Danson Tang

Biography

Danson Tang (Chinese: 唐禹哲; pinyin: Táng Yǔzhé) is a Taiwanese model, actor and singer.

Early life

Tang was born on 2 September 1984, in Keelung, Taiwan. He has an elder sister who is four years older. When Tang was fourteen, his father died in a work-related accident, leaving his mother to care for him and his sister on her own. To support the family and fund his sister’s overseas education, Tang’s mother had to leave home to find work, leaving him to live alone. Relatives and neighbors occasionally checked in on him to ensure his well-being. Tang has stated that this experience of living alone made it difficult for him to open up to others about his feelings.
Tang dropped out from Asia Eastern University of Science and Technology in 2006. He later studied at Hsing Wu University, majoring in English, until he dropped out.

Pre-debut

Tang was discovered while working part-time at a Japanese restaurant during his college years. His career started out as a commercial model and appearing on other artists' music videos. Some of his more popular early work included appearing in two music videos for Hong Kong pop duo Twins during the height of their popularity.

Acting

After gaining recognition through his commercial work, Tang was contacted by Taiwanese television station GTV for an acting management contract. After reviewing his new career endeavor with his mother, he signed with GTV in 2004 to act in dramas that aired on their network. At first appearing only in minor supporting roles he eventually moved up to main cast roles when he was cast as the villain in 2005 popular idol drama KO One starring opposite Taiwanese boy band Fahrenheit members. He continued his collaboration with the group and their acting management company "Comic International Productions" in idol dramas such as Hanazakarino Kimitachihe, The X-Family, They Kiss Again and Rolling Love.
Originally cast as the main lead in Mysterious Incredible Terminator, the drama production company later switched his role with Fahrenheit member Aaron Yan, which Tang ended up starring as the second male lead in Rolling Love due to Yan suffering an injury. Due to Rolling Love's subpar ratings, as well as feeling overshadowed and under promoted by his acting management company, he eventually left GTV's management in 2011 and signed with Comprise Boundless Entertainment.
After leaving GTV he continued with main supporting roles in Mainland produced dramas. In 2012, Tang landed his first leading role in a major production for newly formed Hong Kong television network HKTV, starring in the idol drama Love in Time playing a 200-year-old vampire who falls in love with a human girl. Tang, who is not fluent in Cantonese, had his voice dubbed over by a voice actor. However, as of current the drama remains un-aired and does not have a set schedule of when it will air due to HKTV unavailability to obtain a free television programme service licence from the Hong Kong government.
In 2013 Tang returned to Taiwan produced dramas by signing an acting contract with local cable station SETTV. His first drama with SETTV was as the second male lead in A Hint of You. The following year he was cast as the male lead in SETTV's weekly drama Fabulous 30. With strong ratings from Fabulous 30, he was once again offered a leading role by SETTV for their 2015 Friday night drama Murphy's Law of Love. Then in 2017, Tang scored a supporting role as Bai Zhou in Chinese drama, Our Boyhood (我们的少年时代), which starred the famous idol boy band, TFBOYS. Tang also had sung the song in 我们的少年时代, 再见安打.

Music

On 9 July 2007, Tang signed with Avex Taiwan and released his debut solo album Love Me (愛我) on 17 August 2007. This was followed by D's New Attraction (D新引力) in 2009 and The First Second (D1秒) in 2010. He released his first new song plus collection compilation album, Towards Tomorrow's Journey (開往明天的旅行×開往明天的旅行2011 · Studio albumSpotify (search)YouTube Music (search)Tracklist · 16 tracks1對眼3:542開往明天的旅行3:553觸電3:284最愛還是你3:535情報4:036造飛機3:487新歌4:378Kiss Me Now4:209I'm Back (feat. Amber)3:3610分開以後4:0011愛我4:2212灰色河堤3:4013最溫柔的懸念3:0914Be with You4:1915放過你自己吧4:0416The Best Of DT (多合一組曲)3:31) on 26 April 2011, in two versions, Guardian Edition (守護盤) and Journey Edition (啟程盤). It contains 15 previously released tracks and three new songs, including lead track "Towards Tomorrow's Journey" (開往明天的旅行).

Personal life

Tang often collaborated with boyband Fahrenheit to the point that he was sometimes mistaken as a member of the band. He is close friends with one of the band's members, Jiro Wang.
In 2023, Tang proposed to Becky Su, an American-Taiwanese actress and model whose family business served as the agency for Daikin in Taiwan, on the Chinese reality show Call Me By Fire (Season 3). Shortly after he revealed that had a son with his ex-girlfriend 11 years ago, of which Su was aware. In 2024, Tang revealed that he had a second son, born two years ago, with Su.