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How Got7’s Jackson Wang went from Hong Kong fencing prodigy to global music icon

If your radar picked up even a blip of K-pop in the mid-2010s, you probably encountered Jackson Wang Ka-yee long before you realised he was a Hong Kong native.

To overseas fans, he was first known as the magnetic, mischievous rapper of Got7, a boy band that debuted under JYP Entertainment in 2014 and quickly amassed a loyal international following.

Among the seven members, Wang was unmistakable - a whirlwind of chaotic energy on Korean variety shows and a multilingual charmer who could crack jokes in Mandarin, Cantonese, Korean and English.

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