Jia Jia, if there are any inaccuracies or omissions, please let me know. Thank you. (Updated on Jan 28, 2022) (1) Chen Jia's Background Profile (a) Good Piano Skills, and Good at Dancing and Singing Chen Jis was born and raised in Beijing. From the age of three, she studied piano with a professor in the piano department of the Central Conservatory of Music. At the age of 13, she obtained the highest level certificate of the National Music Association and the Central Conservatory of Music piano examination at home and abroad. She also won many awards in Beijing Elementary and Secondary School Art Festival. At the age of 18 she took the national high school gifted piano students exam of Tsinghua University and obtained the first level (highest level) certificate, and the second place in the national high school students piano exam of Beijing University. At the age of 11, she was admitted to the youth and women’s choir affiliated to the China Symphony Orchestra. During the ten years in the group, she visited the United States, Russia, Italy, Japan, Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan many times, and participated in hundreds of performance, and won many awards. In 2019, she passed the eighth level of the Royal Academy of Dance (the highest level of amateur dance). In an interview with Netease in October 2020, Chen Jia said that in order to maintain the state on stage, she will continue to practise dancing. She also said that because she didn't learn vocal music systematically since she was a child, she now also needs to take vocal music lessons and learn the correct singing techniques to improve her singing skills. Now her voice is more clear and crisp, and endings are softer and more beautiful than before. (b) Highly Educated and Good Career Chen Jia graduated from the Department of Finance of the "University of International Business and Economics", and later went to Germany to study, she obtained a master's degree in International Business Management from the University of Hamburg, Germany with excellent results, and returned to China to work in Bank of China Securities International Co., Ltd., specializing in A-share listing, a job with a high salary and job security. (2) Quitted Her High-paying Financial Job to Become a Professional Singer and is Regarded by Many as the Best Successor to Teresa Teng Chen Jia was obsessed with Teresa Teng when she was young. When she learned that Teresa Teng had passed away, she was so sad that she hid in her bedroom and wept grievously for a whole week. Whenever she went to Taiwan, she tried her best to make time to go to pay respects to Teresa Teng. Chen Jia held an 1&1/2 hrs online solo concert in the hotel room during a business trip in 2011 to commemorate the 16th anniversary of Teresa Teng's death. She sang a number of songs in different periods of Teresa Teng in multiple languages. Chen Jia didn’t know that the online concert could be recorded and put on the Internet. The video of the concert was accidentally discovered by Teresa Teng’s third brother and invited her to sign a contract with the Teresa Teng Cultural and Educational Foundation (TTCEF). After considering for more than a year, she finally quitted her high-paying and secured job in finance, and signed a contract with the TTCEF to become a professional singer at the end of 2012. Chen Jia and Wang Jing were the only two contracted singers of the TTCEF. Being a contracted singer of the TTCEF was an affirmation of one's singing skills and an honor for singers. While Wang Jing and Chen Jia were both contracted singers of TTCEF, Teresa Teng's third brother chose Chen Jia to complete Teresa Teng's posthumous work "清平調". Chen Jia is still the only singer who can accurately recite the songs of Teresa Teng in various languages in various periods, and is regarded by many as the best successor to Teresa. (3) Does Chen Jia Deliberately Imitate Teresa Teng in Singing? When Chen Jia was a child, she tried her best to imitate Teresa Teng's singing and voice, but as she got older, she no longer deliberately sought to imitate Teng's voice. But instead she started from a deeper level, studying Teng’s singing skills and vocalization methods, which, after years of research, have been thoroughly drilled into her, and now can be freely applied by her as part of her own singing skills, and no need to deliberately imitate Teng. Teresa Teng’s third brother also said that Chen Jia’s own voice was close to that of Teresa Teng, and she did not deliberately imitate Teng’s voice. If she did, she could only sing a few close songs. It was impossible to sing so many songs so close. In an interview in New York in May 2017, Chen Jia said that her singing is a synthesis of the singing skills and music knowledge she learned from Teresa Teng, her choir conductor, and her piano teacher, not simply imitating Teng. In November of the same year, Chen Jia said on Changzhou Radio in China that she did not listen to Teresa Teng’s songs anymore. She explained that if she twisted herself to deliberately imitate others would cause herself to be out of touch with her own essence. She would not sing naturally or well. She now sings only on the basis of her own feeling of the song. In the evening of October 20, 2021 on Douyin Live, a fan asked Chen Jia to use Teresa Teng's voice to sing pop songs. Chen Jia replied that she could only use her own voice to sing Teresa Teng's songs and pop songs. Many of Teresa Teng's songs in Chen Jia's albums have been re-arranged, and Chen Jia has her own interpretation of certain songs. You can compare the following songs, first sung by Teresa Teng, and then by Chen Jia: 天涯歌女 ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-FpWXkNaYlsQ.html ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-YkVwUCp9SQA.html 愛的箴言 ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-VTC-FhTKZFc.html ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-w9Yyc1jAFus.html 嘆十聲 ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-bPZXjeBu_VI.html ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-FAlE9vFKuHQ.html 人面桃花 ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-M1Zgfnn44io.html ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-tqh4_uSjCzA.html 千言萬語 ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-iuXzZB_PBQA.html ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-wqNw9-coORY.html 你怎麼說 ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-sLWls1V2QQs.html ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Cz2eb1XRZm8.html 星 ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-jQFI3Z-G5mg.html ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-OeZfppyyFiY.html 雨中追憶 ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-DaDKS0FE2RE.html ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-1jeVHPt5H3.html Now do you think Chen Jia deliberately imitates Teresa Teng in singing? (4) Chen Jia's Ambitions, Strengths and Actions Are More Than Just Being the Best Successor to Teresa Teng (a) Ambitions In a 2015 BTV《 我家有明星》TV show titled "我怎能離開你", Chen Jia said: Teresa Teng is her lifelong hobby, but it is certainly not her only pursuit. Chen Jia is regarded by many as the best successor to Teresa Teng, but she has never regarded herself as such because her ambitions, strengths and actions are more than just being that. (b) Strengths ** Can compose and write lyrics: to date, has more than 30 original songs, including an original album. Many of them can be found in the non-profit 《輕談國學歌風雅》 Sinology series, in which Chen Jia acted as the program host, singer and music consultant ru-vid.com%E8%BC%95%E8%AB%87%E5%9C%8B%E5%AD%B8%E6%AD%8C%E9%A2%A8%E9%9B%85 ** Beautiful voice: sweet but not cloying, mellow, clear and crisp ** Excellent singing skills: the breath is silent, the live performance is stable, and the level is close to the recording studio, no need to use a teleprompter, and is a strong live performer ** Singing characteristics: natural and comfortable, almost never pretentious or exaggerated, singing clearly, delicate and charming ** Wide range of singing: singing non-Teresa Teng's songs is also very good; she is one of the rare northern singers that sings Cantonese, Hokkein, and Japanese with almost perfect pronunciation and sings the unique charm of the local language, although she has never lived in the relevant places before. Most of her fans are from the Cantonese speaking regions, her Cantonese songs are even more popular among fans. So far, she has covered more than 40 Cantonese songs, including two pure Cantonese albums. ** Work attitude: hardworking, motivated, studious, striving for perfection, thinking, planning and perseverant ** Loved by fans: pretty, intelligent and elegant, versatile (dancing, piano playing, song writing, and singing in multiple languages), and lovable personality: low-key, humble, straightforward, seems soft and gentle but actually very strong and determined, decent, sweet smile and amiable (c) Actions Since singing Teresa Teng's songs is Chen Jia's lifelong hobby and many of her fans are also Teresa Teng's fans, she will continue to cover Teresa Teng's songs, but also, at the same time, she is producing more original songs, and using her own interpretation and her own singing style to cover the songs of other singers . She is striving to carve a niche, that is independent of Teresasa Teng, for herself in the singing world, and will not live in the shadow of Teresa Teng forever. (5) Chen Jia Has Achieved Quite Good Results in Her Singing Career Although Chen Jia is not a big hit, yet she has over 30 original songs, and has performed in mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Japan, Southeast Asia and the United States. To date, she has held nearly a hundred solo concerts and a total of 12 albums have been released, and won many awards, including the "Best Singer of the Year Award in 2017". The 12 albums released include: (a) 10 albums in China: 1 original Mandarin album "劇中人" ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-wyWUjxePerM.html 2 Cantonese albums (Teresa Teng did not sing any of these songs before): "似是故人來 " and " 應是故人來" ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-TiRtKjc1ahU.html 4 albums "又見鄧麗君" 1-4 2 albums "去年今日" 1-2 1 album "遇見" (formerly called "櫻花之旅" ) (b) 2 albums in Japan : "Kei 68" ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-IysHMTwQ2Zc.html and "Kei 68 International".
