This is a photo that Jay Chou posted on the social platform when he was in junior high school. In the photo, Jay Chou is wearing a shirt and school uniform. His skin is very white, his face is smiling, he is very young and tender, and he is full of smiles. His youthful appearance is very similar to those of our classmates in high school.

Jay Chou was born in New Taipei City on January 18, 1979. His ancestral home is Quanzhou, Fujian. When Jay Chou was 4 years old, his mother Ye Huimei was an art teacher at Tamkang Middle School. Ye Huimei sent him to Tamkang Shanye Preschool Music Class. Learn piano.

When Jay Chou was in the second grade of junior high school, his parents divorced due to personality differences. Jay Chou was raised by his mother Ye Huimei. Because his parents divorced, Jay Chou rarely mentioned his father Zhou Yaozhong. Later, under the persuasion of his mother and grandmother Ye Zhan Amei, he He readmitted his father.

The relationship between Jay Chou and his mother is like a younger brother and an older sister. He also wrote songs for his mother many times, such as "Listen to Mom", and also used his mother's name Ye Huimei as the title of the album.

During the high school entrance examination, Jay Chou was not admitted to an ordinary high school, but he was admitted to the first music class of Tamkang Middle School because he was good at music. After graduating from high school, he applied for the Music Department of Taipei University twice, but was not admitted. He entered a restaurant and started working.

In 1997, 18-year-old Jay Chou, with the encouragement of his mother, signed up to participate in the Taipei Star TV entertainment program "Super Rookie King" and was arranged to sing the song "Dreams Have Wings" written by himself. .

The organizer arranged for Jay Chou to perform piano accompaniment and allowed him to bring singers to sing. On the day of the performance, Jay Chou wore a sweatshirt, jeans, and a peaked cap. The brim of the hat pressed his eyebrows. The audience could not see his eyes, almost invisible. his face.

After the performance, Jay Chou's accompaniment was very good, but the lead singer's singing of his song was very unpleasant, which caused bursts of boos from the audience on the spot. Wu Zongxian, who was next to the judges, casually took a look at Jay Chou's own song sheet and couldn't help but be surprised. This young man, who seemed to be carelessly dressed and accompanied by accompaniments, had complex but well-crafted music sheets. Out of curiosity, he brought Jay Chou to his Music Assistant at Alfa Music Company.

At Alfa Music Company, Jay Chou was called a music assistant, but in fact he had to do all kinds of chores, such as running errands, buying lunch boxes, tidying up, and cleaning. He was very serious, even though his salary at the time was only NT$5,000, equivalent to RMB 1,200. At that time, he was often so busy that he forgot to eat and slept in the recording studio.

Jay Chou is very hard-working, and Wu Zongxian also noticed it. He felt that Jay Chou was here to make music, not to do odd jobs, so he arranged a small music room for Jay Chou to compose his own songs. In this small music room, Jay Chou got the opportunity to unleash his talents and he wrote many songs.

However, the songs written by Jay Chou were completely different from the popular music style at the time. They were not only rap but also had weird rhythms, which were completely out of line with the trend of the times. After Wu Zongxian had someone sing the accompaniment, he was very disappointed with Jay Chou.

He took the song manuscripts written by Jay Chou and threw them all into the trash can.

For a music creator, throwing the music manuscript into the trash can is equivalent to giving up. Jay Chou turned around and cried sadly.

But his boss gave up on him, but he did not give up his music dream. He still went to the company's music room early every morning to create. For seven days in a row, Wu Zongxian could see the songs composed by Jay Chou, and Wu Zongxian was a little moved. , he told Jay Chou, if you can compose 50 songs in ten days, I will find a singer to sing the songs you compose.

Jay Chou composed 50 new songs in ten days. Wu Zongxian kept his promise and helped him submit submissions. But to everyone's surprise, all his songs were rejected.

Jay Chou composed the song "Tears Know", and the company helped him submit the song to Andy Lau, but Andy dropped the song. In the same year, the songs he wrote for Zhang Huimei such as "Nunchaku" and "Ninja" also Rejected by Zhang Huimei...

In that era when the music scene was relatively conservative, these songs that combined R&B, hip-hop, Chinese and Western music styles were not only too weird, but also a special product, not someone else's He didn’t understand music, but it was really epoch-making. In desperation, Wu Zongxian looked at this hard-working young man and said, since no one is willing to sing, then try singing it yourself.

Wu Zongxian actually has some dealings with Jay Chou. If Jay Chou sings and releases an album, there will be nothing he can do if no one listens. To Jay Chou, he has done his utmost benevolence and justice.

On November 7, 2000, Jay Chou released his first album: "JAY", using his English name as the album name. He himself arranged the composition, harmony and production of all the songs in the album. It can be said that this album came out of nowhere. It was a song that other singers were unwilling to sing. It was thought that there was no market for the song, but many people liked to listen to it. The album was sold out within a few days of its release. His hit song "Xingqing" won the It won the Top Ten Chinese Gold Medals for Outstanding Mandarin Songs, and Jay Chou himself also won awards such as Best Composer.

Wu Zongxian was shocked and immediately started writing the second album with Jay Chou. In September 2001, Jay Chou released his second chapter album "Fantasy". The first song in the album was "Fantasy", which Huimei was unwilling to sing. "Nunchaku" has become a representative work of rap songs. Jay Chou opened up the Southeast Asian market, won many awards, and became a sudden rise to dominate the music scene.

Jay Chou exploded in popularity, surpassing the then little kings Nicholas Tse, Adu, SHE and others. His songs were widely sung on the streets and in schools. Almost every student knew Jay Chou. The one played most in schools is Jay Chou. Music tapes, CDs, VCDs, and the newly popular MP3 and MP4. Jay Chou has taken the whole of Asia by storm.

Since 2001, his songs have become the favorite songs of students throughout the 10s of the new century. He occupied the entire youth of that student era. Songs such as "Simple Love", "Can't Speak" and "Quiet" have broken through the sky of the times. Even if you listen to them now, they are still timeless.

The album "Octave Space" was released in 2002.

It includes songs such as "The Last Battle". Jay Chou made a special appearance in the MV of this song. He looked cool and stylish when he was a student.

In this album, Jay Chou's unconstrained imagination and whimsy can still be integrated into his music. "Peninsula Iron Box", do you still remember the sentence: Miss, is there any "Peninsula" "Iron Box" is for sale. Jay Chou described "Peninsula Iron Box" as a box filled with memories of a lover.

Previously, a novel called "Peninsula Iron Box" written by Jay Chou and Fang Wenshan*** was published. Jay Chou got inspiration from the novel "Peninsula Iron Box" and then wrote the song "Peninsula Iron Box" 》.

"Ye Huimei" is an album named by Jay Chou after his mother. The name of the album "Ye Huimei" can not only thank Jay Chou's mother for her upbringing, but also match the title song of the album. "In the Name of the Father" echoes this. Since the market response to the previous albums of "Ye Huimei" was not satisfactory, Jay Chou adopted a musical philosophy of change when creating this album.

Out of humanistic appeals, Jay Chou added different opinions and ideas to the album. The creation of the title song "In the Name of the Father" was originated from Jay Chou's experience with his father. Because Jay Chou's father Zhou Yaozhong He is very introverted and usually has nothing to talk to Jay Chou, so Jay Chou composed the song "In the Name of the Father" for his father.

The inspiration for the song "Class Two of Three Years" came from Jay Chou's experience of playing billiards with his friend Fang Wenshan. The lyrics in the song have not been forgotten for many years: Jay Chou, Class Two of Three Years, come to the teaching office immediately, Today, I want to praise a classmate who brought glory to the school and we must emulate him!

The song "Sunny Day" is Jay Chou's inner monologue. When creating "Sunny Day", Jay Chou used a lonely inner feeling to show a delicate and restrained sadness and vulnerability.

The content he wrote is different from the magic and weirdness created by Fang Wenshan, and is closer to reality and his own heart. The song talks about missing every little moment of campus, and we agreed together that when the weather clears, we will compose a pure love together.

To this day, when I think of my high school and college life, I can’t help but recall the classroom and the group of young and lovely classmates, as well as Jay Chou’s "Sunny Day": The day I skipped class for you, On the day when the flowers fell, I couldn't see that room in the classroom. Once upon a time, there was someone who loved you for a long time, but the wind blew away the distance...

The name "Dongfeng Po" comes from an ancient folk song called Qu Po. The sentence "After you leave, the wine will be warm and I will miss you and lose weight" comes from Li Qingzhao's sentence "It should be green, fat, red and thin."

Like many Chinese musicians, Jay Chou also chose a cultural return after years of immersion in pure Western music. He collaborated with Fang Wenshan for the first time on a song like "East Wind Breaks". Retro pieces with oriental charm.

Historically speaking, in any era, Chinese pop music has no shortage of this kind of Western-Western hybrid works. The timing of the appearance of "East Wind Break" happened to be the most comprehensive and pure era of Westernization of the entire Chinese society, especially in the context of Westernized R&B in the pop music world, and even faced the complete lack of local culture in music. Danger.

Jay Chou's creation of "East Wind Breaks" happened to be at a very good time, making a balanced attempt for the exchange of Chinese culture and Western music structure.

People call Jay Chou's songs Chinese-style songs. From then on, almost every Jay Chou album will have a Chinese-style song: "Lanting Preface", "Thousands of Miles Away", "Huo Yuanjia", " "Red Dust Inn", "Hair Like Snow", "Chrysanthemum Terrace", "Blue and White Porcelain"...

These are obviously old photos from Jay Chou's youthful period, but why are they full of our youth... …