Chinese Music Icon- Jay Chou
Jay Chou is one of the most famous Chinese pop stars loved by young people who were born in 80s and 90s. He is the icon of  modern Chinese pop music，for building a new pattern songs called Chinese Style. His story about his success has been encouraging many his fans.
Jay Chou started learning piano from 3years old for 10 years. He has neither been educated by any music masters, nor got in any special university. He just study in a small common college in Tai Wan. He tried to write music when he was 15years old，and became famous in his middle school.
18 years old，which is the most important moment to Jay Chou，he was admired by the superstar Jacky WU. He joined Wu’s music company，but Jay had to sing in the bar to raise himself since no musician liked his music. Two years passed，Jacky Wu made a deal with him: writing 50 songs in 10 days, the company would choose 10 of them to publish his own album. It was amazing 50 wonderful songs were finished in short 10 days. Certainly，
he publish his album <Jay> in 2011 that introduced him to the whole world.
Jay Chou is fascinated with Chinese traditional music. He is also good at western music instruments，like piano，guitar，violoncello and jazz tomtom. He mixes eastern and western music together creating new Chinese style music. The new pattern is quite fresh and lovely，so it spreads rapidly and gets more and more popular.
Rising to fame，many directors invited Jay to act the lead roles in their movies. He refused a lot and acted in Zhang Yimou’s the most famous Chinese director in the world. He played a sad Prince and received a great deal of high praise. Then he found he was also interest in movies, so he began to recognize his own work.
Now， Jay Chou is not only a singer-songwriterlady.gaga，but also an actor，a director and a business man. He built his own company，finding out the singers full of talent and publishing the albums for them. He is success in singing and writing music，but maybe he is failed in music business. It is funny that his band and singers are not widely accepted as himself.
2008，the American magazine 《Fast Company》elected "The 100 Most Creative People in Business",Jay，Lady Gaga、Jay-z are the only three singers here，obviously，the only Asian singer.Jay Chou tells an amazing tale to his fans about a young guy becoming to an world-wide icon.
At last，let's talk about the gossip that most people interest in.Women are always attracted by the man who is talented，so do the female stars .That is why there is lots of gossip about Jay.Some entertainment TV show producers even asked actors to play Jay and some female stars on the programme suggesting the gossip. But the only one girlfriend he recognized in entertainment industry，a famous host considered as the first beautiful news host in Taiwan have been married with some business man.