Jae Chong

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Name = Jae Chong


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Origin = Los Angeles, California, USA
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Occupation = Songwriter, Record producer
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URL = Jae Chong, born January 8, 1972. Jae’s professional music career started in the underground hip hop world of Los Angeles during the early 1990’s, producing local rap groups such as Baby G, The Funky Few, and Soul Selection. These early years became the formative time for Jae to hone his music writing and producing skills. Jae then shifted his focus to the Asian music scene by writing and producing songs for the L.A. Boyz, a pop group sensation, which caught the attention of the Asian music world. Jae himself garnered attention and accolade when he exploded onto the Korean music landscape as the writer, producer and member of the R&B group Solid. Jae revolutionized the Korean music industry by propelling Solid and with it the urban music genre to the forefront of popular consciousness with his mesmerizing hip-hop beats and soulful melodies and by selling excess of four million records in the short span of four years. He went on to earn critical acclaim and countless awards and credits for writing and producing for many international superstars like Coco Lee, Kim Gun Mo, Shin Seung Hoon, Stanley Huang and LA BOYZ, just to name a few. [cite web |url=http://www.cctv.com/program/cultureexpress/20070225/105559.shtml |title=5 records selling like hot cakes |publisher=CCTV International |accessdate=2008-06-05 |quote=(Stanley Huang)] In 2003 he also took part in launching the first hip hop entertainment company in Taiwan called MACHI Entertainment which helped launched many successful artists including the group Machi (hip hop group), Andrew Chou, Nicky Lee and Melody Yeung not to mention its successful clothing line “The Grandmasters.” He was also the first Korean American ever to be nominated for the Best Producer of the Year at the Golden Melody Awards and won various awards for hit albums, two of which were Stanley Huang and Nicky Lee who won the Best Male Artist of the Year award at the 2005 and 2006 Golden Melody Awards respectively.

Credit list

Elva Hsiao(Taiwan)First hit single “Capuccino” on her 1st debut album. (First #1 song produced by a foreign producer) (1999)“Weather Outside” and “Do You Know?” on her 2nd album (2000) *”Weather Outside” was used for a commercial campaign for DeBeer jewelry companyProduced 4 tracks on 3rd album (2001) including the international hit “The One”Single “Come Closer To Me” on her 4th album (2001) plus Remixed the song “And I Know.” Produced and wrote the single “Wanna Lover” on her 5th album (2003)

Vanness Wu (2002) (Member of the Asian Super Group “F4”) Produced and wrote the song “Nah Geuh Neu Tsun”

Vanness Wu 2nd Album (2006) Composed and Produced 8 songs.

Tao Tzu (Taiwan) Single “Dreamin’” on her latest album “Momoko” (2001) used on Momoko 2001 Create Collection Fashion Show.

Park Mi Kyung (One of the biggest female artists in Korea)Produced 5 tracks on her 4th album (1999) including her singles “Faithful” and “Different Love”

L.A. BOYZ (Taiwan) (One of the top selling Pop Group in Taiwanese music history) 12 albums (1992 – 1997)

Chae Jung Ahn (One of the biggest sex symbols in Korea) The hit single “Precious Love” on her 2nd album (2001)

VOICE (R&B group Korea) Produced/Written all 10 songs on their 1st debut release including the hit single “Your Angel”.

Uhm Jung Hwa (The biggest female artist in Korea) Produced/Co-written her smash hit single “Hidden Pictures” on her 4th album (1998) (500,000+ sold). Produced/Written “Tell Me” on her 5th album (1999)

Jolin Tsai (Taiwan) (An idol star with one of the largest followings in Asia) Single “Babyface” on her 5th album. (2000)

J (Female R&B artist in Korea firmly entrenched in the top of the charts) Singles “Scent Of You” and “Tonight” on her 1st debut album.

BoA (Korea) (International Asian star; dominating both the Korean and Japanese Charts) “Let U Go” on her 2nd album (1999)

Machi (hip hop group) (Taiwan) (1st Real Hip Hop Group ever to achieve commercial success in Taiwan) Wrote & produced both 1st and the 3nd album. (2003 – 2005) including the remix of “Work It” by Missy Elliot.

Nicky Lee Album 1, 2, 3 and 4 (Taiwan/China) (Nicky won the award for the Best Male Artist of the Year in 2007)

Andrew Chou (Taiwan) (The youngest entertainer to ever achieve commercial success) Wrote & Produced 8 tracks on the 1st album including the hit single “Pi Li Pa Lah” Wrote & Produced 2 tracks on the 2nd albumTENSION (Taiwan) Wrote & arranged the song “I Need U So Bad” on their album “Gotta Be Your Man” (2003)

Sandy Lam (Taiwan) Wrote & arranged the songs “Now or Never”(2000) and “You Can’t Have It Back” (2001)

Movies

*SPLINTER (2006) (USA) Score and Soundtrack
*Sledge (2005) (USA)Music Score

References

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*Imdb name|2326430|Jae Chong