born on 5/17/1976
place: rochester, ny
college: Williams College for Music
Berkelee College for a Masters degree in Music Composition and Jazz
Family: Older bro- Leon Wang - Harvard Professor /doctor
Younger bro - Lee Kai Wang - MIT Junior Student
Music Genre: R&B CPOP
Chinked out - he deserves to be credited for this type of music cuz of the various of asian musical beats fused with modern pop
Instruments played: Piano, violin, guitar, er-hu [traditional chinese 3 string violin], harmonica, drums
Language: Chinese [Mandarin], English, French, Japanese [not fluent but enought to converse]
Albums: Beethovens Rival
Forever First Day
Only You
Unbelievable
Revolution
Shangri-la
Heroes of the Earth
Single: Dream Again [jap]
interesting facts: leehom really wants to go to Disney land after winner Best Male Artist '04 and '06
leehom has only one girl in his heart, his first love, ms bai the transition of breaking up with her during his college years and rise to celebrity fame is shown through all his sad love ballads
leehom learned how to read and write chinese in 2 years
leehom was tricked into learning the violin when his mom made him jealous by allowing his older brother lessons and not him
leehom was the valedictorian of his high school and scored 1600 on his sats [perfect score on the old one]
leehom owns his own hom-boy sony studios somewhere in nyc [trust me ive gone searching and this place is so concealed >.<] a few months before his album release he would lock himself in his apartment with his mac labtop composing music and living off of ramen
leehom loves mcdonalds [he stole french fries while promoting the fast food restaurant]
Descent of Dragon and Only One made him the famed abc taiwanese artist
leehom has a great sense of humor during his las vegas concert he joked about his big nose in which he referred to the chinese superstition that people with big noses are lucky so he said he would try his hand at gambling with that nose of his xD
future plans: presently working on his very own chinese musical
has been recruited to be part of ang lee's new movie "lust love caution"
as an abc raised in nyc i fell in love with his music cuz their so relevant...but i first heard his "dream again" song which he sang in jap...hes voice and composure was just so moving that i couldnt stop listening to it..at the same time shang-ri la came out in which marked him as the asian western fusion artist..he went all over china in search of traditonal beats...success came from his "xin zhong de yue ye" following shangri-la's success leehom produced heroes of the earth the following year outbeating his supposed opponent jay chow with featured artists such as rain, lim jeong hee, jin the emcee, and his hom-china fans. the album was a mixture of peiking opera music with relation to modern cpop style... this guy is just perfect...good looking and talented who wouldnt wanna meet him xD
quoting evie: ET - phone - LEEHOM
