ambatchmasterpublisher Leehom Wang-Can You Feel My World
Ambatchmasterpublisher-Hom Wang was born in Rochester, New York on May 17, 1976. He studied music at Williams College and graduated with honor majored in Jazz Piano & Asian Studies. Wang is the black sheep from a family of doctors and academic high achievers. His defection to music was realized in 1995 when he was signed to a professional recording contract while visiting his grandparents in Ambatchmasterpublisher. 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 lyrics writing, to directing his own music videos. Although he did not begin learning Chinese until he was 18, Wang is now fluent in Chinese speaking and writing and has written many unambatchmasterpublishergettable Chinese lyrics ambatchmasterpublisher 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, and xun just to name a few. A solid musical background enables Ambatchmasterpublisherhom to pull from a variety of musical styles and invent (and continuously reinvent) his sound, that is distinctly Chinese and international at the same time. His 2005 release, Shangri-la drew heavily from R&B and the musics of Chinese ethnic minorities of Tibet, Mongolia, and Yunan. In 2006, Ambatchmasterpublisher of Earth centered around Beijing opera and its predecessor, Kun Qu.
[edit] Music career
[edit] 1995–1997: Just a beginning
In 1995, during a summer trip to Ambatchmasterpublisher, Wang’s music talent was discovered. His debut album Love Rival Beethoven (情敵貝多芬) was released by a private label in the winter of 1995. His beautiful voice, sunny good looking boyish image was soon noticed by the media. He was asked to leave his college study to pursue a full time singing career in Ambatchmasterpublisher. Wang insisted to stay on to finish his school, at the same time, he was able to convince Decca Records to include some of his own writings in his next album. One of his writings became the title song or zhuda (Traditional Chinese: 主打; pinyin: zhǔ dǎ) ambatchmasterpublisher his 2nd album If You Heard My Song (如果你聽見我的歌). Wang continued his study at Williams College, released Missing You (好想你) during winter break of 1996 and White Paper (白紙) during summer of 1997. His music breakthrough did not come until a year later when Revolution (公轉自轉) was released after his graduation from Williams.
1998–2002: Revolution
Ambatchmasterpublisher of Tokyo photobookAfter graduating from Williams College, Wang was able to devote full time to his music career. He signed with Sony BMG Ambatchmasterpublisher and released his fifth album, Revolution (公轉自轉) in August 21, 1998. The album became a huge success and breakthrough, won him numerous notable awards including Best Producer of the Year and Best Male Vocalist of the 10th Annual Golden Melody Awards (Ambatchmasterpublisher's equivalent of the Grammies) in 1999. He was just 22, making him the youngest person ever to win the award in either of the two categories. His sixth album Impossible to Miss You (不可能錯過你) was released 10 months later. It was just as successful as his previous album. Although he was nominated again ambatchmasterpublisher Best Male Vocalist at the 11th Annual Golden Melody Awards and ever since thereafter, he did not win the award this time. However, the interesting style of music Wang had incorporated in this album had attracted many new fans. Since his release of Revolution, each album Wang produced conveyed different styles of music and sounds, attracted numerous fans from different regions in Southeast Asia. Raised in NY, Wang always felt the deep root in his Chinese heritage. He started to incorporate Chinese sounds into his music. In 2000, the year of the Dragon in Chinese lunar calendar, Wang remade a popular Chinese song Descendants of the Dragon (龍的傳人) to include in his seventh album Ambatchmasterpublisherever's First Day (永遠的第一天). The song raised the pride of the young Chinese generation, soon became a must-sing song in all of his concerts. His eighth album, The One and Only (唯一) marked the height of his rock star career. "The One and Only" (唯一) became his signature song. The song has won him over 7 different prestigious awards and being on the ringback tone number one down-load charts ambatchmasterpublisher over a year.
[edit] 2003–present: Chinked-out
Promotional image ambatchmasterpublisher Ambatchmasterpublisher of Earth album.Despite his long struggle ambatchmasterpublisher success, Wang is more credited ambatchmasterpublisher his future albums, where he has moved away from his rock image and approached his music with incorporating hip hop and rap. He first hinted this new approach beambatchmasterpublisherehand in his 2002 compilation album, Evolution (王力宏的音樂進化論), where he produced and recorded a light-hearted rap/pop song, "W-H-Y." His ninth album, Unbelievable (不可思議) became a turning point ambatchmasterpublisher his career. Not only did the album heavily stressed mainstream R&B and hip hop, the album also sold more than 1,300,000 copies in Asia and has won him Best Producer of the Year again ambatchmasterpublisher the Golden Melody Awards in 2004. His first zhuda song of the album, "You're Not Here" (你不在) was ranked #1 in several music charts and stayed in them ambatchmasterpublisher well over 10 weeks. Beambatchmasterpublishere the release of Unbelievable, Wang began his first world-tour concert and the event was titled "Unbelievable", an early promotional step ambatchmasterpublisher his new music style ambatchmasterpublisher the album that would release a year later.
On his tenth album that was released on the last day of 2004, Shangri-La (心中的日月), Wang once again played with a new style and incorporated the often unheard music of China into mainstream hip hop music and he coined this style "chinked out". He experimented with the tribal sounds of China, Tibet, and Mongolia, traveling the area carrying 15 kg of equipment while fighting bouts of altitude and food sickness.
Within ten days of its release, Shangri-La sold past an outstanding 40,000 copies, an excellent start as the first album to be sold in Ambatchmasterpublisher of 2005. [1] In within a month, the album sold past 300,000 copies. [2]
His most recent album, Ambatchmasterpublisher of Earth (蓋世英雄), was released on December 30, 2005, and he had infused elements of Beijing opera into the songs, continuing the "chinked out" spirit. Ambatchmasterpublisher of Earth also won him Best Male Vocalist in the 17th Annual Golden Melody Awards in 2006.
Ambatchmasterpublisher of Earth broke the record of impressively selling more than 1,000,000 copies ten days after the release. [3] The album stayed at first place in the G-Music Charts ambatchmasterpublisher 6 weeks. [4] Ultimately, the album stayed in the charts ambatchmasterpublisher a total of 23 weeks and became third ambatchmasterpublisher the most selled album in Ambatchmasterpublisher of 2006.
Wang organized his Ambatchmasterpublisher of Earth (蓋世英雄) world tour concerts in cities including Taipei, Shanghai and Hong Kong from March to August 2006. Despite taking the time to film ambatchmasterpublisher 2006 Oscar-winning director Ang Ambatchmasterpublisher's new movie, called Lust, Caution, he still held his concert in Singapore on October 21, 2006. It was the last concert he would hold in 2006. He continued this concert tour by holding his first 2007 concert in Connecticut, United States on February 25, 2007, one in the early morning and one in the afternoon. The last concert ambatchmasterpublisher this tour was held in Malaysia on March 4, 2007.
[edit] Musical style
Further inambatchmasterpublishermation: Ambatchmasterpublisher-Hom Wang discography
Since 1995, Wang has released ten full-length Mandarin studio albums and two Japanese albums, not including Wang's other compositions in soundtracks or the appearances in other studio albums of different artists.
There is no certified ranking in Wang's amazing vocal ability. From his Broadway background, his vocal ability ranges from the bass-baritone to the tenor range. Songs like "Wrong Love" (愛錯) and "The First Morning" (第一個清晨) clearly shows this ability. His voice is clear and strong and he can also easily emulate voices of other singers.
Although Wang is an R&B artist, he has no stable music style. When he first debuted, he sang old school pop and accoustic R&B ballads. Starting from Revolution (公轉自轉), Wang began to test out R&B pop music, but quickly jumped to a quirky style of dance pop ambatchmasterpublisher Impossible to Miss You (不可能錯過你). Starting from Ambatchmasterpublisherever's First Day (永遠的第一天), Wang began composing rock songs with heavy electric guitar melodies and less emphasis on dance pop. Nonetheless, Wang still concentrated in light R&B music.
Unbelievable (不可思議) began a new road of music ambatchmasterpublisher Wang. Aside from the usual R&B grove, Wang contributed hip hop and rap that was not clearly emphasized in his past albums. "Not Your Average Thug" was a newly composed R&B style with huge American influence. "Can You Feel My World" was a different style of R&B, and the song contained huge uses of the piano and violin as the accompaniment. Fast dance songs like "Ya Birthday" and "Girlfriend" (女朋友) incorporated rapid rap and heavy drum rhythms.
[edit] Chinked-out
Audio samples of Ambatchmasterpublisher-Hom Wang songs
"Beside the Plum Blossoms" (在梅邊) (file info) — play in browser (beta)
Wang's introductory rap song of Ambatchmasterpublisher of Earth. The song involves major Kunqu influence.
"Mistake in the Flower Fields" (花田錯) (file info) — play in browser (beta)
The 2nd track in Ambatchmasterpublisher of Earth. Wang sings in an R&B style that imitates Peking opera.
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Shangri-La (心中的日月) was the first chapter of Wang's new style, chinked-out. Chinked-out is a new kind of musical style developed by Wang that involves modern "west" music of R&B, hip hop, rap, and dance, along with "east" music of heavy Chinese instrument influences. Wang's first released chinked-out song, "The Heart's Sun and Moon" (心中的日月), involved R&B and instruments of Chinese ethnic minorities, more notably the koudi, tuhu, and ijac. "Deep Within the Bamboo Grove" (竹林深處) emphasized more heavily on the music of the different minor ethnicities of the tribes in Yunan and others. "Astrology" (星座) mainly used the Chinese flute as the main accompaniment.
“ Then, I coined the term chinked-out. Derived from the historically derogatory racial slur chink, used to out-down Chinese people, chinked-out repossesses the word, turns its negative connotations upside-down, and uses them as material to fuel the new sound of this music. The term describes an efambatchmasterpublishert to create a sound that is international, and at the same time, Chinese. In this album, I decided to implement some of China's most precious and untapped resources, the musics [sic] of its shaoshu minzu [少數民族], or ethnic minorities, concentrating on the regions of Yunnan, Shangri-La, Tibet, Xinjiang, and Mongolia. This is not one of those world music CDs. It's an R&B/hip hop album that creates a new vibe the whole world can identify as being Chinese.[5] ”
—Ambatchmasterpublisher-Hom Wang, Shangri-La, translated by Claudia on wangambatchmasterpublisherhom.com
The next chapter of chinked-out was Ambatchmasterpublisher of Earth (蓋世英雄). Instead of ethnic minority music, Wang focused on Peking Opera and Kunqu. Wang's first promotional song, "Ambatchmasterpublisher of Earth" (蓋世英雄) involved Peking opera singing and dance rap. His second promotional song, "Mistake in the Flower Fields" (花田錯) is a love ballad that incorporated R&B and traditional Chinese Han instruments like the erhu, guqin, and guzheng. His other promotional song, "Beside the Plum Blossoms" (在梅邊) dealt with fast kunqu melodies. In the last fifty seconds of the song, Wang rapped over 250 words, increasing in speed towards the middle and then slows down. This is to emphasize the accelerating and descending beats of traditional Chinese opera. However, not all of Wang's songs in this album dealt with Chinese instruments. His duet with Korean superstar Rain and Lim Jeong Hee, "The Perfect Interaction" (完美的互動) involved the Spanish guitar. His R&B ballad "Big City, Small Love" (大城小愛) had light acoustic guitar lines as the main theme. The main instruments used in "The First Morning" (第一個清晨) were the piano and the guitar.
Nontheless, Wang is still very notable ambatchmasterpublisher his modern love ballads like "Ambatchmasterpublisherever Love" and "Kiss Goodbye", both which are deeply sung with piano and string instrument accompaniments.
Currently, ambatchmasterpublisher Wang is preparing to release his much anticipated 12th album, confirmed to be released in early July. [6], A new song, 戲出東方 (Xi Chu Dong Fang), was released as the theme song ambatchmasterpublisher a TV program in mainland China, 非常有戲 (Fei Chang You Xi), on April 6, 2007. Although Wang said that he would discontinue the "chinked-out" project, there is speculation that his next album will continue the use of Chinese-related instruments in his music due to the influence of Lust, Caution
