Speaking of his upcoming concert, Wang Lee Hom immediately spoke of his idol Michael Jackson, “Many years before, when I was still attending University, a band I formed sang a cover version of his Man in the Mirror. That song gave me a really strong feel of excitement. In the year before, I wrote the song Change Me, which was inspired by that song, so in this concert, I specially added the tribute to him.” “Heroes of the Earth” left a great impression on everyone five years ago. This time round, Wang Lee Hom is going to transform into Music Man, due to the inspiration of comics. “I hope everyone and gather something fresh from this and at the same time it will serve as a reminiscent (of everyone’s childhood).” The whole idea of using comic heroes to design the outfit has resulted it being slightly exaggerating from head to toe – my hair will have streaks of blue and silver to bring a sense of future, wearing an armor, and tight pants. The motive of Music Man would be to save music, and that would also be my aim.” Then what is considered as a hero? He pondered for a moment before answering, “I think it’s a person who can shoulder responsibility.” How could I be perfect Being in the industry for so many years, the impressions Wang Lee Hom gave others were always hardworking, and perfect. In fact, he doesn’t have any negative news revolving around him; he seemed to be forever obedient. When faced with this question, he kept shaking his head, “How can that be? I am not perfect. And just because of that, I am afraid. It’s like…Wang Lee Hom is someone who will never do bad stuff in everyone’s eyes. Actually I have had my rebellious times as well, I did a lot of bad things. This is normal, but perhaps because I learned classical music since young, the side I showed everyone is the good side of me. This may be an illusion I give everyone.” Wang Lee Hom thinks that in the entertainment industry, looks weighs a lot, and only in his music, he chose to truly express himself. “I would add profanities in my lyrics, critique what is supposed to be criticized. I vent a lot.” So currently, he is anticipating to watch his own performance in Da Bing Xiao Jiang as a general. The general is a polar opposite of how Wang Lee Hom is in everyone’s eyes – temperamental, violent, forever ordering people, and being fierce to everyone. Singing along happily with Jackie Chan From singing to acting, his acting career changed a lot since meeting Ang Lee. The influences of taking part in Lust, Caution still remained with him till today, and have encouraged him to widen his horizons. Acting in Da Bing Xiao Jiang has also made him good friends with Jackie Chan. “Da ge* is another legendary character, and he loves singing.” He nodded his head firmly, “We sang a lot together, in outdoor places where it’s extremely deserted and did not have KTV. So I played the piano for him and he sang. He was happy.” Jackie Chan, on the other hand, shared a lot of his experiences in filming movies with Wang Lee Hom, “He is very willing to teach his juniors, (I) learned a lot about filming movies from him.” Wang Lee Hom is interested in cinematography, and although he expressed he doesn’t wish to be an all-rounded director-actor like Jay Chou, he hoped to have more breakthroughs in his acting. “I think this is a very natural process. You have done so much music along the years, and judging by the advances of the technology now, filming a lot of MVs, actually composing a song and creating a movie is actually rather similar. I have a lot of friends who are artists, and chatting with them creates a new chemistry and excitement, so I am very willing to act in more movies.” In fact, he challengingly asked back, “Haven’t you realized the leading leads ten years ago are still the same now? That is why the younger generation of actors has to work hard. I am no different.” Leslie Chung told me to address him as Uncle Years before, Wang Lee Hom’s “The One and Only” and “Loving You Equates To Loving Myself” was received tremendous fame all around, at that time, he is the “high quality idol” in the eyes of the audience. Many years later, he admitted that it was all the results of packaging. He himself doesn’t really favour being clearly categorized into “idol clan” and “real talents clan”. The childishness once could be found on him faded as time went by, and his eyes are suddenly filled with more determination than before. “I did that step-by-step. All these years, I have been quite inquisitive and seeking learning chances, and gained a lot of precious experiences. Many seniors are willing to teach me, for example, Ang Lee, Tony Leung and Jackie Chan.” Leslie Chung is someone whom he speaks a lot of. In year 2000, Wang Lee Hom got acquainted with Leslie Chung. “He directed ‘From Ashes To Ashes’, and is an extremely talented and charming actor. He knows quite a few languages and are fluent in them. He patted my shoulders and told me to address him as ‘uncle’. I’ve learned a lot from him.” Protecting my private life is my character Many years ago, Wang Lee Hom who was living in the States, packed his bag and came over to Taiwan determinedly without a care. And that one stay lasted for over ten years. He felt that the ruthlessness of his action back then was the cause of the independent him right now. All his friends are at the States and when he met with some problems that couldn’t be solved, he could only turn to the different genres of books. As for relationships, he doesn’t have rumours, but he is a normal man anyway. When once again asked about his relationships, he answered, no matter how unwillingly, “Of course I had relationships normal men would have since I debuted. Only I don’t publicize them. I have been insistent in protecting my private life. It would be quite wrong to bring all these to the stage and expose them. I wish to protect my private life, this is my character.” He still longs for the live back in the States where he could walk anywhere on the streets, and stop to chat and play with street entertainers. “Very regrettable,” he shook his head, “I can never do this in Asia.” “Since I debuted in 1995, I am determined to release an album every year, and now I have released ten albums.” When these words were spoken by Wang Lee Hom, you will then suddenly realize at a blink of an eye, the Wang Lee Hom in front of you is no longer that sunshine boy back then, he is now instead, a mature and dauntless man. Yesterday afternoon, Wang Lee Hom came to Beijing to do promotions for his Music Man concert. The concept of the concert is different as compared to the “Heroes of the Earth” concert 5 years ago. This time, he wants to be a Music hero. There are a lot of performances held in Beijing this summer, and Wang Lee Hom’s concert tickets, even when facing competitions of Stephanie Sun, Eason Chan etc, has broke ten thousand, marking a beautiful result. Source: Sina.com Translated by Gibberish. @ http://asianfanatics.net/
