Jacky Cheung launches world tour with Beijing shows

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Singer Jacky Cheung performs on stage. [Photo provided to China Daily]

Hong Kong pop icon Jacky Cheung presented three shows in Beijing over the weekend, kicking off his world tour, A Classic Tour of Jacky Cheung.

With a 32-member orchestra and 30 dancers, the 55-year-old performed around 40 songs, which he selected from his repertoire going back to the 1990s.

Cheung, who has sold more than 60 million albums worldwide, has also appeared in dozens of films that have been well received both by audiences and critics.

His last tour, titled Jacky Cheung 1/2 Century World Tour which was a reference to his age then, was four years ago.

The tour led to a Guinness World Records' entry for the largest combined audience for a live act in a year — from December 2010 to December 2011 — with more than 140 shows in 61 cities in China, the United States, Singapore, Malaysia and Australia drawing more than 2 million people.

Canto pop star Cheung, who started his career after winning a singing contest in 1984, is called a "heavenly king" by his followers. The other "heavenly kings" are Andy Lau, Leon Lai and Aaron Kwok

Between late October and November, Cheung will tour the mainland — Chongqing, Shenzhen, Guangzhou, Shanghai and Wuhan — and then stage 23 shows in Hong Kong in December.

In February 2017, he will do six shows in Taipei.

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