Chinese artists by Michel Nau - Cui Jian  崔健  
 

 

 
 

 

 
 

Cui Jian

 
 

 崔健

 
     
 

Cui Jian  崔健  -  portrait  -  chinesenewart

 
     
 
 
   

1961

Cui Jian  崔健 was born on August 2, in Beijing  China.

 

He learned to play the trumpet and then joined the Beijing Philharmonic Orchestra.

   
 

In the 80's, he discovered rock music and started to play guitar.

 

With six other musicians, he formed the band  Qi He Ban. ( Seven Player Band )  

 

They performed in bars with their own compositions.

   

1986

He became known with his song : Nothing to My Name

 

He left the band to devote himself entirely to music. ( mixture at the same time

 

of pop, reggae, funk, hard rock and punk and traditional music.)

 

 

He became very popular during the Tiananmen events with his song, taken

 

as a protest slogan and his presence with the leaders.

 

 

1990

After a first tour through China with The New Long March, he was banned from

 

performing in the capital. .

 

So he started a tour in the United States, Europa, in the East and Southeast Asia

 

 that made him world famous.

   

1991

He won the MTV International Viewer's Choice Award with Wild in the Snow.

   

2000

He received the Dutch Prince Claus Award, for his development of an authentic

 

Chinese rock music.

   

2002

He co-organized a rock Festival in the Yunnan mountains:  The Lijiang Snow

 

Mountain Music Festival  China.
   
 

He began a series of  tours in ten cities in Germany , performed with Udo Lindenberg,

 

then in China with the British group Deep Purple,  and finished in 30 cities of the United

 

States.

   

2003

He was supposed to perform with the Rolling Stones but the event was cancelled due  

 

to the SRAS epidemic.

   

2005

He was able to perform again in Beijing.

   

2006

He played and sang Wild Horses, alongside the Rolling Stones.

   
  Daniele Sicard
   

   
  Discography
   

1986

Return of the Prodigal

1989

Rock'N'Roll on the New Long March

1991

Solution

1994

Balls Under the Red Flag

1998

The Power of the Powerless

2005

Show You Colour

2015

Frozen Light

2021

A Flying Dog

   

   
  Filmography
   

1993

Beijing Bastards

2003

Roots and Branches

2007

The Sun Also Rises

2010

Dooman River

2012

Transcendence 3-D concert

2013

Promise

2013

Blue Sky Bones

   

 
 


CUI JIAN  崔健  Solution  解决

1. Solution 2. This Space 3. Piece of Red Cloth 4. Lonely Like Fire 5. The Opportunist.
 6. Wild on The Snow 7. Like a Knife8. Nan Nin Wan 9. Start Again 10. Last Shot

 


CUI JIAN
 崔健
Balls Under The Red Flag The Red Flag
红旗下的蛋


1. Flying 2. Tolerate 3. Balls Under The Red Flag 4. Beijing Story
5. The Box 6. The Last Complaint7. Misunderstand 8. The Other Shore

 

 
 
 

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