Yang Junrong Once said this: "This young man, when we get old, we will look back. If he has not become a legend, it is my responsibility. I would be so sure at that time."
At that time, when Yang Junrong said this, this so-called young man was still a veritable worker, but his musical talent was slowly revealed and was discovered by Yang Junrong.
This young man is Jay Chou .
When he was very young, his parents divorced due to disagreement in their personalities. Later, he lived with his mother. When he was four years old, his mother sent him to school to learn piano.
When I was in junior high school, my academic performance was a mess, which almost failed to get into high school. Fortunately, my music was OK, so I was lucky to go to high school as a special student.
After entering high school, Jay Chou ushered in a new turning point in his life, but he failed and failed the college entrance examination. The second year he repeated the exam and failed the exam, and missed the Music Department of Taipei University twice.
Can't go to college, so you can only enter society and experience life in advance. He makes a living by serving plates in a restaurant. No matter how hard his work is, he is still persistent in music and squeezes out time to write songs every day during rest breaks.
At that time, in order to create a warm atmosphere for the restaurant, the boss bought a piano and hired people to play it, but none of them were ideal. Jay Chou volunteered to come forward to play, just in line with the boss's wishes.
That's it, the service student was upgraded to a "professional pianist". So, whenever celebrities come to a restaurant for dinner, Jay Chou will deliberately play and sing, impatiently showing himself. After the performance, he feels happy and feels good.
As a result, on the other side, my colleague poured a basin of cold water and said that none of the people looked at him. Jay Chou felt depressed instantly after hearing this.
In September 1997, mother Ye Huimei encouraged her son Jay Chou to sign up for the variety show "Super Newcomer King". The host was Wu Zongxian . Jay Chou looked shy when he came on stage and didn't even dare to open his mouth. He was so nervous that he was panicked. The show performance was very bad.
I wanted to perform well, but it ended up messing up. Fortunately, I won a new impression again in the background.
Wu Zongxian picked up the music score created by Jay Chou in the backstage of the show and found it very complicated, but it was written neatly. At first glance, I thought it was pretty good. So Jay Chou asked to work in the company as a music assistant, nominally a music assistant. To put it bluntly, he is a choreographer, specializing in helping celebrities bring tea and water and deliver lunch boxes.
But even so, Jay Chou still cherishes this opportunity to be lost and regained.
He thought to himself: "You can write a lot of songs for those very popular singers and those students who have been admitted to college. In this way, you can see this song like this one on the TV. I wrote it."
But ideals are always plump, but reality is very skinny.
One day in December 1999, Jay Chou took the initiative to find his boss Wu Zongxian and wanted to ask if he could send him an album. Because at that time, Alpha Records founded by Wu Zongxian had signed contracts with some artists, including Jay Chou’s current "Iron Brother", Liu Genghong .
jail Chou hopes to get some opportunities from Wu Zongxian. Unexpectedly, Wu Zongxian didn't take this seriously at all, so he said perfunctorily: "Write songs, write fifty songs, pick ten songs, and I will help you release the record, the deadline is ten days."
This is obviously a difficult situation. Thinking of saying this, Jay Chou will give up.
Unexpectedly, Jay Chou took it seriously...
When he got back, he went to the supermarket to buy a box of instant noodles. After calling his mother, he locked himself in the studio and started creating. Often, I spend all night and devote myself to it.
By rushing the works day and night, Jay Chou finally wrote fifty new songs in ten days. Not only that, each poem is very neatly composed, which shows that Jay Chou is really doing this seriously, with high requirements and high standards for himself.
However, just as Jaylen went to Wu Zongxian to report the situation with anticipation, Wu Zongxian looked at the neat and tidy words of the score, and his heart couldn't help but skip a beat, because he didn't expect that Jay Chou would do so attentively, which was beyond his expectations. After
, Wu Zongxian replied perfunctorily again, "Arranging music costs money."
thought to himself and said, "It should be possible to pass it now."
Unexpectedly, Jay Chou replied confidently: "It's okay, I can write it."
After the arrangement, Wu Zongxian recorded the whole picture, thinking to find a song that could be understood, so he treated it as the main point and it was just perfunctory.
finally picked ten songs and found that none of them could understand.
so, the album was neglected for a year.
Until one day, a song about " Cute Woman " was known by a man. This person was Yang Junrong. He began to be excited and could not wait to find its creator. This song was one of the songs that Wu Zongxian could not understand at the time.
Finally, I learned that this is Jay Chou’s work. The lyrics were written by Jay Chou, the song was composed by Jay Chou, and the singing was also from Jay Chou. After listening to it, Yang Junrong’s eyes shone and felt like he had discovered a treasure. In the song "Cute Woman", Yang Junrong attaches great importance to its harmony because it allows him to hear the vitality of music.
Yang Junrong, who cherishes talent, immediately called Wu Zongxian and said, "I will take this young man in person. I will be the producer. Just leave it to me." After
finished speaking, he immediately picked out ten songs from fifty songs. However, among the ten songs selected by Yang Junrong, "Cute Woman", "Tornado", and " Black Humor " were eliminated by Wu Zongxian.
In order to help Jayne win an opportunity to release an album, Yang Junrong threatened Wu Zongxian with his position as music director and said that if it doesn't work, he would resign.
Wu Zongxian could not be hindered by the feelings and gave Jay Chou a chance.
At that time, Jay Chou wrote a song "Nunchaku" for Zhang Huimei . After Wu Zongxian took it, he was backed up on the grounds of a weird music style. He wrote a song "Tears Know" for Andy Lau . After Wu Zongxian took it, the other party said he didn't like the lyrics and refused on the spot.
worked hard and created seriously, but the result was that it felt so bad that it was denied.
Later Yang Junrong said, since everyone doesn’t know how to sing your songs, you can sing your songs.
Jay Chou experienced a dark time like this, but he continued to write songs and practice piano. Once, Liu Genghong found that Jay Chou in the corner was in a little depressed, so he drove him out to watch the wind, eat delicious food, borrow clothes for Jay Chou to wear, and took Jay Chou to meet his friends.
has had a wonderful time easily.
soon, the record company performed and many big bosses and artists were present. The record company I came to was a foreigner. Jaylen would go on stage to perform, but she hadn't figured out what to sing.
Liu Genghong said to Jay Chou, "Just sing "Black Humor", you can sing your taste."
Immediately afterwards, Genghong said, "I'm here for foreigners. Can they understand? It doesn't matter, no one can understand it anyway, as long as the tune is good," Genghong naturally talked to himself.
Time has come, Jaylen went on stage to perform, but she was still a little nervous and did not perform well. After singing, the judges sitting in the audience were also confused.
Gong Hong was also anxious when he watched it, but he had only one idea in his mind, which was to apply to the judges for another chance to sing. After all, he persuaded him, but fortunately the judges agreed. After
, Genghong went up and told Jay Chou that the sound you sang just now was too small, and this time you had to sing loudly.
The second time, Jaylen performed very well, sang well, and got the opportunity to release a record. Jaylen later found out that it was his good friend Genghong who helped him a lot, and he recognized this friend even more in his heart.
November 6, 2000, this day happened to be Yang Junrong's birthday. I don't know if it was a coincidence or a special arrangement. On this day, Jay Chou's first album "JAY" was officially released. Once the album was released, it triggered the entire Chinese music scene . Originally, the title song was chosen as "Cute Woman", but in the end, every song in the album became the title song.
On May 5, 2001, the 12th Golden Melody Awards in Taiwan were held at the Zhongzheng Cultural Center in Kaohsiung City, and Jay Chou won the Best Pop Music Album Award.
In 2003, at the Golden Melody Awards ceremony, Jay Chou's album " Octave Space " was nominated for five awards and nominated for five times.
This year, Jay Chou took his cute grandmother to attend the award ceremony with full confidence, hoping that his grandmother would witness and share the highlights of his life together.
result, in the end, I didn’t receive half of the award for five nominations, which felt like I was giving you a candy and slap you again.
It would be fine if I didn’t win the award, but the media also wanted to film Jay Chou’s grandmother. The interview was just for jokes. Jay Chou instantly felt that the entertainment industry was really hypocritical.
He felt that there was a shady story behind this, but there was no evidence. Later, facts also proved that Chen Zeshan was controlling all this later. Jolin Tsai and Zhang Huimei were his artists. At that time, Chen Zeshan threatened the organizer of the Golden Melody Awards. If they were not presented with the award, their artists would not attend. This was embarrassing, but no guests attended the award ceremony, and later the organizer chose to passively compromise.
Since then, Jay Chou has been resentful.
In 2004, the CCTV Spring Festival Gala director team proposed to invite Jay Chou to the Spring Festival Gala.
However, because of the unclear singing, it failed to pass the review. However, Jaylen's popularity is really too hot.
Later director Yuan Dewang thought of a way, which is to initiate a vote online whether to support Jay Chou on the Spring Festival Gala.
The Internet was far from being developed today at that time, and the popularity of Internet use was not that high, but Jay Chou still received a very high popularity of more than 2 million votes, which is unimaginable.
Later director said, since the public's voice is so loud, let's arrange it. It doesn't matter if you can't speak clearly, there are still subtitles! No difficulty.
plus young people nowadays like this kind of unclear feature.
That's it, Jay Chou first appeared on the stage of the 2004 Spring Festival Gala with the song " Dragon Boxing ".
In the same year, Jay Chou released a single "Grandma", which was a counterattack against the Golden Melody Awards at that time, and also a confrontation with the Chinese music scene capitalism .
Since then, Jay Chou has come on stage to receive awards many times at other award ceremony, but he has not won the award at the Golden Melody Awards. Later, the judges later explained that Jay Chou's music style has not changed.
2006 was also the year when Jay Chou was highlighting. At the Chinese Music Chart Awards Ceremony, Jay Chou went on stage to receive the award 5 times in one minute with just one song " Nocturne ". Later, people talked about "As soon as the "Nocturne" was released, I went on stage to receive the award.
Then, "I'm very busy" was born. Jay Chou, who was once forgotten by the Golden Melody Award, suddenly won three Golden Melody Awards for " Blue and White Porcelain ". However, after experiencing that storm, these awards were no longer important in Jay Chou's eyes.
At this award ceremony, Jay Chou did not attend, but asked his friends to help win the award, and asked his friends to tell him: "The Golden Melody Awards are actually of no use. "
Just this is the call. Chen Zeshan regards Jay Chou as a thorn in his eyes, often creates scandals for him, adds black information, and leads to being framed.
Jay Chou was so angry that he stood up to reveal Chen Zeshan's dark side. Fortunately, many people were on Jay Chou's side, and this declared war with capital ideas came to an end.
Jay Chou has been keen on charity since he became famous.
The Wenchuan earthquake in 2008, coupled with the Asian financial storm.Under the darkness, many people have lost hope in life.
Jay Chou donated money and materials as soon as possible, but because the specific amount was not announced, he was ridiculed as "Friday,000".
Later CCTV came forward to prove that Jay Chou donated as much as 42 million to the disaster area, instantly slapped the rumor-maker in the face.
Regarding Jay Chou, he has many characteristics of high-quality idols.
About a PR incident in 2017.
In 2017, Jay Chou held a solo concert in Xi'an. Because there were too many people, in order to maintain order in the venue, it was stipulated that listeners entering the venue were not allowed to bring light cards. However, a fan knew it and secretly entered the venue with light cards. When the concert began, he shook the light cards, which seriously affected the view of the audience behind him.
The security personnel present saw that the fans were explicitly prohibited from doing so and asked her to put the light sign on the ground, but the fan refused to listen to the advice and had a dispute with the security personnel.
Jay Chou on the stage is unknown and the fans are eager to maintain it, so he angrily scolded the security personnel and asked the security personnel to get out.
Afterwards, netizens revealed that the security officer was a people's policeman, and then the public opinion was one-sided. At this time, Jay Chou realized the seriousness of the matter and realized that he had done something wrong, so he wrote a letter to publicly apologize to the security staff, feeling that he should be sincere again, and recorded a video for the second time to apologize.
The security staff saw Jaylen apologizing with sincerity, and this matter was over.
CCTV also specifically commented on this matter, and praised Jay Chou's behavior of knowing his mistakes and being able to correct his behavior.
is the same. People are not sages, so who can do nothing without mistakes.
In fact, Jay Chou has many trustworthy qualities.
He is the first celebrity artist to call his hometown Taiwan Province.
Korean pop swept the whole country back then, and Jay Chou took the lead in carrying the banner of "anti-Korea". When I was on stage to receive the award, my words were given: "Please support Chinese music, not just my music. Your favorite singers, continue to support them, don't make Korean pops more and more arrogant. Hualiu is the best."
He spreads Chinese-style songs all over the world, went to Japan to hold a concert, and sang " Huo Yuanjia ", so that the Japanese know the power of Chinese Kung Fu . The pioneering Chinese song " nunchaku " has become the ending song of Hollywood's "The Green Hornet", which is a precedent.
In addition, he also wrote some songs that encourage people to cherish their lives, get out of their predicament, and regain hope. For example, " Snail ", " Rice Fragrance ", etc.
He said: "When writing songs, you need to think a lot, it's not just that you are happy." Based on an attitude towards music, this is the basic professional quality.
Jay Chou suffers from ankylosing spondylitis, a family genetic disease that cannot be cured, cannot lie flat like a normal person, can only sit and sleep, and sometimes he will be awakened by pain at night.
This is tantamount to a torture, but he is still optimistic. Although writing songs, it is getting slower and slower. In addition to the majority of fans urging updates, his bad friend Liu Genghong also urged updates, but he still followed his pace.
I hope Jaylen will continue to give everyone better works.
Recalling Jaylen's past, there is no way to go in life, every step counts. Success cannot be achieved overnight. As long as you work hard, you can grind an iron pestle into a needle. A thousand-mile horse needs to be appreciated by a man to have a stage to display his talents. As long as you have a dream, concentrate on practicing it, and one day your dreams will come true. Know how to be grateful, get it, and give it to society.
