Lee Hom's Biography :

Chinese Name : 王力宏
English Name : Lee Hom Wang (also known as Alexander Wang)
Christian Name : Alexander
Japanese Name : Ou Riki Hiroshi
Birthday : May 17, 1976
Ethnicity : Taiwanese
Nationality : American
Astrological Sign : Taurus
Zodiac : Dragon
Height : 180 cm
Weight : 68 kg
Birthplace : Rochester, New York
Blood Type : O
Family : Parents, Older Brother Leo (+3 yrs), Younger Brother Lee Kai (-9 yrs)
Elementary School : Pittsford Elementary School – Pittsford, New York
High School : Sutherland High School – Pittsford, New York
Undergraduate : Williams College – Williamstown, Massachusetts (Graduated with Honors in Music, Minor in Asian Studies)
Graduate School : Berklee School of Music – Boston, Massachusetts
Favourite Artists : Elton John, Stevie Wonder, Prince, George Michael, Sting, The Whos, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Beatles, Robert Dinero  
Favourite Food : Peking Duck, Pizza, Japanese Cuisine, Grapefruit Juice
Favourite Colour : Blue
Favourite Sport : Baseball
Favourite Subject : Jazz Piano
Favourite Type of Movie : Science Fiction
Favourite Attire : T-shirt & Jeans
Favourite Quote : "It's all good."

+ + Talents + +
- sing
- compose music
- compose lyrics
- act in musicals
- play percussion instruments
- play the violin
- play the piano
- play the guitar
- play baseball
- play vibraphone/xylophone
- draw
- able to speak Mandarin
- able to speak English
- able to speak French
- able to speak bits of Cantonese
- able to speak bits of Japanese

TIME LINE

1976 : Lee Hom was born in Rochester                                   

1978 : Lee Hom's ambition was to become a policeman or a cowboy

1979 : Started to sing

1981 : Lee Hom learned the somersaults and the splits

1982 : He started to learn violin and went into primary school

1983 : Started playing baseball

1984 : Learned how to play the piano and followed his elder brother as a newspaper boy

1985 : Younger brother, Lee Kai (Matthew), was born and LeeHom became a babysitter.

1987 : The season of baseball, Lee Hom joined a summer camp

1989 :
 - Joined Rochester Phil harmonica Youth Orchestra. He was the youngest violinist in the group.
 - Recommended to John's Hopkins University's 'Young Talent Search Program'
 - Awarded Model Student High Honors Awards.
 - Took part in school's musical "Once Upon A Mattress"

1990 : 
 - Played in musical "Bye Bye Birdie" as Albert Peterson, was only 13, the youngest   cast member.
 - Awarded Model Student High Honors Award.

1991 :
 - Started to compose and write songs, wrote his first song for the girl he liked.
 - Performed in "Music Man".
 - Was the pitcher for the school's baseball team.
 - Won 'Phenomenal Freshman Award'.
 - Won 'Most Musical Student Award'.
 - Won 'Character Development Award'.
 - Named “Best Delegate” in Model United Nations debate tournament

1992 :
 - Performed in musical "Briyadoor".
 - Named “Best Delegate” in Model United Nations debate tournament 2nd year in a row.

1993 : 
 - His drawing, "Eagle", won him 2nd place in county competition while his thesis won him first in the competition.
 - Named MVP on baseball team.
 - Named “Best Delegate” in Model United Nations debate tournament 3rd year in a row.
 - Became part of National Honor Society

1994 :
 - Performed in musical "Kiss Me Kate".
 - Named MVP on baseball team 2nd year in a row.
 - Earned National Merit Scholar
 - Received Monroe County Council Award
 - Won first place in Monroe County violin recital
 - Sutherland High School valedictorian.
 - Pittsford Music Inc. Scholarship Award
 - Named “Best Delegate” in Model United Nations debate tournament 4th year in a row.
 - Passed the Eastman Music School violin exam, and as a result qualified for Williams College.
 - Was accepted by Yale and Princeton but chose to go to Williams.
 - Changed major from pre-med to music composition.
 - Started to learn Chinese - Mandarin.

1995 :
 - Performed in musical "Pippin"
 - Performed in "King Lear".
 - Released his debut Mandarin album titled "Love Rival Beethoven", which includes three songs written by himself -    "Listening to Rain", "Last Night" and "Don’t Wanna Say Goodbye".

1996 :
 - Performed in musical "Merrily We Roll Along".
 - Released his 2nd  album which includes 5 songs written by himself - "If You Heard My Song", "Headline Rock", "Calling    Me a Thousand Times", "As Long As I Have You" and "Better Off Alone".
 - Released his 3rd  album in December titled "Missing You", in which he composed two songs - "An Appointment For Your     Love" and "Noah".
 - Nominated for Ming Sheng Bao's Top 'Ten Newcommers'.
 - Held his first concert in K K Disco.

1997 :
 - Became music director for Williams College Acapella Group called "Spring Streeters"
 - Released his 4th album "White Paper", in which he wrote and composed five songs. "Want to See You Every Second",    "Exile Missing", "Thinking of Home", "Still Snowing In April" and "Dream Again".
 - Nominated for "Best Foreign Male Vocalist".
 - Nominated for "Top Ten Advertising Star".

1998 : 
 - In April, Lee-Hom directed, composed songs and wrote the script for his very own musical "The Bite That Burns", his final    year thesis project, it was over 570 pages long.
 - Lee Hom released his 5th album in August, "Revolution". Half of the album's tunes are written and produced by him.
 - Revolution sold 100,000 copies in a week.

1999 :
 - Graduated from Williams with Honors, and enrolled in Berklee Music School for vocal and jazz lessons.
 - His song Revolution came in as one of the top 20 songs in Channel [V]'s top 20 songs prize ceremony.
 - In MTV Asia's final year records, his album Revolution came in 13th with 17 weeks on the chart!
 - In the top 10 singles for 1998, Lee Hom's "Revolution" was one of the top 10 singles.
 - Lee Hom was nominated for 3 awards in Golden Melody Awards 1999, out of which he won the Best Producer and the    Best Male Singer.
 - He released his 6th album Impossible to Miss You on June 24.
 - Held his concert which sells tickets in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia with the Kuala Lumpur Symphony Orchestra on July 17.
 - Second concert in Taipei.
 - TVBS top 15 hits - "Impossible to Miss You".
 - Stopped studies for a semester. Took up singing lessons from teacher recommeded by Sony.
 - Nominated for Best Producer and Best Male Singer “Revolution” album in Singapore Hit Awards.
 - Lee Hom won the Best Producer Award in the Singapore Hit Awards 1999 on 13 November.
 - Lee Hom did his first voice over of a cartoon character in Iron Giant.
 - Lee Hom wrote his first song for other singers. A-Mei's "Love Will Never Disappear" was recorded in her compilation    album which was released on 30th December 1999.

2000 :
 - "Impossible to Miss You" single came in 22 in 1999 Top Singles.
 - "Let Me Feel the Warmth" won the runner up award for the Best Duet Award in Jade Solid Gold (Hong Kong).
 - Lee Hom got the GOLD Award for the Most Promising Newcomer in RTHK's 22nd Top Ten Chinese Gold Songs.
 - "Julia" came in as one of the top 20 songs in Channels [V]'s top 20 songs prize ceremony.
 - In the Chinese Music Conference, "Impossible to Miss You" was one of the top 10 albums of 1999, "Crying Palms" got    the top 10 singles of 1999.
 - In the 11th Golden Melody awards, Lee Hom was nominated for 2 awards, Best Composer ("Crying Palms") and Best    Male Singer ("Impossible to Miss You").
 - Lee Hom become the spokesperson of Cotton USA.
 - Released his 7th album, "Forever's First Day", on June 8. He produced the entire album and composed 10 out of 11    songs. He also wrote the lyrics for 5 songs!
 - Lee Hom came in as the Best Male Singer (Taiwan) in MTV Asia's Annual Award Ceremony.
 - Filmed his first movie (China Strike Force) co-staring Aaron Kwok, Ruby Lin and Norika Fujiwara
 - Became the 'Captain' for Taiwan 's 'Special Rescue Unit.'

2001 :

 - Released 8th album "The One and Only" on September 27th, 2001
 - Won three awards at Malaysian Golden Melody Awards: Best Album Producer - "The One and Only", Best Male     Composer & Top Ten Golden Melodies - "The One and Only”

Biographical Sketch :

           Leehom Wang was born and raised in Rochester, New York, and is an artist, producer, and writer currently signed with Sony Music Taiwan. After studying music at the Eastman School of Music, Williams College, and the Berklee College of Music, Leehom exploded into the Chinese pop music scene in 1998 with the album Revolution, which he both composed and produced, garnering awards for both “Best Male Artist of the Year” and “Best Producer of the Year” in Taiwan's 1999 Golden Melody Awards, the “Grammies” of Chinese pop music. He was 22 years old, making him the youngest person ever to win the award in either of the two categories.
           Since his stellar debut, Leehom has consistently been nominated for the “Best Male Artist of the Year” award four years in a row, solidifying his role as one of the most important and most influential talents in Asian pop culture today. His following albums, Impossible to Miss You, Forever's First Day, and The One and Only were all composed, arranged, and produced by him, with record sales in the millions worldwide.
           Leehom's music has been described as eclectic, intelligent, imaginative, and emotional. A proficiency in a multitude of different musical instruments and strong roots in classical violin, jazz piano, and Broadway-style musicals seem to enable him to dance effortlessly between musical styles. “Music,” says Leehom, “is my most comfortable language. In any language, be it French, Chinese, Jazz, or Hip-Hop, it is what you are trying to say that is most important.” Quoted once as saying that his “main goal is to inspire young people,” Leehom's fundamental beliefs that “music can change the world” and that “the children are the key to our future” provide him with the fountain of contagious energy that rubs off on everyone around him.
           In addition to his career in music, Leehom is also a talented actor, and has appeared in leading roles in the movies Ashes to Ashes (2000), directed by Leslie Cheung; China Strike Force (2001), opposite rapper Coolio and Japanese bombshell Norika Fujiwara; The Avenging Fist (2001), opposite Martial Law's Sammo Hung; and this year's highly anticipated Japanese release Moon Child (2003), opposite Japanese pop icons Hyde and Gackt.
           Leehom feels that one of the greatest aspects of being a popular figure is the ability to access international multi-media, and to communicate with and help other young people of the world. Socially active, Leehom's public charity work goes hand-in-hand with his career. Some of the highlights include Nature, the album dedicated to Jane Goodall in conjunction with Leehom's work as the National Geographic Channel and “Roots and Shoots” spokesperson in Hong Kong; Ashes to Ashes, the anti-smoking short film sponsored by the Hong Kong government; “Love Will Never Disappear”, the song performed by A-Mei Chang for disaster relief after Taiwan's devastating 1999 earthquake; “Frozen Dreams”, the song collectively composed on the internet by Leehom's fans with all proceeds going to charity; and “Happiness x3, Loneliness x3”, the collaborative song with Julio Iglesias, Jr., Tetsuo Kamuro, and Sheila E. made for the Japanese government's anti-drug campaign. In 2002, Leehom was appointed by UNICEF and MTV as the Youth Ambassador to Nepal, and hosted the award-winning “Speak Your Mind” documentary on the issues facing Nepalese children, including education, child labor, and the sex trade. In May of 2003, with SARS crippling many parts of Asia, Leehom co-wrote and co-produced the charity song “Hand In Hand” with fellow musician and friend David Tao. This song was performed by 85 of the big-name artists in Chinese pop music history. An instant classic, “Hand In Hand” has quickly become the “We Are the World” of our generation in Asia.
           Leehom is fluent in English and in Mandarin Chinese, and is proficient in Cantonese, Japanese, and French. His linguistic talents have enabled him to reach audiences all over the world in their own native tongues. His plans for 2003 include: his first Japanese release, The Only One; a brand new Chinese album, and finishing up production for his first English album.
           Leehom has a genuine, warm personality. He is always humble and appreciative towards those around him, and his boyish demeanor is disarming, especially when juxtaposed with his professionalism and meticulous work ethic. He is passionate about his work and cherishes every opportunity for creative exchange with others, in music, movies, or any other forum.

Educational Background :

• 1993 - Named National Merit Scholar by the National Merit Scholarship Committee
• 1994 - Graduated with High Honors from Pittsford Sutherland High School
• 1994 - Graduated with Honors from Eastman School of Music Community Education Department
• 1998 - Graduated from Williams College (Williamstown, Massachusetts) with honors
• 1998-1999 - Studied jazz at Berklee College of Music (Boston, Massachusetts)

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