Wang Leehom (Pop Singer) – Overview, Biography

Name:Wang Leehom
Occupation: Pop Singer
Gender:Male
Birth Day: May 17,
1976
Age: 44
Birth Place: Rochester,
United States
Zodiac Sign:Taurus

Wang Leehom

Wang Leehom was born on May 17, 1976 in Rochester, United States (44 years old). Wang Leehom is a Pop Singer, zodiac sign: Taurus. Nationality: United States. Approx. Net Worth: $100 Million.

Trivia

As an actor, he starred in Ang Lee‘s Lust, Caution as well as the film Little Big Soldier, co-starring Jackie Chan. He also wrote, directed, scored, and starred in the film Love in Disguise.

Net Worth 2020

$100 Million
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Before Fame

He first came to prominence when he was 19 years old. Between then and 2015, he released 15 solo albums and contributed to dozens more.

Biography

Biography Timeline

1996

In the summer of 1995, while Wang was visiting his grandparents in Taiwan, he was offered a professional recording contract by Bertelsmann Music Group (BMG) after he participated in a talent competition hosted by the label. Not wanting to lose the opportunity, he immediately began preparing for his debut, and released his debut album Love Rival, Beethoven (情敌贝多芬) that December. The record received little limelight, forcing him to leave the label. He signed with Decca Records the following year, a label then famous for producing “powerful singers” (實力派歌手) in Taiwan. Wanting to also have control in the idol market, the label initially planned to market Wang as the mainstream “romantic idol”, like with their previous artist Mavis Fan. However, after discovering Wang’s talent in music-making, Decca began promoting him as Taiwan’s “quality idol” (優質偶像) instead. Wang released his second album If You Heard My Song in 1996, which included some of his own compositions. He co-wrote the album’s eponymous title song, which earned positive responses from the audience. The album drew moderately successful sales, and he became a rising star in the idol market, also finding similar successes with his third and fourth albums. During this time, Wang was asked to leave his college studies to pursue a full-time singing career, but he insisted on finishing school first.

1998

Wang’s contract with Decca Records was terminated after the release of his fourth album White Paper in the summer of 1997. After graduating with honors at Williams College, he released his first award-winning album Revolution under Sony Music Entertainment in August 1998. The album became his breakthrough album, immediately selling over 10,000 domestic units in the first week of release. Critics rated the album highly, and it won Wang two Golden Melody Awards—Best Producer and Best Mandarin Male Singer. He was the youngest artist to win in either of the two categories. Wang has been nominated the Best Mandarin Male Singer at the awards every year since the success of Revolution. The singles of Revolution also achieved similar success–”Revolution” became Wang Leehom’s first No. 1 single, becoming one of the top 20 songs of the year on Channel V Taiwan.

1999

He continued his studies by attending Berklee College of Music’s Professional Music program, with voice as his principal instrument. In 1999, Wang released his sixth album Impossible to Miss You, which combined the catchy pop melodies of Revolution with a quirky style of new-found dance-pop. It became his then best-selling album, selling over 1 million copies. All of the album’s promotional singles topped KTV charts and yearly music charts, including the upbeat “Julia” and the ballad “Crying Palm”. His album also attracted international attention–Wang won three Best Male Vocalist awards at three different award ceremonies and was also awarded for his musical merit in the album at the 1st annual Asia Chinese Music Awards.

2000

Wang had displayed interest in acting when he starred in several musical plays when he was in high school and college. In 2000, he made his feature film debut in the Hong Kong action crime thriller, China Strike Force, starring alongside Aaron Kwok, Norika Fujiwara, and Ruby Lin. Hong Kong critics had remarked Wang for giving a well-toned performance as his first film. His next starring role was the 2001 Hong Kong science fiction film The Avenging Fist as the main character Nova. He then starred in two Japanese films Moon Child (2003) and Starlit High Noon (2005).

2003

Wang’s next album, The One and Only (2001), received phenomenal international success. Selling over 1 million units in Asia, the rock-inspired album won him over seven different prestigious awards throughout 2001 and 2002. The album’s title single “The One and Only” peaked No. 1 in almost all available music charts of Taiwan and was on the Ringback Tone No. 1 Download Charts for over a year, becoming his signature song. The One and Only also found success in Japan, opting him to release his first full-length Japanese album The Only One on May 9, 2003. The album only promoted one single, a Japanese version of “The One and Only”, but it did not meet success on Japan’s Oricon Charts. Wang also began filming several Japanese films, establishing his rising star status in Japan.

Wang is also recognized for his effort and financial contributions to charity. He is active with Worldvision and has visited Laos and Sierra Leone in the last couple of years to raise awareness about the state of poverty in those countries. He personally sponsors over 20 underprivileged children throughout the world with NGO World Vision and frequently participates in the much needed fund-raising campaigns for disaster relief such as the massive earthquake at Sichuan (2008) and Typhoon Morakot in Taiwan (2009). In 2003, he and David Tao composed a song titled Hand in Hand (sung by over 80 celebrities in Taiwan) to promote support and courage to those affected by SARS.

2004

Eager to experience and perform different musical genres, Wang embarked on his first Asia-wide concert tour The Unbelievable Tour a few months before the release of his ninth album Unbelievable (2003). His concert tour received great reviews from both fans and music critics; they were impressed and shocked with his new-found hip hop image. His R&B/hip hop-inspired album Unbelievable involved new urban pop numbers, drawing hip hop influences from different styles of popular music, such as Indipop and urban pop. The album marked a milestone in his musical career; his new image received international critical acclaim and the album a chart-topping success, selling over 1.5 million units by 2004. A celebratory version of the album was released three months later, also becoming a chart-topping album. The album’s ballad “You’re Not Here” also experienced international success, ranking No. 1 on several music charts for over 10 weeks. Unbelievable yielded his second win for Best Producer of the Year at the Golden Melody Awards in 2004.

Since 2004, Wang became known for his brand of China Wind music, known as “chinked-out”. Having established himself as one of the most important, influential, and prolific artists in Chinese music, Wang continued to invent and experiment with new sounds and voices. For most of 2004, he traveled to remote villages in China, collecting often unheard tribal sounds of aboriginal Chinese music, Tibetan music, and Mongolian music. With his younger brother Leekai as his assistant, they carried 15 kg of music equipment as he recorded these sounds, recording and producing his album on the way. He incorporated these sounds into R&B and hip hop music, coining the style as “chinked-out.” Despite the derogatory nature of the term “chink,” Wang had wanted to repossess the term and “make it cool.” Shangri-La was released on the last day of 2004, selling 40,000 copies within the first ten days of release. Shangri-La became an international music sensation, especially catching the attention of many youths in Asia. Within a month, the album sold over 300,000 copies, ultimately selling over 1.5 million units.

2006

Three months after the release of Heroes of Earth, he began the Heroes of Earth Tour, his first major world tour. The concert commenced with two shows per night in the Taipei Dome in March 2006, breaking Taiwan’s concert attendance records.

2007

Wang took a break in working on his music to film Lust, Caution (2007), an espionage thriller film directed by Ang Lee. He released a promotional single “Falling Leaves Return to Roots” on June 20, 2007 through Hito Radio, a month before the release of his twelfth studio album, Change Me. “Falling Leaves Return to Roots” incorporated Broadway-influenced musical elements, with classical instrumental accompaniments, such as the violin and piano. When asked about the sudden change of music style, Wang explained that the inspiration behind the song was due to the influence of his portrayal of Kuang Yumin in Lust, Caution. “In the past, I have only been releasing mainstream pop and chinked-out related hip hop. Lust, Caution made me return to 1930’s Shanghai, re-living the moment.”

The major breakthrough in his film career was in Lust, Caution, directed and produced by Academy Award-winner Ang Lee. The film is based on a novella written by Eileen Chang and revolves around a plot to assassinate a high-ranking Chinese official in the Wang Jingwei Government using a beautiful young woman as bait. Wang plays Kuang Yumin, a patriotic college student who persuades Wong Chia-chi (Tang Wei) to seduce Mr. Yee (Tony Leung). The film was released in the US cinemas on September 28, 2007. Lust, Caution was produced on a budget of approximately $15 million and grossed $64,574,876 worldwide.

2008

In August 2008, Wang sought US$320,000 in damages for plagiarism by Pritam, an Indian composer. The lead song for the movie Race (2008), composed by Pritam, was allegedly copied from “In the Depths of the Bamboo Forest,” a single taken off from Wang Leehom’s Shangri-La album. In November 2008, Wang was selected to conduct the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra for their 2008 annual grand finale, being the first Asian pop musician to conduct the orchestra. The concert Hong Kong Music, Leehom Wang (港樂‧王力宏) was held in the Hong Kong Cultural Centre for three nights, with four shows, receiving CNN International coverage throughout.

Wang embarked on his second world tour, the MUSIC-MAN Tour, in the latter months of 2008. The tour commenced with two shows per night in the Taipei Dome in September 2008, three months before the release of Wang’s thirteenth studio album, Heart Beat. Heart Beat was released on December 26, debuting at No. 3 on the weekly G-Music charts. The album peaked at No. 1 on its seventh week of release, ultimately staying on the charts for 17 weeks. Like Wang’s previous album, Heart Beat showed a similar emphasis of rock influences. The album largely focused on guitar and electric guitar solos, which Wang also used for performances in most of the album’s music videos. Wanting to continue a similar “chinked-out” element, the album’s first single, “What’s Up with Rock?!” incorporated rock influences with Chinese flavor. For the track, he worked with pipa artist Liu Fang, and the two concentrated on mixing both electric guitar elements and pipa strings into the song.

Another reason he was chosen is due to Wang’s enthusiasm in the 2008 Olympic Games Theme Songs Competition. His single “One World One Dream” was chosen as an Olympic Games participation song. The single was written, sung, produced, and scored entirely by himself. He sang along with Jackie Chan, Stephanie Sun, and Han Hong in the song for “The One Man Olympics” which was about the first Chinese to be in the Olympics. He also sang in the 100 days countdown theme song “Beijing Welcomes You”. He also sang alongside Stefanie Sun, Wang Feng, and Jane Zhang in the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games Torch Relay theme song “Light the Passion, Share the Dream”. He is also one of the candidates on vote for performer of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games theme song. In the closing ceremony, he sang “Beijing Beijing, I Love Beijing” alongside Hong Kong singer Kelly Chen and Korean singer Rain.

2009

In 2009, Wang was selected to star with Jackie Chan in Little Big Soldier.

2010

In 2010, Wang stepped behind the camera to direct and star in, Love in Disguise (Chinese: 戀愛通告; pinyin: Liàn ài tōng gào), also starring Liu Yifei and Joan Chen. Love in Disguise went on to become the highest-grossing film for a first-time director in Chinese history grossing over 60,000,000 RMB domestically.

2011

On April 15, 2011, Wang Leehom took home the Best Male Singer (Hong Kong and Taiwan region), Best Album for The 18 Martial Arts, and Best Newcomer Director Award for his directorial debut, Love in Disguise at the Global Chinese Music Awards.

On September 7, 2011, it was announced that Wang hired Wong Fu Productions to direct his upcoming music video.

2012

On November 30, 2012, Wang received the 2012 MAMA (Mnet Asian Music Awards) for “Best Asian Artist”.

On December 2, 2012, Wang Leehom surpassed actress Yao Chen to become the Chinese with most Weibo (the most popular micro-blog in China) fans.

In 2012, on World Vision Malaysia’s 15th Anniversary, Wang was named as the 30-Hour Famine Ambassador. In 2019, he is once again named Ambassador Of World Vision Malaysia

Since 2012, Wang has been starting almost every year by holding a free show for his fans. The shows are usually held in an intimate setting with him and a small band in different cities every year, and tickets are given away free-of-charge on a first-come-first-served basis. The annual show has been held in the following cities:

2013

On April 21, 2013, Wang became the first Chinese singer invited to speak at Oxford Union at the University of Oxford.

In July 2013, Wang was announced to be starring in an adaptation of Stan Lee’s Annihilator. The film is a co-production between Magic Storm Entertainment, who partners with Stan Lee’s POW! Entertainment banner and the Chinese state-run National Film Capital.

On November 27, 2013, Wang married Taiwanese girlfriend, Lee Jinglei. The couple has two daughters, Wang Jiali, born July 2014, and Wang Jiana, born October 2016.

2017

February 27, 2017, Madame Toussauds revealed Wang’s wax statue in their Beijing museum.

🎂 Upcoming Birthday

Currently, Wang Leehom is 45 years, 4 months and 7 days old. Wang Leehom will celebrate 46th birthday on a Tuesday 17th of May 2022.

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