He also joined his uncle's band, Good Company and was regularly performing at weddings and events. His luck improved when he met Asmin Mudin, a Sabahan songwriter who made his name writing hits like Kau Ilham Ku by Man Bai.

Asmin who also moved back to Kota Kinabalu had the same intention as Wang to market local music to the rest of Malaysia. They started scouting for talents and worked on a few productions together. It was around the same time that Wang met Mia Palencia, an eager 14-year-old with a voluptuous voice.

"Mia and I had very similar taste in music. That was one of the reasons we bonded so well,” says Wang. “When we first met, I was already experimenting with fingerstyle guitar techniques. I was studying the works of artists like Tuck & Patti, which was the band that Double Take [the duo which Wang later formed with Palencia] was modelled after."

In November 2000, Double Take released their self-titled debut album. It was the first English album that was 100 percent produced in Sabah. Wang and Palencia had high hopes of opening doors in Kuala Lumpur, but to their disappointment, none of the record labels were interested. No one understood their choice of genre and why two youngsters were making what they called “old people music”.

Feeling defeated, the duo returned to Kota Kinabalu and decided to focus on playing gigs instead. It wasn't until two years later a Singaporean distributor saw the potential of the album, and decided to repackage it and import it back into Malaysia.

"I'm not sure if it was a timing thing, but it worked out perfectly. We didn't change anything in the album. People just became more open to our music. New artists like Norah Jones made jazz more mainstream and that helped a lot. We started playing at festivals in KL, and did a lot of radio and TV shows," explains Wang.

After making two albums together, Palencia moved overseas and Wang started working on other projects. He collaborated with artists such as Farid Ali, 2V1G and Gina Panizales. In 2010, Hong Kong superstar Jacky Cheung recorded a song that Wang wrote called Love Scale, for which Wang played guitar.