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Leslie Cheung Kwok Wing (12 September 1956 – 1 April 2003) was a Hong Kong singer, actor and record and film producer. He is considered as "one of the founding fathers of Cantopop" by "combining a hugely successful film and music career."〔Simon Broughton, Mark Ellingham, "World Music Volume 2: Latin and North America, Caribbean, India, Asia and Pacific", P54., BBC Radio, ISBN 1-85828-636-0〕 He rose to prominence as a teen heartthrob and pop icon of Hong Kong in the 1980s, receiving numerous music awards including both Most Popular Male Artist Awards at the 1988 and 1989 Jade Solid Gold Best Ten Music Awards.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=1988 JSG Best Ten Awards )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=1989 JSG Best Ten Awards )〕 In 1989, Cheung announced his retirement from the music industry as a pop singer. Returning to the music scene after a five-year hiatus, Cheung released his chart-topping comeback album ''Most Beloved'' (寵愛) which achieved a huge market success. In 1999, he won the Golden Needle Award for his outstanding achievement as a musician at the RTHK Top 10 Gold Songs Awards,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=RTHK Classics Channel )〕 and his 1984 hit song ''Monica'' was voted as Hong Kong's "Song of the Century".〔(張國榮Monica入選世紀金曲 ) 1999-11-22〕 He was honoured as "Asia's Biggest Superstar" at the 2000 CCTV-MTV Music Honours.〔"Acts Honored at CCTV-MTV Show in China" (1 July 2000) ''Billboard''.〕 Cheung won the 1991 Hong Kong Film Award (''Days of Being Wild'')〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=List of Award Winner of The 10th Hong Kong Film Awards )〕 and the 1994 Hong Kong Film Critics Society Award (''Ashes of Time'')〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=List of Winners of 1994 Hong Kong Film Critics Society Awards )〕 for best actor. He had also won the 1994 Japan Film Critics Society Award for best actor for his performance in ''Farewell My Concubine'' and ten other best actor nominations, five Golden Horse Awards, three Cannes Film Festival Awards,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=In Competition Actors )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=In Competition Actors )〕 a Asia Pacific Film Festival Award, and a Venice Film Festival Award.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Best Actor Award )〕 Cheung's music and movies not only captured fans in Hong Kong but also other Asian areas including Taiwan, Singapore, Malaysia, China, Japan and South Korea. He is the first foreign artist to hold 16 concerts in Japan that has yet to be broken and the record holder as the best-selling C-pop artist in Korea.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Leslie Cheung's Popularity in Korea )〕 Cheung was ranked as the favourite actor in the 100 years of Chinese cinema.〔("Cheung Tops Asia's CCTV-MTV Honors" ), AllBusiness.com, Inc.〕〔("'Farewell My Concubine' most appreciated in HK" ), ''China Daily''〕 In 2010, he was voted the third "Most Iconic Musicians of All Time" (after Michael Jackson and The Beatles). CNN considered Cheung as the "Most Beautiful Man from Hong Kong Cinema" and one of "Asia's 25 Greatest Actors of All Time."〔(Hottest Men from HK Cinema ) CNN〕〔(Asia's 25 Greatest Actors of All Time ) CNNGo 4 March 2010〕 Cheung committed suicide on April 1, 2003 by jumping off the 24th floor of the Mandarin Oriental hotel in Hong Kong. A suicide note left by Cheung stated that he had been suffering from depression. ==Childhood== Cheung was born in Kowloon, Hong Kong, the youngest of ten children in a middle-class Hakka family. Cheung Wut Hoi, his father, was a fairly well known tailor, whose customers included American actors William Holden, Marlon Brando, and Cary Grant.〔Kevin Thomas, ("A Career In Full Plumet" ), ''Los Angeles Times'', 22 June 1997, page 6〕〔Michel Ciment, Hubert Niogret, "Interview of Leslie Cheung", Positif no. 455/1999, Berlin, conducted on 21 February 1998〕〔Chitose Shima, "Leslie Cheung Interview", ''All About Leslie'', pp. 25–40, Saangyo Henshu Center Co., Ltd., Tokyo, Japan, 1999, ISBN 4-916199-10-3〕 His parents divorced when he was quite young. While in Hong Kong, Cheung attended Rosaryhill School at Wanchai on Hong Kong Island. At age 12, he was sent to Norwich School in England. He worked as a bartender at his relatives' restaurant in Southend-on-Sea and sang during the weekends. It was around this period that he chose his name, ''Leslie''. According to Cheung, he chose this name because "I love the film ''Gone with the Wind''. And I like Leslie Howard."〔 In several interviews, Cheung stated he had had a fairly unhappy childhood. "I didn't have a happy childhood. Arguments, fights and we didn't live together; I was brought up by my granny."〔 "What I would say most affected me as a child, was that my parents were not at home with me. As a young kid, one could not always understand why his parents weren't at home. This made me depressed sometimes."〔Leslie Cheung, "Leslie Cheung Autobiography", Commercial Radio Hong Kong, 1985, (also collected in Album Collection History-His Story by Capital Artist, 2004), an English translation can be found in (here )〕 He attended the University of Leeds where he studied textile management. He continued university at the end of his first year when his father fell ill. After his father's recovery, Cheung did not return to England to complete his studies.〔〔Chitose Shima, "Leslie Cheung Interview", ''All About Leslie'', p25-43, Sangyo Henshu Center Co., Ltd., Tokyo, Japan, 1999, ISBN 4-916199-10-3〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Leslie Cheung」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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