Cui Jian is a Beijing-based, Chinese-Korean singer-songwriter, guitarist, trumpeter, music producer and film director who is often referred to as the “Father of Chinese Rock. His status in China is comparable to that of Bob Dylan in the United States. After founding China’s first world-class rock-and-roll band in the mid-1980s, Cui Jian reached the apex of his popularity during the Tiananmen Square protests of spring 1989. His original hit songs — including “Nothing To My Name,” “Roc
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