If the rumor is to be believed, his hands are insured for $70 million. How does he see the future? Lang Lang is sitting comfortably, his legs crossed, slim-fingered hands folded. Nearly two billion people - almost a third of the world's population - watched Lang Lang playing the piano at the opening of the Beijing Olympic Games.īecause his name has become ubiquitous, many people are under the impression that Lang Lang has been on the music scene for a very long time. Worldwide, his name is googled 50 times more than that of soprano Anna Netrebko, number two in the classical music Jet Set. Lang Lang, whose first name (朗) means "Sunshine" and whose family name (郎) means "Cultured Gentleman" in Chinese, is today's only real classical music superstar, as famous as top athletes and actors.
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It's strange that there hasn't been a movie about his life yet – everything else has already been done, including a 3-D concert DVD. The former wunderkind began his musical career by winning several major piano competitions, then made his concert debut when he replaced another pianist who had fallen ill. Back in Beijing where he was brought up by a tyrannical father, he used to share a bathroom with seven others but today he treads the plush carpets of the world's finest hotels and sleeps in suites equipped with every luxury including his own piano. There he is: the most popular classical musician on the planet, nibbling at his sandwich, like a little prince in his black Armani jacket. Lang Lang sits down in front of the plate of food, offers some of the cold fries, and starts eating.
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and couldn't sleep, damn jet lag, turned on the TV and by the time he finally nodded off, ended up sleeping until noon the next day. In fact she's very sweet." Anyway, he got back to his suite around 2 a.m.
He had already met the Queen once before, but this time she wasn't so cheerful because she was worried about her husband's health. "Really very interesting conversations," even if everybody always asks him the same thing: how many hours a day does he practice, how old was he when he started to play the piano, and what's the life of a concert pianist like. The night before he had given a concert for the Queen's Diamond Jubilee at Royal Albert Hall, and then afterwards he and some other musicians including Paul McCartney, Elton John and Robbie Williams were invited to Buckingham Palace with Prince William and Kate and Prince Harry. By the time he walked through the door a half hour later, the fries were cold. When our interview was scheduled to start, at 1:30 p.m., a waiter brought the food to the conference table in the Mayfair room at the Langham Hotel. So he picked up the phone in his London hotel suite and called Berlin to ask his PR agency to call the hotel and order him a club sandwich and French fries. LONDON - On the morning following his evening with Britain's Royal Family, Lang Lang was hungry.
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