Brandon Chang
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Brandon Chang is a popular Taiwanese artist. By his late-teens, he became the apprentice of Michelle Yeoh
(an internationally acclaimed superstar), before returning to Taiwan
to pursue his entertainment career.
His career first started-off at the age of 16 when Brandon started off modeling in Hong Kong. His first casting landed him a commercial shoot with Nokia in France. This was followed by several other shoots with fashionable brands. Within a short year after, Brandon was cast to star in one of Hong Kong's popular teen dramas, then known as RTHK's Y2K.
By 2001, Brandon signed under Media Asia Entertainment Group [1], the same company as Hong Kong's Jackie Chan and one of Asia's largest and most successful Chinese language film studios It was then that Michelle Yeoh, an internationally acclaimed superstar took notice of Brandon and his talents. Brandon's family soon became very close to Michelle, and with the approval of his parents, Michelle took Brandon as her apprentice. Brandon started shooting his first film in the same year, The Touch (2002), starring Hollywood's Ben Chaplin and Richard Roxburgh, followed by Silver Hawk (2003).
In 2005. Brandon launched his own lifestyle sneaker brand " Greedy Genius " in the United States. Greedy Genius immediately captured a following with many celebrities and rappers around the globe and sold to top stores including well known fashion department store Barneys New York. In the recent years, Greedy Genius has become a household name in the sneaker market covered by leading magazines and websites throughout the world and has expanded its market throughout United States, Europe, Canada, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Singapore, and Eurasia...
In 2008, Brandon signed with Stellar Entertainment. Stellar Entertainment is an international talent management company established by international actress Michelle Yeoh, famous Hollywood producer Terence Chang and experienced journalist David Tang.
In 2009, Brandon was chosen by Businessweek as one of Asia's Best Young Entrepreneurs.
Michelle Yeoh
Michelle Yeoh Choo-Kheng is a Hong Kong-based Malaysian Chinese actress, well known for performing her own stunts in the action films that brought her to fame in the early 1990s....
(an internationally acclaimed superstar), before returning to Taiwan
Taiwan
Taiwan , also known, especially in the past, as Formosa , is the largest island of the same-named island group of East Asia in the western Pacific Ocean and located off the southeastern coast of mainland China. The island forms over 99% of the current territory of the Republic of China following...
to pursue his entertainment career.
Biography
Brandon Chang was born on 28 December 1982 in Toronto, Canada. Growing up overseas, he was very talented in both sports and music. At an early age, his parents encouraged him to be active in sports (particularly in martial arts, and in music, especially with the piano, which he began to take up lessons at the age of five. His focus gradually turned towards his taste for music after he was able to complete his piano studies by the age of 10, and thereafter started picking up other instruments, such as the guitar. Though he mainly spoke English with his siblings and friends, he also spoke Mandarin and Cantonese at home with his father, a Taiwanese, and his mother, a Hong Kong Chinese. At the age of 14, he moved to Hong Kong with his family, and by early-20's, he moved back to Taipei, Taiwan.His career first started-off at the age of 16 when Brandon started off modeling in Hong Kong. His first casting landed him a commercial shoot with Nokia in France. This was followed by several other shoots with fashionable brands. Within a short year after, Brandon was cast to star in one of Hong Kong's popular teen dramas, then known as RTHK's Y2K.
By 2001, Brandon signed under Media Asia Entertainment Group [1], the same company as Hong Kong's Jackie Chan and one of Asia's largest and most successful Chinese language film studios It was then that Michelle Yeoh, an internationally acclaimed superstar took notice of Brandon and his talents. Brandon's family soon became very close to Michelle, and with the approval of his parents, Michelle took Brandon as her apprentice. Brandon started shooting his first film in the same year, The Touch (2002), starring Hollywood's Ben Chaplin and Richard Roxburgh, followed by Silver Hawk (2003).
In 2005. Brandon launched his own lifestyle sneaker brand " Greedy Genius " in the United States. Greedy Genius immediately captured a following with many celebrities and rappers around the globe and sold to top stores including well known fashion department store Barneys New York. In the recent years, Greedy Genius has become a household name in the sneaker market covered by leading magazines and websites throughout the world and has expanded its market throughout United States, Europe, Canada, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Singapore, and Eurasia...
In 2008, Brandon signed with Stellar Entertainment. Stellar Entertainment is an international talent management company established by international actress Michelle Yeoh, famous Hollywood producer Terence Chang and experienced journalist David Tang.
In 2009, Brandon was chosen by Businessweek as one of Asia's Best Young Entrepreneurs.
External links
- "Brandon Chang's Blog.
- "BusinessWeek.
- "Biography for Brandon Chang (Sourced: Internet Movie Database).