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Leslie Cheung Kwok Wing (Traditional Chinese: 張國榮; Simplified Chinese: 张国荣; pinyin: Zhāng Guóróng, WG: Chang Kuo-jung) (September 12, 1956 - April 1, 2003) was a Cantopop singer and the star of several Hong Kong movies. His fans passionately called him
Gor-gor (哥哥, "elder brother" in Cantonese), started by Joey Wong when they co-starred in A Chinese Ghost Story.
He was born the youngest of 10 children. His parents divorced when he was quite young. He studied at Leeds University in northern England although he never graduated from Leeds University as he was forced to return to Hong Kong after a family mishap. In 1976 he took second prize at ATV Asian Music Contest. He signed on at the Rediffusion Television (then also known as RTV, now known as Asia Television, ATV) and his career took off. In a self-confessed statement made in a radio broadcast of a an autobiography of himself made in 1985 he admitted that he had a reasonably tough childhood.
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