Jackson Wang is a Hong Kong born Chinese rapper, singer and dancer.
Background
Jackson was born in Hong Kong on 28 March 1994 to an athletic family. His mother is Sophia Wang. His father is Wang Ruiji, a former coach of Hong Kong national fencing team and a one time winner at the Asian Games in 1978 representing China.
Career
Jackson is a former national fencer (sabre) of the Hong Kong fencing team and was ranked 11th in the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics, eventually winning first place at the Asian Junior and Cadet Fencing Championship in 2011. Jackson started his fencing career when he was 10. Jackson was ranked 11th place on the 2010 Cadet World Championships.
He represented Hong Kong in the Youth Olympic Games 2010 held in Singapore and participated in 2 events, Boys Sabre and Mixed Team.
He was eliminated in the rounds of 16 and did not manage to go up to the quarterfinals losing to Artur Okunev from Russia. Jackson attended the American International School in Hong Kong and completed up to 11th grade.
He can speak Mandarin, Shanghainese, Cantonese, English and Korean. Pre-debut
Jackson came to South of Korea in 2011 on July 3rd.
He became a JYP trainee for two and a half years before his debut in Got7.
Got7"s video came out on January 16th. 2014-present: Korean debut with GOT7, active in variety shows and Military Cross
Beside group activities, Jackson is known as a rising variety star who makes his appearance in various Korean reality shows. His first significant solo variety was MBC Every 1"s Hitmaker in July 2014 in which he formed a project group called Bigbyung with VIXX"s North, Hyuk, BtoB"s Sungjae produced by Jeong Hyeong-don and Defconn.
His work includes Star King, Others" Taste, Law of the Jungle, Happy Together, Radio Star, A Look At Myself et cetera
In May 12th 2015, Jackson was appointed as new Military Cross for Business School"s Inkigayo following the leave of ZE:A’s Kwanghee. He is now starting to take up Military Cross roles for Chinese programs as well.
His recent variety show "Please Take Care Of My Refrigerator: Chinese Edition" is well received, making him ranked number 1 on the realtime weibo search.
Membership
He is best known as a member of the South Korean boy band Got7. Jackson"s first appearance as an official member of Got7 was in the teaser for their debut on January 6th with Yugyeom.