Jackson Wan Kwong ( zh, t=尹光), born Lữ Minh Quang ( zh, t=呂明光), is a singer from

Hong Kong Hong Kong)., Legally Hong Kong, China in international treaties and organizations. is a special administrative region of China. With 7.5 million residents in a territory, Hong Kong is the fourth most densely populated region in the wor ...

, nicknamed "the Temple Street Prince." Wan was born in Cholon,

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in 1949 to a Cantonese Vietnamese family and was trained as a

Cantonese opera Cantonese opera is one of the major categories in Chinese opera, originating in southern China's Guangdong Province. It is popular in Guangdong, Guangxi, Hong Kong, Macau and among Chinese communities in Southeast Asia. Like all versions of ...

singer. Wan left

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for

British Hong Kong Hong Kong was under British Empire, British rule from 1841 to 1997, except for a Japanese occupation of Hong Kong, brief period of Japanese occupation during World War II from 1941 to 1945. It was a crown colony of the United Kingdom from 1841 ...

with his family as the

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heated up. From the 1960s to the 1980s, he switched to

pop songs Pop Airplay (also called Mainstream Top 40, Pop Songs, and Top 40/ CHR) is a 40-song music chart published weekly by ''Billboard'' Magazine that ranks the most popular songs of pop music being played on a panel of Top 40 radio stations in the U ...

, whose lyrics, often in vulgar language, reflected the lives of the Hong Kong

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. Around the 1990s, he collaborated with other senior singers in Hong Kong, singing in pubs and on TV shows. He released an album called ''Ignoring Father'' (少理阿爸) in 2002 and still holds concerts occasionally.

Discography

* ''Hollywood Grand Hotel'' () * ''Counting Hair'' () * ''The Fortune Teller Tai Tset Sai'' (相士大隻西) * ''Ignoring Father'' () * ''Chasing the Dragon'' ()

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References

Cantopop artists Hoa people Vietnamese emigrants to Hong Kong Hong Kong people of Hoa descent Hong Kong male singers Living people 1949 births Musicians from Ho Chi Minh City {{HongKong-singer-stub