In order to make it easier for everyone to get to know Chen Jia, I wrote the following very long message, divided into three parts: (1) An Introduction to Chen Jia, (2) Does Chen Jia Deliberately Imitate Teresa Teng in Singing? and (3) Some Selected Songs of Chen Jia. You can read/listen to (by tapping the blue hyperlinks) the full text, or read/listen to the part you are interested in. (1) An Introduction to Chen Jia Chen Jia, born in the 80s, was born and raised in Beijing. Since the age of three, she studied piano with a professor of the Central Conservatory of Music. She passed the piano performance level exam at the age of 13, and 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 Juvenile and Women’s Choir affiliated to the China National Symphony Orchestra. During the ten years in the group, she visited USA, Russia, Italy, Japan, HK, Macao and Taiwan many times, and participated in hundreds of performances and won many awards. She graduated from the Dept. of Finance of the University of International Business and Economics, and later went to Germany to study, obtained a master's degree in International Business Management from the University of Hamburg with excellent results, and returned to China to work in Bank of China Securities International Co., Ltd., specializing in A-share listing, a dream job with a high salary and job security. Chen Jia was obsessed with Teresa Teng when she was young. She collected a lot of Teng’s music tapes, CDs, posters, etc. 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. During a business trip in 2011, she held an 1.5 hours online solo concert in her hotel room to commemorate the 16th anniversary of Teresa Teng’s death. She sang a number of Teresa Teng's songs in multiple languages in different periods. ruclips.net/video/Krcp9UjqoOM/видео.html She was accidentally discovered by Teresa Teng’s third brother, and was invited to complete the album " 淡淡幽情 2" for Teresa Teng. After considering for more than a year, she finally gave up her well-paid and secured job to complete the album that her idol failed to finish. At the end of 2012, she signed a contract with the Teresa Teng Cultural and Education Foundation (TTCEF), and became a professional singer. Wang Jing, born in 1991, participated in the protagonist selection contest for the musical "Fall in Love with Teresa Teng" in 2010. She stood out from more than 5,000 contestants and acted as the main actress Teresa Teng in the play. She signed a contract with TTCEF in the same year, more than two years earlier than Chen Jia. Wang Jing and Chen Jia were the only two contracted singers of TTCEF. Being a contracted singer of TTCEF signifies the singer's singing skills have been affirmed, and is the singer's honor . Chen Jia is regarded by many as the best inheritor of Teresa Teng’s songs or Teresa’s successor. This is in line with Teresa’s third brother’s choice of her to complete the album "淡淡幽情 2". She is still the only singer who can accurately recite Teresa Teng's songs in various languages in various periods. Chen Jia has a wide singing range. She also covers beautifully songs of other singers in China, HK, Taiwan and Japan, and, in my opinion, some are even better than the original. Not only her Cantonese pronunciation is excellent (very few northetn singers can pronunce Cantonese so accurately) , but also her voice is very suitable for singing Cantonese songs, and sings the charm of Cantonese songs, and many of her fans love her Cantonese songs even more than her Mandarin ones; also she once said that if a song is available in both Mandarin and Japanese, she usually chooses to sing the Japanese version, and, indeed, the Japanese version of the same song she sings is usually better than the Mandarin version. Chen Jia can compose and write lyrics, and has her own songs. Many of her songs can be found in the program “輕談國學歌風雅” produced by the Chinese University of HK, which is played by her as the singer, music consultant and program host. ruclips.net/p/PLuIAqtuIe6ADLv0Nv5NJizhy8ljQw9-l3 In my opinion, Chen Jia posses excellent "voice, beauty and art" as well as "virtues, wisdom and talents", and is a rare talented singer and is loved and admired by her fans: **Voice: Although her voice is close to that of Teresa Teng, she still has her own unique beautiful voice: sweet, mellow, fresh and bright. **Beauty: Medium figured, dignified and pretty, gentle and elegant. **Art: An Excellent Live Singer: live singing close to studio standards with no breathing noises, and no need to use teleprompters; Singing Characteristics: natural and comfortable, never pretentious or showing off singing skills, loudness, pace and transposition are particularly good, delicate, charming, emotional, and the artistic conception of lyrics is very well expressed. ** Virtues: Low-key, frank, perseverant, self-damanding, respectful to her teachers, loves children and small animals. **Wisdom: Intelligent, well-spoken, articles showing depth of thought. **Talents: A crossover talent: studied and worked in the financial sector, and has not received professional vocal training, but sings professionally; sings Mandarin, Cantonese, Fujian, Japanese and English songs accurately, although she has never lived in any of the related places except Beijing; can play piano, compose, write lyrics and dance ballet. Before the COVID-19 pandemic, Chen Jia held about forty solo concerts each year. Up to the end of 2020, a total of 10 albums (8 in China and 2 in Japan) have been released, and won the Top 10 Hi-Fi Albums Award and the LP Album of the Year Award for several years, and the 2019 Female Voice Album of the Year Award and the 2020 Best Hi-Fi Vocal Award. ruclips.net/video/vGUekaGwaTQ/видео.html She released her first pure Cantonese album "Seems Like an Old Friend" ( 似是故人來) in August of last year. It covers classic Cantonese songs by top HK singers. Teresa Teng didn't sing any of these songs before. ruclips.net/video/dI56FZsns1E/видео.html (2) Does Chen Jia Deliberately Imitate Teresa Teng in Singing? When Chen Jia was a teenager, she listened to and sang Teresa Teng's songs only. She said these songs are in line with her nature and resonate with her since she was a toddler. Every day she spent her free time on imitating Teresa Teng's singing, and tried her best to sing as close to Teng as possible. But as she grew older, she no longer deliberately sought to imitate Teng’s voice, but from a deeper level, studying Teng’s singing skills and vocal methods. Over the years, these skills and methods have been thoroughly drilled into her, and now can be freely applied by her as part of her own singing skills. Also, as her own voice is close to that of Teresa Teng, she just sings naturally, and doesn't need to deliberately imitate Teresa Teng. The followings are the pertinent interviews, and songs for comparison: 1. The third brother of Teresa Teng said that Chen Jia's own voice was close to that of Teresa Teng. She did not deliberately imitate Teresa Teng's voice. If she did, she could only sing a few close songs. It was impossible to sing so many songs so close. 2. In an interview in New York in May 2017, Chen Jia said her singing is a combination of the singing skills and music knowledge she learned from Teresa Teng, her choir conductor and her piano teacher, rather than just a mere imitation of Teresa Teng. 3. In November of the same year, Chen Jia said on Changzhou Radio, China that she didn't listen to Teresa Teng's singing anymore. She explained if you twist yourself to deliberately imitate others, you will be out of touch with your own essence, and will not sing naturally or sing well. She now sings only by her own feelings about the song. 4. Many of Teresa Teng's songs in Chen Jia's albums have been re-arranged, so they are not simply imitated. Although Chen Jia sang a lot of songs very close to Teresa Teng, actually she also sang many songs with her own way of interpretation. For example, the following songs (first sung by Teresa Teng, and then covered by Chen Jia): 千言萬語 ruclips.net/video/iuXzZB_PBQA/видео.html ruclips.net/video/H6ATS8O9drM/видео.html 你怎麼說 ruclips.net/video/tBOk7nPrxBE/видео.html ruclips.net/video/ALA7Yvg9nkk/видео.html 天涯歌女 ruclips.net/video/4XNPZbyGcM4/видео.html ruclips.net/video/QkyHUbfTge8/видео.html 人面桃花 ruclips.net/video/M1Zgfnn44io/видео.html ruclips.net/video/Odg23UyEhMA/видео.html 愛的箴言 ruclips.net/video/VTC-FhTKZFc/видео.html ruclips.net/video/SDHAHBnB1HQ/видео.html (3) Some Selected Songs by Chen Jia Mandarin: 驀然回首(Original) ruclips.net/video/ZCh2s8sPRj4/видео.html 春江淚(Original) ruclips.net/video/S5F5wOH32wA/видео.html 在水一方(Live) ruclips.net/video/ugcS_clyCcE/видео.html 臉 ruclips.net/video/q4p-xwpZSCk/видео.html 雲河(Live) ruclips.net/video/xnIuhu5rvRQ/видео.html 梨花又開放(Live) ruclips.net/video/lr478oNutvQ/видео.html 紅豆詞 ruclips.net/video/um_M9we6XAo/видео.html 一剪梅 ruclips.net/video/yn7eokHYd78/видео.html 嘆十聲(Live) ruclips.net/video/cQ6-1mbDX8c/видео.html Cantonese： 有誰共鳴(Live) ruclips.net/video/3GvKwTQ4A90/видео.html 無奈(Live) ruclips.net/video/h0eb9pAXej/видео.html 啼笑姻緣 ruclips.net/video/w8w4j0bSOTw/видео.html 如風(Live) ruclips.net/video/Og9IvyhjdM0/видео.html 月半小夜曲(Live) ruclips.net/video/GR17Lbw0qtg/видео.html Fujian： 落雨聲 ruclips.net/video/YMQVYTdv5r0/видео.html Japanese： 風姿花傳 ruclips.net/video/F1ElsReDPFc/видео.html English: Killing me softly with his song ruclips.net/video/ADEY4e441lY/видео.html German: Was ich dir sagen will ruclips.net/video/FTAc3DbGKjwJ/видео.html Russian: 美好的遠方(Live) ruclips.net/video/U_X_ptMiO6E/видео.html Updated: March 27, 2021
輕談國學歌風雅 is not produced by CUHK, it’s produced by 馮燊均國學基金會, Fung Sun Kwan Chinese Arts Foundation Limited. The coordinator of this programme, 鄧立光博士, Dr. Tang Lap Kwong, who is Secretary-General of the FSK Chinese Arts Foundation just so happens to be the head of the Centre for China Studies at CUHK.
When is the moon next? Ask the wine for the green sky. I do not know what year this night is the palace. I want to take advantage of the wind to return, lest Qionglou Yuyu, high in the cold. Dance to find out what the shadow is like in the world. Turn Zhuge, low household, sleepless. There should be no hate, why long to other time circle? People have sad and happy separation, the moon has a clear and clear round lack, this matter is difficult to complete. I wish people long-term, thousands of miles together.
邓丽君是天花板，您是最接近天花板的一位。
還有一位泰國的小姐姐“朗嘎啦姆”，才是最像鄧麗君的歌聲😂😂😂
溫柔婉約 在現代 非常難得,佳佳《但願人長久，千里共嬋娟》永遠支持妳！***歌唱得很好聽!
靜下心來聽，唱的還不錯。
但願人長久，千里共嬋娟！ 千古絕唱啊
非常好听的歌，演唱处真漂亮。今天是 五月初五，端午节快乐，使其身体健康，事事顺利。
溫柔婉約 在現代 非常難得
佳佳《但願人長久，千里共嬋娟》永遠支持妳！
唱得太棒了！
為了方便大家多認識陳佳，我寫了以下很長的留言，分為三部分：(一) 陳佳簡介，(二) 陳佳有没有刻意模仿鄧麗君唱歌？(三) 陳佳的一些精選歌曲。各位可以讀/聽(點擊藍色超連結)全文，或只讀/聽自己有興趣的部分。
(一)陳佳簡介
陳佳，八十後，土生土長北京人， 三歲起師從中央音樂學院鋼琴系教授學習鋼琴， 13歲考獲鋼琴演奏級， 18歲考獲清華大學全國高中鋼琴特長生第一級(最高級)證書，及北京大學全國高中生鋼琴考試第二名。 11歲考入中國交響樂團附屬少年及女子合唱團，在團十年期間，多次出訪美國、俄羅斯、義大利、日本、港、澳、台等地，參加各類演出數百場，並多次獲獎。畢業於「 對外經濟貿易大學」金融學系，後赴德國留學， 以極優異成績取得德國漢堡大學國際企業管理碩士學位， 學成回國任職中銀證券國際有限公司， 專責為A股上市，待遇優厚又穩定，是份夢寐以求的工作。
陳佳年幼時極之痴迷鄧麗君， 收藏了很多鄧的唱帶、唱片、海報等等， 當悉知鄧麗君去世，她傷心極了，躲在房間痛哭了一整個星期， 每逢到台灣，都盡量抽時間去拜祭鄧麗君。
2011年出差時在酒店房間開了一個長達一個半小時的網上個人演唱會，紀念鄧麗君逝世16週年， 唱了多首鄧麗君不同時期多種語言的歌曲，ruclips.net/video/Krcp9UjqoOM/видео.html
偶然被鄧麗君三哥發現， 被邀請替鄧麗君完成《淡淡幽情2》專輯， 她考慮了一年多，最終放棄高薪又隱定的金融工作去完成偶像未能完成的專輯，於2012年底簽約鄧麗君文教基金會，成為職業歌手。
王靜，九一年出生，2010年參加舞臺歌唱劇《愛上鄧麗君》主角選拔大賽， 從五千多名參賽者脱穎而出，並演劇中女主角鄧麗君， 同年簽約鄧麗君文教基金會， 比陳佳早簽兩年多。 王靜和陳佳是該基金會唯一的兩位簽約歌手，能簽約該基金會是歌藝得到肯定， 是歌手的榮譽。
陳佳被很多人視為鄧麗君歌曲最佳傳承人或鄧麗君接班人， 這跟鄧麗君三哥選擇她去完成《淡淡幽情 2》 專輯是互相吻合的，她仍然是目前唯一歌手能精準背唱鄧麗君各個時期多種語言的歌曲。
陳佳的歌路甚廣，也翻唱中港台日前輩歌手的歌曲，幾乎全都唱得非常動聽，個人認為有些歌曲唱得比原唱更好； 粵語字正腔圓 (極少北方歌手粵語發音能那麼標準)，嗓音很適合唱粵語歌曲， 能唱出粵語歌曲的韻味， 甚至很多歌迷喜歡她的粵語歌多過她的國語歌；她又曾說過若一首歌曲 ，國語版本和日語版本都有，她通常會選唱日語版本， 確實如此，同一首歌她唱的日語版本通常比國語版本動聽。
陳佳會作曲填詞，有自己的原創歌曲， 很多她的歌曲可在香港中文大學製作的視頻《輕談國學歌風雅》看到， 該視頻由她擔任主唱、音樂顧問和節目主持。 ruclips.net/p/PLuIAqtuIe6ADLv0Nv5NJizhy8ljQw9-l3
個人認為陳佳「聲色藝」俱佳， 並「德智才」也兼備， 是個不可多得的才女歌手， 深受歌迷喜愛和欣賞：
**聲： 聲線雖近似鄧麗君，但仍有自己的獨特靚聲： 甜美、 圓潤、清新、明麗。
**色： 身材適中、端莊秀麗、溫文爾雅。
**藝： 現場實力唱將：現場歌唱接近錄音室水平、換氣無聲、 不用提詞機； 歌唱特色： 自然舒服、不做作或炫技、發音輕重快慢和轉音掌握特別好、細膩、有韻味、富感情、歌詞的意境表達得非常好。
**德： 低調、 坦率、有毅力、自我要求高、尊師重道、喜愛兒童和小動物。
**智： 天資聰穎、談吐得體、文章有內涵。
**才： 是個跨界才女: 修讀和從事金融行業 ，未曾接受過專業聲樂訓練，卻唱出專業水平； 精準唱國、粵、閩南、日、英語等歌曲， 雖除北京外，從未在有關地方居住過； 會彈琴、作曲、填詞、 跳芭蕾舞。
疫情前，陳佳每年個人巡迴演唱會約四十場。 至去年(2020)底，共發行十張專輯(八張在中國、二張在日本) ， 多次獲得十大發燒唱片奬和最佳黑膠唱片奬， 並獲得2019年度最佳女聲獎和2020年度最佳HiFi人聲奬ruclips.net/video/vGUekaGwaTQ/видео.html
去年八月，她推出首張純粵語專輯《 似是故人來》，翻唱香港多位著名歌手的經典粵語歌曲， 鄧麗君從未唱過這些歌曲。ruclips.net/video/dI56FZsns1E/видео.html
(二)陳佳有沒有刻意模仿鄧麗君唱歌？
陳佳少年時只聽和唱鄧麗君歌曲， 她說這些歌曲跟她的本質吻合， 自幼兒便產生共鳴。每天有空便模仿鄧麗君唱歌，盡量唱得跟鄧接近，但當年紀漸長，她不再刻意追求模仿鄧的聲音， 而是從更深的層次出發，研究鄧的演唱技巧和發聲方法等，經多年硏究， 這些技巧和方法已深深融入她的骨子裏，成為她自己的歌唱技巧的一部分，能運用自如，再加上本身的聲線已接近鄧麗君的聲線，自然地唱便可以了，無須刻意模仿鄧麗君。
以下是有關訪問和歌唱實例比較：
1. 鄧麗君三哥說陳佳本身的聲音就接近鄧麗君的聲音， 她沒有刻意模仿鄧麗君的聲音， 若刻意模仿只能唱得幾首歌相似，不可能唱這麼多首歌都這麼接近。
2. 2017年5月陳佳在美國紐約接受訪問時說， 她的歌唱是綜合了從鄧麗君、合唱團導師和鋼琴老師所學得的歌唱技巧和音樂知識，而不只是單纯模仿鄧麗君。
3. 同年11月陳佳在中國常州電台說，她再沒有聽鄧麗君的歌了， 又解釋說若扭曲自己去刻意模仿別人， 便會令到自己跟自己的本質脫節，不會唱得自然， 不會唱得好聽， 她現在只憑自己對歌曲的感覺去唱。
4. 陳佳專輯裏很多鄧麗君歌曲是經重新編曲， 不是單純模仿。
雖然陳佳唱很多歌跟鄧麗君非常接近， 但其實也有不少歌她有著自己的演繹方式， 例如下面的幾首歌 (先由鄧麗君唱， 再由陳佳翻唱)：
千言萬語
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ruclips.net/video/H6ATS8O9drM/видео.html
你怎麼說
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ruclips.net/video/ALA7Yvg9nkk/видео.html
天涯歌女
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ruclips.net/video/QkyHUbfTge8/видео.html
人面桃花
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ruclips.net/video/Odg23UyEhMA/видео.html
愛的箴言
ruclips.net/video/VTC-FhTKZFc/видео.html
ruclips.net/video/SDHAHBnB1HQ/видео.html
(三)陳佳的一些精選歌曲
以下是陳佳的一些精選歌曲， 包括翻唱鄧麗君的歌曲，其他中港台日前輩歌手的歌曲(鄧麗君從未唱過)和陳佳的原創歌曲。 因近日疫情，有些歌曲是陳佳在家中直播， 可聽到她的真歌藝：
國語：
陳佳憶述幼時合唱團導師(感人的非歌曲短片)
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驀然回首( 原創，陳佳獻給她最敬愛的兩位老師)
ruclips.net/video/ZCh2s8sPRj4/видео.html
春江淚(原創)
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晚風的歌(原創)
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明月在我心(原創，直播)
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一剪梅
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在水一方(直播)
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雲河(直播)
ruclips.net/video/xnIuhu5rvRQ/видео.html
紅豆詞
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一年又一年
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絲絲小雨
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南屏晚鐘
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不著痕跡
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小媳婦回娘家
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又見炊煙
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船歌
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如能許一個願
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嘆十聲(直播)
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庭院深深
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南海姑娘
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清平調
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別把眉頭皺
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天外天上天無涯
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明月千里寄相思
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我和你
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但願人長久
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何日君再來
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女兒情
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橄欖樹
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臉
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人約黃昏後
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大魚(直播)
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我怎能離開你
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梨花又開放(直播)
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酒醉的探弋(直播)
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心經
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粵語：
有誰共鳴(直播)
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無奈(直播)
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沉默是金(直播)
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月半小夜曲(直播)
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浪子心聲(直播)
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啼笑姻緣
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恨綿綿
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相思風雨中
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忘記他
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故鄉的雨
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如風(直播)
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舊夢不須記
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閩南話：
落雨聲
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雨夜花
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日語：
風姿花傳
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戀人啊
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楓葉飄飄
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風繼續吹
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淚光閃閃
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英語：
Killing me softly with his song
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I have never been to me
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Tie a yellow ribbon round the old oak tree
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德語：
Was ich dir sagen will
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俄語 :
美好的遠方(直播)
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更新日期 ：2021年3月27日
看來你是陳佳忠粉
She's a scholar (with relatively high educational degree and her mastery of three languages) and a perfectionist singing star!
A beautiful melody crooned with the angelic voice of a gorgeous top-class singer. What else do we expect?
一級正
很好聽 人也有幾分姿色 加油努力！
Blu-Tu-Ful!!! 💙
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謝謝分享！
😜
君去佳來
唱功很不錯
In order to make it easier for everyone to get to know Chen Jia, I wrote the following very long message, divided into three parts: (1) An Introduction to Chen Jia, (2) Does Chen Jia Deliberately Imitate Teresa Teng in Singing? and (3) Some Selected Songs of Chen Jia. You can read/listen to (by tapping the blue hyperlinks) the full text, or read/listen to the part you are interested in.
(1) An Introduction to Chen Jia
Chen Jia, born in the 80s, was born and raised in Beijing. Since the age of three, she studied piano with a professor of the Central Conservatory of Music. She passed the piano performance level exam at the age of 13, and 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 Juvenile and Women’s Choir affiliated to the China National Symphony Orchestra. During the ten years in the group, she visited USA, Russia, Italy, Japan, HK, Macao and Taiwan many times, and participated in hundreds of performances and won many awards. She graduated from the Dept. of Finance of the University of International Business and Economics, and later went to Germany to study, obtained a master's degree in International Business Management from the University of Hamburg with excellent results, and returned to China to work in Bank of China Securities International Co., Ltd., specializing in A-share listing, a dream job with a high salary and job security.
Chen Jia was obsessed with Teresa Teng when she was young. She collected a lot of Teng’s music tapes, CDs, posters, etc. 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. During a business trip in 2011, she held an 1.5 hours online solo concert in her hotel room to commemorate the 16th anniversary of Teresa Teng’s death. She sang a number of Teresa Teng's songs in multiple languages in different periods. ruclips.net/video/Krcp9UjqoOM/видео.html
She was accidentally discovered by Teresa Teng’s third brother, and was invited to complete the album " 淡淡幽情 2" for Teresa Teng. After considering for more than a year, she finally gave up her well-paid and secured job to complete the album that her idol failed to finish. At the end of 2012, she signed a contract with the Teresa Teng Cultural and Education Foundation (TTCEF), and became a professional singer.
Wang Jing, born in 1991, participated in the protagonist selection contest for the musical "Fall in Love with Teresa Teng" in 2010. She stood out from more than 5,000 contestants and acted as the main actress Teresa Teng in the play. She signed a contract with TTCEF in the same year, more than two years earlier than Chen Jia. Wang Jing and Chen Jia were the only two contracted singers of TTCEF. Being a contracted singer of TTCEF signifies the singer's singing skills have been affirmed, and is the singer's honor .
Chen Jia is regarded by many as the best inheritor of Teresa Teng’s songs or Teresa’s successor. This is in line with Teresa’s third brother’s choice of her to complete the album "淡淡幽情 2". She is still the only singer who can accurately recite Teresa Teng's songs in various languages in various periods.
Chen Jia has a wide singing range. She also covers beautifully songs of other singers in China, HK, Taiwan and Japan, and, in my opinion, some are even better than the original. Not only her Cantonese pronunciation is excellent (very few northetn singers can pronunce Cantonese so accurately) , but also her voice is very suitable for singing Cantonese songs, and sings the charm of Cantonese songs, and many of her fans love her Cantonese songs even more than her Mandarin ones; also she once said that if a song is available in both Mandarin and Japanese, she usually chooses to sing the Japanese version, and, indeed, the Japanese version of the same song she sings is usually better than the Mandarin version.
Chen Jia can compose and write lyrics, and has her own songs. Many of her songs can be found in the program “輕談國學歌風雅” produced by the Chinese University of HK, which is played by her as the singer, music consultant and program host. ruclips.net/p/PLuIAqtuIe6ADLv0Nv5NJizhy8ljQw9-l3
In my opinion, Chen Jia posses excellent "voice, beauty and art" as well as "virtues, wisdom and talents", and is a rare talented singer and is loved and admired by her fans:
**Voice: Although her voice is close to that of Teresa Teng, she still has her own unique beautiful voice: sweet, mellow, fresh and bright.
**Beauty: Medium figured, dignified and pretty, gentle and elegant.
**Art: An Excellent Live Singer: live singing close to studio standards with no breathing noises, and no need to use teleprompters; Singing Characteristics: natural and comfortable, never pretentious or showing off singing skills, loudness, pace and transposition are particularly good, delicate, charming, emotional, and the artistic conception of lyrics is very well expressed.
** Virtues: Low-key, frank, perseverant, self-damanding, respectful to her teachers, loves children and small animals.
**Wisdom: Intelligent, well-spoken, articles showing depth of thought.
**Talents: A crossover talent: studied and worked in the financial sector, and has not received professional vocal training, but sings professionally; sings Mandarin, Cantonese, Fujian, Japanese and English songs accurately, although she has never lived in any of the related places except Beijing; can play piano, compose, write lyrics and dance ballet.
Before the COVID-19 pandemic, Chen Jia held about forty solo concerts each year. Up to the end of 2020, a total of 10 albums (8 in China and 2 in Japan) have been released, and won the Top 10 Hi-Fi Albums Award and the LP Album of the Year Award for several years, and the 2019 Female Voice Album of the Year Award and the 2020 Best Hi-Fi Vocal Award. ruclips.net/video/vGUekaGwaTQ/видео.html
She released her first pure Cantonese album "Seems Like an Old Friend" ( 似是故人來) in August of last year. It covers classic Cantonese songs by top HK singers. Teresa Teng didn't sing any of these songs before. ruclips.net/video/dI56FZsns1E/видео.html
(2) Does Chen Jia Deliberately Imitate Teresa Teng in Singing?
When Chen Jia was a teenager, she listened to and sang Teresa Teng's songs only. She said these songs are in line with her nature and resonate with her since she was a toddler. Every day she spent her free time on imitating Teresa Teng's singing, and tried her best to sing as close to Teng as possible. But as she grew older, she no longer deliberately sought to imitate Teng’s voice, but from a deeper level, studying Teng’s singing skills and vocal methods. Over the years, these skills and methods have been thoroughly drilled into her, and now can be freely applied by her as part of her own singing skills. Also, as her own voice is close to that of Teresa Teng, she just sings naturally, and doesn't need to deliberately imitate Teresa Teng.
The followings are the pertinent interviews, and songs for comparison:
1. The third brother of Teresa Teng said that Chen Jia's own voice was close to that of Teresa Teng. She did not deliberately imitate Teresa Teng's voice. If she did, she could only sing a few close songs. It was impossible to sing so many songs so close.
2. In an interview in New York in May 2017, Chen Jia said her singing is a combination of the singing skills and music knowledge she learned from Teresa Teng, her choir conductor and her piano teacher, rather than just a mere imitation of Teresa Teng.
3. In November of the same year, Chen Jia said on Changzhou Radio, China that she didn't listen to Teresa Teng's singing anymore. She explained if you twist yourself to deliberately imitate others, you will be out of touch with your own essence, and will not sing naturally or sing well. She now sings only by her own feelings about the song.
4. Many of Teresa Teng's songs in Chen Jia's albums have been re-arranged, so they are not simply imitated.
Although Chen Jia sang a lot of songs very close to Teresa Teng, actually she also sang many songs with her own way of interpretation. For example, the following songs (first sung by Teresa Teng, and then covered by Chen Jia):
千言萬語
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你怎麼說
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天涯歌女
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人面桃花
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愛的箴言
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(3) Some Selected Songs by Chen Jia
Mandarin:
驀然回首(Original)
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春江淚(Original)
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在水一方(Live)
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臉
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雲河(Live)
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梨花又開放(Live)
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紅豆詞
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一剪梅
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嘆十聲(Live)
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Cantonese：
有誰共鳴(Live)
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無奈(Live)
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啼笑姻緣
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如風(Live)
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月半小夜曲(Live)
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Fujian：
落雨聲
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Japanese：
風姿花傳
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English:
Killing me softly with his song
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German:
Was ich dir sagen will
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Russian:
美好的遠方(Live)
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Updated: March 27, 2021
輕談國學歌風雅 is not produced by CUHK, it’s produced by 馮燊均國學基金會, Fung Sun Kwan Chinese Arts Foundation Limited. The coordinator of this programme, 鄧立光博士, Dr. Tang Lap Kwong, who is Secretary-General of the FSK Chinese Arts Foundation just so happens to be the head of the Centre for China Studies at CUHK.
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赞啦! beautiful! who wrote it? 蘇(軾)東坡: 千古文學排名第一;我中学的老師说的.
❤️👏👏👏👏👏👏
When is the moon next? Ask the wine for the green sky.
I do not know what year this night is the palace.
I want to take advantage of the wind to return, lest Qionglou Yuyu, high in the cold.
Dance to find out what the shadow is like in the world.
Turn Zhuge, low household, sleepless.
There should be no hate, why long to other time circle?
People have sad and happy separation, the moon has a clear and clear round lack, this matter is difficult to complete.
I wish people long-term, thousands of miles together.
唱的很清秀。可能洒脱一点会更符合原意？
取景是四川都江堰嗎
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