Stanley Huang
Stanley Huang is a Taiwanese singer and actor who grew up in the United States. In 1991 he formed the hip-hop group L.A. Boyz with his older brother Jeffrey HuangJeffrey HuangJeffrey Huang, known as Machi Big Brother, is a Taiwan-born entertainer, entrepreneur and crypto investor. A member of the 1990s hip-hop group L.A. Boyz, he founded Machi Entertainment in 2003 and the live-streaming platform 17 Media around 2015, serving as its chairman, then founded the crypto projects Mithril and C.R.E.A.M. Finance; he is also a major holder of Bored Ape Yacht Club NFTs.Open the full entry and their cousin Steven LinSteven LinSteven Lin is an American orthopaedic surgeon and the youngest former member of the Taiwanese hip-hop group L.A. Boyz. Born in Pasadena, California, he formed L.A. Boyz in 1991 with his cousins Jeffrey Huang and Stanley Huang, and after the group disbanded he returned to the United States to study medicine; he earned his M.D. at the University of California, Irvine, specializes in hand, wrist, elbow and microsurgery, and practises in Pasadena and Arcadia.Open the full entry, and after the group disbanded in 1997 he became a solo singer. In 2005 he won Best Mandarin Male Singer at the 16th Golden Melody Awards for the album Shades of My Mind. He later appeared in films directed by Xu Jinglei, including Go Lala Go!, then gradually withdrew from show business; he has no official social media accounts.
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1991–1997L.A. Boyz
Huang grew up in the United States. He, his older brother Jeffrey Huang and their cousin Steven Lin returned to Taiwan and appeared on the TTV variety show Five Lights Award on September 8, 1991, as the hip-hop group L.A. Boyz; produced by Ni Chung-hua, founder of the label Truth Words Music, the group became popular for its breaking dance and Taiwanese-language songs, released its first record in Taiwan in 1992 and disbanded in 1997.[1][2][3]
2003The Single Sound Wave
After L.A. Boyz broke up, Huang became a solo singer. In 2003 he released Sound Wave, a dark electronic single that remained a popular karaoke request years later.[4]
May 2005Best Mandarin Male Singer at the Golden Melody Awards
In May 2005, at the 16th Golden Melody Awards in Kaohsiung, Huang won Best Mandarin Male Singer for Shades of My Mind, an album mixing hip-hop, rock and electronic music, beating the favorites Jay Chou and Wang Leehom as a dark horse.[5]
2008The Album We All Lay Down in the End
His album We All Lay Down in the End was nominated for Best Mandarin Album and Best Album Producer at the 20th Golden Melody Awards. He has not released an album since.[6]
From 2010: Films Directed by Xu Jinglei
Huang had earlier appeared in the Taiwanese film Twenty Something Taipei. In 2010 he appeared in Go Lala Go!, directed by Xu Jinglei, and the two met during filming; he later starred in Xu’s Dear Enemy and Somewhere Only We Know. After his films with Xu he gradually withdrew from show business and rarely acted again.[7][6][4]
He and Xu have been in a relationship since 2010, keeping a low profile and rarely appearing together in public; as of 2023 they said they had no plans to marry or have children.[6]
2019Mentor on Produce Camp 2019
January 2026First Public Appearance in Nearly Six Years
Around New Year 2026, DJ Mark shared a photo with Huang taken at a New Year’s Eve event in Taipei, a rare public appearance after nearly six years; Huang was 51. He was not involved in Kung Fu, the film his brother Jeffrey Huang produced that February, and his brother joked that he was hard to get along with.[7][8]
Sources
- 重探台灣嘻哈起點：荒漠至豐盛的漫漫長路 [Revisiting the origins of Taiwanese hip-hop: the long road from desert to abundance] (opens in a new window) (in Chinese)
- 吳建豪美國被霸凌遇到黃立成 對方1句「回台灣耍廢」成爆紅關鍵 [Van Ness Wu was bullied in the U.S. and met Jeffrey Huang; one line about going back to Taiwan became the key to his fame] (opens in a new window) (in Chinese)
- Jeff Huang not guilty of libel (opens in a new window)
- 行走的賀爾蒙無誤！黃立行再秀好身材，44歲這樣的胸肌、腹肌，是不是太過分了～ [Walking hormones indeed: Stanley Huang shows off his physique again at 44] (opens in a new window) (in Chinese)
- Singer Sandee Chan wins Taiwan top music awards (opens in a new window)
- 黃立行低調煲愛13年！從沒吵過架 徐靜蕾：他像人生一帖良藥 [Stanley Huang’s low-key 13-year romance: never a fight, and Xu Jinglei says he is like good medicine in life] (opens in a new window) (in Chinese)
- 消失6年黃立行街頭現身！51歲背狗狀態炸裂 網封S級隱藏版男神 [Stanley Huang seen on the street after six years out of view; netizens praise the 51-year-old] (opens in a new window) (in Chinese)
- 九把刀沒揪、親弟歹逗陣 黃立成《功夫》首映變「爆料大會」 [Giddens Ko left him out and his brother is hard to get along with: Jeffrey Huang’s Kung Fu premiere turns into a reveal session] (opens in a new window) (in Chinese)