{"id":54336,"date":"2026-05-22T07:48:42","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T23:48:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=54336"},"modified":"2026-05-22T07:48:42","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T23:48:42","slug":"profile-how-got7s-jackson-wang-went-from-hong-kong-fencing-prodigy-to-global-music-icon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=54336","title":{"rendered":"Profile | How Got7\u2019s Jackson Wang went from Hong Kong fencing prodigy to global music icon"},"content":{"rendered":"


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This is the 77th instalment in a<\/em> biweekly series<\/em><\/span> profiling major Hong Kong pop culture figures of recent decades.<\/em><\/div>\n

If your radar picked up even a blip of K-pop in the mid-2010s, you probably encountered Jackson Wang Ka-yee long before you realised he was a Hong Kong native.<\/p>\n

To overseas fans, he was first known as the magnetic, mischievous rapper of Got7, a boy band that debuted under JYP Entertainment in 2014 and quickly amassed a loyal international following.<\/p>\n

Among the seven members, Wang was unmistakable \u2013 a whirlwind of chaotic energy on Korean variety shows and a multilingual charmer<\/span> who could crack jokes in Mandarin, Cantonese, Korean and English.<\/div>\n
He has since earned a reputation as a prominent K-pop idol who has helped pave the way for pop celebrity exports worldwide, regularly smashing chart records and founding his own fashion label, Team Wang Design<\/span>.<\/div>\n

Trading sabre for stage<\/h3>\n

Born in Kowloon Tong in Hong Kong in 1994, Wang was raised in a family of elite athletes \u2013 his father was an Olympian fencer, and his mother was a national-level gymnast.<\/p>\n

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Jackson Wang with his father in 2010. Before he became a singer, Wang was a champion fencer. Photo: SCMP<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n


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