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Brief introduction of Wang Leehom ~ more details ~
Nicknames: Leehom, Homeboy, Wang Dao, Lao Wang, Second Brother, Big Brother, Wang Er and Wang Jiong (the first two mentioned by Leehom himself).

Self-proclaimed: music gypsy, musician, music superman, hero of the world.

Zodiac: Dragon

Constellation: Taurus

Blood type: O type

Height: 180cm

Weight: 75kg

Birthday: 1976 Gregorian calendar: May 17 Lunar calendar: April 19 Chen Bing Year.

Place of birth: Rochester, New York

Industry: Sony (Sony boardman)

Current address: Taipei

Education: I graduated from Williams College (the first in the College of Arts and Sciences) and Berkeley Conservatory of Music (the top 65,438+000 universities in the United States) with a double master's degree (I was originally studying for a doctorate, but I didn't continue to visit my grandmother in China).

Major: Music (musical, violin, jazz piano, jazz drum, composition, world music history, music theory, music education).

Minor: Asian management and military theory

Occupation: musician (singer, baritone in Broadway musical, composer, violinist, music producer)

Sideline: actor, director, conductor

Educated

Schools I attended: Pittsburgh Primary School, Pittsburgh Sutherland Middle School, Pittsburgh Sutherland High School (the top middle school in the United States 100), Williams College in Massachusetts (ranked first in the College of Arts and Sciences), Music Department (jazz piano), and Berkeley Conservatory of Music in the United States.

Violin, piano, keyboard, guitar, bass, jazz drum, vibrato, erhu, pipa, zhongruan, flute, flute, harmonica, Ajax and other national musical instruments in China. He was invited by the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra (one of the best orchestras in Asia) to be the conductor. Learn Humai in the process of creating the album "Sun and Moon in My Heart".

Music ideal: through my communication with teenagers, my music will touch and inspire the lives of teenagers and become a world-class symphony conductor.

My greatest wish: to bring China music to the world.

Career goal: to become a real world musician, to make creative, thoughtful, connotative and personalized works of art ... to develop into an all-round artist in the world and make long-term contributions in the music field!

Language: English (mother tongue), Mandarin, French, Japanese and Cantonese, with a little knowledge of Hakka and Minnan dialect.

Specialty: bel canto, composition, production, arrangement, various musical instruments, painting (the painting "Eagle" won the prize) writing (the paper "Religion and Life" won the second prize in the national paper competition sponsored by Cornell University).

Features: Strong singing skills, changeable timbre, sharp voice, distinctive alto (baritone), powerful music and clear rhythm, giving people an inspiring force. Top three Chinese pop singers!

Music style: R &;; B. Hip-hop, self-created Chincked-out, rock, jazz, lyric, folk songs, Mandarin pop and Chinese music education: I received western music education (classical music background) from an early age.

Hobbies: basketball, baseball, music, painting, movies, drama, creation and production.

The mantra: "yo ~ yo ~, it's okay!"

Favorite subject: jazz piano

Like music: classical music, rhythm and blues music; Jazz, rock, Mandarin pop, Chinese style, Chinese folk music.

Favorite artists: Beethoven, Mozart, Chopin, Da Vinci.

Favorite girl type: by feeling, but must not be clingy, have their own life, simple, like intellectual girls with long hair.

Favorite singers: Elton Jones, stevie wonder, Prince, George Michael, Sting, Michael Jackson, Jacky Cheung.

Favorite movies: Saving Private Ryan, Night Visit of Vampires, Little Women, The Shawshank Redemption.

Favorite food: Japanese food, concourse sandwich, grapefruit, Beijing roast duck, pizza, avocado sushi, McDonald's (once endorsed), popcorn.

Favorite drink: grapefruit juice

Favorite color: sky blue

Favorite sport: baseball

Favorite skirt: jeans

family background

Great-grandfather: Xu Fengzao (1891-1953), a native of Wuxi, was a famous naval general during the Republic of China. He made meritorious service in Wuchang, and was received by Dr. Sun Yat-sen, the founding father of our country, with the inscription "Sea and sky are one color".

Grandfather: Wang Chunyi's grandmother: the eldest daughter of General Xu Xu Fengzao. She used to be the head of economics department and lecturer of economics in Taipei Business School, and wrote Principles of Accounting and English-Chinese-English Accounting Dictionary. So far, the school still has a "Finn Scholarship".

Grandma: I graduated from the History Department of Teachers College and was a history teacher of the famous host Xiaoyan in Taiwan Province Province.

Uncle: Xu Zhuoyun (grandma Leehom's brother) is a famous historian. He graduated from the History Department of National Taiwan University with a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. He has made great achievements in the field of social history of China and ancient history of China, and he attaches importance to the innovation of historical research methods and writings, and enjoys a good reputation at home and abroad. He is now a professor of history at the University of Pittsburgh and one of the most famous China scholars in the art world. At the same time, since 1989, he has served as the director of CCF Foundation in America.

Child (second voice): Li Mo, Li Jianfu's father and Li Hong's uncle, graduated from the family portrait department of Fa Wang Lihong (1997) of National Southwest Associated University (National Southwest Associated University is a joint venture of Peking University, Tsinghua University and Nankai University). ) Master of Laws, Harvard University, USA, a famous jurist, 1946, ranking first for senior examination magistrates, 1968, ranking first for senior examination magistrates, and serving as a judge and lawyer for the first time. He used to be an associate professor at the National national cheng kung university and a law professor at Tsinghua University, Chung Hsing University, Soochow University and Fu Jen Catholic University.

Uncle: Li Jianfu, the original singer of "Descendants of the Dragon", is a famous folk singer and musician, and now he is the professional development director of Yahoo, a multinational network company.

Father: I graduated from the Medical Department of Taiwan Province University in Wang Dazhong.

Mother: Li (Shu) graduated from University of Political Science and Law.

Brother: Wang Lide is a doctor of medicine from Yale University. He won the first place in a national entrance examination in high school, so he received a letter and an interview from his brother Bush.

Sister-in-law: Graduated from Yale University and went to school with Brother Wang Leehom.

Nephew: Wang Jiashu

Niece: Wang Jiawen.

Brother: Lee-Kai Lee-Wang Kai went to MIT (now a graduate of MIT) and now works on Wall Street in the United States.

Cousin: I graduated from Harvard University and now I am the vice president of Sotheby's in new york.

Wife: I do design after graduating from Harvard University.

Music course

At the age of 6, I began to get in touch with all kinds of pop music and classical music, and began to play the violin.

I started playing the piano when I was 8 years old.

/kloc-started learning jazz drums at the age of 0/0.

/kloc-began to learn French at the age of 0/2/became the youngest violinist and a member of the youth orchestra of Pilhaumonica in Rochester, and became interested in guitar.

/kloc-began to compose/write his own songs at the age of 0/3, and he has a strong talent (composition started at the age of 13, and he said it several times if I remember correctly. This may all be wrong. He went to the super-shocking concert himself. He said that he/kloc-started composing music at the age of 0/3 and sang his first song.

/kloc-started learning Chinese at the age of 0/7/won an essay contest/painted an eagle.

/kloc-started to learn piano at the age of 0/8. 18-year-old model student representative of Monroe county high school graduation/won the national outstanding scholar (the highest honor of American high school graduates)/passed the violin exam of Eastman Conservatory of Music and began to contact the piano.

19 years old, published his first album "Beethoven in Love" and embarked on the road of music.