Jackie Chan is a prolific singer who started producing records in the early 80s. He started singing the theme songs over the closing credits of his films in 1980, when the film The Young Master was produced. Chan sang its theme song, titled "Kung Fu Fighting Man" entirely in English.
Chan has been referenced in various pop songs, cartoons, films, and video games. He is an operatically trained vocalist and is also a Cantopop and Mandopop star, having released a number of music albums and sung many of the theme songs for the films in which he has starred.
Hong Kong actor Jackie Chan was hired to dub the voice of Shang and record "I'll Make a Man Out of You" in Mandarin and Cantonese. The special edition DVD release of Mulan features a music video of Chan performing the song.
Jackie Chan (born April 7, 1954, Hong Kong) is a Hong Kong-born Chinese stuntman, actor, and director whose perilous acrobatic stunts and engaging physical humour made him an action-film star in Asia and helped to bring kung fu movies into the mainstream of American cinema.
He should be remembered as a significant global and cultural figure,” he says. Lee was born in San Francisco to parents from Hong Kong. His father was a noted Cantonese opera singer, and his mother came from one of the then-British colony's wealthiest and most famous Eurasian families.
He was nicknamed Paopao (Chinese: 炮炮, literally meaning "Cannonball") because he was such a big baby, weighing 12 pounds, or about 5.4 kgs. Since his parents worked for the French Consul to Hong Kong, Chan spent his formative years within the grounds of the consul's residence in the Victoria Peak district.
Jackie has written in his autobiography that he plans on leaving his entire estate to charity and that his son will receive nothing under his Will when he passes away.
It was at his first school in Canberra that his teacher decided to give him an English name, 'Steve', as his original name Chan Kong Sang was hard to pronounce. However, he later changed his name to Jack – one that was given to him by a Taiwanese man he befriended and who found him a job at a construction site.
Jackie Chan's father originally surnamed Fang 房, but he changed his surname to Chen 陈 after immigrating to Hong Kong. This is why Jackie Chan's name was Chen Gangsheng/Chan Kong-sang 陈港生 when he was born. After Jackie Chan became an movie actor, he gave himself a stage name called 成龙.
In the field of musical theatre, Lea Salonga has been honored with the Olivier, Tony®, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle, and Theatre World awards. In addition, she holds the distinction of having played the vocal roles of two Disney leading ladies—the spectacular singing voices of Princess Jasmine and Mulan.
"True to Your Heart" is the "end-credits song" of Disney's 1998 animated film Mulan, and one of two singles released off the soundtrack. It was written by Matthew Wilder and David Zippel and performed by American boy band 98 Degrees and singer-songwriter Stevie Wonder.
We made the decision that we wanted to keep the world—even though it's a fantasy—more grounded, more realistic so those emotions really played and the threat is very real." However, in that same interview, she teased that songs like "Reflection" and "Honor to Us All" would exist in some form in the movie.
While Chan does not provide the voice of his animated character, he appears regularly in live-action inserts at the end of the program to offer insights on Chinese history, culture and philosophy.
Bruce Lee (born Lee Jun-fan; November 27, 1940 – July 20, 1973) was a Hong Kong-American martial artist and actor. He was the founder of Jeet Kune Do, a hybrid martial arts philosophy drawing from different combat disciplines that is sometimes credited with paving the way for the combat sport mixed martial arts (MMA).
Chan is a practitioner of multiple different forms of kung fu. The actor is proficient in Wing Chun, Northern Shaolin, and Southern Shaolin kung fu. He's also knowledgeable in fighting styles outside of Chinese martial arts, such as hapkido, karate, and Western boxing.
In fact, the studio that produced Lee's movies originally intended for Chan to help them pick up where they left off with their star, who died in 1973. Eager to find someone who could fill the void left by Lee's death, Golden Harvest settled on Chan as one of his potential replacements.
On Saturday at the annual Governors Awards, the Chinese actor and martial arts star finally received his little gold statuette, an honorary Oscar for his decades of work in film.
Jackie and Joan got married in 1982 and welcomed their only child, son Jaycee, that same year. Seventeen years later, the legendary stuntman made headlines when reports of his affair with Elaine surfaced. The pageant winner gave birth to their daughter, Etta, in 1999.
