| The talented
American-born Wang Lee-hom has
finally completed his music studies at Williams
College. Now with more time on his hands, the
Taiwan-based singer-songwriter is ready to focus
wholly on his budding recording career. And
there's no better way to start, than to write and
produce half of the songs in his latest album, Revolution.
By
Jacqueline Wee.
It’s
almost difficult to not
notice a 1.8m Wang Lee-hom.
Yes, the chap’s
indeed tall and statuesque-looking when it comes
to his build, but what’s really outstanding
about this New York-
born Chinese who plays no less than six musical
instruments is in fact, his sheer talent.
At only 22 years of age, Lee-hom has written and
composed numerous ditties for his previous
albums, such as hit tracks "Miss You So
Much" and "Wishing to See You Every
Second". In his currently-released album
titled Revolution, the Taiwan-based
artiste wrote and produced half of the
album’s songs, clearly positioning himself
as a multi-talented singer-songwriter in the
regional Mandopop scene.
Lee-hom - a music major at Williams College -
has also recently graduated, but not before he
wrote and directed his first musical The Bite That Burns,
an elaborate production with an enchanting
vampire story line, as part of his final year
thesis at the liberal arts college (refer to pix
on the right).
Unwilling to conform to the usual practice of
composing a quartet or settling for a
straight-forward theoretical paper, Lee-hom
wanted to be a lot bolder with his thesis.
"When I first brought the idea of a musical
up, most of my lecturers and tutors objected to
it initially cos such a production has never been
previously attempted by any other student. But I
was literally burning with desire to produce a
musical. I simply couldn’t give up the idea.
It was a risk on my part though, cos I had to
attempt everything from scratch, and in a
trial-and-error sort of way too. The project took
me one entire year to complete."
 Fortunately,
for all of Lee-hom’s efforts in the musical
- which included everything from scripting,
composing, casting, choreography to even
directing (incidentally, the production involved
a hundred persons on the crew) - things turned
out pretty well. Not only were all six
performances of the musical well-attended by his
peers in school, Lee-hom was also voted at the
end of the day as the ‘Class Musician’
of his graduating year at Williams College (only
two such awards are given out each year to a guy
and a girl respectively). In fact, response to
the musical was so positive that its songs were
later compiled into a CD (pix on left, shows
Lee-hom with some of his cast on the album
sleeve).
Needless to say, there could be
no better affirmation of Lee-
hom’s musical talent and abilities.
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