A Tribute To...Leslie Cheung

In 2003, Hong Kong Entertainment would lose two of it's brightest stars, the King and Queen of the stage  Leslie Cheung and Anita Mui. This first installment of 'A Tribute To' will be for Leslie Cheung.  On the 1st of April 2003, Leslie Cheung would commit suicide by jumping from a balcony in the Mandarin Oriental Hotel located in the Central Distruct of the Hong Kong Island,  at 6:41pm (Hong Kong Time) suffering from Depression for some time, he was 46 years old at the time of his death.

A beautiful person who tragically 'traded his soul to the fates' unable to cope with his illness any longer, Leslie left a note before commiting suicide, a friend said that Leslie's 'beautiful face' had not been damaged despite the horrific fall that he suffered.

Leslie who was educated in the Eccles Hall School (a boarding school) in Britain six months later, he transferred himself to a school in Chelmsford and obtained a scholarship thus to support himself he starting singing in the weekends and working in a relatives bar, it was also during this time, Leslie chose his stage name 'Leslie' as he liked Gone With The Wind and also liked Leslie Howard, also this name was unisex, it could be a man or woman's name and Leslie liked this.

Leslie rise to fame was through a singing competition at an 'Asian Singing Contest' where he sang Don McLean's "American Pie" where he placed first runner up, he later signed a contract with Rediffusion Television.

However at the start of his career, Leslie was booed offstage, anyways, I don't want to focus on anything negative so I'm gonna say some good stuff about Leslie because he's a pretty awesome guy~ he was a flamboyant person with a warm and youthful kind of appearance, his mash up in one of his performances of 'Stand Up and Twist and Shout' is pretty cool! I really liked it, his long, waisted black hair that was swishy too is one of the reasons I liked the performance but yeah!

He was nicknamed Gor Gor which means 'older brother' in Cantonese, was such a wonderful character and looking at his performances and the way he spoke, it seems that he had such a long life to live.

 He had passed away at the tender age 46 years old, he had been suffering from depression for some time.

I truly hope his soul rests in peace~he is still touching the hearts of others with his music and his kindness during his life time~ 

Thank You for reading this, I hope I didn't make you too sad with this, he is an amazing person and can't be forgotten.

Credits: Wikipedia (Leslie Cheung's page for the introduction of this article)