{"id":363835,"date":"2026-03-29T06:34:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-29T06:34:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/363835\/"},"modified":"2026-03-29T06:34:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-29T06:34:11","slug":"chinese-singer-silence-wang-has-plenty-to-say-at-first-concerts-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/363835\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese singer Silence Wang has plenty to say at first concerts here"},"content":{"rendered":"

Singapore Indoor Stadium
March 27 and 28<\/p>\n

Ahead of Silence Wang\u2019s three sold-out concerts in Singapore \u2013 the Chinese singer-songwriter\u2019s first in the Lion City \u2013 I hear many puns related to his name. Friends ask if his shows are going to be quiet, or if his music might be silenced or censored.<\/p>\n

The 36-year-old might sound foreign to non-Mandarin-speaking audiences. But in 2025, Grammy.com, the Recording Academy\u2019s official website, named him as one of \u201c12 Artists Helping Mandopop Become The Next Global Genre\u201d, alongside A-listers Jay Chou, G.E.M., Mayday, JJ Lin and Jolin Tsai.<\/p>\n

Wang, the piece noted, was among China\u2019s top Mandopop artistes on Spotify, and averages more than 2.3 million listeners a month on the platform.<\/p>\n

With 11 studio albums under his belt and performing three concert tours in 2026 alone, Wang is an eminent Mandopop composer. <\/p>\n

I attended the first two nights of his three-night gig here and discovered three reasons why he has plenty to say through his music. He will perform a third show on March 29.<\/p>\n

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Wang\u2019s versatility showed in the slightly different set list on each night of his shows.<\/p>\n

PHOTO: LIVENATIONSG\/FACEBOOK<\/p>\n

Having graduated from the Shenyang Conservatory of Music in China, where he majored in classical music composition, Wang has expertise in many genres. <\/p>\n

He wrote the melody and lyrics to Diamond Zhang\u2019s traditional Chinese music number Rings Of Time (2015), Well Lee\u2019s electronica track Soul Of The Sword (2017) and Joey Yung\u2019s pop song Let The Rain Come Down (2022), which have become fairly well known among the artistes\u2019 respective repertoires.<\/p>\n

During his concert, Wang sang all these numbers, as well as the R&B track Until Never (2011), which he wrote with his good friend, Chinese singer Xu Liang. <\/p>\n

His classical roots also came through in Bach\u2019s Old Testament (2010), filled with flourishes such as a harpsichord, an instrument associated with the Baroque composer, and some German lyrics.<\/p>\n

Demonstrating his versatility, Wang changed up the set list every night. \u201cI have too many songs and I am not finished,\u201d he said during his March 28 show.<\/p>\n

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Many of Wang\u2019s songs have been used as theme songs in Chinese dramas and movies.<\/p>\n

PHOTO: LIVENATIONSG\/FACEBOOK<\/p>\n

Wang\u2019s popularity grew in the 2010s when many of his theme songs were used in dramas and movies. For example, Rings Of Time was a theme song for the Chinese fantasy drama The Journey Of Flower (2015).<\/p>\n

He performed the peppy number One Alluring Smile (2016), which was used in the Chinese idol drama Love O2O (2016) on March 27, accompanied by dancers in mascot costumes.<\/p>\n

His ballad The Unforgotten (2019) was used in the Chinese high-school movie My Best Summer (2019), where Wang made his film debut with a cameo. <\/p>\n

Mid-song, he mentioned the drama\u2019s lead characters \u2013 Geng Geng (played by Chinese actress He Lan Dou) and Yu Huai (played by Chinese actor Arthur Chen) \u2013 reminding audiences of the protagonists\u2019 heartfelt onscreen connection.<\/p>\n

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In the track Defiant, Wang sings of the struggles of young people holding on to their ideals in an imperfect world.<\/p>\n

PHOTO: LIVENATIONSG\/FACEBOOK<\/p>\n

The appeal of Wang\u2019s music lies partly in his astute lyrics, which express the anxieties of modern society. In Defiant (2019), he sings of the struggles of young people holding on to their ideals in a imperfect world.<\/p>\n

On Sisyphus (2018), he draws a parallel between the myth of Sisyphus, a Greek mythological figure condemned to push a boulder up a mountain for eternity, and modern rejection of the rat race. <\/p>\n

There are echoes of the Chinese counterculture of \u201clying flat\u201d and its Western equivalent of \u201cquiet quitting\u201d, which have both made headlines in recent years.<\/p>\n

The song\u2019s lyrics go: \u201cI cannot see you \/ I cannot see the unknown destiny \/ You are bottomless \/ Want to give up every day.\u201d<\/p>\n

With his maturity and musical talent, Wang proves he is anything but silent \u2013 and that he still has much more to say.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Singapore Indoor StadiumMarch 27 and 28 Ahead of Silence Wang\u2019s three sold-out concerts in Singapore \u2013 the Chinese…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":363836,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[146,85,46],"class_list":{"0":"post-363835","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-il","10":"tag-israel"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363835","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=363835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363835\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/363836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=363835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=363835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=363835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}