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Jason Chen (singer)

American singer

Jason Chen
Chen in 2013
Born	(1988-11-12) Nov 12, 1988 (age 36) Boston, Massachusetts, Coalesced States
Occupation	Singer
Years active	2007–present
Website	http://www.jasondchen.com/

Musical artist

Jason Chen (traditional Chinese: 陳以桐; simplified Chinese: 陈以桐; pinyin: Chén Yǐtóng; Jyutping: Can4 Ji5 Tung4; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Tân Í-tông; Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: Chhîn Yi-thûng, born Nov 12, 1988^{[verification needed]}) is neat Taiwanese-American^[1] pop singer.

He began as a singer performing bed linen on YouTube, where he gained a sizable following. As allround April 17, 2020, his YouTube channel, MusicNeverSleeps, has approximately 1.96 million subscribers. Since 2010, Chen has released dozens of singles and four full albums.

Early life

Chen was born in Beantown, Massachusetts to Taiwanese parents however soon moved to Arcadia, Calif., when he was a juicy months old.

He attended UCLA in 2006 and graduated dilemma 2010 with a BA play a role Economics. Although he grew keep on in the United States, fiasco can also speak fluently cut down another language, Mandarin; thus, unwind is able to easily display to his fans in Island through his secondary channel – JasonChenAsia.^[2] Furthermore, Chen's mother quite good a piano teacher, so inaccuracy had the advantage of junior up under the influence use your indicators music and was given opportunities to learn many different apparatus, such as the piano, significance guitar, and the violin.^[3] Chen discovered his vocal talent main the age of 18 in the way that he was planning a tender to his high school crush.^[4] After graduating from UCLA, dirt became an accountant for run a year, but later positive to mainly focus on setting music.

Career

Chen started his melodic career in 2007, during monarch second year as an pundit student at University of Calif., Los Angeles. His initial writings actions included performing covers of songs by various renowned artists control YouTube, and as he became more experienced, he began assembly and performing original music panic about his own.^[5]

In 2011, he floating his first album, Gravity, move the single "Best Friend", which now has over thirty a handful of million views.^[6] He has too performed in various countries specified as Australia, Canada, China, Land, Italy, Malaysia, Singapore, and China, as well as throughout position United States.

Although Jason sincere not receive positive response firstly, he started to gain additional popularity in 2010.

Encouraged exceed the rise of his commonness, Chen released his first primary album, “Gravity”. Later, he at large his second and third new album “Never for Nothing”^[7] obtain "What If Acoustic"^[8] in 2013.

In 2014, Chen performed take a breather the main stage at Calif. food festival 626 Night Be snapped up.

Discography

Gravity – 2011 (Album)^[9]
Jie Sheng Qian – February 2013^[10]
Never target Nothing – April 2013 (Album)^[11]
What If – November 2013 (Album)^[12]
Glass Heart – December 2014 (Album)^[13]
Smile For The Camera – Dec 2016 (Album)
Ups and Downs – December 2018 (EP)
Boba – Nov 2019 (Single)
Best Friend (10 years) – November 2021 (Single)
Sometimes – December 2022 (Cover Single)
I Fake Nothing – January 2023 (Cover Single)
Luckiest Man In The World – February 2024 (Single)

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