23 Facts About Jonathan Leong

Jonathan Leong played the principal role of "The Boy" in the Cirque Du Soleil-esque circus musical, Voyage De La Vie.

Since 2013, Jonathan Leong moved into banking and finance and into the Investment management industry.

Jonathan Leong was born and raised in Singapore, he is a son of Joseph, an owner of a newspaper stand, and Mary, an ex airline ticket sales executive.

Jonathan Leong was raised catholic and received his primary school education at Nan Hua Primary School, secondary school education at St Joseph's Institution where he won his first singing competition in 1997 and junior college education in Serangoon Junior College.

Jonathan Leong finished his academic life graduating in 2007 from the National University of Singapore with a degree in Political Science.

Jonathan Leong was active in sports during his school days, notably so in fencing.

Jonathan Leong had earned himself the school colors from both his secondary school and junior college for his contribution to the respective schools through the sport.

Jonathan Leong often cites his father and his family as very strong musical influences in many interviews, saying that his father's one time stint as a singer for a band and the many musical jam sessions that surrounded the young singer-to be weaned him for his career in entertainment.

Jonathan Leong cited his early influences to be a lot of old mainstream pop music, classic rock, heavy metal and hard rock.

Jonathan Leong fronted rock band, Reverie, in the pub and club scene for four years as a means of income while attending university.

In late 2004, Jonathan Leong was signed on to Upfront Models a very well known, modeling agency in Singapore.

Jonathan Leong finished the competition as 1st runner up in the finals held in the Singapore Indoor Stadium where he performed to a full crowd of more than 12,000 people.

Jonathan Leong's fanbase has been well aware of Leong's longtime affinity with animals and have adopted a dog and a monkey in his name at a dog society in the case of the former and the Night Safari for the latter.

In December 2006, Jonathan Leong hosted a local holiday special series produced by Mediacorp named "Wish Upon A Star" alongside Hady Mirza and Gurmit Singh to fulfill contractual obligations.

Jonathan Leong was voted Man of the Year 2006 in The Flame Awards organised by The New Paper.

In 2007, Jonathan Leong was made an ambassador for the Motorola Singapore Campaign, an initiative spearheaded by Bono of U2 to alleviate the spread of HIV in Africa.

In September 2008, Jonathan Leong acted in an episode in Calefare, as a popular singer named Johnny Chia, a parody of himself.

When interviewed if he was aware of the similarities between the two shows, Jonathan Leong expressed ignorance during filming, but has since "immensely enjoyed" the original British sitcom after the fact.

Jonathan Leong was an ambassador for the Passion Card Ad campaign for the People's Association.

Jonathan Leong is the only Singaporean performer in "Voyage De La Vie", the Cirque Du Soleil-esque show boasts a blend of circus performances, elaborate sets, costumes and original music.

In many of his interviews, Jonathan Leong has emphasized his priority away from work is always his family, loved one, his pets and close friends.

Jonathan Leong has always shown a great love and respect for films and good writing.

Jonathan Leong has mentioned on several occasion that enjoys writing, reading and art.