Jackson Wang (王嘉爾), singer, rapper, producer, stylist and music video director,
was born on March 28, 1994 in Hong Kong. His parents were both athletes, and
like his father, he was destined to become a fencer. However, another path
opened up for him in music when, in 2010, at the age of sixteen, he was
recruited by the South Korean talent agency JYP Entertainment. In the run-up to
the 2012 London Olympics, he was offered a scholarship to Stanford to practice
fencing, but chose to move to Seoul to give his music career a chance. This
turned professional when he joined a new K-pop ...