Jian Cui

Cui Jian is a Beijing-based Chinese singer-songwriter, trumpeter and guitarist. Affectionately called "Old Cui", he is credited with pioneering Chinese rock music. For this distinction he is often labeled the "Father of Chinese Rock". He is also known in the Chinese rock music industry as a "leader in promoting the true singing movement" and the "first person in Chinese rock". Cui is an idealist who loathed money and commerce.