Aaron Kwok

Aaron Kwok
郭富城
Aaron Kwok at the Tokyo International Film Festival in 2019
Kwok in 2019
Born
Kwok Fu-shing

(1965-10-26) 26 October 1965 (age 59)
NationalityHong Kong Chinese
Other namesShing-Shing
CitizenshipHong Kong
EducationSt John's Co-education College
Occupations
  • Singer
  • dancer
  • actor
  • racing driver
Years active1984–present
OrganizationAaron Kwok International Charity Foundation (Chinese: 郭富城國際慈善基金會)(2000-present)
Spouse
Moka Fang
(m. 2017)
Children2 Daughters
Musical career
Genres
InstrumentVocals
LabelsUFO Record
(1990–1993)
Warner Music Group
(1993–2006)
Music Nation Group
(2006–2020)
Chinese name
Chinese郭富城
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinGuō Fùchéng
Yue: Cantonese
JyutpingGwok3 Fu3sing4
WebsiteFirst Strong Workshop Ltd (Aaron Kwok Management Co.)

Aaron Kwok Fu-shing (born 26 October 1965) is a Hong Kong singer, dancer, actor and racing driver, known as one of the "Four Heavenly Kings" and the "God of Dance".[1] Active since the 1980s, he has released over 30 studio albums in Cantonese and Mandarin, mostly in the dance-pop genre, with elements of rock, R&B, soul, electronica and traditional Chinese music.[2]

Concurrently with his music career, Kwok started as an actor with a role in the TVB television drama Genghis Khan (1987), followed by Twilight of a Nation (1988), Man from Guangdong (1991), Heartstrings (1994), and Wars of Bribery (1996). He gained widespread recognition in the movie Saviour of the Soul (1991), for which he was nominated for a Hong Kong Film Award for Best Supporting Actor. His notable films include Future Cops (1993), China Strike Force (2000), Divergence (2005), After This Our Exile (2006), Cold War (2012), Port of Call (2015), for which he received a Hong Kong Film Award for Best Actor, Cold War 2 (2016), and Project Gutenberg (2018).

  1. ^ Hail to the God of Dance Archived 12 January 2022 at the Wayback Machine 23 November 2007
  2. ^ "時尚創客". stylishmake. Archived from the original on 31 August 2018. Retrieved 20 March 2019.