Jay Chou

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Early experience

Jay Chou was born in Xinbei City, Taiwan Province, and his ancestral home is Yongchun County, Quanzhou City, Fujian Province. When Jay Chou was 4 years old, his mother, ye Huimei, sent him to danjiangshanye kindergarten music class to learn piano. When Jay Chou was a sophomore in junior high school, his parents divorced because of personality incompatibility, while Jay Chou was raised by his mother, ye Huimei. In the high school entrance examination, Jay Chou didn't enter the ordinary high school; in the same year, he was admitted to the first music class of Tanjiang middle school because he was good at piano. After graduating from high school, he applied for the Music Department of Taipei University twice, but was not accepted. So he began to work in a restaurant.

In September 1997, with the encouragement of his mother, Jay Chou signed up to participate in the entertainment program "super new man king" of Taipei Star TV station, in which he invited people to sing his own song "dreams have wings". When the host Wu Zongxian saw the score of the song, he invited Jay Chou to work as a music assistant in Alfa music company. In 1998, he wrote the song "tears know", which was withdrawn after the company gave it to Andy Lau; and his songs "double truncation stick" and "Ninja" (later included in Jay Chou's personal album "van tersey") for Zhang Huimei were also withdrawn.

Acting experience

Music

Yang Junrong began to write his own song in 2000. On November 7, he released his first solo album "Jay" and arranged the composition, harmony compilation and production supervision of all the songs. The album combines R & B, hip-hop and other music styles. Among them, the main song "Xingqing" won the gold medal of the 24th top ten Chinese Golden Melody excellent Mandarin songs, and Jay Chou also attracted attention in the Chinese music world by virtue of the album, and held the 12th National Music Festival the next year At the awarding ceremony of the Golden Melody Awards, he won the best pop music album award and the best producer nomination for his album, and the best composer nomination for the 12th Taiwan Golden Melody Award for his song "lovely woman".

In September 2001, Jay Chou released his second album "van tersey". In addition to acting as the producer of the album, he also arranged the composition of all the songs in the album. The album is Jay Chou's work to establish his record style, in which the main song "double truncheons", which combines Chinese and western music elements, has become one of the representative works of rap songs. After the release of the album, Jay Chou also opened his heart He won the 13th Taiwan Golden Melody Award for Best Album Producer, best pop music album and top 10 sales Mandarin records at the Hong Kong record sales awards ceremony. Jay Chou also won the 13th Taiwan Golden Melody Award for best composer for his song love before the western new year. In October, she wrote a song "Dao Ma Dan" for CoCo Lee, which integrates Chinese and western music elements. On December 24, EP "fantasy + Plus" was released, which included songs such as "you are happier than ever" and "the end of the world" sung by him at the Taoyuan dome concert. In the same year, he won the gold award of the most popular singer at the 19th Golden Melody Award Ceremony of the top ten strong songs, and the gold award of the male singer at the award ceremony of the top ten strong songs.

In February 2002, a concert was held in Singapore's Suntec International Convention and Exhibition Center. In July, he released the album octave space. In addition to composing all the songs in the album, he also acted as the producer of the album. The album is mainly composed of R & B style songs, and won the top ten Golden Disc Award of G-Music platinum Music Award, the top ten Chinese record award of Chinese Pop Music Media Award, and the best-selling male singer album of the year of Singapore Golden Melody Award. On September 28, "the one concert" was held in Taipei stadium. From December 12 to 16, five "theone" concerts were held in Hong Kong's Hung Hom stadium. On December 25, "theone" concert was held in Las Vegas, USA. In the same year, he won the first MTV Japanese Music Video Awards Asia's most outstanding artist award, the second global Chinese song list's most popular singer songwriter, and the 9th Singapore Golden Melody Awards Asia Pacific's most respected male singer.

In February 2003, as "the new king of Asian pop", he became the cover character of the Asian edition of time magazine. On May 17, "theone" concert was held in madika stadium, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. On July 16, the main song "in the name of my father" in Jay Chou's album "Yip Hui Mei" premiered on more than 50 radio stations, and 800 million people listened to it. The day of the premiere of the main song was also designated as "Jay Chou day" by these radio stations. On July 31, he released the album Yip Hui Mei. He not only composed all the songs, but also worked as the producer and stylist of the album. One month after its release, the album sold more than 2 million copies in Asia, and won the best pop music album award of the 15th Golden Melody Award and the most popular album award of the year at the 4th global Chinese song list award ceremony The hit song "Dongfeng Po" is one of Jay Chou's representative works of Chinese style. With this song, he won the best composer award of the 4th Chinese Music Media Award. On September 12, "theone" concert was held in Beijing Workers' Stadium. On November 13, EP "looking for Jay Chou" was released, which included two songs "track" and "broken string" created by Jay Chou for the film of the same name. On December 12, he held the "theone" concert in Shanghai Stadium, and sang the variation version of "double truncheons" and the extended version of "tea made by grandfather".

On January 21, 2004, he appeared on the stage of CCTV Spring Festival gala for the first time and sang the song "Longquan"; in March, he won the most popular male singer in Taiwan, the annual Fengyun award, and the best producer of Hong Kong, Taiwan and overseas Chinese in the 4th music storm list. On August 3, the album Qilixiang, which combines hip-hop, R & B, classical music and other styles, was released. In the month of its release, the sales volume of the album exceeded 3 million copies in Asia. Jay Chou also won the best-selling Artist Award in China at the 16th World Music Award for this album, while Qilixiang, the main song of the same name, won the gold award of the 27th top ten Chinese Golden Melody excellent pop Mandarin Song Award and the 5th prize The top 25 Golden Songs and other awards of the year. From October, the "incomparable" world tour concert will be held in Taipei, Hong Kong, Los Angeles, monteville and other places.

On January 11, 2005, he won the awards of the best male singer, the most popular male singer and the best singer songwriter in the 11th global Chinese list. In April, with the album "Qilixiang", he was shortlisted for the best composer award, the best Mandarin male singer award and the best pop music album award of the 16th Taiwan Golden Melody Award. On July 1, "incomparable Tour Concert" was held in Shanghai Stadium. On July 9, "incomparable Tour Concert" was held in Beijing Workers Stadium. On August 31, the selected collection "initial J" was released in Japan. On November 1, the album Chopin of November was released, and the composition of all the songs in the album and the modeling design of the album were arranged. After the release, the album won the top of the year-end G-Music ranking in Taiwan with 4.28% sales share. In the same year, Jay Chou's song snail was included in the recommended catalogue of patriotic songs for middle school students in Shanghai.

On January 20, 2006, EP "Huo Yuanjia" was released. The main song "Huo Yuanjia" is the theme song of the movie with the same name starring Jet Li. From February 5 to 6, a concert was held in Tokyo, Japan. In September, the album "still fantexi" was released, which continued Jay Chou's previous music style and integrated Chinese style, rap and other music styles. The Chinese style song "thousands of miles away", which sang with Fei Yuqing, won the award of best song of the year in the 13th Global Chinese Music List and the award of the most popular Chinese song in the 29th national top ten Chinese golden melody After 5.34% of sales share in Taiwan's top five records list, and won the top ten excellent albums of the year of the Chinese musicians Exchange Association, IFPI Hong Kong record sales award, the highest sales Mandarin records and other awards. In December, EP "golden armour" was released. In the same year, he won the best-selling Artist Award in China.

In May 2007, he was shortlisted for best song of the year and best music video director at the 18th Taiwan Golden Melody Awards. In June, he won the best single producer award of the 18th Taiwan Golden Melody Awards for his single Huo Yuanjia. On November 2, he released the album "I'm very busy" and tried American country style for the first time in the album. In the following year, Jay Chou won the best composer award of the 19th Taiwan Golden Melody Award and the best song of the year for his Chinese style song "blue and white porcelain". On November 4, with the album "still van Persie", it won the world music award and the best-selling Artist Award in China. On November 24, he held a concert in Shanghai 80000 people stadium, and imitated Vitas' falsetto in the concert. In December, seven "Jay Chou's 07-08 World Tour Hong Kong Station concerts" were held in Hong Kong's Hung Hom stadium.

On February 6, 2008, he sang the song "blue and white porcelain" at the CCTV Spring Festival Gala. In the same year, the lyrics of blue and white porcelain appeared in the college entrance examination questions of Shandong and Jiangsu provinces. On February 16, he held two concerts in Japan's Takeshima Museum, becoming the third one in Takeshima after Teresa Teng and Faye Wong

Chinese PinYin : Zhou Jie Lun