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David Tao is a popular Chinese singer-songwriter. He is well-known for creating a crossover genre of R&B and hard rock tunes which has now become his signature style and for having popularized R&B in the Mandopop industry. David Tao was born in 11 July 1969 in Hong Kong (Hometown: Shanghai), as Tao Xu Zhong (traditional Chinese: 陶緒忠; simplified Chinese: 陶绪忠; pinyin: Táo Xùzhōng), to parents who were considered famous entertainers in Taiwan. His father, Tao Da Wei (traditional Chinese: 陶大偉; simplified Chinese: 陶大伟; pinyin: Táo Dàwěi) (the latter two characters which can also be read as "David", hence essentially David Tao Senior), was an actor/singer/composer and his mother, Wang Fu Rong (traditional Chinese: 王復蓉; simplified Chinese: 王复蓉; pinyin: Wáng Fùróng), a very well known Chinese opera singer. David spent part of his childhood in Hong Kong (something which he shared with his audience during his Soul Power concerts in Hong Kong). His parents supposedly eloped when his father could not get approval to marry his mother. David had his education in Taiwan from kindergarten to the junior high school level at the Bethany Campus of Morrison Academy in Taipei. Later, his father decided to pursue his dream of working for Walt Disney, and they migrated to the United States city of Arcadia, California. There he attended Arcadia High School. where David Tao Sr. realised his dream and worked as an animator in Disney Burbank. His parents later returned to Taiwan where his father beg

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