Adam Cheng

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Adam Cheng

Chinese name 鄭少秋 (Traditional)
Chinese name 郑少秋 (Simplified)
Pinyin Zhèng Shàoqiū (Mandarin)
Jyutping Zeng6 Siu3 Cau1 (Cantonese)
Birth name Cheng Chong-sai (鄭創世)
Origin Hong Kong
Born February 24, 1947 (1947-02-24) (age 61)
Hong Kong
Occupation Actor, Singer
Genre(s) Cantopop
Instrument(s) Singing
Children Cheng On Yee, Joyce Cheng Yan Yee, Cecily Cheng Wing Hei, Winnie Cheng Wing Yan

Adam Cheng Siu-Chow (born February 24, 1947 in Hong Kong) is a popular TVB actor and singer in Hong Kong.

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Career history

He started his career in the 1970s, where he gained a reputation for being the suave leading man in wuxia drama series made by TVB. Many of these are based on novels by Louis Cha and Gu Long. He often sang the theme songs of the TV dramas he starred in, such as The Greed of Man, Cold Blood Warm Heart and Chor Lau Heung. Many of these series are considered classics. Recently, he played a role in The Driving Power, he sang the theme song in this one also.

He has a total of four daughters. The first one, Cheng On Yee was from a low profile marriage that ended in divorce. He married Lydia Shum in 1985 after 14 years of courtship. They had a daughter, Joyce Cheng Yan Yee in 1987, but they divorced just eight months after she was born.[1] In 1989, he remarried and had another two daughters, Winnie Cheng Wing Yan and Cecily Cheng Wing Hei.

He has continued acting in TV series by TVB today and is considered one of the most enduringly popular actors of the company.

The Ding Hai Effect

In the 1990s, TVB aired the classic drama The Greed of Man, which centred heavily around the stock market, and the schemes and plots of those who struck it rich in the market. Cheng's character in the drama, Ding Hai, made an immense fortune by short selling derivatives and stocks during a bear market. Many people went broke, but the Ding family became richer and richer until an eventual defeat by the family's nemesis.

Cheng is associated with the Ding Hai Effect, a peculiar and unexplained phenomenon that apparently causes a drop in global stock markets whenever he stars in a new TV show. No reason is given for this effect, and it has been a popular topic amongst stock brokers years after the drama series was broadcast in Hong Kong in 1993.

Discography

  • 愛人結婚了(1971)
  • 紫色的戀情 (1972)
  • 莫把愛情玩弄 (1972)
  • 煙雨濛濛 (1973)
  • 秋哥有錢 (1974)
  • 紫釵記 (1975)
  • 洛神·同屋共主 (1975)
  • 伴侶 (1975)
  • 天涯孤客 (1976)
  • 寶蓮燈 (1976)
  • 留住了歡笑 (1977)
  • 江山美人 (1977)
  • 歡樂年年 (1977)
  • 倚天屠龍記 (1978)
  • 陸小鳳 (1978)
  • 合唱精選(1978)
  • 一劍鎮神州 (1979)
  • 心思思-旅美演唱歌曲精選(1979)
  • 楚留香(1979)
  • 輪流傳·名劍 (1980)
  • 粤語流行曲精選 (1981)
  • 流氓皇帝 (1981)
  • 烽火飛花 (1981)
  • 飛鷹 (1981)
  • 富貴榮華 (1982)
  • 新蜀山劍俠 (1983)
  • 夾心人·火燒圓園 (1983)
  • 勁歌 (1984)
  • 有求必應 (1986)
  • 秋意 (1988)
  • 鄭少秋精選 (1992)
  • 大時代 (1993)
  • 笑看風云 (1995)
  • 天大地大 (1995)
  • 男人四十一頭家 (1995)
  • 天涯孤客 (1997)
  • 最佳友情人 (1999)
  • 鄭少秋世紀之選 (2001)
  • 金禧經典 (2002)
  • 歡樂年年(賀年專輯) (2004)
  • 楚漢驕雄·血薦軒轅(鄭少秋主題曲集) (2004)
  • 家傳戶曉演唱會2005 (2005)

Filmography

Films

TV Series

1970 - 1980

NOTE: Most of the series mentioned where shown on the TVB Jade network

1980 - 1990

  • Five Easy Pieces (1980)
  • Odd Couple (1980)
  • Brothers Four (1981)
  • In Love and War (1981)
  • The Hawk (1981)
  • The Misadventure of Zoo (1981)
  • The Switch (1982)
  • The Sandwich Man (1983)
  • "The New Adventures of Chu Liuxiang (Chor Lau Heung)" (for Taiwan's China TV network, 1985-1988; a weekly wuxia serial)
  • Legendary of Wud (1986)
  • The Legend of Wong Tai Sin (Huang Daxian) (1986)
  • Fate Takes a Hand (1987)
  • Behind Silk Curtains (1988)
  • Final Verdict (1988)
  • Kuet Gin Wong Shing (Challenge of the Imperial Palace) (1988)

1990 - 2000

  • "Chronicles of Emperor Qianlong (Xi Shuo Qian Long)" (China TV, 1991)
  • The Greed of Man (1993)
  • Instinct (1994)
  • "The Legend of Chu Liuxiang (Xiang Shuai Zhuan Ji)" (TTV, 1995) with Taiwanese Opera actress Yarlane Chen Ya-lan as co-stars
  • Forty Something (1994)
  • Cold Blood Warm Heart (1995)
  • The Legendary Chin Lung II (1995)
  • Once Upon a Time in Shanghai (1996)

2000 - Current

  • Blade Heart (2004)
  • The Conqueror's Story (2004)
  • The Princes Shadow (2005)
  • Bar Bender (2006)
  • Inside the Forbidden City (2006)
  • Return in Glory (China) (2007)

References

  1. ^ "與鄭少秋一笑泯恩仇 肥肥打算退出娛樂圈". Xinhua News Agency (2007-06-11). Retrieved on 2007-06-14.

External links

Awards
Preceded by
Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra		 Golden Needle Award of RTHK Top Ten Chinese Gold Songs Award
2006		 Succeeded by
Teresa Carpio
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