Jacky Cheung was born in Hong Kong in 1961. He was the second eldest child in the family, with an older brother and a younger sister. Different from the restrained and self-disciplined singer that everyone became familiar with later (not counting the handsome, chic, snow-white, and clean young gang leader played in "The East Comes the West"), when he was a child, Jacky Cheung was just like a man who didn't have sex for three days. The skin king of Jiewa.
There is an anecdote: Jacky Cheung was in the second grade of elementary school. Martial arts movies are very popular in Hong Kong. He and his cousin competed to be the hero in "The One-Armed Sword". During the chase and fight, the kitchen knife he was wielding accidentally fell off his hand. , Jacky Cheung needed five stitches under his right eye, and a scar was left on his face. Later, he was nicknamed "Scar Friend" in school.
There are many versions of how Jacky Cheung embarked on the path of becoming a singer, but one thing is generally recognized, that is, he has been singing very well since he was a child. Singing is his talent and love. Another point is that when Jacky Cheung just graduated from school, he actually just wanted to find a job to support his family - his father was a sailor and lived at home only a few days a year, and the family was under great financial pressure. After becoming wise, Jacky Cheung stopped fighting and got a job as an assistant clerk at the Hong Kong Trade Development Council.
I leave early and come back late every day. It takes three or four hours to commute. More than half of my monthly income is given to my mother to support the family... Before his debut, Jacky Cheung held an ordinary script. .
Until 1984, Jacky Cheung signed up to participate in the first Hong Kong 18th District Amateur Singing Contest. At that time, he had already changed his job and was working as a ticket agent for Cathay Pacific Airways. It is said that he was scolded by his girlfriend at the time, "No matter what, you are just a flight attendant. If you have the ability, the whole of Hong Kong will know you!"
But Jacky Cheung won the singing competition with his song "The Love of the Earth" and signed a contract with PolyGram to make his debut.
Do you think the Shuangwen script starts from here? not at all. The debut album "Smile" in 1985 did sell 200,000 copies, and won the 8th Top Ten Chinese Golden Songs Most Promising Newcomer Award. The second album "Amour" also became a hit. With "Her" and "Half Moon" Jacky Cheung has been praised by the media as the successor to the king.
But starting from the third album, sales continued to decline. By the time the fifth album was released, the sales volume was less than 20,000. This huge gap made him suddenly lose the focus of his life and began to hang out in nightclubs and drink alcohol. He was first caught drunk in Lan Kwai Fong and tried to hit someone after being recognized. Then he was rumored to have drunkenly threw a cake at Anita Mui's birthday party. These two scandals shocked the whole of Hong Kong. Life and career enter a vicious cycle.
What saved Jacky Cheung's acting career at that time was movies.
The first movie he made was called "Thunderbolt Loudspeaker". It was a typical assembly line work, but Jacky Cheung gave his best.
Jacky Cheung plays a policeman in the film, and there are many action scenes. One of the scenes where he was beaten by others was retaken more than 60 times because the effect was not good. In the end, he was kneeled more than 60 times.
's dedication for the rest of his life can already be seen in this drama. Jacky Cheung once recalled that experience in an interview: "I am very satisfied to be able to make movies."
In 1989, Jacky Cheung played the role of Brother Wu Fei in Wong Kar-wai's film "Carmen", becoming one of the most popular actors more than 30 years later. Popular meme... Oh, no, it was the Best Supporting Actor at the 8th Hong Kong Film Awards. He finally returned to the center stage.
In 1991, the album "Can't Help It" was released. This was Jacky Cheung's fourteenth album. With his song "Love You More Every Day", Jacky Cheung won the Top Ten Chinese Golden Melody Awards and the Top Ten Golden Melody Awards, which he had not known for many years. Two years later, the song "Kiss Goodbye" became popular at home and abroad, selling 4 million copies worldwide, setting a record in the music industry at that time, and people began to call him the "god of song."
Jay Chou wrote about himself in "Listen to Mom": "You will start to like pop songs, because Jacky Cheung starts to prepare to sing "Kiss Goodbye"."
When we look back on Jacky Cheung's experience in the first thirty years, we can feel a huge sense of frustration. Coming at you. Whether it’s the hardships before debut or the ups and downs after debut.Jacky Cheung once recalled, "This was a lesson that taught me to recognize the ups and downs early." After experiencing the ups and downs, when we summarize Jacky Cheung's experience in the next thirty years, only purity and harshness remain.
In 1991, Jacky Cheung started his first concert tour. Since then, he has become the king of concerts. In 1995, Jacky Cheung set a record of 100 concerts. In 2007, Jacky Cheung, who was in his forties, sang 105 concerts. In 2010, it rose to 147 concerts. From 2016 to 2017, Jacky Cheung, who was over 50 years old, sang 233 concerts in 97 cities around the world.
When Yang Kun's "Thirty-two Concerts a Year" could only become a meme, Jacky Cheung's concert tour had already enabled the police to capture more than 40 fugitives.
He never immerses himself in the endless competition for fame and fortune, and also automatically blocks all kinds of hype and scandals. His acting career was so pure that he only had singing.
It is so pure that only strength and hard work remain - Jacky Cheung said that he is very similar to Guo Jing in Jin Yong's novel, "He is very stupid, and his kung fu is all practiced."
After so many concerts, until 2016 , he made his first mistake. When singing the high notes of "I'm Waking and Dreaming", Jacky Cheung rarely broke his voice.
For this small flaw, he solemnly apologized to the audience on stage: "I started singing at the age of 23 and have been singing for 32 years. I hope that every song in the concert and all the keys can be the same as those in the recording studio." Same, but I didn't do it today. I know you don't mind, but I do."
Such purity and harshness have kept Jacky Cheung unchanged for decades, and the years have left no trace. He will always be the person who performs every concert. Every key is the same as the recording studio.
"I believe good songs are rewarded," he said, "I want to sing until I'm 70."
Purity and strictness may be the reason why Jacky Cheung, 63, can stay fresh forever. Today, tens of thousands of fans came from all over the country to listen to this concert. Among them, some may have listened to Jacky Cheung for ten years, some for twenty years, and some for more than thirty years... gathered together , just for this purity - to see a legend that never gets old because of its purity, and to reflect myself in this purity. 60+, still so pure, still so fresh.
Of course, in this concert, as pure and strict as Jacky Cheung, there is also Bright Dairy, the title sponsor of the concert.
Fresh milk and fresh yogurt in glass bottles are childhood memories shared by generations of people. And to this day, opening the small milk box at the door of the house every morning, taking out the fresh milk produced that day, and adding a milky flavor to breakfast is still a warm start to the day for many people. Because of its purity and strictness, it has maintained its "freshness" for decades.
hopes that everyone at today’s concert can remain unchanged for decades, still pure and still fresh.
