She crooned this melody so soothingly... as few other singers can. I hope she keeps practicing and further sweeten her voice and upgrade her skills.. till she gets to the top level like Teresa Teng had.
(1) Chen Jia's Background Profile (a) Good Piano Skills, and Good at Dancing and Singing Chen Jia (Weibo certified singer & musician) 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 and received a rigorous classical music education. At the age of 13, she obtained the highest-level certificate in piano examinations. 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, Chen Jia was admitted to the youth and women’s choir affiliated with the China Symphony Orchestra. During the ten years in the group, she visited the USA, Russia, Italy, Japan, HK, Macau, and Taiwan many times, participated in hundreds of performances, and won many awards. In 2019, Chen Jia passed the Eighth Level exam of the Royal Academy of Dance (the highest level of amateur dance). In an interview with NetEase in October 2020, Chen Jia said that to maintain fitness on the stage, she will continue practicing 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 transparent and charming, and her endings softer and more beautiful than ever before. (b) Highly Educated and Good Career Chen Jia graduated from the Department of Finance of the "University of International Business and Economics" in Beijing, and later went to Germany to study, she obtained with flying colors a master's degree in International Business Management from the University of Hamburg, Germany, and then 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) Chen Jia 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 a 1.5-hour online solo concert in a hotel room during a business trip in 2011 to commemorate the 16th anniversary of Teresa Teng's death. She sang many songs in different periods of Teresa Teng in multiple languages. She didn’t know that the online concert could be recorded by others and put on the Internet. The video of the concert was accidentally discovered by Teresa Teng’s third brother. With great admiration, he 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 well-paid and stable 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 Chen Jia and Wang Jing were both contracted singers of TTCEF, Teresa Teng's third brother selected Chen Jia to complete Teresa Teng's posthumous work "清平調". Chen Jia is fluent in Japanese, German, and English. She 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 Teng. (3) Does Chen Jia Deliberately Imitate Teresa Teng's Singing? When Chen Jia was a child, she tried her best to imitate Teresa Teng's 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 very skillfully applied by her as part of her singing skills, and there is no need to deliberately imitate Teng. Teresa Teng’s third brother also said that Chen Jia’s 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 songs similarly, and 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 not simply an imitation of Teresa Teng, but a combination of singing skills and musical knowledge learned from Teresa Teng, her choir director, and her piano teacher. 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, she would not sing naturally and would not sing well. She now sings only based on her feelings about the song. On 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's singing? (4) Chen Jia's Ambition, Strength, and Actions Are More Than Just Being the Best Successor to Teresa Teng (a) Ambition In a 2015 BTV 《我家有明星》 TV show titled "我怎能離開你", Chen Jia said: Teresa Teng is my lifelong hobby, but it is certainly not my only pursuit. Chen Jia is regarded by many as the best successor to Teresa Teng, but she has never claimed herself as such because her ambition, strength, and actions are more than just being that. (b) Strength ** Can Compose and Write Lyrics: to date, has more than 30 original songs. Some of them can be found in the non-profit Sinology series 《輕談國學歌風雅》, 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 Her original album"劇中人" is now available on QQ Music and KuGou Music. ** 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 that of the recording studio, no need to use a teleprompter, and is an excellent live performer. ** Singing Characteristics: natural and comfortable, rarely pretentious or overdone, 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 sing Cantonese, Hokkien, and Japanese with almost perfect pronunciation and sings the unique charm of the local language, although she has never lived in these places before. Most of her fans are from Cantonese-speaking regions, and her Cantonese songs are even more popular among fans. So far, she has covered more than 50 Cantonese songs, including two Cantonese albums. ** Work Attitude: hardworking, motivated, studious, striving for perfection, thinking, planning and perseverant. ** Admired and Loved by Fans: beautiful, intelligent, elegant, versatile (dancing, piano playing, songwriting, and good language skills) and likable personality: low-key, modest, straightforward, strong, decent, scandal-free, sweet smile, and amiable. (c) Actions Since singing Teresa Teng's songs is Chen Jia's lifelong hobby and since many of her fans love to hear her sing Teresa Teng's songs, she will continue to cover Teresa Teng's songs, but also, at the same time, she is producing more original songs and covering songs of other singers that fit her style. She is striving to carve a niche, that is independent of Teresa Teng, for herself in the music 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 singer, she has over 30 original songs and has performed in mainland China, HK, Taiwan, Japan, Southeast Asia, and the USA. She dubbed and sang for virtual Teresa Teng in the Jiangsu Satellite Television 2022 New Year's Eve Gala. To date (April 30, 2022), she has over 1 million subscribers each on Douyin and Xigua Video, held nearly 100 solo concerts on tour, and released a total of 12 solo albums. She is highly praised by audiophiles and is ranked among the top most popular singers in the Chinese audiophile music scene, and her albums won many awards, including the "Best Singer of the Year Award in 2017". The 12 albums 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" (b) 2 albums in Japan: "Kei 68" ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-IysHMTwQ2Zc.html "Kei 68 Int'l."
Thank you for sharing this information. Maybe you or someone else can explain how to pronounce KEI? Is it like the end of okay? Or like the Chinese 可爱? (I'm hoping it's the last, makes perfect sense 😊.)
I remember Back in my high school in 2003 i heard rotk in my mp3 music colection i bough from shop. There was 2 version. Male and female. I watch and read rotk from elementary. I love the song when played one another. Just like the song of lu bu and diao chan
