Dana Leong

Quick Facts

Full Name	Dana Leong
Occupation	Cellist
Date Of Birth	Mar 4, 1980(1980-03-04)
Age	44
Birthplace	San Francisco
Country	United States
Birth City	California
Horoscope	Pisces

Dana Leong Biography

Dana Leong is one of the most popular and richest Cellist who was born on March 4, 1980 in San Francisco, California, United States. Dana Tateo Leong (born March 4, 1980), known professionally as Dana Leong, is a 2011 Grammy Award Winning multi-instrumentalist, composer, producer, US Ambassador of Music, adventurer, philanthropist & entrepreneur from the San Francisco Bay Area, who is known for mixing elements of traditional instruments such as his electric cello and trombone with electronic music and visuals.

In addition, Leong has played in a number of the world’s best concert venues , such as Carnegie Hall, Venice Biennale, Beijing Olympic Stadium, Hong Kong Sha Tin Philharmonic Hall, New York Shea Stadium and Summerstage and has elevated music to levels and created new stages that were never thought of. He started collaboration with an aerial performance firm to produce performances that included Leong playing his cello and trombone suspended in the air, on the sides of tall buildings and towers. Particularly, he performed off within the walls Los Angeles City Hall, The Old Post Office next to the White House and the Campeche Cathedral in Mexico. In the same year, he was also a composer-in- residence at the Museum of Chinese in America and worked with world-renowned violinist Midori Goto’s Midori & Friends Foundation, helping to design and create music programs for schools located in the inner city of the Greater New York City Area.

After moving to New York, while studying Jazz Trombone and Orchestral Cello at the Manhattan School of Music on a full scholarship, he continued to perform and produce with many well known musicians from the Jazz, Latin and Hip-Hop worlds such as Marc Anthony, Huey Dunbar, Horace Silver, Ryuichi Sakamoto, DJ Qbert, DJ A-Trak, Chat Hugo, Harry Belafonte, Christian McBride, The Mingus Big Band, Wynton Marsalis & the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, Balkan Beat Box, Keali’i Reichel, Firewater, Chick Correa, Lila Downs, Lionel Hampton, Dave Douglas, David Taylor, Steve Coleman, Eddie Palmieri, Henry Threadgill, Claudia Acuña, Fermin Muguruza, Lew Soloff, Jason Lindner, Tony Escapa, Miguel Zenon, Dafnis Prieto, Yosvany Terry, Christian Howes and Paquito D’Rivera whom with Leong collaborated on the “Panamericana Suite” Album, which won two Grammy Awards for “Best Latin Jazz Album” and “Best Classical Composition” in

2011. Leong is a big fan of hip-hop, jazz, electronic music and film score and continues to blend and bend genre lines with his own musical compositions.

In 2014, Leong was the first musician to bring Hip-Hop to the stage of the World Economic Forum’s Summer Davos ‘Meeting of New Champions’ Conference in Tianjin China. He invited the world’s best turntablist DJ Qbert to join him in performing and giving interactive lecture demonstrations on the history of Hip-Hop to show musical collaboration methods as examples for world leaders to follow. The conference was attended by China’s President Xi Jingpin, athlete Yao Ming, actress Yao Chen (Queen of Weibo) and 4 thousand influencers assembling to discuss solutions to global issues. Leong’s duet with DJ Qbert later became a trio with painter TV host Justin Bua and the three co-created a short animated film with artist Julie Gratz entitled “Rhythm of the City” which won awards from film festivals including New York’s Tribeca Film Festival.

The 2007-2008 season was when Dana Leong Band was a part of the 2007-2008 season. Dana Leong Band was selected as the best winner in the US State Department of Cultural Affairs’ American Music Abroad music diplomacy program’s US Ambassadorship. The band began traveling around the globe to promote positive cultural exchanges through music. The group was able to perform and speak to those living in Fiji, Vietnam, Philippines, Cambodia, Laos, Mexico and Washington DC.

Dana Leong Net Worth

Dana Leong is one of the richest Cellist from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Dana Leong 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

In middle and high school he was chosen for the principal spots playing both Cello and Trombone with the California All State Jazz and classical ensembles, including the Monterey Jazz Festival All Star Big Band that performed in Japan and California as well as the National Grammy High School All Star Big Band that played at the 1997 and 1998 Grammy Awards Events with Boyz II Men and on NBC’s nationally telecast Today Show.

The year 2005 was the time that Leong began to open “Life After Dark Studio” in 2005, the medium-sized studio for production located within Harlem with satellite offices located in Columbus, Ohio, and San Francisco. It was in this studio that Leong recorded three albums “Leaving New York”, “Anthems of Life” and “Dream State”. The studio shut down in 2016 to provide bandwidth to Leong to further develop his social-entrepreneurship platform TEKTONIK and also to establish the studio at Shanghai, China.

In 2011, as a response to his family being affected by the tsunami, earthquake & nuclear disasters in Japan, Leong formed TEKTONIK, an artist collective geared towards using music as a vehicle to remediate negative effects in natural disaster and trauma stricken zones of the world.

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Facts & Trivia

Dana Ranked on the list of most popular Cellist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Dana Leong celebrates birthday on March 4 of every year.