Thursday, June 30, 2011

HENRY profile


    Full name:     Henry Lau
 Date of birth:    October 11, 1989 (Toronto, Ontario, Canada )
         Origin:     Canada, China
  Best known:     mononymously as Henry
         Genres:     POP,dance, RNB, electropop, ethereal
Occupation:      singer, dancer, songwriter
 Instrument:      SingingRappingViolinPiano
  Voice type:     Tenor


>> is a Chinese-Canadian singer songwriter (His father is from Hong Kong, and his mother is from PingtungTaiwan.).
>> He is one of the two new additional members to the Super Junior sub-unit Super Junior-M, the other being Zhou Mi.
>> Henry's primary language is English, though he can speak conversational KoreanMandarin Chinese, and Cantonese. He also learned French in Canada.


Biography

Henry's areas of expertise lie in violinpianopopping, guitar playing and singing. Henry started to learn to play the piano from his mother at the age of 5, and also learned to play the violin at the age of 6. He also learned a unique form of dancing called boogaloopopping while in high school. After only one year of dancing, Henry was competing in dance (popping) competitions and shows. Henry has gained many performance awards, such as the Canadian Royal Conservatory of Music Silver Medal for Level 10 Violin. Henry said he had planned to become a professional violinist, but never expected to become an idol star before being selected byS.M. Entertainment in 2006. and also said that he chose to join S.M. because if he turned to be a classical musician, he wouldn't be able to sing, dance, play the piano, and play the violin all together (Source:ilikeradio).
He was born and raised in Willowdale, Toronto where is one of the most affluent areas of the city of Toronto, Ontario, Canada, located in the district of North York. He attended Steelesview Public School, Zion Heights Junior High School, then North Toronto Collegiate Institute in grade 9, and attended A.Y. Jackson Secondary School (Toronto) for the rest of his high school years before being chosen at the 2006 S.M. Entertainment Global Audition in Toronto, Ontario. He briefly attended University of Toronto (Music Performance Major) in 2007. He also attended Berklee College of Music in Boston From May 2010 to August 2010.
His first appearance was in Super Junior's "Don't Don"  music video in September 2007. A few months later, Don't Don became a number one hit in Korea. In 2008, Henry was added to Super Junior-M and the group debuted in China on April 8, 2008, releasing their "U" remake music video and an album entitled "迷 [Me]" soon after that incorporated Henry's violin.
Henry returned to the music industry after a year-long break when Super Junior-M and their first mini-album: Super Girl (EP) was released in China on September 25, 2009. In the mini-album, Henry does not display his violin playing. Henry did mixes and beats, such as for other members' (Donghae, Hangeng and Heechul) solo performances for their fan parties and Super Show 3 (Heechul) in 2009-2010.
In 2010, Henry composed a song called '진심(All My Heart)' for Super Junior's 4th repackage album, with Leeteuk. And for Super Show 2, he solely produced and wrote a song titled "Sick Of Love" which was written in English and hasn't been officially recorded yet. He was also featured in a Jonghyun and Jino R&B duet "Don't Lie" by SM The Ballad in which he raps in the song. Also, Henry rearranged Justin Bieber's "Baby" and used the song to perform for the Super Show 3 Tour.
In February 2011, Henry's new solo song called '表白(Off My Mind)' was released, which is contained in Super Junior-M's second EP, 'Perfection (EP)'. He took part in the entire direction like composing, arranging, writing lyrics and producing, though his friends from Berklee (lyrics: Gen Rong Neo, Arrangement: Ryan M. Tedder) also participated in the direction of the song too, this song reveals his talent for producing.
His fans are known as "Strings".

Controversy

Before debuting as a member of Super Junior-M, Henry appeared as a violinist in Super Junior's 2007 single "Don't Don"[2] which caused a controversy among the fans after SM Entertainment officially announced Henry to be a member of a new Super Junior sub-unit. Previously, there were rumors stating that Henry was to be the fourteenth member of Super Junior, stemming from SM's statement regarding the controversy, which led fans to the form an "Only 13" campaign.

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