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{{quote|''He promenaded this otherness. It made him a star but obscured his talent. It is a gift to be beautiful; it is an art to know how to lend that beauty to a film character. An actor of commanding subtlety, Leslie rarely overstated an emotion because he knew what the camera saw: he knew the camera loved him.''|'''Richard Corliss'' on Leslie Cheung, ''[http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,441237,00.html#ixzz1oZ9OPcgE2003 To Fall from a Great Height]'' ([[Time (magazine)|Time Magazine]])}}
'''Leslie Cheung''' (張國榮) was a Hong Kong singer and actor who was very influential in the musical genre of [[w:Cantopop|Cantopop]]. He was named Asia's biggest male superstar in 2000 and ranked first as 'The most favorite actor in 100 years of Chinese cinema' in 2005.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20120210031830/http://www.allbusiness.com/retail-trade/miscellaneous-retail-retail-stores-not/4392792-1.html AllBusiness.com]</ref> In 2010, he was voted third of CNN's top five most iconic musicians of all time, only placing behind [[Michael Jackson]] and [[The Beatles (band)|The Beatles]].<ref>[http://edition.cnn.com/2010/SHOWBIZ/Music/08/24/music.icon.gallery/index.html#fbid=nVIn7HoUxgC&wom=false CNN]</ref>
Born in 1954, he entered the Hong Kong entertainment industry in 1977 and struggled through many hardships as a beginning singer/actor. It wasn't until 1984 that his popularity skyrocketed thanks to his hit song "Monica". Since then, Leslie became an instant teen heartthrob and the biggest pop idol of Hong Kong in the 1980s.
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