William James Hung Hing Cheong (Traditional Chinese: 孔慶翔, Simplified Chinese: 孔庆翔, Cantonese
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: Hung2 Hing3 Cheung4,
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: Kǒng Qìngxiáng; born January 13, 1983), commonly known as
William Hung, is an American singer who gained fame in early 2004 as a result of his off-key audition performance of
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's hit song "
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" on the
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of the television series
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Originally from
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,
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, Hung moved to
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in 1993 and graduated from the
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in Los Angeles.
