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Long live the kings
Singer-actors Andy Lau, Jacky Cheung, Aaron Kwok and Leon Lai emerged at a specific cultural period, during the "golden age" of Cantopop in the early 1990s, and have been feted for their longevity in show business
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Thirty years ago, a newspaper branded four popular Hong Kong male singers as "Heavenly Kings" - and the label stuck.
Jacky Cheung, Andy Lau, Aaron Kwok and Leon Lai were individual artistes - not a band or musical group - but Oriental Daily News anointed them the Four Heavenly Kings of Cantopop, owing to their throngs of ardent fans.
