YOU Ya and LIU Jia Chang
ZHEN Zhen
1. Except for those with roots in Hong Kong or Macau, most Chinese do not have a English name.
The usual practice for most Chinese is to use the transliteration of the Chinese name as their English name.
But there are two annoying things about using transliteration as English name:
(a) The first one is the loss of information from Chinese to English.
Like most English names such as Michael or Susanna, one can usually tell from a Chinese name whether the person is male or female.
This information is usually lost in transliteration.
Without prior knowledge, can you tell whether "Liu Jia Chang" is male or female?
(b) The second annoying thing is in the other direction - from English to Chinese.
Because of the one to many relations between the English transliteration and the Chinese, one usually cannot tell from the English transliteration what the original Chinese name is.
So for those not in the know, LIU Jia Chang is male.
"LIU" being the last name and "Jia Chang" the given name.
YOU Ya is female.
"YOU" being the last name and "Ya" being the given name.
2. Liu Jia Chang was born in 1943 and he was active in the Taiwanese music scene between the mid-1960s to early 1990s.
LIu Jia Chang is also multi-talented: besides composing music and lyrics and singing many of his own compositions, Liu was also a movie director and actor.
Liu Jia Chang is married to one of the most beautiful Taiwanese actress of the 1970s: ZHEN Zhen.
But there was a darker side to Liu's personality: besides having gambling problems, Liu was involved in some shady business dealings.
3. Quite a few Taiwanese singers in the 1970s and 1980s are considered "students" of Liu Jia Chang.
You Ya is one of Liu's first students.
You Ya was very popular in Taiwan in the 1970s and 1980s.
Both the music and lyrics of "In the Rain" ("在雨中") was composed by Liu Jia Chang and the sound of this song is quite distinctive of Taiwanese music of the 1970s:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHb59KK-cSo
4. Another performance by Liu and You:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYKPdzNYM24
You Ya did not seem to age much.
5. You Ya singing the song solo:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sp4SYIkmyqo
6. The lyrics are hard-subbed into the video in this version:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LmwzsYLQNdk
7. Not that the video model is not beautiful, but the music video is incongruent with the music and lyrics:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3FLOFJbw6Ls
8. A cover by the Taiwanese singers Fei Yu-ching (male) and Wang Hai Ling (female):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zIfSaDNCZI0
9. A cover by the Hong Kong singers Kelly Chen and William So:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DB-aaSzJUo4
10. A cover by Hong Kong singer Jacky Cheung and Taiwanese singer Delphine Choi:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGsc-p29TdA
11. A cover by the Taiwanese singers Jiang Yu Heng (male) and Liang Yi-Zhen (female):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_cqyMVEWBA
12. A cover by Yu Tian (male) and Ma Shi Li (female):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRIagZ_nQtM
13. A cover by Timi Zhuo:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGwfQcqM2Vw
14. The Lyrics in Traditional Chinese:
在雨中 - 劉家昌 & 尤雅
(女) 在雨中 我送過你
(男) 在夜裡 我吻過你
(女) 在春天 我擁有你
(男) 在冬季 我離開你
(女) 有相聚 也有分離
(男) 人生本 是一齣戲
(女) 有歡笑 也有哭泣
(合) 不知誰能 誰能躲的過去
* 你說人生艷麗 我沒有異議
你說人生憂鬱 我不言語
只有默默的承受這一切
承受數不盡的春來冬去
Repeat *
(男) 在雨中 我送過你
(女) 在夜裡 我吻過你
(男) 在春天 我擁有你
(女) 在冬季 我離開你
(男) 有相聚 也有分離
(女) 人生本 是一齣戲
(男) 有歡笑 也有哭泣
(合) 不知誰能 誰能躲的過去
* 你說人生艷麗 我沒有異議
你說人生憂鬱 我不言語
只有默默的承受這一切
承受數不盡的春來冬去
Repeat *
啦...啦...
15. The Lyrics in Simplified Chinese:
在雨中 - 刘家昌 & 尤雅
(女) 在雨中 我送过你
(男) 在夜里 我吻过你
(女) 在春天 我拥有你
(男) 在冬季 我离开你
(女) 有相聚 也有分离
(男) 人生本 是一出戏
(女) 有欢笑 也有哭泣
(合) 不知谁能 谁能躲的过去
* 你说人生艳丽 我没有异议
你说人生忧郁 我不言语
只有默默的承受这一切
承受数不尽的春来冬去
Repeat *
(男) 在雨中 我送过你
(女) 在夜里 我吻过你
(男) 在春天 我拥有你
(女) 在冬季 我离开你
(男) 有相聚 也有分离
(女) 人生本 是一出戏
(男) 有欢笑 也有哭泣
(合) 不知谁能 谁能躲的过去
*你说人生艳丽 我没有异议
你说人生忧郁 我不言语
只有默默的承受这一切
承受数不尽的春来冬去
Repeat *
啦...啦...
16. Names, Words and Phrases:
Liu Jia Chang (Traditional Chinese: 劉家昌; Simplified Chinese: 刘家昌).
You Ya (Traditional: 尤雅; Simplified: 尤雅).
Delphine Choi (Traditional: 蔡幸娟; Simplified: 蔡幸娟).
Fei Yu-ching (Traditional: 費玉清; Simplified: 费玉清).
Jacky Cheung (Traditional: 張學友; Simplified: 张学友).
Jiang Yu Heng (Traditional: 姜育恆; Simplified: 姜育恒).
Kelly Chen (Traditional: 陳慧琳; Simplified: 陈慧琳).
Liang Yi-Zhen (Traditional: 梁一貞; Simplified: 梁一贞).
Ma Shi Li (Traditional: 馬世莉; Simplified: 马世莉).
Timi Zhuo (Traditional: 卓依婷; Simplified: 卓依婷).
Wang Hai Ling (Traditional: 王海玲; Simplified: 王海玲).
William So (Traditional: 蘇永康; Simplified: 苏永康).
Yu Tian (Traditional: 余天; Simplified: 余天).
Zhen Zhen (Traditional: 甄珍; Simplified: 甄珍).
References:
"劉家昌", Wikipedia - The Free Encyclopedia,
http://zh.wikipedia.org/zh/%E5%8A%89%E5%AE%B6%E6%98%8C
(accessed 2012-05-09).
"尤雅", Wikipedia - The Free Encyclopedia,
http://zh.wikipedia.org/zh/%E5%B0%A4%E9%9B%85
(accessed 2012-05-09).
"甄珍", Wikipedia - The Free Encyclopedia,
http://zh.wikipedia.org/zh-hant/%E7%94%84%E7%8F%8D
(accessed 2012-05-09).
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