| Andy Lau | |
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Chinese name |
劉德華 |
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Jyupting |
lau4 dak1 waa4 |
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Pinyin |
liú dé huá |
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Origin |
Hong Kong |
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Birth date |
September 27, 1961 (aged 62) |
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Birth place |
Tai Po, British Hong Kong |
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Genre(s) |
Cantopop |
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Voice type(s) |
Baritone |
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Label(s) |
Capital Artists (1985) |
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Years active |
1980–present |
Andy Lau Tak-wah (born September 27, 1961) is a Hong Kong actor and a popular Cantopop singer.
He has been one of Hong Kong's most commercially successful film actors since the mid-1980s, performing in more than 160 films while maintaining a successful singing career at the same time. In the 1990s, Lau was branded by the media as one of the Four Heavenly Kings of Cantopop.
Lau was entered into the Guinness World Records for the "Most Awards Won by a Cantopop Male Artist". By April 2000, he had already won a total unprecedented 292 awards. In 2005, Lau was awarded "No.1 Box office Actor 1985–2005" of Hong Kong, yielding a total box office of HK$1,733,275,816 for shooting 108 films in the past 20 years. In 2007, Lau was also awarded the "Nielsen Box Office Star of Asia" by the Nielsen Company (ACNielsen).
Discography[]
- 只知道此刻愛你 (Just Know I Only Love You) (May 29, 1985)
- 情感的禁區 (Emotionally Restricted) (April 21, 1987)
- 回到你身邊 (Back for You) (February 13, 1988)
- 劉德華 (Andy Lau) (May 1989)
- 可不可以 (Cannot) (May 1990)
- 再會了 (Farewell) (December 1990)
- 愛不完 (Neverending Love) (June 1991)
- 一起走過的日子 (The Days We Passed Together) (September 1991)
- 不可不信緣 (Unbelievable On Edge) (December 1991)
- 愛的空間 (Love and Space) (July 1992)
- 真我的風采 (Really My Style) (December 1992)
- 答案就是你 (The Answer is You) (July 1993)
- 愛意 (Meaning Love) (December 1993)
- The Best of Andy Lau (April 1994)
- 五時三十分 (5:30) (August 1994)