Facts bout my idol,wang lee hom

Danish Zuraidi

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Form 1A

Title: short stories

Activity: Narrative

I’m sure you all heard of the famous artist, Wang Lee Hom (王力宏) or his English name, Alexander Wang. If you haven’t, I’m going to talk about him now.

Alexander Lee-Hom Wang was born in Rochester, New York on May 17, 1976. He attended Jefferson Road Elementary School, Pittsford Middle School, then later Pittsford Sutherland High School in the town of Pittsford. Known for its excellence in education, the Pittsford School District cradled Wang as a youngster, making him a well rounded person. Wang graduated from Sutherland High School with high honors. After graduation, he studied at Williams College and graduated with honors majoring in Music & Asian Studies. He furthered his studies by attending a semester at Berklee College of Music in the 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 Chinese until he was 18, Wang is now fluent in Chinese in both speaking and writing and has written many Chinese 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.

An experienced musical background enables Wang to pull from a variety of musical styles and continuously reinvent his own sound that is distinctly Chinese and international at the same time. 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. In 2006, Heroes of Earth (蓋世英雄) centered around R&B, hip hop, rap, and with a strong emphasis on Beijing opera and its predecessor Kunqu.

There’s a lot more then these few facts that I know of Lee Hom but I guess I must cut it short, before this short story end I must mention that Wan Lee Hom is my idol and I listen to his songs all the time. I hope to meet with him one day. I think he’s a great role model and I hope to be like him one day.

Danish

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