Cui Jian

Born into an ethnic Korean family with parents who were both artists, Cui began his musical career in 1981. In 1986, Cui performed his song "Nothing to My Name" at Beijing's Workers' Gymnasium, which is considered a seminal moment in the history of Chinese rock. Standing out in the Chinese music scene when patriotic ballads and Cantopop were popular, he started to gather a cult following on China's university campuses, credited with pioneering the country's alternative music. This was followed by ''Rock 'n' Roll on the New Long March'' (1989), China's first original rock album, which remains one of the most successful and best-selling albums in the nation's history. Cui had faced censorship and limitations on his performances, particularly after his public support for the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests; these restrictions were finally lifted in the 21st century.
Cui's subsequent albums ''Solution'' (1991) and ''Balls Under the Red Flag'' (1994) received critical acclaim, the latter of which is regarded by some as his ''magnum opus''. He explored electronic rock music on the albums ''The Power of the Powerless'' (1998) and ''Show You Colour'' (2005). In 2002, he initiated the Live Vocals Movement against lip-synching at live and televised performances. Following his participation in producing several films, including the musical film ''Blue Sky Bones'' (2013), his album ''Frozen Light'' (2015) was regarded as his musical comeback. In 2022, the album ''A Flying Dog'' (2021) earned him the Golden Melody Award for Best Male Mandarin Singer, the top music award in the Chinese-speaking world.
Cui has verifiably sold 12 million records; if pirated copies are included, the total could reach 100 million. He has given more than 1,000 concerts around the world, and received an MTV International Viewer's Choice Award. In 2009, Cui was voted the twelfth most influential Chinese celebrity of the past 60 years in a poll conducted by the China Internet Information Center. ''Billboard'' called him "the lone voice of originality in Chinese music". Provided by Wikipedia
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6by Jie Xu, Jian Cui, Shaomin Yang, Yu Han, Xi Guo, Yuhang Che, Dongfang Xu, Chenyang Duan, Wenjing Zhao, Kunpeng Guo, Wanli Ma, Baomin Xu, Jianxi Yao, Zhike Liu, Shengzhong LiuGet full text
Published 2021
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7by Jian Cui, Peiling Li, Jiadong Zhou, Wen-Yu He, Xiangwei Huang, Jian Yi, Jie Fan, Zhongqing Ji, Xiunian Jing, Fanming Qu, Zhi Gang Cheng, Changli Yang, Li Lu, Kazu Suenaga, Junwei Liu, Kam Tuen Law, Junhao Lin, Zheng Liu, Guangtong LiuGet full text
Published 2019
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8by Hong Wang, Xiangwei Huang, Junhao Lin, Jian Cui, Yu Chen, Chao Zhu, Fucai Liu, Qingsheng Zeng, Jiadong Zhou, Peng Yu, Xuewen Wang, Haiyong He, Siu Hon Tsang, Weibo Gao, Kazu Suenaga, Fengcai Ma, Changli Yang, Li Lu, Ting Yu, Edwin Hang Tong Teo, Guangtong Liu, Zheng LiuGet full text
Published 2017
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9by Feng Liu, Jiong Lu, Wei Hu, Sheng-Yue Wang, Shu-Jian Cui, Ming Chi, Qing Yan, Xin-Rong Wang, Huai-Dong Song, Xue-Nian Xu, Ju-Jun Wang, Xiang-Lin Zhang, Xin Zhang, Zhi-Qin Wang, Chun-Liang Xue, Paul J Brindley, Donald P McManus, Peng-Yuan Yang, Zheng Feng, Zhu Chen, Ze-Guang HanGet full text
Published 2006
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