vid of his interview with cnn's anjali and showing a 'lil bit of his conducting skills credit zelinatan
Leehom Wang- A Kiss Goodbye credit vc1188
Leehom Wang - Dream Again credit oleanderx
"Alexander Lee-Hom Wang was born in Rochester, New York. Wang chose to attend Williams College, where he graduated with honors, double majoring in music and Asian Studies. He continued his studies by attending Berklee College of Music's Professional Music program, with voice as his principal instrument. 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 until he was 18, Wang is now fluent in the language (including reading and writing) and has written most of the lyrics for his songs.[5] 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.
A classically trained music background enables Wang to pull from a variety of musical styles and continuously reinvent his own sound that is distinctly Chinese and western at the same time, eg his 2005 release, Shangri-La drew heavily from R&B, dance pop, and the musics of Chinese ethnic minorities from Tibet, Mongolia, and Yunnan.
In addition to his music, Wang also participated in several films, his role in Ang Lee's Lust, Caution gaining the most attention.
He is also an environmental activist, and was invited to be one of the first torchbearers for the Beijing 2008 Summer Olympics, carrying the torch in Olympia, Greece on March 24, 2008. He was also invited to perform in the closing ceremonies. His album Change Me was dedicated to raising eco-awareness among Chinese youth.
Wang was listed among 'The 100 Most Inspiring Asian Americans of All Time' by Goldsea Asian American Daily" credit http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wang_Lee_Hom
in a previous post i wrote about one of my fave actors, king khan, but mr tony tony tony aka tony leung chiu wai is still my #1 all time fave actor
he has starred in 2046, hero, infernal affairs, happy together, chungkung express, in the mood for love and many more
tony is also a successful pop singer too
Tony Leung Chiu Wai - Hua Yang Nian Hua credit kefuwa
Tony Leung - Ming Zi credit tiffanyann5152
Tony Leung - feng Sha credit nanpingyu
i know i luv tony coz he's a cutie but this is why i really luv tony coz his acting is just so out there in the original the departed called infernal affairs which is one of my absofreakin'lutely fave movies of all time better than departed credit fire30powered
i luv this muzik vid that someone put together of tony and chow yan fat and their movies together over the years credit lusa1120
"Tony Leung Chiu-Wai (Chinese: 梁朝偉; pinyin: Liáng Cháowěi; Cantonese Yale: Lèung Chìuh Wáih) was born 27 June 1962. He is a Cannes Film Festival and five-time Hong Kong Film Award-winning Chinese film and television actor. He has been a major film star since the 1990s.
To distinguish himself from fellow actor Tony Leung Ka-Fai, he is known colloquially in Hong Kong as "Little Tony", while Ka-Fai is known as "Big Tony", nicknames which correspond to the actors' respective physical statures
In 1982 he passed the training courses of television channel TVB. Due to his boyish looks, TVB cast him as host of a children's programme, 430 Space Shuttle. Leung enjoyed comedies during his television years; it was for these he became well known.
Many consider Tony Leung's role in director John Woo's 1992 action film Hard Boiled in which he co-starred with Chow Yun-Fat, as his breakthrough role in film. However, Leung first gained international exposure through Hou Hsiao-Hsien's 1989 film A City of Sadness, which won the Venice Golden Lion.
Leung often collaborates with director Wong Kar-wai and has appeared in many of his films. His most notable roles in Wong Kar-wai's films include the lonely policeman in Chungking Express (1994), a gay Chinese expatriate living in Argentina in Happy Together (1997), and a self-controlled victim of adultery in In the Mood for Love (2000), for which he won the Best Actor award at Cannes.
He is considered by many to be the finest actor of his generation in Hong Kong. Robert De Niro is an admirer of his work. Leung has been called Asia's answer to Clark Gable.
Leung also has an on-and-off Cantopop and Mandarin pop singing career and sang the theme song of Infernal Affairs with Andy Lau.
Leung speaks decent English and is well read and well versed on historical issues. During the late 1990s, some predicted that it would be difficult for him to break into Hollywood since he would not take on degrading roles because of his pride and character.
Leung has dated Carina Lau since the end of 1989. On 21 July 2008, the couple got married in Bhutan in a royal fashion. The wedding created a media frenzy in Hong Kong, with companies spending hundreds of thousands of dollars to pursue the wedding party.
Awards and nominations: Asian Film Awards 2008 Won Best Actor (Lust, Caution) Cannes Film Festival 2000 Best Actor (In the Mood for Love) Golden Horse Film Festival 2007 Best Actor (Lust, Caution) 2003 Best Actor (Infernal Affairs) 2000 Nominated Best Actor (In the Mood for Love) 1994 Best Actor (Chungking Express) Hong Kong Film Awards Best Actor awards. Nominated nine times, won five times: 2005 Won Best Actor (2046) 2003 Won Best Actor, for his role as the undercover cop Yan (Infernal Affairs) 2001 Won Best Actor (In the Mood for Love) 1999 Nominated Best Actor (Longest Nite) 1998 Won Best Actor (Happy Together) 1995 Won Best Actor (Chungking Express) 1993 Nominated Best Supporting Actor (Hard-Boiled) 1990 Won Best Supporting Actor (My Heart Is That Eternal Rose) 1988 Won Best Supporting Actor (People's Hero) 1987 Nominated Best Actor (Love Unto Waste) Golden Bauhinia Awards 2005 Won Best Actor (2046) 2003 Won Best Actor (Infernal Affairs) 1998 Won Best Actor (Happy Together) Hong Kong Film Critics Society Awards 2005 Best Actor (2046)"
riding the bollywave success of the movie slumdog millionaire (best picture, directing, cinematography, film editing, writing in adapted screenplay, sound mixing, music score and music song) at the 81st Annual Academy Awards aka the 2009 Oscars on 2009/2/22, i thought it would be fun to share a couple of my fave bollywood songs (they are not MVs but are instead videos made taking clips from the movies)
monsoon wedding - nominations and wins for several international awards eg british academy of film and television, independent spirit awards, venice international film festival, and starring the cutie sweetie parvin darbas
Monsoon Wedding - Kawa Kawa Kawa credit gargagan
chalte chalte - starring one of my fave actors kk aka king khan aka srk aka shahrukh khan aka शाहरुख़ ख़ान (Hindi) aka شاہ رخ خان (Urdu)
another song that i love - "Jal-The band" is a collaboration between three exceedingly gifted individuals; Gohar Mumtaz (the lead and rhythm guitarist, composer, lyricist and vocalist), Farhan Saeed (the lead vocalist) and Shazi (Bassist) credit tipsmusic
it is said by some that the most recognizable idols are those that are known by their one name eg madonna, sting, prince, etc, etc, etc
but you know that you are the shit when you are known in different countries by different names and no matter where your fans are in the world they recognize your name even when it is spoken and written in other languages
without a doubt my absofreakinglutely fave bb/ig (boy band/idol group) is **drumroll please ** tah dah .... DBSK (Dong Bang Shin Ki) aka DBSG (Dong Bang Shin Gi) aka THSK (Tōhōshinki) TOHO (Tōhōshinki) aka TVXQ (Tong Vfang Xien Qi) aka TVfXQ (Tong Vfang Xien Qi) aka RGoTE (Rising Gods of the East - ok, so i just invented this one)
what can i say about this fab bb/ig that has not already been said countless of times - my two fave things about them are their personalities and their talents
they compose some of their own songs, sing like the veins in their necks are about to pop out and can hold a tune and harmonize to some sweet muzik that makes you feel like you are downing that oh so starbuckacious sweet caramel macchiato that has finally been made correctly and is smoothly gliding down your throat in an orgasmic caffeinated sucrose infused high ... ahhhhhhhhhhhhh - delish .........
they are a s. korean quintet boy band who debuted in 2004 under the infamously famous SM entertainment - they are fluent in Korean and Japanese, have released their albums in both languages and spend their timely roughly equally divided between both countries - their two main fanclubs are called cassopiea (korean) and big east (japanese) - the Cassopian fanclub is in the guiness book of world records as the largest fanclub in the world
the five members are: jung yunho - stage name u-know yunho (group leader) kim junsu - stage name xiah junsu aka asia junsu shim changmin - stage name choikang changmin aka max changmin park yoochun - stage name micky yoochun aka yuchun kim jaejoong - stage name youngwoong jaejoong aka hero jaejoong aka jejung
korean albums: 2004 tri-angle 2005 rising sun 2006 o jung ban hap 2008 mirotic
japanese albums: 2006 heart, mind and soul 2007 five in the black 2008 T 2009 the secret code
some of my fave songs that they have sang live are the japanese versions of "proud," "love in the ice" and "darkness eyes" (no lipsyncing in the versions seen below although there are rumours that they do lipsync their fast dance track songs, because of the difficulties involved in doing energetic and difficult dances while singing perfectly)
the live song "proud" was sang at the end of the their successful Five In The Black concert and some of the members started to cry as they thought of all of the years of hardship that they had endured to get to that point - this live version always makes me cry ...
DBSK - Proud credit hjrx
DBSK - Love In The Ice credit TVXQSoulForever
DBSK - Darkness Eyes credit xtesshilovex
DBSK - Wrong Number from their 2008 korean album credit fern0827
DBSK - Survivor from their 2009 japanese album 'The Secret Code' credit vietfood
part of dbsk's song 'Rising Sun' is going to be in the new movie 'Fast and Furious 4' credit yunjae2kenoa
... now check out the full song's mv which is from their 2005 album credit sunnyotaku
jeez louise and all her sisters, could he RAINism some of that in my direction please? welcome to my kingdom where there is always a rainbow on the horizon coz the sun is always shining even when it's RAINing (btw - you'll do know that rain is associated with fertility ... a-hem ...) - oops, i digress, but seriously i would welcome some fertilization from this damn specimen of manhood ... sigh ... ok, ok, a thousand apologies but my mind keeps wondering to thoughts of this wonderous hunka hunka man
but in all seriousness lemme get back to the point - this man is one of the hardest working entertainers in showbiz - i mentioned in one of my earlier posts that you are considered a big kahuna in the entertainment industry if the world knows you by just one name eg madonna, sting, prince, etcetera, etcetera, etcetera, blah, blah, blah, and so on and so forth
but this k-pop idol (dancer, singer, actor, company executive) is known by many names in different parts of the world and yet his name is automatically recognized even if you call him by his english name in non-english speaking countries - now that's some hunka kahunas
"As the word for "rain" is different in many languages, he is known by a variety of names. In the West, he is known by the English word Rain [or The Rain]. In Korea he is known as 비, romanized as Bi and pronounced as the letter B in English [or by his actual name Jeong Ji-hoon]. In Japan, he is known as ピ, pronounced pi. In China, he is sometimes referred to as Yu or 雨 http://www.koreanmovie.com/Rain_ka1310/
mmmmmmmmmmm, delish - oh boy - gimmie a second i need to reflect on this vid below of him during his workout preps for his new movie Ninja Assassin that will be released in 2009 (can we buy advance tix?) - scrumptous - omgollywollydolly - wicked mate! credit blulovely
in 2006 he was mentioned in Time Magazine's website article that named the 100 Most Influential People Who Shape Our World - in 2007 he topped Time Magazine's online user poll, although he was not in the magazine's actual list - in 2007 he made it into People's list of the Most Beautiful People in the world
he sure does like the variations of his name - his album released in oct 2008 was called "rainism" and his past albums were called "rain's world," "eternal rain" and "it's raining" ....... wot the heck?
stephen colbert even did a funny parody of rain's 'avoiding/escaping the sun' song, which is one of my fave songs
Rain - Avoiding The Sun credit rain06
but my fave parody is the one done by one of my fave s. korean comedians, kim shin young, who parodied rain's "rainism" song by doing her's about food Kim Shin Young - Rainism Parody credit bboydrew711
lexington bridge are a british-american boyband composed of singers from the britain, america and the netherlands - their first album is called "The Vibe" and was released in November 2007 credit wikipedia
longombas are twins called christian and lovi Longomba, who were born and raised in kenya and are of congolese descent - they are from musical family - their father Lovy Longomba was a member of super mazemba, their grandfather vicky longombas was a member of TPOK jazz and their uncle is french based congolese musician awilo longombas - they entered the kenyan music scene in 2002 with their song "Dondosa", which became a national hit - their debut album "Chukua" was released 2005 by Ogopa DJs credit wikipedia
sigh, my newest obsession song that i cannot get outta me head mates! whatcanisay? i can't get the song outta my head - it keeps running 'round and 'round - i keep singin' to myself even tho' i have no idea what the heck i'm sayin' - the song by the new kpop gps (girl pop singers) called afterschool
the rumours are that they are supposed to be the kpop version of the american gps called pussycat dolls
"Pledis Entertainment has unleashed a 5-member girl group After School on the music scene. The group comprises of Park Ga Hee (leader), Kim Jung Ah, Yoo So Young, Bekha and Lee Joo Yeon. Pledis Entertainment expressed, 'After School is a group that has been training for 2 years and is modeled after the Pussycat Dolls. They will be a group that Korea has never seen before.'" http://www.bytcs.com/international/pledis-entertainment-unleashes-5-member-girl-group-after-sch.html
they are also supposedly receiving some hateration from some the members of the largest fanclub in the world, aka the cassopeians, coz the leader of afterschool is supposedly the ex-girlfriend of dbsk's chunnie - come on folks - wottheheck! gimmie a break - there is such a thing as being a fan and then there is being an insane fan - as a fan of dbsk i'm glad to hear the whispers that they actually try to make some time to have a life and that they actually date (i like to know that the person writing the love song actually knows the joy and heartbreak of what love is)! - go chunnie, go chunnie, go chunnie - i wonder if that story you were telling on the telly show, "Come To Play" was about her - hmmmmmmmmm, ugh, i wish it had been me receiving that smooch ;-)
folks - i say who gives a freakin' f&%* who dates and whom - for freak's sake let's just enjoy the dance muzik from their mini-album tiny album
ricky martin made a successful crossover from the original menudo (yep me mateys - there was an original menudo) - they were "a Puerto Rican boy band that was formed in the 1970s by producer Edgardo Diaz, releasing their first album in 1977. The band achieved much success, especially during the 1980s, becoming the most popular Puerto Rican teen musical group of the era" credit http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menudo_(band)
check him out as a teen idol tiny tot in the original menudo (he is the one in the pink shirt)
ok, ok, ok, so i'm guilty of always sayin' that '80s fashion rocked and this time you guys are right to ask if i'm krazy, coz wot the heck is me mate in the yellow cut off shirt wearing in the vid - oh lordy save us from ourselves - i cannot explain that aspect of '80s fashion - i plead the 5th!
Menudo - Hold Me credit juldanarl
and the hot transitional crossover from bb-land (boy band land) to sc-land (solo crossover land) - what a change from tiny-tottism to hard adult manism Ricky Martin f/ Fat Joe and Amerie - I Don't Care credit nehanani
Londonbeat's career started in the Netherlands. They are best known for their song, I've Been Thinking About You, which hit #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 and the Hot Dance Music/Club Play charts in 1991. They are an R&B and Dance band who scored a number of pop and dance hits in the early 1990s credit http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Londonbeat
London Beat - I've Been Thinking About You credit MrPetr3333
"Kajagoogoo are a British pop band, best known for their first single, "Too Shy," which reached #1 in the UK Singles Chart and #5 on the US Billboard Hot 100 Chart in 1983 [some members left the group in 1983]. In [2008 the members reunited] and after 25 years, Kajagoogoo, in their original five-piece line-up are back" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kajagoogoo
i don't care what anyone says - '80s fashion rocked dude! when else could you see madonna sporting some of her baggy shirts and prince exposing his ASSets ...?
my interest in everything related to the pop muzik industry - pop, cpop, jpop, kpop, trotpop, doowoppop, rappop, soulpop, afropop, europop, bollypop, latinpop, punkpop, rockpop, metalpop, jazzypop, funkypop, reggaepop, technopop
