Star Inspirational Story: Jay Chou's Growth Story

Jay Chou's growth story

On January 18, 1979, Jay Chou was born in an ordinary family in Taipei. Recalling his childhood, my mother used a phrase "Thank God for giving him to me", fully reflecting her love for this baby son. "Putty laughs with a small dimple, the cute look is really flattering. When I hear music from Xiaojie, I will be excited to shake with the rhythm, not only to watch the performances of Sun Yue and Tao Dawei, but also often wear sunglasses to imitate Gao Lingfeng sings and sings and sings in front of the TV. When he is three years old, he is interested in recording. He often uses his tape recorder to record his own voice, or sing, or compose a story, self-editing, self-directing, self-acting and self-expression. Sing some."

And his father’s evaluation of his son’s childhood was, “He loved to play handsome when he was a child.” Dad recalled: "When Jay was young, our family of three often went to the beach to ride the waves. When other children stood and took pictures, he would definitely go to the front of the camera to grab the camera. He loves performance, during family gatherings. The performance often makes us amazed. Jay has always loved to play handsome, not only pants to wear wide pants, hair to stay in the split, even the car must ride a heavy locomotive. High school attended the Tamkang high school music class, every day From Taipei to Tamkang, the light journey took more than two hours, so I wanted to buy a locomotive, the little sheep, and let him travel. As a result, Jay’s first heavy-duty FZR was only handsome because of the heavy weight. .

Grow up under the stick

At the age of 14, Jay Chou’s parents divorced. Growing up in a single-parent family, he grew up with his mother and grandmother, so grandmother and mother became the two most beloved women in his life. When I started practicing playing the piano at the age of 3, my mother saw his talent in music, so his requirements were very strict. So, Jay Chou was deprived of his right to play, and all the days were spent at the piano. . Every time I practice the piano, when I hear the playfulness of my companions outside the window, he always plays absent-minded. So his mother took a stick and stood behind him, staring at him to finish the piano. Jay said: "If you say that your music is playing deeply, you have to thank the stick." He also met a very strict piano teacher. As soon as he made a mistake and did not concentrate, he immediately hit the back of his hand. Xiaojie Lun’s hands were covered with bruises, which made him once rebellious and didn’t want to learn the piano again. But when he calmed down, he couldn't help but want to play the piano. After thinking for a few days, Xiaojie Lun not only continued to practice the piano, but no matter how strict the teacher was, he never thought of leaving the music again. When I was a child, Jay was very naughty and it was common to be beaten. He had stolen the mother's signature, so that he could steal the contact book or the test paper with too low a score. Sometimes he would deliberately use the saliva to blur the score of the test paper, and then told his mother that it was rained. In school, if the test scores are not up to standard, they will be beaten. Another time, the teacher pinched his ears until he was a little better in the country, so he was used to being beaten when he was a child.

Childhood is very lonely

Jay is the only son in the family, and his personality is introverted. When he was young, he once thought that he could have a younger sibling to accompany him, but he felt that his parents had been very tired of raising him. If he had one more, the burden of life would be heavy. The life of the only child is more boring, but because it is the only child, the thoughts on life will be different. Many things can only solve oneself and no one can help, which makes him more independent. Jaylan admits that if there are younger siblings, he will become more considerate for others. He will not be bored in his childhood. He can play with his younger siblings every day, so he still envied other families with brothers and sisters. After the parents divorced, they made him more lonely and didn't like to talk, so there were not many playmates. Most of them play with neighbors and classmates. I can't say that I am autistic, but it is true that I am relatively big. To ask him to recall the most memorable things in his childhood, he actually said that he was a big dog raised by his grandmother, because Xiaojie Lun often played with dogs, and sometimes imagined himself to be a general, riding a dog as a horse. He said that if there are brothers and sisters, his life thoughts will be different from the present.

The high school character became a waiter

After Jay Chou was admitted to the music department of Taipei Tamsui High School, he played basketball because he played a good piano. He became a man of the school, and it was the Prince Charming of many female students. At this time, Jay Chou began. There are good friends who can talk, and try to create songs with the encouragement of classmates. Many students are still rushing to collect. But when his classmates were nervously preparing for college, he still indulged in music hobbies. In the eyes of ordinary people, his future is awkward. Because at that time, a child of ordinary family, his best choice was to study mathematics, natural sciences and computers in order to find a good job to earn a living in the future, and music is a luxury for the rich. Obviously, they think Jay Chou is not extravagant. Sure enough, in June 1996, after Jay Chou graduated from high school, he could not find a job, so he had to apply for a restaurant as a waiter. His daily job is to send the chef's dishes to the restaurant, and then the waitress passes to the guests. This job seems to be simple, but it is not easy to do it. Because there are more guests, it is easy to get the dishes wrong. And if something goes wrong, the waiter must not only be greeted by the customer, but the boss must also deduct the salary. Jay Chou, young, is a bit autistic and stupid. The high school English teacher thought that Jay Chou had a learning disability: "The expression on his face is very ugly. I thought he was stupid. This kid couldn't concentrate on math and science classes, even the English homework was ruined. But Ms. Ye Huimei of Zhou noticed this. The quiet and shy child was particularly sensitive to Western pop music or classical music from an early age. He was very sensitive to music before he learned to walk." She recalled. When Ms. Zhou was four years old, he sent him to the piano class to learn the piano, and he played well, like a piano mad. The high school piano teacher said that when Jay was in his teens, he could improvise. Out of the piano room, Jay Chou is a normal teenager. When other students are playing basketball nearby, he repeatedly watches kung fu movies and games. Others are busy preparing for the college entrance exam, but he is skipping classes, doubling the practice of the piano, and has no goal in life.

The music saved him and brought him luck. A school girl helped him sign up for the "Super Superman King", the Taiwanese idol selection program. The producer of the show later contacted the surprised Jay Chou and asked him to perform. But Jay Chou didn't dare to sing. Finally, he accompanied a friend who wanted to be a singer. The performance was very poor. At the time, the host of the program, Wu Zongxian, was always looking for new people. He glanced at the nervous piano accompaniment kid and the singer like a crow, thinking, forget it! Wu Zongxian said: "I don't feel good at all, the singer sang really badly." However, he looked at it. Sheet music: I looked at the score after the referee's shoulder and the result was shocking. Very complicated and well done. After recording the film, Wu Zongxian went to the background to find Jay Chou, who was wearing a baseball cap and covered the entire eye. Wu Zongxian recalled: My first impression of him was that he was very quiet and shy. I thought he was autistic. Wu Zongxian signed him and wrote a full-time song. A year and a half later, Wu Zongxian decided to hand over the management of Alfa Records to his friend and Yang Junrong, who is also a singer. Jay Chou went from behind the scenes to the front and became an idol singer. Within three months, Jay Chou completed his first album.

The opportunity came. In 1997, Jay Chou participated in the "Super Hero King." Jay, who did not perform well, unexpectedly got the attention of Wu Zongxian. After talking with Jay, he decided to hire Jay Chou to his own record company as a music production assistant.

The production assistant has been working for more than a year. I have to do any chores in this job. Sometimes I have to buy a lunch box for everyone, and the salary is very small, but Jay is very happy. Gradually, the music foundation he had laid down from a young age made his performance more and more eye-catching. The boss Wu Zongxian looked in his eyes and decided to give this talented young man a chance to have his own stage and be a creative person. singer. One day in December 1999, Wu Zongxian called Jay Chou to the office and said solemnly: "Allen, give you 10 days. If you can write 50 songs, and I can pick 10 out of them, then I I will help you out the record." Jay Chou was excited and ran to the street to buy a large box of instant noodles. He thought, it was to fight for life, but also to make the final struggle. Because he knows that the opportunity the boss gave him may be this time. During that time, he was almost one after another, and whenever he was tired, he took a nap in a corner of the room and woke up to continue the creation of the next song. In this way, in just 10 days, Jay Chou really took out 50 songs, and each one was beautifully written and worked well. After more than half a year of careful production, Jay Chou's first album, "JAY," was produced. The release was a blockbuster, not only the album sold, but also won the best pop album, best producer, composer and other awards for the two Taiwan Pop Music Golden Melody Awards.

Since 2000, his first album has been sold out, and his album sales are now unmatched. As if overnight, the Chinese pop music scene was almost ruled by Jay Chou’s voice. From a restaurant waiter to a well-known popular little king, Jay Chou said in an interview with the magazine "Time" in the United States: "The star dream is not out of reach. In fact, anyone can do it, as long as you are willing to work hard. So there is today, that is, the result of my disappointment." Jay Chou hopes that he will become a contemporary musician in the future, rather than a flash in the pan. Indeed, if a person does not want to be a retreating coward, he should climb up step by step like a snail.