Born into a musical family; his parents hosted entertainment shows for weddings, events throughout his childhood, his father as host and his mother sang. He is of Taiwanese aborigine (Amis) from his mother's family and of Taiwanese Chinese ancestry from his father. He is commonly known by his nickname Xiao Zhu, which means 'Little Pig', due to him being overweight during his childhood. Show started playing drums at the age of 3 and performed onstage with his parents as a child. He won a silver award at a father-son singing contest when he was 7.[1]
He is fluent in Mandarin, Taiwanese and conversational Japanese (learnt during his stay in Japan before the debut of Show Time, hosted a TV show with Kumi Koda).[citation needed] His English is infamously bad and his off-key mis-used English is somewhat of a running joke especially on his 100% Entertainment show.
He is managed by Univerises Entertainment Marketing Limited (天地合娛樂), along with Elva Hsiao, Wong JingLun and Nick (周湯豪). It is a sister company of Mars Entertainment Ltd (天熹娛樂) which manages artists such as Rainie Yang, Stanley Huang, Jolin Tsai, hence sometimes they refer to each other as being in the same company.
He co-hosts a daily entertainment news/variety show, 100% Entertainment (娛樂百分百) on Gala Television (GTV) Variety Show/CH 28 (八大綜合台) with Alien Huang. He is also the creator and designer of street trend fashion brand "STAGE Hyaline of World" (世界透明舞台), abbreviated as S.H.O.W.[2] It has outlets through out Taiwan and in Hong Kong, Singapore, China, USA and Australia.
In December 1995, Show joined «You Are Four Heavenly Kings» imitation competition on China Television. He imitated Aaron Kwok and won 1st place. Then along with 3 other contestants, debut as a quartet boy band 'Four Heavenly Kings' 『四大天王』, releasing 5 albums from 1996 to 1998. Then in 1998 they formally disbanded after 2 members left (compulsory military service). In the same year he formed a duo 'Romeo' 『羅密歐』, with Ou Han Sheng (歐漢聲) the other member of Four Heavenly Kings. They released 2 albums and was active till 2000. After the disbandment of Romeo, Show went solo and for the next 3 years concentrated on hosting variety shows, including stints on Japanese Fuji TV[3]
In 2003 he was signed by Avex Taiwan and launched his solo career with the release of Show Time. It sold over 80,000 copies leading to a 2nd celebration version to be published.[4] He has since worked on a variety of genres including hip hop, R&B and has collaborated with Jolin Tsai, Elva Hsiao, Rainie Yang and many other artists.
His follow up album Expert Show (traditional Chinese: 達人Show) was released on 22 October 2004. The album features collaborations with Xiao S and Taiwanese boy band Energy and a MV featuring Rainie Yang. It also contains two songs composed by Show and the ending theme song of Taiwanese drama Outsider II鬥魚2), starring Show. (
On 14 October 2005, Show released his 3rd album Hypnosis Show (traditional Chinese: 催眠Show). He collaborated with Jolin Tsai for the first lead dance track "真命天子" [Destined Guy]. The other lead track "自我催眠" [Self-Hypnosis] is composed by Jay Chou, especially for Show with the MV featuring Da S.[5]
After 11 years, on 18 November 2005, Show realised his dream of holding his first solo concert. It was held in conjunction with McDonald's World Children's Day, titled «Love's Strength» Charity Concert («愛的力量»慈善演唱會).[6] Coincidently he became the first artist to perform in a concert at the then newly opened Taipei Arena.[7]
Show released his 4th album SPESHOW on 17 November 2006. The album's title is a play on the words "special" and his name "Show". The first lead track, "精舞門" [The Dance Gate], is a cover of "James Dean (I Wanna Know)" by Daniel Bedingfield. For the first time, he sang a full length English song "Twinkle" with Japanese singer Kumi Koda, and collaborated with Simon Webbe of British boy band Blue and Ariel Lin for the MV of "好朋友" [Good Friend].
In May 2007, Show moved from Avex Taiwan to EMI Music Taiwan.[8] On 9 June 2007, Show kicked off the 2007 Show Luo «Show On Stage» World Tour Concert in Shanghai, China.[9] The tour continued onto Nanjing, Beijing, Taipei, Singapore, Jiangsu and Hong Kong.
On 16 June, Show was voted the 2007 Most Popular Male Artist at the 18th Golden Melody Awards.[10]
In August, Show was selected to be the Mandarin spokesperson for High School Musical 2 and sang the Mandarin version of the themesong '"Bet On It" (traditional Chinese: 必殺技, zh; pinyin: Bi Sha Ji) and it was released on High School Musical 2 Special Edition on 31 August.[11]
He released his 5th album Show Your Dance (traditional Chinese: 舞所不在) on 16 November 2007. He went to New York to learn and refine his dancing skills with choreographer and creative director Laurie Ann Gibson.[12] The other lead track is a duet "敗給你" [Lost To You] with Elva Hsiao.
On 11 July 2008 the live DVD of 2007 Show Luo «Show On Stage» World Tour Concert filmed in Taipei titled Show On Cruel Stage Concert Live was released. It debuted at number one on Taiwan's G-Music Top 20 Audio/Video chart (風雲榜 影音榜), peaked at number one for four weeks and charted for 29 weeks.[13]
In June 2008 EMI Music Taiwan reformed as Gold Typhoon (Taiwan) (金牌大風) and Show kept his contract with them. Show's 6th album, Trendy Man (traditional Chinese: 潮男正傳) was released on 26 December 2008.
Controversy erupted when Wang Leehom's record company Sony, whose record was released on the same day, accused Gold Typhoon (Taiwan) of buying the charts and inflating sales figures. HIM International Music, who manages S.H.E. and Fahrenheit, joined in.[14] The dispute got bigger when prominent artists like Jay Chou, A-Mei, Mayday backed LeeHom while several TV hosts like Jacky Wu showed their support for Show Luo.[citation needed]
Show won the most awards at the first Singapore Entertainment Awards in 2009, despite competition from other mandarin pop stars like JJ Lin and Stefanie Sun. He also performed as the opening act for the 6th Asia Song Festival in Seoul, Korea.
Show recently renewed his contract with Gold Typhoon. Remembering his debut album where no record companies would sign him, Show demonstrated his gratitude towards Gold Typhoon.[citation needed]Rashomon (traditional Chinese: 羅生門) held the number 1 spot on G-music for 10 weeks straight, tying Jolin Tsai's run. A re-packaged album was released with bonus DVD which included a 3D music video of new song "舞法舞天" [Dance Without Limits]. His 7th album
2010 Show Luo «Dance Without Limits 3D World Live» World Tour Concert: Tickets for Show's 2010 world tour were are sold out in less than 2 hours, becoming the first artist to hold 3D concerts.[citation needed][15] He also held three concerts within 24 hours in Taipei.
He released his new album Only for You on 18 February 2011, featuring the singles "Only You", "Hero In Vain" and "Touch My Heart".
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