This Asian male singer is called Jason Chen from Southern California, the United States of America.  You might think he looks a typical ABC (Asian Born Chinese) that you might see in an Asian super market, but he had exceptional talents and passion for singing. He started posting his singing on Youtube like Marie Digby.  Today his original single, Best Friend has more than 1.5 million views.

I’ve  been checking this guy for years on youtube since when I first saw his singing of Katy Perry’s parody song I Went to Class on youtube.  I was also an Econ major and I was humming this song occasionally when I was on my way to class, stuck in library, or in the shower…pretty much all the time.  I am very pleased to see how people became successful chasing after their dream and passion.

Now he is releasing his first original CD album Gravity including flagship song, Best Friend.  Unfortunately you can only order within the States, but I’m sure it will be available soon internationally. You can order from his website www.jasonchen.bigcartel.com.

FYI, 3 years ago…

It’s been a while since the last time I found a singer that makes me this excited. Owl City, consisting of one member, Adam Young first became popular through MySpace and received more than 5 million plays on tracks. Currently Owl City’s album ranks at 11th, but I am expecting it will soon go up higher, and stay in the chart for a while.

This artist, Norwegian Recycling gives the same kind of pleasure to us. He mash up several different song and ceate one complete song (it’s like a music version of potato salad.)  If you hear it, you will be amazed how those songs collude with each other.  He currently let everyone download these mash up songs from his website, http://norwegianrecycling.multiply.com for free, asking for donation instead of charging.  I post some of his work here ↓. Try and find what songs are in it.

Jason Mraz’s new album, We Sing. We Dance. We Steal Thing succeeded to make him transform from “a” artist to “the” artist. The album has sold over 35,000 copies just in US until now, and it is currenly ranked second in iTune’s most downloaded album. I think after he became 30, he started to be more laid back although his personality hasn’t changed. He’s still a funny, playful, and explicit dude. The album makes me feel like I am on a trip to Caribbean or Hawaii. It shows what kind of person he is, his lifestyle, and what’s great in life to us. Mercifulness. People you care about care about you. That’s my most important element in any form of art. By the way, I worship Sting religiously for the same reason. What’s really great in life? The answer should be already in you. If you still don’t get it, listen to this album. It might help you.

You can listen to the album here ↓  It’s in the order of my favorite though.

I felt so out-of-date and dumb when I found out that everyone else already knows this song and they all love it before I fell in love with this song. Pink has been writing such good songs for the last few years. Her lyrics are so honest and direct. Her songs’ melody is quite catchy also. That brings people’s enthusiasm, and makes people fall in love with her songs. Plus, she also shows her personality alot in her music video too, and makes me laugh when I am watching it. It would be kinda cool to have a grandma like her.

For all this time, shamefully, I had thouhgt Jason Mraz was kinda shaky artist. Don’t get me wrong. I knew he was a very talented artist since the very first time I listened to his song, Remedy about half a decade ago. But for all this time, in my perception of him, Jason Mraz was like John Mayer with a skater boy atitude. After I heard this song, I soon became a fan of new Jason Mraz. This type of song is more suitable for him, I think. I hope he keeps this chill attitude (after all, he’s 31 now.)
This is going to be a great summer tune this year as well as Leavin’ by Jesse McCartney. I already listened like a million times, and keep humming when I’m not listening. Very relaxed, and I’m not sure the location that he went on a trip to in this music video, but it looks great. It makes me even more want to go back to Hawaii again… I’m yours!

Personally, I’m not a big fan of Chris Brown, but after I listened to this song, it occurred to me why people including his girlfriend, Rihanna (my favorite!) are so crazy about him. I like the futuristic sound and the fact that Chris Brown is dancing. On top of that, this orange shooting lights. It’s soooo similar to Michael Jackson. Will he be the next Michael Jackson? It seems like nowadays Michael Jackson affects many musicians’ songs including Utada Hikaru. Speaking of an influence of Michael Jackson, did you know that you can hear Michael’s shouting voice in Rihanna’s mega hit song “Don’t Stop Music”? Pooo!

Anyway, check out “Touch My Body” before it appears on a billboard.

DJ Mozlov – Fading Summer Vibes

Recently I find myself listening to this guy’s music alot. DJ Mozlov was born in 1984 (same age with me;)) in Belgium. His music style is usually a mixture of pop and house songs that are carefully picked from his favorites based on a specific theme he holds before he creates the music such as Fading Summer Vibes, which is also one of my favorites. His music is generally categorized into so-called Lounge/Chillout. They are very comfortable to hear, and his choosing pop songs in his mixture makes it much easier for the beginner people to the new-world music like me to start with.

My most favorite one is La Fiesta Par Siempre meaning Party for always. Perhaps.lol But it does not sound like the party that people here in US imagine: night club’s dancing and drinking party. It sounds like a picnic party song, or a song at a party in a nice cozy cafe restaurant on a very sunny weekend or holidays. Fiesta also has a meaning of Holiday in Spanish, btw. As soon as you hear it, you can feel the European people’s cheerfulness and artiness.

Anyway, you can download his music for free from his website↓, so check them out if you’re interested.

MixDepot.net – DJ Mozlov
http://www.dj-mozlov.com/