Leehom Wang

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Wang Leehom was born in Rochester, New York, USA on May 17, 1976. His ancestral home is Yiwu, Zhejiang Province, China. He is a male singer, musician, actor and director of Chinese pop music. He holds a double honorary doctorate degree from Williams University and Berkeley Conservatory of music.

In 1995, he released his first album, Beethoven, and entered the performing arts circle. In 1998, he won the best Mandarin male singer award and the best record producer award in the 10th Taiwan Golden Melody Awards. In 2004, he won the best record producer award of the 15th Taiwan Golden Melody Award for his album "incredible". In 2005, he created the chinked out style in his album sun and moon in my heart. He won the best performance award of the 17th Taiwan hero album in 2006. In 2008, it was selected as one of the "80 most influential Asian Americans" by Goldsea. In 2017, he starred in the Music Documentary "full fire".

In 2000, he set foot in the film world with the action movie "thunder men". In 2007, he appeared in the drama Lust Caution. In 2010, he wrote, directed and acted in the love movie "love notice". In 2013, he played in the Hollywood movie "the fight of hackers" and signed CAA. In 2018, he won the best actor award of the 10th Macau International Film Festival for his youth love film "no questions".

Besides performing arts, Wang Leehom actively participated in social activities. In 2002, he served as the International Youth Ambassador of the United Nations Children's Fund. In 2003, he wrote the public service song hand in hand. He was the torch bearer of Beijing Olympic Games in 2008. In 2010, he served as the image ambassador of Taipei Pavilion of Shanghai World Expo. In 2011, he held talks with former Taiwan leader Ma Ying Jeou at Tsinghua University in Taiwan. He was the torchbearer of London Olympic Games in 2012. In 2013, he was invited to give a speech with the theme of "knowing Hualiu" at Oxford University. In 2019, he will sing the theme song "the fuel of peace" at the opening ceremony of the seventh world military games.

Early experience

In 1982, Wang began to learn the violin, and insisted on practicing six hours a day. In 1984, he began to study piano. In June 1988, he graduated from Pittsford elementary school and entered Pittsford Sutherland middle school in September.

In 1989, 13-year-old Wang Lee Hom wrote his first song; in the same year, he joined Rochester pilhaumonica young Orchestra and became a violinist of the orchestra; in April, he took part in the school musical once upon a mattress. In April 1990, he participated in the school musical "by Bye Birdie".

In 1991, Wang entered two high schools: Pittsford Sutherland high school, an orthodox public high school, and community education division of the Eastman School of music, which he attended after class and on weekends. In 1994, he passed the Eastman School of music violin examination and won an honorary award; in the same year, he graduated from high school with full SAT scores and won the scholarship for outstanding American students; in June, Wang was admitted to Yale University, Princeton University and Williams College at the same time, and finally he chose to study in Williams College. He majored in biology in his first year, then music and Asian studies. After receiving a bachelor's degree from Williams College, he received a double master's degree from Berkeley Conservatory of music.

Acting experience

High quality idol

In 1995, Wang Lee Hom, who went back to Taiwan to visit his family, entered the performing arts circle because he was discovered by a star scout. After watching his video, Li Jianfu, Wang's cousin, recommended him to Li Shouquan, a well-known music producer in Taiwan. From then on, Wang's development in Taiwan's pop music industry began. In the same year, he released his first album Beethoven; after the release of the album, he signed with Fumao records, and the company began to let Wang Lee Hom write his own songs.

In August 1996, he released his creative album "if you hear my song", which includes his six songs, including "call me a thousand times" with funky dance rhythm. In November, he won the best newcomer award of Minsheng Daily's top ten idols. On December 5, he released the album "miss you so much", and wrote songs "appointment of your love" and "Noah" for the album.

In 1997, he released his album "white paper", which includes five songs, including "I want to see you every second" and "exile missing". In addition, he is also responsible for the creation of opening music for universal TV.

All singer songwriter in transition

In 1998, he left Fumao record company and then joined Sony record company. Because Wang Leehom gained the freedom of music creation in Sony records, he began to transform into an all singer composer. In the same year, he released the album "gongzhuanzhuanzhuan". In addition to trying R & B style in the album, he also participated in music arrangement, harmony, song selection, photography, MV shooting and other work. The sales volume of the first week of the album exceeded 100000, and Wang Leehom also won attention in the Chinese music world by virtue of the album. In the next year, he won the top ten Record Award of the Chinese musicians Exchange Association and the best singer award of the 10th Taiwan Golden Melody Award As a result, Wang became the youngest "king of Golden Melody" in Taiwan's Golden Melody Awards.

In 1999, he held a solo concert in WorldTrade center, Malaysia. In June, he released the album "can't miss you", and participated in the creation and production of most of the songs. After the release of the album, he won the top ten excellent album award of the Chinese musicians Exchange Association, and the title song "can't miss you" of the same name won the top 20 song award of channel v. In July, a "can't miss Leehom Wang" concert was held at Taipei International Convention Center. In December, he wrote the song "love will never disappear" for Zhang Huimei. In the same year, he won the Singapore Golden Melody Award for best producer of the year.

In January 2000, he won the most promising new man award of the 22nd top ten Chinese Golden Songs and the gold award of male singer. In April of the same year, he was shortlisted for the best male singer award and the best composer award of Taiwan Golden Melody Award. In June, he released the album "the first day forever", which is the first independent and complete production of Wang Leehom. In addition to adding rock, jazz, R & B and other styles, he also combined American style with Taiwan pop style in the album. In the same year, Wang Leehom won the best male singer award of the 1st Malaysia Asian Golden Melody Award for his special collection, and the song "the dragon" in the album The next year, heiren won the best single award of cctv-mtv Music Festival in Taiwan. In July, a concert of "forever Leehom Wang" was held at Zhonghe sports ground in Taipei. In December, he played the role of tall, handsome and humorous security investigator tension in the police bandit action movie "thundermen", and was nominated for best new actor in the 20th Hong Kong Film Awards.

In September 2001, Wang Leehom released the album unique, which combines rock, blues, hip-hop and other music styles. In addition to being the producer of the album, he also arranged the composition and arrangement of all the songs. The main song unique is one of Wang Leehom's popular works. It has won the annual Hong Kong and Taiwan top 20 Golden Melody Awards in the 8th global Chinese language list and the 24th top 10 Chinese Golden Melody Awards Silver Award and other awards for the most popular Chinese songs in China. In November, the concert "the only one I love is you" was held. On December 17, the science fiction film "the God of boxing", CO starring with Hong Jinbao and Yang Gongru, was released. In the same year, he won the best songwriter award in the 1st Global Chinese songs list, the silver award for male singer in the 23rd national top ten Chinese Golden Songs Award, and other awards.

In 2002, he appeared on the stage of CCTV Spring Festival Gala and sang the song "beautiful new world" together with Yu Quan, Yi Ren Zao and arilang. Later, he wrote the song "that's not necessarily" for Mo Wenwei. On February 2, "Wang Leehom's incredible concert" was held in Hong Kong's Hung Hom gymnasium, and his representative works such as "revolution", "the only" were performed on the spot. On October 4, the album "evolution Wang Leehom's music evolution '95 -' 02 new songs + selection" was released, including two single songs "w-h-y" and "two people are not equal to us". On October 12, "incredible Singapore Concert" was held in Singapore Expo Center. In the same year, he and Lu qiaoyin sang the song "good hearted breakup".

In May 2003, he released his first Japanese album "the only one". In July, the drama "Moonlight Ranger", starring Hyde and GACKT, was released. In September, he won the most popular songwriter in the 3rd global Chinese song list. On October 11, he released the Mandarin album "incredible". Most of the songs in the album were composed and arranged by Wang Leehom independently. He is writing this album It uses a variety of musical elements, adds jazz and rap to hip hop, and adds hip to the melody with R & B as the keynote

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