Jay Chou

Jay Chou was born in Xinbei City, Taiwan Province. His ancestral home is Yongchun County, Quanzhou City, Fujian Province. When Jay Chou was 4 years old, his mother Ye Huimei sent him to danjiangshan ye children's music class to learn piano. When Jay Chou was in the second grade of junior high school, his parents divorced because of personality differences, while Jay Chou was raised by his mother Ye Huimei. During the high school entrance examination, Jay Chou did not enter the ordinary high school; In the same year, he was admitted to the first music class of Danjiang middle school because he was good at piano. After graduating from high school, he failed to be admitted to the Music Department of Taipei University twice, so he began to work in a restaurant.

In September 1997, with the encouragement of his mother, Jay Chou signed up for the entertainment program "super newcomer king" of Taipei starlight TV station, and invited someone to sing his own song "dream has wings" in the program. When the host Wu Zongxian saw the score of the song, he invited Jay Chou to act as a music assistant in Alfa music company. In 1998, he wrote the song "tears know", but he was dismissed after the company gave this song to Andy Lau; His songs "double stick" and "Ninja" (later included in Jay Chou's solo album "fantexi") for Zhang Huimei were also returned.

In 2000, at the recommendation of Yang Junrong, Jay Chou began to sing his own songs; On November 7, he released his first solo album Jay, and arranged the composition, harmony compilation and production supervision of all songs; The album combines R & B, hip-hop and other music styles. The main song "Xingqing" won the Gold Award for the 24th top ten Chinese Golden Songs and excellent Mandarin songs. Jay Chou also attracted attention in the Chinese music world with this album. He won the best pop music singing album award and was shortlisted for the Best Producer Award at the 12th Taiwan Golden Melody Award Ceremony held the next year, With the song "lovely woman" in the album, he was nominated for the best composer award of the 12th Taiwan Golden Melody Award.

In September 2001, Jay Chou released his second album "van Persie". In addition to being 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 stick" combined with 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 the Southeast Asian market. The next year, Jay Chou won the best Album Producer Award of the 13th Taiwan Golden Melody Award, the best pop music album award and the top ten selling Mandarin records at the Hong Kong record sales award ceremony. Jay Chou also won the awards with the song "love before the West dollar" in the album Won the best composer award of the 13th Taiwan Golden Melody Award; In October, she created 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 before" and "the end of the world" sung by him at Taoyuan giant egg concert; In the same year, he won the Gold Award for the most popular singer at the 19th Top Ten Golden Songs Award Ceremony, the Gold Award for the male singer who is the new force in the music world at the award ceremony of the popular list in the music world.

In 2002, he participated in his first TV series Star love garden; In February, a concert was held in Singapore's XINDACHENG International Convention and Exhibition Center; In July, he released the album "octave space". In addition to arranging the composition of all songs in the album, he also served as the producer of the album; The album is dominated by R & B songs, and won the top ten Gold Disc Awards of platinum Music Award in G-Music billboard, top ten Chinese Record Awards of Chinese Pop Music Media Award, the best-selling male singer album of the year of Singapore Golden Melody Award and other awards; On September 28, "the one concert" was held in Taipei stadium; From December 12 to 16, five "the one" concerts were held in Hong Kong's Hung Hom stadium; On December 25, "the one" concert was held in Las Vegas, USA; In the same year, he won the 1st MTV Japan Music Video Award, the most outstanding artist award in Asia, the most popular creative singer award in the 2nd global Chinese song list, the 9th Singapore Golden Melody Award, the Asia Pacific most respected male singer award and other awards.

In February 2003, he became the cover character of the Asian edition of time magazine; In March, he won the best singer of the year and the annual wind and cloud award of Hong Kong and Taiwan in the 3rd music billboard, and won the top ten Golden Songs of the year of Hong Kong and Taiwan with the song "code"; On May 17, the "the one" concert was held at the modika stadium in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia; On July 16, the main song "in the name of the father" in Jay Chou's album "Ye Huimei" premiered in 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 Ye Huimei. He not only arranged the composition of all songs, but also served as the producer and stylist of the album; The album sold more than 2 million copies in Asia one month after its release, and won the best pop album award of the 15th Taiwan Golden Melody Award, the most popular album of the year at the 4th global Chinese song list award ceremony and other awards the following year; The album's main song "Dongfeng Po" is one of Jay Chou's representative Chinese style works, and he also won the best composer award of the fourth Chinese Music Media Award with this song; On September 12, "the one" 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" written by Jay Chou for the film of the same name; On December 12, "the one" concert was held in Shanghai Stadium, and songs such as variation version of "double stick" and extended version of "Grandpa's tea" were sung; In the same year, the film debut "looking for Jay Chou" was released.

On January 21, 2004, he first appeared on the stage of CCTV Spring Festival Gala and sang the song "dragon boxing"; In March, he won the most popular male singer in Taiwan, the annual wind and cloud award, and the best producer of Hong Kong, Taiwan and overseas Chinese in the 4th music billboard; On August 3, release the album "Qilixiang" integrating hip-hop, R & B, classical music and other music styles; The album sold more than 3 million copies in Asia in the month of release. Jay Chou also won the best-selling Artist Award in China at the 16th World Music Awards with this album, while the main song of the same name "Qilixiang" won the 27th top ten Chinese Golden Songs Award, the gold award of excellent popular mandarin Songs Award, and the top 25 Golden Songs in the 5th global Chinese songs list; Since October, "unparalleled" World Tour concerts have been held in Taipei, Hong Kong, Los Angeles, monteville and other places.

On January 11, 2005, he won the best male singer of Hong Kong and Taiwan, the most popular male singer of Hong Kong and Taiwan, and the best creative singer of Hong Kong and Taiwan in the 11th global Chinese list award ceremony; In April, he was shortlisted for the best Mandarin male singer award and the best pop music album award of the 16th Taiwan Golden Melody Award with the album "Qilixiang", and for the best composer award of the 16th Taiwan Golden Melody Award with the song "Qilixiang"; On June 23, Jay Chou's film "headline D" was released for the first time, and won the 42nd Taiwan Film Golden Horse Award and the best new actor award of the 25th Hong Kong Film golden statue award; On July 1, the "incomparable Tour Concert" was held in Shanghai Stadium; On July 9, the "incomparable Tour Concert" was held in Beijing Workers' Stadium. On August 31, the selected collection initial J was released in Japan; On November 1, he released the album Chopin in November, and arranged the composition of all the songs in the album and the modeling design of the album; After the album was released, it won the title of Taiwan's G-Music year-end ranking with a sales share of 4.28%; 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 11, 2006, he won the best male singer award, the best creative singer award and the most popular male singer award in the 12th global Chinese list award ceremony. He won the best song award and the most popular music video award respectively with the song Nocturne and its video; On January 20, EP "Huo Yuanjia" was released. The title song "Huo Yuanjia" is the theme song of the film with the same name starring Jet Li; On January 23, he won the outstanding pop singer award, the highest selling singer award of the year and the male singer award at the 28th Hong Kong Top Ten Chinese Golden Songs Award Ceremony; Held a concert in Tokyo, Japan from February 5 to 6;. In September, he released the album "still van Persie"; The album continues Jay Chou's previous music style and integrates Chinese style, rap and other music styles. Among them, the Chinese style song "thousands of miles away" sang with Fei Yuqing won the annual best song award in the 13th Global Chinese music list, the 29th top ten Chinese Golden Songs, the national most popular Chinese song award and other awards; After its release, the album ranked first among the top five records in Taiwan with a sales share of 5.34%, and won awards such as the top ten excellent albums of the year of the Chinese musicians Exchange Association, the highest selling Mandarin record of the IFPI Hong Kong record sales award, etc; In December, EP golden armour was issued. In the same year, he won the best-selling Artist Award in China at the world music awards; On December 14, Jay Chou's costume action film "all over the city with golden armour" was released in mainland China. He played the second prince Yuanjie with excellent martial arts in the film, and won the best actor of the 16th Shanghai film critic Award for his film, and his theme song "Chrysanthemum Stage" won the best original film song award of the 26th Hong Kong Film Awards.

In February 2007, he acted as a director and directed and acted in the romantic film "unspeakable secrets" for the first time. After its release, the film won awards such as the 44th Taiwan Film Golden Horse Award, the annual Taiwan outstanding film award and the nomination for the best Asian film at the 27th Hong Kong Film Golden Awards. He created and sang the theme song "unspeakable secrets" of the same name Won the best original film song award of the 44th Taiwan Film Golden Horse Award; In May, "thousands of miles away" and "Red Imitation" were shortlisted for the best song of the year and the best music video director of the 18th Taiwan Golden Melody Awards respectively; In June, he won the best single producer award of the 18th Taiwan Golden Melody Award for his single Huo Yuanjia; On November 2, he released the album "I'm busy" and tried the American country style for the first time in the album; Jay Chou also won the best composer award and the best song of the year award of the 19th Taiwan Golden Melody Award with the Chinese style song "blue and white porcelain" in his album the following year; On November 4, he won the best-selling Artist Award in China at the world music awards with his album still fantexi; On November 24, he held a concert in Shanghai 80000 people stadium and imitated Vitas's falsetto singing in the concert; In December, seven "Jay Chou 07-08 World Tour Hong Kong Concert" were held in Hong Kong's Hung Hom stadium.

On January 10, 2008, Jay Chou's self directed and self performed romantic film "unspeakable secrets" was released in Korea; In the same year, he starred in the love comedy "slam dunk", in which he played Shijie, who was courageous and good at fighting injustice; On February 6, the song "blue and white porcelain" was sung at the CCTV Spring Festival Gala, and then 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 wudaoguan, becoming the third Chinese singer to sing in wudaoguan after Teresa Teng and Faye Wong; In July, at the 19th Taiwan Golden Melody Awards ceremony, Jay Chou won the best Album Producer Award in performance category with his album "unspeakable secret film soundtrack" and the best composer award in performance category with his album "piano room"; On October 15, the album "magic masterpiece" was released. The album integrates hip-hop, folk songs and other music styles. In its first week, it won the championship in the G-Music list and the top five records list, and its sales in Asia exceeded 1 million a week; In November, he won the best-selling Artist Award in China at the world music awards for the fourth time with his album "I'm busy", and became the first Chinese singer to win the award for three consecutive times.

On January 25, 2009, sang the song compendium of Materia Medica with song Zuying on the stage of CCTV Spring Festival Gala; In May, a concert was held in Kunshan Sports Center Stadium; In June, at the 20th Taiwan Golden Melody Awards ceremony, Jay Chou won the best song of the year award for Daoxiang, the best Music Video Award for Mr. magic, and the best Mandarin male singer award for his album magic Jie Zuo; In July, Jay Chou's Sydney concert ranked second in the box office on the bulletin board in the United States, becoming the second in the box office revenue of a single concert in the world that year, and breaking the box office record of Chinese singers' concerts in Australia; Since August, individual touring concerts have been held in Foshan century lotus Sports Center Stadium, Shenyang Olympic Sports Center Stadium and other venues; In December, he was selected as the "25 most influential people in Asia" rated by CNN; In the same year, he starred in the adventure film "Ci Ling", in which he played Qiao Fei, an ancient city guard with mysterious power.

In February 2010, he starred in the ancient costume martial arts film Su Qi'er, in which he played the cold and unsmiling martial god; In the same year, he directed the science fiction play Panda Man and wrote songs such as Panda Man and love gravity for the play; On March 28, he won the 12530 wireless music annual award in the 14th Global Chinese list and Asia influence ceremony; On May 18, he released the album "cross era" and arranged the composition and production of all songs in the album; The album won the best Mandarin album award of the 22nd Taiwan Golden Melody Award and the best album of China's original music pop list the following year, and Jay Chou also won the best Mandarin male singer award of the 22nd Taiwan Golden Melody Award with this album; In June, he was selected as the "top 100 creative figures in the world" by the American magazine fast company, and became the first Chinese male singer on the list; On June 11, the first performance of "super era" concert was held in little giant egg in Taipei; In August, Jay Chou ranked third in the world in terms of song downloads in a survey entitled "the world's most downloaded singers" (from early 2008 to August 10, 2010); In December, the asteroid numbered 257248 was named "Jay Chou", and Jay Chou also wrote the song "love's Flight Diary" with this asteroid as the theme; On December 30, gubertino announced that December 31 of each year was set as "Jay Chou day".

In January 2011, he entered Hollywood with the action film Green Hornet, and was selected as the "top ten most anticipated rookies" rated by the American film website screen cave; On February 11, he boarded the CCTV Spring Festival Gala and performed and sang the song "preface to Lanting" with Lin Zhiling; On February 23, he shot sprite advertising and MV with Kobe Bryant, and created the advertising theme song "fight between heaven and earth"; On April 21, Time magazine of the United States selected the "top 100 most influential people of the year in the world", and Jay Chou ranked second; On May 13, he was shortlisted for the best Album Producer Award, the best song of the year award, the best composer award and other awards at the 22nd Taiwan Golden Melody Awards with his album "cross era", song "Superman can't fly" and "fireworks are easy to cold"; In May, he won the nomination of best newcomer at the 20th American MTV film awards with the action film Green Hornet; On November 11, he released the album exclamation point; The album integrates music styles such as heavy metal rock, hip hop, R & B and jazz, and introduces electronic dance music for the first time. In the same year, "super Era World Tour Concert" was held in Los Angeles, Kuala Lumpur, Kaohsiung and other places.

In 2012, he starred in the gunfight action film "anti war", in which he played Wan Fei, an international police officer with a clear sense of right and wrong and a strong sense of justice; In April, he won the best Chinese Artist Award in Asia and the best digital music award in the 16th global Chinese list, and his album exclamation point also won the best album award of Hong Kong and Taiwan; In May, it ranked first in Forbes China celebrity list; On May 15, with the album exclamation point! And the song sailor afraid of water, they were shortlisted for the best Mandarin male singer award and the best arranger award of the 23rd Taiwan Golden Melody Award respectively; On September 22, he held a concert at the F1 track in Singapore, becoming the first Chinese singer to perform in F1; On December 28, the album "12 new works" was released; The album includes Chinese style, rap, blues, R & B, jazz and other music styles. The main song "red dust inn" won the top 20 Golden Songs in the 13th Global Chinese song list, the silver award of the 36th top 10 Chinese Golden Songs and outstanding popular Mandarin songs.

On May 17, 2013, the "magic Tianlun" world tour concert was held in Shanghai Benz cultural center; On May 22, with the album "12 new works", she was shortlisted for the best Mandarin album award, the best Mandarin male singer award and the best Album Producer Award of the 24th Taiwan Golden Melody Award; On June 1, he voiced the role of Taiyi in the animated film 100000 cold jokes; On June 22, a concert was held in the stadium of Chengdu Sports Center; On July 11, the self directed and self performed romantic film "rooftop love" was released, which was also selected as the closing film of the Asian Film Festival in New York; From September 6 to 8, three "magic Tianlun" concerts were held in Taipei little giant egg; On October 4, he served as the music director of the music love film "hear the sound of rain".

Since April 2014, "magic Tianlun" world tour concert has been held in Sydney, Guiyang, Shanghai, Kuala Lumpur and other places; In May, it ranked No. 3 on Forbes China celebrity list; In November, he played Li, the owner of the magic props store, in the action film "startling magic thieves 2"; On December 10, he released his first personal digital music album "ouch, good", becoming the first Chinese singer to release a digital music album; After its release, the album won the "best selling digital album of the year" award of the second annual QQ music festival, and the song "shoe extra large" in the album won the top 20 Golden Melody Award of the fifth global pop music golden list.

In April 2015, he won the most popular all-round Chinese Artist Award in Asia and the cross era strength singer award in Chinese music in the 19th global Chinese list and Asian influence ceremony; In May, it ranked No. 2 in Forbes China celebrity list; On June 27, he won two nominations for Best Mandarin album and best album producer in the 26th Taiwan Golden Melody Award for his album ouch, good; Since July, he has been the tutor of Zhejiang satellite TV's inspirational music review program "the fourth season of China's good voice"; On September 26, "magic Tianlun" concert was held in Foshan century lotus Sports Center Stadium; On December 20, the "magic Tianlun" concert was held in Tuodong stadium, Kunming.

In March 2016, he won the annual Top popular singer, annual all-round music artist and annual most influential concert award at the QQ music summit ceremony; On March 24, the single hero, written by himself, was released, and the broadcast volume exceeded 80 million two weeks after it was launched; On June 1, the theme song "now you see me" created for the film "the devil stealing group 2" was released; On June 24, Jay Chou's bedside story, a digital album integrating classical, rock and hip hop, was released. The album sold more than 1 million copies in two days, breaking the sales record of digital albums in mainland China; The cumulative sales of this album in Greater China exceeded 2 million, with sales of more than 40 million yuan; In June, the Hollywood film "the devil stealing group 2" was released in mainland China; Since July 15, he has been the tutor of Zhejiang satellite TV's music review program "China's new song"; Since December 23, the musical of the same name, which was adapted from the literary film "secrets that can't be told", compiled and directed by Jay Chou, has made its world premiere in Beijing overpass Art Center. The composition, lyrics and original story of the musical were completed by Jay Chou; In the same year, the "strongest surface" world tour concert was held in Shanghai, Beijing, Qingdao, Zhengzhou, Changzhou and other places.

On January 6, 2017, Jay Chou's love film "ten thousand kilometers agreement" was released in mainland China; On January 13, he served as a guest in the science reality show "the strongest brain fourth season" launched by Jiangsu Satellite TV; From April 15 to 16, two individual concerts were held in Kunming Tuodong stadium, followed by the "strongest surface" World Tour Concert in Chongqing, Nanjing, Shenyang, Xiamen and other places; On May 16, with the song "advertising balloon", "bedside story" and the album "Jay Chou's bedside story", they were shortlisted for the best song of the year award, the best Music Video Award and the best Mandarin male singer award of the 28th Taiwan Golden Melody Award respectively; On June 4, he won the Hito best male singer of the year award; Subsequently, he participated in the original professional music program "China new song Season 2" and served as a tutor; On August 9, his album "Jay Chou's bedside story" won the "Best Mandarin album of the year" award of the Chinese Golden Melody Award.

On January 6, 2018, the first performance of "the strongest surface 2" world tour concert was held in Singapore; On January 18, he released his single "waiting for you to finish class", which was sung by Jay Chou and Yang ruidai; On February 15, at the CCTV Spring Festival Gala, Jay Chou and CAI Weize performed magic and song "advertising balloon", which ranked first in the top 10 ratings of CCTV Spring Festival Gala in 2018; On May 15, the single "pull me down if you don't love me" was released; On November 21, he joined the film extreme agent 4 directed by D. J. Caruso.

Hold a solo concert in Las Vegas on February 9, 2019; On July 24, it was announced that the "Carnival" world tour concert was launched in October, which was Jay Chou's concert to celebrate the 20th anniversary of his debut; At 11:00 p.m. on September 16, the single "say no cry" was released. The song was composed by Fang Wenshan and sung by Jay Chou and Chen Xinhong; On October 17, the first performance of "Carnival" world tour concert was held in Shanghai; On November 1, the live album of "the strongest surface" world tour concert was released; On December 15, Jay Chou's theme song "I believe so" for the film "sky fire" was released.

From January 10 to 11, 2020, two Carnival World Tour concerts will be held in Singapore National Stadium; On March 21, he served as the initiator of Zhejiang satellite TV's global outdoor life and culture reality show "travel notes of the week"; On June 12, the single mojito was released; In October, he supervised and starred in the racing theme film "all powerful".

On January 29, 2021, he won the best male singer award in the top list of Chinese songs; On February 12, the song "mojito" was sung in the form of "cloud recording" at the Spring Festival Gala of China Central Radio and television in 2021; On May 12, he was shortlisted for the best single producer award of the 32nd Taiwan Golden Melody Award for his single mojito.

Family situation

Jay Chou's father Zhou Yaozhong is a biology teacher in Danjiang middle school, and his mother Ye Huimei is an art teacher in Danjiang middle school. The relationship between Jay Chou and his mother is like a brother and sister. He also wrote songs to his mother many times, such as listen to my mother, and even took his mother's name Ye Huimei as the name of the album. Due to his parents' divorce, Jay Chou rarely mentioned his father Zhou Yaozhong. Later, under the persuasion of his mother and grandmother Ye Zhan A Mei, he accepted his father again.

Love life

At the end of 2004, Jay Chou fell in love with Hou Peicen. In 2005, the two publicly admitted their relationship. In May 2006, the two broke up.

On November 17, 2014, Jay Chou disclosed his relationship with Kunling. On January 17, 2015, Jay Chou and Kunling married in the UK; On February 9, Jay Chou and Kunling held a swimming pool outdoor wedding banquet in Taipei; On March 9, Jay Chou and Kunling held a family wedding in Australia; On July 10, Jay Chou and Kunling's daughter Hathaway were born. On February 13, 2017, Jay Chou announced that his wife was pregnant with a second child; On June 8, Jay Chou and Kunling's son Romeo were born.

Jay Chou is a revolutionary and indicative original singer in the pop music market. At the same time, he is also a musician who has a deep influence on the Chinese music world. He combined Chinese local culture with R & B music, completely sinicized the music form of R & B, and greatly promoted the position of songwriters in the Chinese music industry. He broke through the original theme and form of Asian music and created a changeable song style. He is not only good at rhythm and blues, rap, Western classical piano, etc. each album has Chinese style songs, which is also one of his characteristics. He integrated hip hop and R & B singing into Chinese traditional music and turned Chinese style into the mainstream of Chinese pop music. Jay Chou is also unique in that while pursuing Chinese style music, he injects the beauty of literature and artistic conception into the music, so that he can not lose his cultural taste as an idol (Xinhua, pop songs, Sohu, Hangzhou Daily, Gu Yong, music creation and Beijing Evening News).

Jay Chou has a unique singing style. He relies on a personalized, natural and frank singing style to shape his voice, and increases the expressiveness of his works through appropriate falsetto and modal particle control. Jay Chou's pronunciation is also a part of his distinctive style. He broke the principle of clear articulation of singers, and instead sang his personality in a way that did not consider the flat tone and highlight the melody, and properly matched this personality with the needs of young listeners for fashion music style (Xinhua, Shenzhen business daily and popular songs).

Jay Chou is an extraordinary artist. His talent is not only reflected in his on-site improvisation ability and his mastery of music theory and various musical instruments, but also in his unconventional creative ideas. He integrated all kinds of eastern and western music into his music, such as jazz, blues, rock, nakashi, folk songs, hip-hop, American country music, electronic music and so on. He not only integrates pop music with each other in a complex and subtle way, but also boldly uses and matches various musical instruments to create unexpected effects. This unrestrained creative idea also makes Jay Chou's songs have a strong personal style, and are not exactly the same as any kind of music form (commented by CNN, Nanning evening news and Guangzhou Daily).