Sunday, October 19, 2008

520R--Journal#2

The most creative person that I'm really interested in is Jay Zhou who is quite famous as a singer, composer, song-writer and maker, actor and also director in China. Jay Zhou was born in Taiwan,China.He graduated from Taiwan Danjiang musical school.During his studying in Danjiang musical school, he's studying piano and he likes music and writing songs by himself when he was very young.
There are two reasons why I think he's a creative man.
For the first reason, it is about his characteristic style of works. He wrote a number of songs for himself and other singers and his opuses are very popular and unique so that it arose a new kind of musical style which is called "Jay's style".His songs were made by mixing Hip-hop, R&B and also imbibed some elements from Chinese Opera and traditional Chinese music and stories. It's pretty interesting because when he's singing, he doesn't like pronouning the word very clearly but every listener also can enjoy the rhythm and artistic conception of the song very well. First of all, most of the audience, espeially some adults and olderlys cannot accept his way of singing and his completely new song's style so everybody talked about him. But this situation changed soon that nearly all the younsters and even adults or elderlys beame to accept his "Chinese R&B". Jay's brand-new characteristic style of his opuses make the Chinese young people become to pay more attention to the Chinese tradition and also started to be interested in our own traditional music. Now Jay Zhou could be considered as the top popular and famous idol in China.
The second reason why he's creative is because of his various identity. Jay is not only a pop singer,conposer and song-maker, but also a good actor and director.After several years' focusing on musical creation, he tried to devote to the movie area recent years. At the beginning, he acted in an automobile race film as a famous race player and then he won the best freshman of the Gold Horse Award at that year. Last year, he became to work as a director and his first movie opus which was called "A secret that is cannot be spoke out" was favourably received by all his fans and the other audience. I think he really did a remarkable job in the field of movie as well as in the musical area. He can change the different identities freely and also succeeded in both aspects very well.
In conclusion, he is the most creative framer that I've ever seen until now. I really admire his talent on musical creation and movie making.

8 comments:

Eilidh said...

I was intersted to rad your porfile of jay Zhou, as I ahve never heard of him and it is always good to learn about new creative talents. I wonder what it is that you most admire about him? is it his ability to expess himself in different media? is it his ideas? Is it the style of his music? How important is it that we have people we can admire as creative role models? I know that I really appreciate having writers, artists, musicians, speakers, and others whom I can admire and learn from, and hopefully be influenced by! What about you?

Eilidh said...

I typed the above post too fast! There are lots of mistakes - sorry!
the first sentence should be:

I was interested to read your profile of Jay Zhou, as I ahve never heard of him...

Eilidh said...

me again!

'as I have never...'

JI MIN said...
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JI MIN said...

I don't know why his name, Jay Zhou, is familiar to me. In Korea, we call a person who have a lot of talents 'multi-entertainer'. I think he is a kind of great multi-entertainer.
You like him very much, aren't you?

SarahQi said...

Hi Eilidh
Maybe you don't know him, but in China I think nobody doesn't know him. He’s really a talent and also quite charming because of his new style to make songs and singing. Usually I admire my teachers and some writers rather than the entertainment stars. But Jay is very special. Now lots of Chinese youngsters became loving the Chinese tradition more because of him that I was also influenced by him!

SarahQi said...

Dear Eilidh
Thank you so much~

SarahQi said...

Hi Jimin
I think he must be a multi-entertainer!Actually he's not my favourite idol,but he's really one of the most creative persons that I've ever seen.
I only like his talent~