Who knows how Jay Chou is famous?

I was born in1979,65438+10 month, 18. After I was born, I was very cute and my family was full of laughter. My mother Ye Huimei is an art teacher in Tamkang Middle School, and my father is a physics teacher in Tamkang Middle School. Originally, my mother wanted to cultivate my painting ability, but I am very sensitive to music. I recorded my own album when I was three years old. I sang songs at home and recorded them on the tape recorder, which was a model and won the praise of my parents and grandparents.

When I was four years old, my mother took me to learn piano. After listening to it once, I can play it again The teacher praised my talent. I am always happy when I sit in front of a grand piano. My mother is a woman who likes to pursue perfection. After I went to primary school, in order to cultivate my piano level, my mother was going to take out all the savings at home to buy me a famous piano and ask the best piano teacher to tutor me, but my father objected. My family is not rich. Besides, boys, it's better to be casual. However, my mother bought me a famous piano, which made my father very helpless. My piano teacher is the most famous pianist in Taipei. He thinks I am a piece of material and is extremely strict with me. I practice the classical piano. Every time I play a wrong note, a folding fan will hit the back of my hand. At that time, my back was always blue. When I got home, my mother still wouldn't leave me alone. In order to force me to practice, she stood behind me with a stick until I finished practicing. I lost a lot of childlike interest in my childhood and shed a lot of wronged tears. However, I understand now that without the solid foundation laid as a child, there would be no musical achievements today. In the third grade of primary school, I was fascinated by the sad and beautiful sound of cello. My mother also encouraged me to learn cello. Therefore, at a young age, I carry a cello taller than me, and every weekend I get on the 262 bus to go to the concert hall to learn cello.

Just when I was obsessed with learning music, I found that my father went home less and less, and quarreled with my mother more and more. I don't know why, I often find my mother crying alone. Later, I learned that my father had an affair. In order to save the family, my mother sent me to my grandmother's house temporarily. Although my grandparents were very kind to me, I remained silent and stopped talking and laughing. I admire Chopin, but I can't reach Chopin's level. I also admire Bruce Lee, and I used to practice nunchakus secretly. My academic performance has plummeted day by day. When I am depressed, I often chat with grandma's Dalmatian. When I was really depressed, I kept playing basketball and table tennis, which made me very tired and fell asleep.

When I was in the second grade of junior high school, the last thing I wanted to see appeared. My parents divorced, and I was 14 years old that year. When my mother took me back from my grandmother's house, I had become cold and rebellious. When I was in the senior high school entrance examination, my total score was only 100, and I didn't even get into the ordinary high school, so my life fell into a trough. My mother went to the headmaster of Tamkang Middle School, hoping that he would accept me. The headmaster shook his head: "The grades are too poor to help!" My mother introduced my musical talent, and the principal told my mother that the first music class of Tamkang Middle School was enrolling students. After I came back, my mother asked me to take the exam. After playing the piano, I was told that I was admitted. This time, I am a rescuer.

In middle school, I was a middle school student, with wide pants, silent and expressionless, and my academic performance was not good. My English teacher told my mother that I was mentally retarded. But my mother didn't accuse me or force me to study. She said she believed me. My mother's words and deeds made me warm gradually. One day, she found my first song "Forever" in my schoolbag, which was written for a girl I secretly loved. My mother saw that my neatly copied music score was completely different from my usual scribbled homework. She encouraged me to say that my music would have a future. I smiled. My mother is an art student and doesn't know much about music.

It is a two-hour drive from Tamkang to Taipei every day. I asked my father to buy me a heavy-duty FZR motorcycle, which looks very handsome. But my father said to buy a "little sheep" instead of walking, and our father and son quarreled about whether to ride safely or handsomely. As a result, my father gave in and bought me a second-hand heavy-duty FZR motorcycle. I feel that my father still loves me!

After graduating from high school, I didn't go to college. I prepared for the Music Department of Taipei University twice, and failed in the end. Depressed, dull pain in cervical vertebra, often unable to sleep at night. The doctor diagnosed ankylosing spondylitis. What is even more frustrating is that this disease can't be cured and can only be relieved by drugs. My life has hit rock bottom again.

After the pain eased, I went to work in a restaurant. The boss used me to play the piano to attract customers, and business was booming. At this time, my mother signed me up for Taipei Star TV "Super-fierce Newcomer King", which is a platform to encourage and recommend musicians. With the encouragement of my mother, I carefully composed a song "Dreams Have Wings". I really had no confidence in my singing skills, so I invited a singer to sing and I came to accompany me on the piano. On the day of the performance, my cooperation with the singer was very embarrassing, which caused the audience to boo, and my fledgling performance was completely screwed up. The host Wu Zongxian is the boss of Alpha Music Company. I didn't expect him to say to me after reading my music score: Come to work in my company tomorrow! This time, I saved my life again!

After joining the music company, my mother has been worried that my cold and inarticulate personality will not be able to do anything. She often stands at the door of the company after work, preparing some delicious pizza and fried chicken for employees and asking them to forgive. In the long run, my mother is kinder than my employees in the same company. I cherish this opportunity and write many songs. My boss Wu Zongxian recommended them to many singers, but no one wanted them. Finally, Wu Zongxian decided to give me one last chance to sing my own song. Also asked me 10 to write 50 songs a day! I am the last stop. I shut myself in my office and write songs. My mother sends me meals every day, and my father calls me to encourage me. Wu Zongxian chose ten songs that I wrote and sang to make my first album "Jay". Unexpectedly, my album was snapped up as soon as it was born. Then my second album, Fan Texi, became more popular. The third album is dedicated to my mother and father. This album is named Ye Huimei after my mother. The first song is under dad's name, and there is a song called grandma in the middle. In this way, my parents and grandparents are all in this photo album. Although my father and mother have been divorced for many years, I still hope that our family can reunite in my dream.

My mother and grandmother always say that I can't articulate clearly when singing, and I hope I can write a song with clear articulation and classical meaning. Therefore, a straight answer was born, and my mother and grandmother smiled and said, I understand! When I first became famous, in order to increase my popularity, the company planned my relationship with Jolin Tsai, which was widely publicized by the media. So my relationship with Jolin Tsai doesn't really exist, but I wronged her, so I took the initiative to write songs to her to make up for my apologies. Later, in order to promote my album, I cooperated well with Patty Hou, the beauty anchor of Taiwan TV, and we both had a good impression on each other. But in the end, we didn't develop into lovers, because my mother advised me to fall in love in the future, and it was best not to find people in the entertainment circle.

In 2006, when I was preparing my new album Still Fan Texi, I visited Yu-Ching Fei, a veteran singer in Taiwan Province, three times. He is my mother's favorite star. Finally, Yu-Ching Fei was moved by my filial piety and happily performed the title song "Thousands of Miles Away" of the new album with me. At the same time, my song "Listen to Mom" dipped in thick ink is also among them, which is my heartfelt gratitude to my mother. On September 10, at the signing ceremony of the new album "Taipei", I saw a child carrying a schoolbag, which said: Mom, I will study hard! My tears fell down. I found the child and signed it myself. Tell him to listen to his mother!

Before he became famous, he couldn't afford satin sheets, Ducati motorcycles, and no fans screamed and reveled in his concerts, and no girls went on a pilgrimage just to touch the piano seat where he sat. Only this small piece of golden floor with a distance from the leather sofa to the blue-green wall is located in a gray building in East Taipei, which is the recording studio of Alpha Records.

This is the only small world in Jay Chou. A narrow gap that allows him to curl up and take a nap. He repeatedly dreamed of melody and lyrics here. When the melody fragments come like the vocal cords of sleepwalking, he will get up, knock on the keyboard, and write the melody like the night scene into music score or record it as a demo tape ... For two years, Jay Chou wrote music according to the contract, and each song can get 20,000 yuan. He rarely leaves the soundproof room on the seventh floor to concentrate on writing songs for singers with average talent and good looks.

The success of 24-year-old Jay Chou is a miracle of this repackaged idol crash music circle. Other male singers in Hong Kong and Taiwan are mostly from wealthy performing families. How did this boy with overbite upper and lower incisors, aquiline nose and backward chin replace Nicholas Tse, Andy Lau or Jacky Cheung to become the most popular pop singer in Asia? The answer should start from that crowded recording studio, from the principle of winning by music and revolutionary creativity. Jay Chou said: "Most of my female fans will not tell me that I am handsome; On the contrary, they will tell me that they like my music and are attracted by it. "

When I was a child, Jay Chou was a little autistic and silly. The English teacher in high school thinks that Jay Chou has learning disabilities: "He has a dull expression, and I think he is stupid." The boy can't concentrate on math and science classes, and even his English homework is neglected. But Zhou's mother noticed that this quiet and shy child was particularly sensitive to western pop music or classical music from an early age.

"He was keen on music before he learned to walk." She recalled. When he was four years old, Zhou's mother sent him to a piano class to learn piano. He played very well, like a piano enthusiast. The high school piano teacher said that Jay Chou could improvise when he was a teenager. Outside the piano room, Jay Chou is an ordinary teenager. While other students are playing basketball nearby, he has been watching kung fu movies and playing games. Everyone else is busy preparing for the college entrance examination, but he skipped classes and practiced the piano twice, and his life was aimless.

Music saved him and brought him good luck. A junior helped him sign up for the idol selection program Super Newcomer King in Taiwan Province Province. The producer of the program later contacted the surprised Jay Chou and invited him to participate in the performance. But Jay Chou dare not solo. Finally, he accompanied a friend who wanted to be a piano singer. The performance was poor. At that time, Wu Zongxian, the host of the program, was always looking for new people. He glanced at the nervous piano accompaniment boy and the singer who sang like a crow and thought, forget it! Wu Zongxian said, "I don't think it sounds good at all. That singer sings really badly. " However, he looked at the score: "I looked at the score from behind the referee's shoulder and the result was amazing." Very complicated, well done. "After the shooting, Wu Zongxian went backstage to find Jay Chou, who was wearing a baseball cap that almost covered his eyes. Wu Zongxian recalled: "My first impression of him was that he was quiet and shy. I thought he was autistic. "

Wu Zongxian signed him to write songs full-time. A year and a half later, Wu Zongxian decided to hand over the management right of Alfa records to his friend and singer Yang Junrong, and Jay Chou went from behind the scenes to the stage to become an idol singer. Within three months, Jay Chou finished his first album.

Now Jay Chou, calmly sitting on that leather sofa, wearing a gray wool hat to cover his brown eyes, slightly brooding, wearing a black velvet track and field suit. Overnight, he changed from a geek in the recording studio to a pop singer, almost too fast, so fast that he was uneasy to bear the physical and mental pressure brought by fame and success. He speaks concisely and answers briefly, often avoiding others' eyes. Where is the mature male charm that gives depth and emotion to songs?

Then he started talking about music, and you remembered, yes, it was music. Without music, the boy in front of him seems to just want to climb back behind the sofa and squat in his own nest. He said that my music should be like magic, all kinds of magic, short-lived, changing and developing. He went on to talk about music theory, the difference between Chopin, cello and violin, China's pentatonic scale and the western twelve scales: "This is my magic."

Then, he said that he really wanted to have a girlfriend; When he is shy, he often wears long hair to cover his eyes to avoid being stared at by fans. He said there were only two places that made him feel comfortable, the recording studio and the basketball court. Watching him play, you can tell that he likes to be in control. That's why he doesn't like being interviewed, why he looks shy and clumsy among fans, because he can't control these scenes. However, whether on the court or in the recording studio, he is the protagonist. ...

Jay Chou was selected by Brother Xian to sign a contract with Alpha when he participated in "Super King of Newcomers" hosted by Brother Xian.

But when signing Jay, he didn't immediately give Jay a chance to stand out ~ because he didn't think he was so good ~ At that time, he was very shy, with his cap down very low and his hand in his pocket, just an insignificant little boy. At that time, his songs were badly sung by others! However, in an opportunity, Brother Xian saw Jay's music manuscript, and he was amazed! ! So I arranged for him to cooperate with Vincent Fang ~ this slowly paved the way for Jay! Brother Xian thought that a genius like him would be accepted by others, so he decided to help him make a record. The first record, Jay, Brother Xian helped him make ten MVs. Because he believed and understood Jay's talent and hard work, he gave Jay a chance. Before the resale incident, others also clarified it. Brother xian said it was impossible. He thought Jay not only wanted to be a tree before, but also realized his musical dream. Jay also said that he is not a selfish person. Recently, Brother Xian will raise $25 million to tailor "Jason Wu Earth Gate" for Jay. Let Jay play nunchakus like an idol in the movie. It seems that Jay is going to develop into the film industry.

Some people say that Jay's songs are hard to hear and don't know what he is singing. I think Jay's songs make people feel relaxed and stress-free (I'm not the only one who says this, but many friends also like to listen to Jay's songs). His characteristic is unclear articulation, which can be said to be his Jay-style trademark accent. Maybe some people will say that other singers can do it! I think so, but they can never sing Jay's flavor. R & ampb singers gradually stepped into the mainstream of music; Many musicians, because of their inseparable relationship with Jay Chou in music, are either popular or their careers have taken a new turn. These people are becoming an invisible but sensible new force in the music industry.