Even while on a world tour with rigorous demands, Jackson Wang is always ready with more than a few tricks up his sleeve. The artist speaks to L&rsquo;OFFICIEL SINGAPORE about his recent Coachella stages, his upcoming F1 Singapore Grand Prix 2023 appearance, and what he&rsquo;s going to completely captivate us with next

It&rsquo;s all or nothing for Jackson Wang. Case in point: This year, it&rsquo;s truly been full steam ahead for the artist. Earlier in January, the multi-hyphenate was declared a house ambassador for Louis Vuitton. The singer&rsquo;s &ldquo;MAGIC MAN&rdquo; World Tour brought Wang to London and Paris, and he has since held audiences in North America spellbound. Never content with just acing one thing at a time, Wang has delivered other-worldly moments even while on tour &mdash; the entertainer returned to Coachella last month with solo stages, and released Slow, a scorching single with R&amp;B icon Ciara.

This year, you returned to Coachella with solo stages. Congratulations! How did you enjoy the stages and what was different this time around?
I&rsquo;m very honoured to have been invited by Coachella to do a full set on my own and it&rsquo;s a full show of 50 to 55 minutes. Compared to last year, where we had a 10-minute set, we had a complete set this year. There was pressure but I wasn&rsquo;t really nervous. I was more excited about my show rather than thinking &ldquo;it&rsquo;s Coachella&rdquo;. And of course, it&rsquo;s big but for me, whether there are 20 people, 200 people, or 2,000 people, I&rsquo;m always excited to perform. And I&rsquo;m always excited to entertain and put on a show the best I can for all of the audience.
It&rsquo;s also hard because I&rsquo;m on my world tour now &mdash; I&rsquo;m in the middle of it. It started last year and it ends next February. I have my set list and it&rsquo;s constantly changing according to the songs that I release. I have to completely flip that and make a new show for Coachella. That was the hardest part &mdash; different interludes, and a different story. During the tour, the shows are in arenas and in indoor venues. The way I would see it is that for the tour, it&rsquo;s almost as if the audience is watching a movie. For a festival: To me, it feels like you&rsquo;re sprinting a full marathon. You just need to drop bombs after bombs to keep up the hype.

For the next two months, you&rsquo;re taking the &ldquo;MAGIC MAN&rdquo; experience to North and South America. What are you looking forward to most?
Everywhere I go on the tour, I want to entertain and make sure that the crowd is having a good time for two and a half or three hours. And also for them to take away some thoughts &mdash; not just pure entertainment. That&rsquo;s all I want for them. They all have their own lives &mdash; some are students; they work in different industries. I just want to share my thoughts with them, and to remind them about the vision for &ldquo;MAGIC MAN&rdquo;, which is always about finding your magic. To find your standard of happiness and satisfaction. [The tour] is an opportunity to entertain and spread the message.

It&rsquo;s only May, and it&rsquo;s been an incredibly busy year for you. In January, Louis Vuitton announced that you&rsquo;re a house ambassador. You&rsquo;ve since played Coachella and are about to about to embark on your tour of North and South America. How do you like to relax while you&rsquo;re on the road, and is there anything you&rsquo;re doing differently this year?
For me and my team, we never really have time to relax. We&rsquo;ve been on the road since February last year. Most of the time, we&rsquo;re staying in hotels and that&rsquo;s our life. What&rsquo;s funny is that recently, I&rsquo;ve been having conversations with my team, and thinking: &ldquo;Hey, we need some time to recharge and get inspired&rdquo;. To just take a break for a week. And a week isn&rsquo;t going to change much. But back in the day, we were super workaholic and we were not even taking one day of rest. We just keep going and going to a point that we feel a little burnt out recently. I would want to recharge a little bit, learn and elevate, and to see different things.

What are your plans after the world tour?
[The tour] is on until February next year. We have my album, MAGIC MAN 2 coming out and that has 10 to 15 songs. I&rsquo;m preparing for that and taking the time to get into music only. I feel like it&rsquo;s been a challenge against time when we deal with our projects. To really spend time on one project &mdash; I&rsquo;m hoping to do that.
Speaking of Louis Vuitton, could you share a memory involving the brand?
I think the first time that I officially met the whole family of the house of Louis Vuitton was at Paris Fashion Week. First of all, it was an honour and a very good experience. The thing I&rsquo;m looking for when I work with a brand &mdash; at the end of the day, it might seem like a commercial thing, but we get to have a relationship and a bond as humans. That&rsquo;s what we&rsquo;re looking for and we were able to experience that in Paris.

The last time you were in Singapore was just before 2023 started. Formula 1 has officially announced that you are a performance guest for the competition...
I can&rsquo;t wait to go to Singapore again. I love Singapore.

Editor-in-Chief IAN LEE <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-weight: inherit; letter-spacing: 0px;">Photography JEREMY CHOH / SEE MANAGEMENT <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-weight: inherit; letter-spacing: 0px;">Fashion Editor FELIX WOEI <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-weight: inherit; letter-spacing: 0px;">Styling BENJAMIN HOLTROP / THE WALL GROUP Hair WANYEONG PARK Grooming ANAIS JUNGHA KIM Digital Tech DORIAN QI Photography assistants CHIR YAN LIM &amp; BRENDA PALENCIA Videography BRANNON GEE / CM AGENCY + PRODUCTIONS On-setproduction KENNY WANG Location HUBBLE STUDIOS LA

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