WANG LEE HOM

Lee-Hom Wang is a four-time Golden Melody Award-winning Taiwanese-American singer-songwriter and actor who has achieved highly recognized success in Taiwan, China, Malaysia, Hong Kong, Singapore, Japan, Thailand and the rest of Southeast Asia.

Alexander Lee-Hom Wang was born in Rochester, New York, the second among 3 boys. At the age of six, Wang began to take violin lessons. He attended Jefferson Road Elementary School, Pittsford Middle School, then later Pittsford Sutherland High School in the town of Pittsford. Wang graduated from Sutherland High School with high honors and as class valedictorian.

Wang scored a perfect 1600 on his SAT and chose to attend Williams College, where he graduated with honors, majoring in Music and minoring in Asian Studies. While in college he sang with the Williams College Springstreeters, an all-male a cappella group. He continued his studies by attending Berklee College of Music's Professional Music program, with voice as his principal instrument.

In 1995 he was signed to a professional recording contract while visiting his grandparents in Taiwan. Since then, Wang has become one of the new songwriters and musicians revolutionizing the Chinese-language music industry. He is active in all areas of music production, from composing to producing, to music arrangement, to lyric writing, to directing his own music videos.

Although he did not begin learning Mandarin until he was 18, Wang is now fluent in Mandarin in both speaking and writing and has written many of the lyrics for his songs. Wang plays over 10 musical instruments. In his albums and live concerts, Wang can be heard playing piano, drums, guitar, bass, violin, vibraphone, erhu, xun, and more.

A classically trained music background enables Wang to pull from a variety of musical styles and continuously reinvent his own sound that is distinctly Chinese and western at the same time. For example, his 2005 release, Shangri-La (心中的日月) drew heavily from R&B, dance pop, and the musics of Chinese ethnic minorities of Tibet, Mongolia, and Yunnan.

Participation in 2008 Beijing Olympic Games

Wang was chosen as one of the few Chinese torchbearers to run in Greece. Wang was torchbearer number 17 on March 24th, the first day of the torch relay. He also attended the torch lighting ceremony before his run. Wang took the torch from Liu Hong Liang, son of the first Chinese to attend the Olympic games, Liu Chang Chun. Wang represented the newest generation of singers from Taiwan and China. He was chosen mainly because he is devoted to helping save the environment, as shown in his latest album Change Me.

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 a Olympic Games participation song. The single was written, sung, produced, and scored entirely by himself. Wang also sang in the 100 days countdown theme song Beijing Welcomes You. He also sang along side Stephanie 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.

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