saturday, December 10, 2011

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.