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Lang Lang
At the half of the list we bring you a classical piano player who remembers his first encounter with the western music was in a Tom and Jerry cartoon, where he saw the two characters playing the Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2 by Franz Liszt.
Lang Lang is the classical piano player that we are talking about, a world known musician that made a net worth of 20 million dollars.
The Chinese piano player after finishing the Conservatory under Professor Zhao Ping-Guo’s wing, started to win several contests proving that he could be the best piano player in his country.
By the age of 14 he moved to Philadelphia and started at the Curtis Institute of Music and soon he started a blooming career of classical piano playing.
One of the richest pianists in the world, made a lot of tours and concerted in many cities all around Asia, Europe and the US, being acclaimed, criticized and loved in the same time.
Some of his famous performances where at Carnegie Hall, at the Great Hall of the People with the Philadelphia Orchestra and many others.
He also signed the biggest record deal of his life a 3 million dollars contract with Sony and performed for higher audiences like the president of America, Germany, China, Poland, France making him appear on the Forbes 100 most influential people in the world.
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