李宗盛

简介

Jonathan Lee is a famous Taiwanese male singer, songwriter, and music producer, known as the "Godfather of Mandarin Pop Music" and the "Million Producer." He was born on July 19, 1958, in Beitou, Yangmingshan Administrative Bureau, Taiwan (now Beitou District, Taipei City). In his youth, he dreamed of becoming a carpenter, but fell in love with music after picking up a guitar. While studying at Hsin Ming Junior College of Technology in the Electrical Engineering Department, he formed the Wood Guitar Choir with classmates in 1975, and won the Excellence Award in the College Group at the 3rd Golden Melody Campus Folk Song Contest in 1979. In 1982, Lee joined Paf Records and produced his first album, "The Timely Rain," for Zheng Yi, which launched his career as a music producer. In 1983, he wrote the title song for the film "Oil Melon Seeds" directed by Hou Hsiao-hsien. In 1984, he joined Rock Records, with his first production being Sylvia Chang's album "Busy and Blind." Since the 1980s, he has written and produced numerous classic songs and best-selling albums, and is regarded as "the most important music producer in East and Southeast Asia since the 1980s." He has also discovered and promoted many singers, including Zhou Huajie, Winnie Hsin, Jeff Chang, Fish Leong, and Mayday. He served as Vice President and Production Director of Rock Records, and is currently an A&R consultant for Sony Music Greater China.