Stevie Hoang

Stevie Hoang is a British singer and producer[1] signed to Mercury Records.[2] and AVEX.[3] He is best known for writing "Fight for You", a hit single by him and Iyaz from his album Unsigned. The song became an international hit for Jason Derülo in 2011.

Stevie Hoang
Born (1985-06-09) 9 June 1985
OriginBirmingham, England, UK
GenresR&B, hip hop, dance
Occupation(s)Producer, singer-songwriter, musician, multi-instrumentalist
Years active2008–present
LabelsMercury (UK), Avex (Japan)
Associated actsShay, Iyaz, May J., Jason Derülo, N-Dubz

Career

Stevie Hoang (pronounced Hwong) learned piano at the age of eleven and showed talent with it. He started his musical career as a producer, working from his parents' house. He has often uploaded home videos of himself performing informal acoustic tracks at home.

In early 2008, Hoang's debut "home-made", self-produced, self-recorded and self-promoted debut album, This Is Me brought him to the attention of the Japanese market, where, after repeated trips, he has sold over 65,000 albums.[4] Stevie Hoang supported N-Dubz and Tinchy Stryder on their 2009 "Uncle B" tour. In 2008, he supported the Girls Aloud Tangled Up Tour.

He followed the release of This Is Me with the independent album All Night Long, and in 2011, the album Unsigned. The album contains "Fight for You", a song Stevie Hoang penned as a single originally with Iyaz. The song was produced with RedOne in Los Angeles, but it was later given to singer Jason Derülo, who recorded it for his 2011 Future History, crediting Hoang as writer, and released it as his third single from the album.

Personal life

Stevie Hoang was born in Birmingham, England.[1][5] He moved to London with his parents when he was one year old.

Since Hoang's surname is Chinese (Huang 黄), many of his fans assume that he is of Vietnamese descent. However, his family were ethnic Chinese from Guangdong Province, also known as Hoa, who later moved to England in the 1980s. There have been many comments and debate in his YouTube videos about his ethnicity. Hoang acknowledged his origin in an interview with The Sunday Times.[6][7] Hoang is an avid Manchester United supporter.[8]

Discography

Albums
  • 2008: This Is Me
  • 2009: All Night Long
  • 2011: Unsigned
  • 2012: All For You
  • 2013: The Collection
  • 2015: Forever
  • 2017: Undiscovered
  • 2019: Secrets

Singles
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gollark: ?tag create av1 To be fair, you have to have a very high IQ to understand AV1 encodes. The settings are extremely intricate, and without a solid grasp of theoretical video codec knowledge, most of the jokes will go over a typical user's head. There's also MPEG-LA's capitalistic outlook, which is deftly woven into its characterisation - its personal philosophy draws heavily from the Sewing Machine Combination, for instance. The encoders understand this stuff; they have the intellectual capacity to truly appreciate the color depth of their encodes, to realize that they're not just high quality- they show something deep about LIFE. As a consequence people who dislike AV1 truly ARE idiots- of course they wouldn't appreciate, for instance, the genius in AV1's quintessential CDEF filter, which itself is a cryptic reference to Xiph.org's Daala. I'm smirking right now just imagining one of those addlepated simpletons scratching their heads in confusion as AOM's genius unfolds itself in their hardware decoder. What fools... how I pity them. 😂 And yes by the way, I DO have an AV1 logo tattoo. And no, you cannot see it. It's for the ladies' eyes only- And even they have to demonstrate that their encode is within 5 dB PSNR of my own (preferably lower) beforehand.
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gollark: Also, your CPU probably has a thermal-noise hardware RNG.

References
  1. McLean, Craig (26 February 2010). "Stevie Hoang: out to break Vietnam". The Times. London. Retrieved 8 May 2010.
  2. "Mercury Music Group : Home". Mercury Records. Archived from the original on 23 April 2010. Retrieved 8 May 2010.
  3. "Stevie Hoang （スティーヴィー・ホアン） Official Website". Avex Marketing Inc. Retrieved 8 May 2010.
  4. Stevie Hoang interview by Pete Lewis, 'Blues & Soul' April 2010
  5. Coleman, Andrew (5 February 2010). "Birmingham-born Chinese star to support JLS at LG Arena". Birmingham Mail. Retrieved 8 May 2010.
  6. McLean, Craig (26 February 2010). "Stevie Hoang out to break Vietnam". The Times. London.
  7. McLean, Craig (26 February 2010). "Stevie Hoang out to break Vietnam". The Times. London.
  8. "Twitter / Stevie Hoang". Twitter.com. 1 March 2010. Retrieved 8 May 2010.
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