Singer-songwriter, rapper, producer, and fashion designer Jackson Wang (王嘉爾) was
born on March 28, 1994, in Hong Kong. The son of professional fencer Wang Ruiji,
he enjoyed his fair share of success as part of the Hong Kong national fencing
team before being scouted by the South Korean talent agency JYP Entertainment in
2010. In the run-up to the 2012 London Olympics, he was offered a scholarship to
practice fencing but chose to move to Seoul to pursue a music career. At the
dawn of 2014, he made his official debut with the boy band Got7 on the single
"Girls Girls Girls," and la...