Henry Lau

Henry Lau was born on October 11, 1989, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. His father is from Hong Kong with a Teochew descent and his mother hails from Pingtung, Taiwan.

At the age of five he began to take piano lessons from his mother and at age six he started learning violin. With time he learned to play several other musical instruments including the electric violin. Later he earned the Canadian Royal Conservatory of Music (RCM) Regional Gold Medal for Level 10 for both piano and violin.

Brought up in Willowdale, a middle-class neighbourhood in Toronto city, Henry studied in different schools at different points of time including in ‘Kenollie Public School’, ‘Steelesview Public School’, and ‘Zion Heights Junior High School’.

In ninth grade he attended ‘North Toronto Collegiate Institute’ and then joined ‘A.Y. Jackson Secondary School’ in Toronto where he undertook rest of his high school studies.

While in high school he learnt the boogaloo popping dance form and after a year of learning he started taking part in dance (popping) contests and shows. He is also skilled in various other dance forms.

On September 20, 2007, the R&B/rock song ‘Don't Don’ was released by the Korean boy band ‘Super Junior’ for their second album ‘Don't Don’. The violin part in the song was contributed by Henry.

Starting from 2007, he has appeared in several Chinese and Korean variety TV shows including in ‘Star King’ (2007), ‘Hello Counselor’ (2013), ‘Happy Together’ (2014), ‘We Got Married’ (2015) and ‘I Live Alone’ (2017).

South Korean entertainment company S.M. Entertainment declared in October 2007 that in 2008 Henry would make his debut as member of the Chinese-South Korean boy band ‘Super Junior-M’. It is a sub-group of Super Junior China that became the first international music group in the history of Chinese music industry to have both members of Chinese and Korean descent.

However, his debut as "mystery violinist" in ‘Don't Don’ added with rumours of Henry becoming the fourteenth member of ‘Super Junior’ stemmed up a controversy that saw fans of the group forming an “Only 13” campaign.

On April 8, 2008, ‘Super Junior-M’ made their debut at the 8th Annual Music Chart Awards in Beijing while releasing their debut music video, ‘U’ on Sohu.com on that very day. The single that was a Chinese remake of the original ‘Super Junior’ song ‘U’ (2006) was included as lead single in their April 23, 2008 released debut album ‘Me’.