Gary Cao's bio

Gary Cao (born July 9, 1979 in Kota Belud, Sabah, Malaysia), also known as Gary Chaw or Cao Ge is a popular Taiwan based Malaysian singer-songwriter who has had achieved huge success in Taiwan, Malaysia, Hongkong, and Singapore. He is renowned for his great stage charisma, wide vocal range, and rich voice. In addition, he does a lot of composing for himself and other singers as well.

Early life
He received his early education in Canada. He went on to continue his studies at Auckland University, New Zealand when he was 16, getting a degree in Architecture

Career
In 2006 he won Hong Kong TVB's Newcomer Singer award and has since released three albums. His big break occurred with the release of his Mandarin version of Karyn White's 1988 song "Superwoman". Cao wrote some chart-topping songs in Taiwan sung by S.H.E, Cyndi Wang, and Aaron Kwok.

In a recent interview with MTV, Cao admits (fluently in English) that he is a shy guy who doesn't express himself well through words but well enough in the songs he sings. His early influences came from admiration of Stevie Wonder and R Kelly.

He is one of the rising singers that has been compared to Leehom Wang and Jay Chou

He won an award in the 2008 Golden Melody awards in Taiwan , bagging the Best Male Mandarin Singer award.He is also dubbed "Little Heavenly King" by the press , and also Melody king, and his most recent concert tour of Asia, "Welcome To My World" was a great success. close