Wang Leehom

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Wang Leehom (born May 17, 1976), also known as Leehom Wang, is a Chinese-American singer-songwriter, actor, and film director.

His musical style, which he studied at the Eastman School of Music, Williams College, and Berklee College of Music, is known for mixing Chinese elements (such as Beijing opera, traditional ethnic minority groups, and Chinese classical orchestras) with hip-hop and R&B.

Wang debuted in 1995 and has since released more than 25 albums, with total sales of over 50 million copies.

He has also been a four-time winner and 19-time nominee of Taiwan's Golden Melody Awards, the "Grammys" of Chinese music.

His sold-out performance at the 90,000 seats Beijing Bird's Nest on April 14, 2012, was the first solo pop concert to be held at the historic venue.

Both Williams College and Berklee have honorary doctoral degrees.

He is one of China's most followed celebrities (peaked as the top most followed celebrity on social media in 2014). Wang performed in a number of films, including Ang Lee's Lust, Caution, Jackie Chan's Little Big Soldier, and Michael Mann's Blackhat, in addition to his music.

He is an environmental campaigner, and his album Change Me was dedicated to increasing eco-awareness among Chinese youth.

Wang was one of the first torchbearers for the Beijing 2008 Summer Olympics, and he appeared in Beijing's closing ceremony.

He was once more a torchbearer for the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, making him the only one in the Mandarin pop circle to have participated in the performance twice.

He has been a long-serving Asian ambassador for World Vision Taiwan and has been named as one of Goldsea's "Top 100 Most Influential Asian Americans of All Time" by the emperor.

CNN dubbed him "King of Chinese Pop" in April 2018. Wang Leehom received his first Best Actor award at the 2018 Golden Lotus Awards in Macau, presented by the Macau Film and Television Media Association and China's National Cultural Communication Center on December 21, 2018.

Personal life

Wang identified as a Christian during a Q&A session at Oxford University. He did not say if he adhered to any particular faith or not.

Wang married Lee Jinglei () on November 27, 2013 in Taiwanese. Lee grew up in a Japanese-Taiwanese family and was known by the name Michiko Nishimura when she first attended Dominican International School in Taipei. Lee is her mother's surname. Wang Jiali and Wang Jiana were married in July 2014 and Wang Jiana were born in October 2016, and Wang Jiayao was born in August 2018.

Wang declared on December 16, 2021, that they are divorced and filing for divorce. Lee began posting a series of allegations against Wang on Instagram and Sina Weibo, alleging serial infidelity, solicitation of prostitutes, verbal harassment, bullying, and having underaged sex with her when she was 16 years old. Lee's posts shocked the internet, especially Wang's fanbase, and they were watched over 3.3 billion times on Weibo. Wang said he was being smeared by Lee and denied all allegations of infidelity and underage sex, with evidence included, including a snapshot of the couple's first e-mail exchange, which was dated 2011, indicating that they were not intimate when she was a child, as Lee said. Vivian Hsu and Yumi Bai, who Lee accused Wang of being Wang's mistresses during her marriage to Wang, and Wang's wife, Wang, have both taken legal action against Lee. Several official statements in the case denied the charges by Hsu's lawyers. Yumi Bai sued Lee for defamation. Lee replied, refuing some of Wang's arguments. Wang later expressed sorrow for not handling his marriage as a public figure, adding that he would move the house to Lee and announced that he would temporarily leave the entertainment industry. Lee retaliated after Wang's apology and said she did not get a sincere apology before deciding that children needs honest and reliable parents who can address their problems and change instead of perfect parents, and she was not out for the money. Lee concluded with a general apology to "innocent parties" who were "dragged into the story. After Lee failed to obey multiple orders from the Supreme Court of New York to allow Wang to see his children, Wang Leehom and Jinglei Lee are now suing each other for custody of their three children, which was later dismissed due to jurisdictional conflicts. The ex-couple's custody dispute has since erupted to Taiwan.

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Life and music career

Wang, who was born in Rochester, New York, is the second of three sons of Taiwan's two sons. In the early 1960s, his father, a pediatrician, and his mother moved to the United States to continue their college studies. When Wang's older brother, Leo Wang, who had been playing violin lessons since he was seven, started to get a keen interest in the violin and its musical cousins when he was three years old. He begged his mother to enroll him in violin lessons with his brother, but his mother refused because he was too young. When Wang was six years old, his mother took him to violin lessons, teaching alongside his brother. He started teaching himself piano lessons as he became a teenager. He also worked in order to save money to buy a second hand drum kit.

He attended Jefferson Road Elementary School, Pittsford Middle School, and Pittsford Sutherland High School in Pittsford, New York. He graduated from Pittsford, Sutherland. He aspired for a career in music, and so did Williams College double majoring in music and Asian studies. The Springstreeters, an all-male cappella band, has been active in the scene for several demo tracks.

Wang was visiting his grandparents in Taiwan in the summer of 1995 when he was accepted by Bertelsmann Music Group (BMG) for his professional recording contract after participating in a talent competition hosted by the label. Not wanting to miss out on his chance, he immediately started preparing for his debut and also published his debut album Love Rival Beethoven () in December. The record received no attention, leading him to abandon the brand. The following year, he signed with Decca Records, a Taiwan company that was then known for making "powerful singers" (). The label intending to have a hand in the idol trade, like with Mavis Fan's previous artist Wang, is set to market Wang as the mainstream "romantic idol." However, Decca began promoting Wang as Taiwan's "quality idol" after he was discovered. () In 1996, Wang released If You Heard My Song, which featured some of his own compositions. He co-wrote the album's eponymous title song, which received overwhelmingly positive feedback from the audience. The album attracted modestly positive sales, and he became a rising star in the idol business, with his third and fourth albums having similar success. During this period, Wang was asked to abandon his college studies to pursue a full-time singing career, but he maintained that finishing school came first.

Wang's recording deal with Decca Records was ended after the introduction of his fourth album White Paper in the summer of 1997. He received his first award-winning album Revolution under Sony Music Entertainment in August 1998 after graduating with honors at Williams College. In the first week of release, the album became his breakthrough, with over 10,000 domestic units selling within days. Critics rated the album highly, and Wang received two Golden Melody Awards—Best Producer and Best Mandarin Male Singer— for Wang. He was the youngest artist to win in either of the two categories. Since the success of Revolution, Wang has been named the Best Mandarin Male Singer at the awards every year. The singles of Revolution had similar success — "Revolution" became Wang Leehom's first No. 1 in terms of Wang Leehom's first No. On Channel V Taiwan, the one single became one of the year's top 20 hits.

He continued his education by enrolling in Berklee College of Music's Professional Music program, with voice as his principal instrument. Wang's sixth album Impossible to Miss You, which combined the catchy pop melodies of Revolution with a modern dance-pop look. It was his then best-selling album, despite the fact that it has sold more than 100,000 copies. All of the album's promotional singles reached top KTV charts and annual music charts, including the upbeat "Julia" and the ballad "Crying Palm." His album attracted international attention as well as three Best Male Vocalist awards at three separate award ceremonies, as well as for his contribution to the album at the 1st annual Asia Chinese Music Awards.

Wang started filming for several Cantonese-language blockbusters, which inspired him to learn the Cantonese language at the start of the millennium. In the Hong Kong relaunch of Forever's First Day (2000), his seventh album, he included a Cantonese track named "Love My Song." Forever's First Day was mainly composed of melodic R&B songs, unlike his previous two albums. The album's eponymous single is a tragic love story about a couple's breakup. Although raised in New York for the majority of his life, Wang's stay in Taiwan made him understand the Chinese roots of his ethnic roots. A cover of his uncle's "Descendants of the Dragon" was found on Forever's First Day, and Wang rearranged the album with more rock and dance elements. In addition, the album featured a rap bridge that recapped his parents' lives as a Chinese American in New York.

The One and Only (2001), Wang's next album, received worldwide recognition. The rock-inspired album, which has sold over 1 million units in Asia, has been nominated for seven prestigious awards from 2001 to 2002. The album's title track "The One and Only" debuted at No. 1. In nearly all available music charts of Taiwan, one of them was on the Ringback Tone No. 1. 1 Download Charts has been on the rise for more than a year, with his most popular song being “one-year”. The One and Only One found success in Japan, prompting him to debut his first full-length Japanese album The Only One on May 9, 2003. The album only featured one single, a Japanese version of "The One and Only," but it did not succeed on Japan's Oricon Charts. Wang began filming several Japanese films, establishing his rising stardom in Japan.

Wang embarked on his first Asia-wide concert tour The Unbelievable Tour debuted just a few months before he pressed his ninth album Unbelievable (2004), eager to try out new musical styles. Both fans and music critics were raving over his concert tour; they were both impressed and stunned by his latest hip hop celebrity. Unbelievable, his R&B/hip hop-inspired album, attracted new urban pop audiences from various styles of popular music, such as Indipop and urban pop. The album marked a turning point in his musical career, receiving international recognition and the album a chart-topping success, with over 1.5 million units sold by 2004. Three months later, a commemoration of the album was released, with it also becoming a chart-topping hit. The album's ballad "You're Not Here" achieved international recognition, earning No. 1 position. For more than ten weeks, the first on several music charts has ranked no. 1 on several charts. At the Golden Melody Awards in 2004, Unbelievable returned his second award for Best Producer of the Year.

Wang, who is best known for his brand of China Wind music, is known as "chinked-out" since 2004. Wang, who has established himself as one of China's most influential, influential, and prolific performers, continues to invent and experiment with new sounds and voices. He went to remote villages in China to collect often unheard tribal sounds of aboriginal Chinese music, Tibetan music, and Mongolian music. As he recorded these sounds, recording, and releasing his album on the way, he and his younger brother Leekai as his assistant. He turned these sounds into R&B and hip hop music, coining the style as "chinked-out." Wang wanted to repossess the word and "make it cool" despite the derogatory nature of the term "chink." Shangri-La was launched on the last day of 2004 and has sold 40,000 copies within the first ten days of being introduced. Shangri-La became a worldwide music sensation, particularly in Asia, where many youths are particularly interested. The album has sold over 300,000 copies in less than a month, and has since been selling over 1.5 million units.

Wang continued to infuse chinked-out elements into his forthcoming album Heroes of Earth (2005). Heroes of Earth featured a blend of Beijing opera and Kunqu, unlike the aboriginal tribal music heard in Shangri-La. He collaborated with Ashin of Mayday ("Beside the Plum Blossoms"), Chinese American rapper Jin ("Heroes of Earth"), and local K-pop musician Rain and Lim Jeong-hee ("Perfect Interaction"), as follows the concept of "heroes." Heroes of Earth was the best-selling album of both 2005 and 2006, releasing over 1 million copies ten days after it was announced. The album remained at No. 1 afterwards. For six weeks, No. 1 was in the charts for six weeks, and the second longest selling album in 2006 was No. 2. Around 3 million units were sold by 2007, and Wang's most commercially and financially successful album has since been released. For the second time, Wang was given a Golden Melody Award for Best Mandarin Male Singer.

He began the Heroes of Earth Tour, his first major world tour, three months after the initial launch of Heroes of Earth. In March 2006, the Taipei Dome opened with two shows per night, tying Taiwan's concert attendance records.

Wang took a break from filming Lust, Caution (2006), an espionage thriller film directed by Ang Lee, a man who took a break from acting on his music to film Lust, Caution (2007). "Falling Leaves Return to Roots" was released on Hito Radio on June 20, 2007, a month before the unveiling of his twelfth studio album, Change Me. "Falling Leaves Return to Roots" combined Broadway-influenced musical styles with classical instrument accompaniments, such as the violin and piano. When asked about the sudden change in music style, Wang explained that the inspiration behind the song came from his portrayal of Kuang Yumin in Lust, Caution. "I have only been releasing mainstream pop and chinked-out hip hop in the past." Lust, Caution made me return to 1930s Shanghai, re-living the moment."

Change Me was published on Friday, July 13, despite the fact that the superstition had a corresponding date of Friday the 13th. Change Me focuses on pop rock, with elements of Broadway ("Falling Leaves Return to Roots") and old-school Taiwanese pop ("You Are a Song in My Heart" among his previous albums. He promoted global warming and raised environmental consciousness through this album. The album's packing was made from only recycled paper and no plastic. Small changes made by each individual could change the world, according to him. "You begin with changing yourself to change the world." The album's receptions were generally favorable, with some describing the album as "mature." Wang's album did not live up to expectations, according to an online album survey conducted by Sohu, China's Sohu. Netizens expressed surprise that his chinked-out productions were more impressive, though the entire genre has been criticized. Nonetheless, over 1 million units were delivered on the first day of launch. The album reached 2 million units, becoming one of Wang's best-selling albums.

Wang owed Pritam, an Indian composer, US$320,000 in fees for plagiarism in August 2008. Pritam's lead song for Race (2008) was reportedly copied from "In the Depths of the Bamboo Forest," a single taken from Wang Leehom's Shangri-La album. Wang was selected to conduct the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra in 2008 for their 2008 annual grand finale, becoming the first Asian pop musician to conduct the orchestra. Leehom Wang () of Hong Kong was present at the Hong Kong Cultural Centre for three nights, with four performances and CNN International coverage throughout.

In the waning months of 2008, Wang embarked on his second world tour, the MUSIC-MAN Tour. In September 2008, two shows per night in Taipei Dome opened, three months before Wang's 13th studio album, Heart Beat, was released. On December 26, Heart Beat debuted at No. 26 on the internet, debuting at No. 1 on the charts. On the weekly G-Music charts, there are 3 places. The album reached No. 1 on the charts. Last week, the first week of its debut and then stayed on the charts for 17 weeks. Heart Beat featured a similar emphasis on rock influences as Wang's previous album. Wang also used guitar and electric guitar solos for performances in the majority of the album's music videos. "What's Up with Rock?" the album's first single, in the hopes of retaining a similar "chinked-out" component. With Chinese cuisine, the incorporated rock influences were combined. He collaborated with pipa musician Liu Fang on this track, and the two focused on combining electric guitar parts and pipa strings into the song.

Wang Leehom's prestigious Best Male Singer (Hong Kong and Taiwan) Award, 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 were honoured on April 15, 2011.

Wang recruited Wong Fu Productions to produce his forthcoming music video on September 7, 2011.

Wang received the 2012 MAMA (Mnet Asian Music Awards) for "Best Asian Artist" on November 30, 2012.

Wang Leehom beat actress Yao Chen to become the Chinese with the most Weibo (China's most popular micro-blog) followers on December 2, 2012.

Wang was the first Chinese singer to speak at the University of Oxford on April 21, 2013.

Madame Toussauds unveiled Wang's wax statue in Beijing's Museum on February 27, 2017.

Acting career

When Wang was in high school and college, he demonstrated an interest in acting. In 2000, he made his debut in the Hong Kong action crime thriller China Strike Force, starring Aaron Kwok, Norika Fujiwara, and Ruby Lin. Critics in Hong Kong had praised Wang for his well-toned appearance in his first film. Nova was his next leading role in the 2001 Hong Kong science fiction film The Avenging Fist, as the main protagonist. He appeared in two Japanese films Moon Child (2003) and Starlit High Noon (2005).

Lust, Caution, directed and produced by Academy Award-winning Ang Lee, was his biggest breakthrough in his film career. The film is based on a novella by Eileen Chang and revolves around a plot to assassinate a high-ranking Chinese official in the Wang Jingwei government by using a stunning young woman as bait. Wang plays Kuang Yumin, a patriotic college student who begs Wong Chia-chi (Tang Wei) to seduce Mr. Yee (Tony Leung). On September 28, 2007, the film was released in theaters in the United States. Lust, Caution was created on a worldwide budget of $15 million and raised $64,574,876.

Wang was chosen to appear in Little Big Soldier with Jackie Chan in 2009.

Wang took to the streets to direct and star in Love in Disguise, (Chinese: tn. gào), which also stars Liu Yifei and Joan Chen. Love in Disguise went on to become the first-time director in China's history, grossing over 60 million RMB domestically.

Wang was scheduled to appear in a Stan Lee's Annihilation adaptation in July 2013. Magic Storm Entertainment, who collaborates with Stan Lee's POW, co-produces the film. The National Film Capital of China, as a symbol of entertainment, is on display.

In Blackhat (2015), an action thriller film about cybercrime written, directed and produced by Michael Mann, Wang costarred Chris Hemsworth and Tang Wei.

At the 2018 Golden Lotus Awards, Wang's appearance in Forever Young (2018) named Best Actor.

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