# Leslie Cheung

> He made androgyny magnetic decades before the conversation turned global, and when he jumped from the Mandarin Oriental in 2003, Hong Kong lost the man who had defined Cantopop and given Asian cinema some of its most daring performances.

*Hong Kong singer and actor (1956-2003)*

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## Identity
- **Profile type:** Singer / Musician ([Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220))
- **Category:** Musicians
- **Country:** China
- **Born:** 1956-09-12
- **Died:** 2003-04-01
- **Status:** deceased
- **Gender:** male

## Bio

Born in Kowloon in 1956, Cheung studied in England from age 12 and returned in 1976 to enter a televised singing contest the next year. The breakthrough came in 1984 with "Monica" - by the decade's end he had shaped Cantopop into a genre and logged 40 albums. He announced retirement in 1989 and moved to Canada, but by 1994 he was back, and his 1996 album Red pushed into sonic experimentation and imagery that unsettled convention. Film gave him another canvas: A Better Tomorrow in 1986, Best Actor at the Hong Kong Film Awards for Days of Being Wild in 1991, then the roles that carried his name worldwide - Farewell My Concubine in 1993, Happy Together in 1997. On 1 April 2003, he stepped off the hotel ledge. Two albums had each sold over 300,000 copies in Hong Kong, and CNN would later name him one of the 25 greatest Asian actors of all time.

## Fame
- **Popularity score:** 69.5 / 100
- **Momentum:** 0.6 / 100  (trend: FALLING)
- **Historical depth:** 26.1 / 100
- **Attention shift:** 2.1 / 100
- **Source confidence:** 80.0 / 100
- **Profile completeness:** 90.0 / 100
- **Total followers across platforms:** 2,170

## Platforms
- **FACEBOOK**: https://www.facebook.com/LCIFC (@LCIFC)
- **IMDB**: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0002000/ (@nm0002000)
- **SPOTIFY**: https://open.spotify.com/artist/2g0QLUYku8AuPVK2udRV7i (@2g0QLUYku8AuPVK2udRV7i)
- **YOUTUBE**: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7vEWwk0TYLHMDwJGecyNMw (@Leslie Cheung - Topic, 2,170 followers)

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