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Block B: LH: Hello again, you're watching Talk Asia, and my guest is Taiwanese singer and songwriter Wang Lee Hom. Leehom, you started singing at 3. You started playing the violin. (WL: I don't know if that was called singing, but yeah.) Okay. The violin at 6. (WL: Right, right.) Was this something your parents did to put you through the motions or was it something you really enjoyed doing? WL: Actually I always feel like, in retrospect, I was tricked into it. Most kids are forced into it but I was tricked into it because my older brother...he's two years older than me, he was kind of forced into playing the violin. Um, he didn't really want to do it and I didn't understand the forced element, I just went with my older brother to his lessons. And I would sit there and be like, "Ah, well..." My older brother to me, still, is a hero figure for me. But back then, he was my idol. Anything that he would do, I wanted to do. So I asked my parent, "Why can Leo play the violin and I can't play the violin?" "Lee Hom, you're too young. You're going to have to wait until you're six." I was like, "that's not fair. You guys don't let me do anything." (LH: laughs) So um, finally when I was six years old and I got to play the violin, I was like, "Ah, I've been waiting for so long" so it was love at first sight for me. LH: What about other instruments? You picked up other instruments along the way, haven't you? WL: Yeah, then well the drums... I think every kid, you know, every kid wants to play the drums. Just bang away. (LH: any male kid) Yeah, any male kid. So that to me was an immediate, this real passion as well. And the piano... I always loved the piano as well. But it wasn't until college that I really got into jazz. Other instruments, like guitar, base, and all the keyboards... those just came along the way, as I started playing in bands. LH: You have an English name I read -- Alexander. WL: Yeah. You know, I've never ever used it though. LH: Yeah, I was going to ask you, who called you that? WL: Nobody. Nobody except for um.. customs people. (LH: laughs) Cause it's in my passport. But, um I remember when I went to kindergarten, my parents asked me "So do you want to go by Alex or Lee Hom" and they're like "well keep in mind if they say Alex, there might be another Alex, but if you're Lee Hom, you're probably going to be the only Lee Hom." Well I want to be Lee Hom then. (LH: Right, and you are probably still the only Lee Hom.) I think I am. (LH: laughs) LH: I heard you were a very good student in school. Did you enjoy it? WL: I wasn't a good two shoes... I broke a lot of rules and I skipped a lot of classes and I did a lot of great things as well. But um, you know, I always knew what the consequences were going to be and I wasn't, um, you know, I wasn't difficult about it. LH: What do you enjoy about school? What was it? I mean, the exercise, the games, the learning, the clubs, the friends? WL: Well, I love most about my school is the friends... and the interpersonal relationships between, you know, whether it was hanging out with the baseball team... I loved to play baseball... or hanging out with the school band or doing musicals. You know, I loved to be able to hang out with different cliques. And I think that's who I always have been. I've been somebody that's been bridging over different... you know musical genres as well. LH: Was music always your ambition even back then or... WL: It was always my ambition deep in my heart. But music, especially I grew up in Rochester, New York, which is where the Eastman School of Music is in and at was always surrounded by professional musicians, and I always knew the outlook was bleak. You know, for any musician. (LH: It's tough.) It's tough. LH: And your parents, they didn't sort of like push you like typical parents do? You know, get good grades, you know? WL: They did. They did. That's why... um there was some tension going on as far as my parents wanted me to be a doctor, like my older brother is. And that would have been great, if I had, you know, the heart for it. But I just didn't. That was the hardest part of growing up. I think that was the hardest part of my life... was right during uh applying for colleges and "What do you want to major in?" and everything, every bone in my body is saying music, "I want to do music." And I'm writing down Biology, you know. (LH: laughs.) That was rough. Yeah. LH: How did you convince them? I mean what did they think when you said, "I really want to do this." I mean that must have been difficult. WL: Well, I owe so much to Taiwan... and the fans in Taiwan because I released my first album when I was 19. So that was... that was right at that um crossroads. LH: While you were in university? WL: Yeah, freshman year. So there was still enough time for me to change my major to music. After the first album, it was actually after the second album came out... cause the first album didn't do so well. So after the second album came out and um, there was, you know, a lot more response and I started to think, "This is it. Like this is who I am. Dad, mom, this is like... I'm a fish in water now. I'm happy. And this is what I've always wanted to do." Um, so I finally got their blessings. LH: Great. How did you juggle university studies and then I presume flying to Taiwan? WL: Yeah, that was tough. That was tough. Like I was on a plane at the drop of a hat. If it was Spring Break, even like Thanksgiving break, you got a 5 day break, I'd be back in Taiwan. And I'd record one song. So that was... you got to pay your dues. If you want to become a musician, you really, really have to commit your life to it. LH: Right, and now your family still based in the United States. Right? (WL: Yeah, they're still there in Rochester.) I mean, was the transition difficult? Rochester to Taipei, for example. Taipei, Rochester, Rochester, Taipei. (LH: laughs) WL: It was really difficult for me at the beginning to adapt. You know, I was 19, well I was 18 when I was recording the album. And I didn't really speak mandarin very well. I didn't know anybody in Taiwan. And I was really, really lonely. And uh, you know, it was hard to... hard to just express myself. So that was a tough time, but um like I said, I paid my dues. (LH: And it's all behind you now.) Yeah. Well, every time I go to a new country though... for example, when I went to Japan and did my Japanese album and movies and um, concert tours, and you know, I felt like, I'm a new artist all over again. (LH: laughs) That's one of the great things about the Asian market, is that you can go from country to country and you know, become a new artist all over again. LH: Right. Great. Lee Hom, we're going to take another very, ry short break. 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