[edit] Biography [edit] Earlier life|Show started playing drums at the tender age of 3 and performed onstage with his parents as a child. He won a silver award at a singing contest when he was only 7.[citation needed] Show joined the ‘4 Heavenly Kings imitation concert’ in 1995 and managed to clinch 1st place.[citation needed] In 1996, ‘Four Heavenly Kings’ debuted and their 1st album was released. The group was active in the following years before breaking up in 1998. In the same year, Show joined another group named ‘ROMEO’ and was active in it until year 2000. In 2003, Show launched his solo debut and released his 1st album ‘Show Time’ and has since worked on a plethora of genres including hip hop, R&B, and ballads, as well as collaborations with stars like Jolin Tsai, Jay Chou,and Vivian Hsu. |[edit] 2005: Hypnosis SHOW & 1st concert|On October 14, 2005, Show released his 3rd album “Hypnosis SHOW”. He collaborated with Jolin Tsai in the song ‘zhen ming tian zi’ (traditional Chinese: 真命天子) and invited good friend Barbie Hsu to star in his MV ‘Self-Hypnotised’ (traditional Chinese: 自我催眠) which is written by Jay Chou [1] At a later part of the same year, Show held his 1st concert at Taipei Arena. |[edit] 2006: SPESHOW|After one full year, Show finally released the album ‘SPESHOW’ on November 17, 2006. Show decided to titled this album ‘SPESHOW” because this was his fourth album with his name included.[citation needed] This was a play on the words “special” and his name “Show”. This album would certainly be special because there were many new experiences for both Show and his fans. For the first time, he sang a full English song with Kumi Koda and he also collaborated with the English singer: Simon Webbe. Show also tried his hand at composing a song.[citation needed] This album was so popular that within three months, four different version of the original copy were created with few additional bonus songs.[citation needed] In this album, Show created his own version on one of the song by Daniel Bedingfield’s ‘James Dean (I Wanna Know).’ Show’s version of this song’s name is ‘The Dance Gate,’ translated from the Chinese name. In this album, Show has sang many affectionate and love songs, inviting actress Ariel Lin(MV Good Friend) and good friend Koda Kumi(Feat Twinkle) to starred with him in few of his music videos. This was his first attempt to sing an English song, something that was difficult for him.[citation needed] He admitted that he spent many hours in trying to pronounce an English word.[citation needed] Over 400,000 copies of SPESHOW were sold within a few weeks of its release. |[edit] 2007|In June 2007, Show moved from Avex Trax to EMI Capitol Records. EMI Capitol Records plans to send Show abroad to countries such as New York,London and Tokyo to learn more advanced dancing.[citation needed] On August 13, Show was selected to be the Mandarin spokesperson for High School Musical 2 by singing the Mandarin version of the themesong Bet On it called Bi Sha Ji and the song is included in the High School Musical 2 Soundtrack (Asia Edition).[citation needed] |[edit] SHOW YOUR DANCE|Show released the 5th album ‘SHOW YOUR DANCE’ on November 16,2007. Chinese: Wu Suo Bu Zai |[edit] ‘Show on Stage’ Concert Tour|The tour kicked off on June 9, 2007 in Shanghai. The Hong Kong girl group Twins was invited as guests and they sang ‘Expert Lover’ together with Show.[citation needed] The tour continued on June 30, 2007 in Nanjing, with Jolin Tsai as the guest. The tour travelled to other cities including Beijing, Taipei, Singapore, Jiangsu and Hong Kong in the later part of the year till 2008.[citation needed] Show Luo had been endorsing McDonalds for many years.[citation needed] He has also been appointed the “Love Ambassador” for McDonald’s World Children’s Day since 2005.[2][3][4] He donates to Ronald McDonald’s Charity house as well.[5] During his concerts in Taipei, the Guinness World Records of “most couples hugging simultaneously” was achieved in conjection with the World’s Children Day Concert.[6] This gesture was to inform society to spread love and care to the sick children in hospitals. |[edit] 2008|Show released his first concert live DVD ‘Show On Cruel Stage’ on Jul. 11, 2008 which topped the G-music charts three weeks in a row. One of the most popular parts of the DVD features Show’s mother appearing on stage, moving him to tears as he hugged her and sang 幾分 to much support from emotional fans. Show’s 6th album, “Trendy Man” was released on Dec. 26, 2008, the same day as Wang Leehom’s album. Controversy erupted when Wang Leehom’s record company Sony accused Show Luo’s record company of buying the charts and inflating sales figures. S.H.E. and Fahrenheit, band’s company joined in. [7] The dispute got bigger when prominent popstars like Jay Chou, A Mei, Mayday, band, Fahrenheit, band backed LeeHom while several TV hosts like Jacky Wu showed their support for Show Luo, (although Jacky said he personally bought the charts for a lesser known singer friend of his years ago). |[edit] Discography|ShowTime Released: October 9, 2003 |Format: CD |Label: AVEX |Sales: TAIWAN: 100,000+ [8] | |
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