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Cui Jian is the Father of China¡¯s Rock¡¯n¡¯Roll

Cui Jian is the Father of China¡¯s Rock¡¯n¡¯Roll

In 1961, Cui Jian was born in an ethnically Korean family in Beijing, and was immediately surrounded by an atmosphere of music and dance, for his father was a professional trumpet player in an air force band and his mother a member of a Korean minority dance troupe. Living on an unmilitary base, Jian spent a very happy childhood, as he said, ¡°Born in the People¡¯s Republic of China, Growing up under the red flag, I feel I am the happiest person in the world and the rest of the world is suffering.¡± (Free Style, P9) Although Jian was good at writing compositions, and his teacher thought he should devote himself to be a writer, Jian began learning trumpet at the age of fourteen in 1975 because of his father¡¯s influence. In 1977, one year after the Cultural Revolution, China resumed the Entrance Exam for College. What¡¯s the most interesting thing is that the father of China¡¯s Rock¡¯n¡¯Roll didn¡¯t pass any exa...

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