Because of you, April 1st, April Fool's Day has an extra layer of meaning. This star who truly deserves our admiration is worthy of our commemoration, both in his works and in the world. Such a genius went too early, not only the loss of his relatives, but also the loss of our audience fans.
Cheung Kwok Wing (12 September 1956 – 1 April 2003), born in Hong Kong, is a male singer, actor and musician; He made his debut in 1977. In 1983, he became famous for "The Wind Continues to Blow". "Monica", sung in 1984, was the first dance song in the Hong Kong music scene to win the top ten Chinese and ten golden songs. In 1986 and 1987, he won the Golden Melody Gold Award. In 1987, he became the first Cantonese singer to break into the Korean music market with his album Aime,[3] and a record holder for Chinese records in Korea.
In 1988 and 1989, he won the Top Ten Golden Songs Most Popular Male Singer Award. In 1995, the album "Love" set a record sales in South Korea.[6][5][7] In 1999, he won the Golden Needle Award, the highest honor in the Hong Kong music scene. In 2000, he won the CCTV-MTV Music Festival Asia's Most Outstanding Artist Award. In 2010, he was named one of CNN's "20 Most Recognized Singers or Orchestras in the World over the Past Fifty Years". He is good at songwriting, and has served as an MV director, record producer, and concert art director. In 1978, he began to participate in tv dramas. In the mid-1980s, he shifted the focus of his career to the film industry, and successfully portrayed the roles of Ning Caichen, Xu Zai, Cheng Dieyi, Ouyang Feng, He Baorong and so on. In 1991, he won the Best Actor Award at the Hong Kong Film Awards for "The Legend of Ah Fei".
In 1993, he starred in the film "Farewell to the King", the first film in Chinese film history to win the Palme d'Or at the Cannes International Film Festival,[10] and broke the box office record for Chinese mainland literary films in the United States.[11][12] For this film, he received international film attention.[13] He won the Best Actor Award at the Japanese Film Critics Awards and the Special Contribution Award of the Chinese Academy of Performing Arts, and served as a jury member at the Tokyo International Film Festival in the same year. In 1998, he became the first Asian actor to serve as a jury member at the Berlin International Film Festival. In 2005, he was selected as one of the 100 outstanding actors in Chinese films. In 2010, he was named one of the "25 Greatest Asian Actors of All Time" by CNN. He is enthusiastic about public welfare and charity, and in 2000 directed the public welfare film "Smoke And Smoke Out".