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JACKSON WANG time, he gathered his own team called
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”TEAM WANG”. This team is the
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management team for his activities in China.
Jackson Wang is a chinese rapper, singer, and After the first solo, Jackson started to get
dancer based in South Korea. He can speak five more popular. Jackson put out more solo
different languages: Mandarin, Cantonese, music and got more awards in these fews
Korean, English and Shanghainese. He is also years, including the “Choice Next Big Thing”
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the member of South Korea boy band “GOT7”. of the TCA (Teen choice award). He became
Jackson Wang was born to parents Wang the first Chinese artist who got this award
Ruiji and Sophia Chow in Kowloon, British Hong on TCA.
Kong, on March 28, 1994. He started I respect Jackson Wang for many reasons.
gymnastics when he was 7. When he was 10, First, he is a brave and individual person. In
he started fencing training and represented an interview, Jackson said there were many
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the HongKong national fencing team. He won people who told him to give up the dream to
numerous awards, including first place at become a singer. However, Jackson asked
Asian Junior and Cadet Fencing Championship. himself if fencing was what he wanted to do
He studied at American International School forever. Finally, he followed his heart and
HongKong for high school. moved to Seoul. He is a person who really
In 2010, Jackson got invited to an audition by loves his hometown. In a January 2020
a representative of JYP Entertainment, a interview with Forbes, he said that "My goal
company which trains artists, singers and is just to put my name out on the table just
bands . He passed the audition on Dec 10 at the to let everybody get to know me. I want to ...
same year. After 5 or 6 months, Jackson was let people know that Chinese kids are
offered a scholarship to Stanford University. working on good music too." Finally, Jackson
Between these two options, Jackson finally is also really hard working. He practices 18-
decided to move to Seoul and start playing 20 hours a day and just sleeps for 4 or 5
music. hours.
After two and a half years training, Jackson Source:
debuted with Got7 on January 16, 2014. In 2016, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackson_Wang
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LC9_BaqHQew
GOT7 had their first concert in Seoul. In Dec
2016, Jackson had his first solo. On June 23,
2016, he had his first Solo in China. At the same
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