Jay Chou

Jay Chou born January 18 1979 is a Taiwanese musician singersongwriter music and film producer actor and director who has won the World Music Award four times He is wellknown for composing all his own songs and songs for other singers In 1998 he was discovered in a talent contest where he displayed his piano and songwriting skills Over the next two years he was hired to compose for popular Mandarin singers Although he was trained in classical music Chou combines Chinese and Western music styles to produce songs that fuse RB rock and pop genres covering issues such as domestic violence war and urbanization In 2000 Chou released his first album titled Jay under the record company Alfa Music Since then he has released one album per year except in 2009 selling several million copies each His music has gained recognition throughout Asia most notably in regions such as Taiwan China Hong Kong Japan Malaysia Indonesia India Singapore Thailand Vietnam and in overseas Asian communities winning more than 20 awards each year He has sold more than 28 million albums worldwide up to 2010 He debuted his acting career in Initial D 2005 for which he won Best Newcomer Actor in both the Hong Kong Film Awards and the Golden Horse Awards and was nominated for Best Supporting Actor by Hong Kong Film Awards for his role in Curse of the Golden Flower 2006 He produced the theme song for the film Ocean Heaven starring Jet Li His career now extends into directing and running his own record company JVR Music Description above from the Wikipedia article Jay Chou licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia