Jackie Chan reportedly managing new K-Pop band :-D According to reports, Jackie Chan has formed a boy band. The Chinese action movie star is said to be turning his hand to pop music, recruiting, training and apparently producing a K-Pop quintet called JJCC. Chinese media outlets, including the state newswire Xinhua, say the actor is a long-time fan of the genre: “Jackie Chan has always been overflowing with good words about K-Pop – after he saw K-Pop’s unlimited potential and possibility for development, he spent several years grooming JJCC,” reported Xinhua, which added that “their appearance is very handsome, and they’ve received individual training on their personality and stunts.” South Korean music is popular across Asia and this project gestures toward that fact: besides its link to Chan’s monogram, JJCC’s name is intentionally a doubled acronym of the phrase “joining cultures”. “As formed and trained under the ambitious theme, ‘The world can be conquered when Asia unites,’ JJCC will amaze the world with their different music and a charm that has never existed before,” Sha-sha Lee, CEO of the Jackie Chan Group South Korea, told Korean journalists. Chan is personally managing the band, Lee said. Uncorroborated reports say he helped plan the concept, scouted the members, and played a role in completing their debut album. Besides one Australian-Chinese singer, the rest of JJCC are Korean, and all were described as “triple threats” (though “quadruple” would be more accurate) who can sing, dance, rap and act. Although this could be Chan’s first foray into the international pop scene, the 59-year-old has a long history with the Chinese music industry. Having studied at the Peking Opera School, he began releasing Canto-pop and Mando-pop songs in 1984; since then has issued more than 25 albums, including many of his own soundtracks. JJCC’s as-yet unnamed full-length will be released on 24 May, first in South Korea and then in China.
Posted on: Thu, 13 Mar 2014 17:12:24 +0000
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