Jonathan Lee is a Taiwanese record producer

Record producer

A record producer is an individual working within the music industry, whose job is to oversee and manage the recording of an artist's music...

, singer, and songwriter

Songwriter

A songwriter is an individual who writes both the lyrics and music to a song. Someone who solely writes lyrics may be called a lyricist, and someone who only writes music may be called a composer...

. Throughout the mid-1980s through the 1990s, he composed song lyrics and melodies for numerous musical artists in the Rock Records

Rock Records

Rock Records is a Taiwanese record label founded in 1980 by Sam and Johnny Duan . The record label had their first multiseller in 1989 with Sarah Chen.It is now Asia's largest independent record label....

 label, including Angus Tung

Angus Tung

Angus Tung is a Taiwanese singer-songwriter and record producer from the mid-1980s to mid-1990s. Blessed with boyish good looks and talent, Angus Tung debuted in 1983 and released his first solo album “Miss You” two years after. He subsequently released 14 albums, including a Chinese pop classic...

, Sarah Chen

Sarah Chen

Sarah Chen is a Taiwanese singer who became famous during the late-1980s and early-1990s. Her most famous hit songs, many resulting from her collaborations with songwriter Jonathan Lee, include Dream to Awakening 夢醒時分 and Is it Right to Love You? 這樣愛你對不對...

, Sandy Lam

Sandy Lam

Sandy Lam, also known as Lam Yik Lin, is a Cantopop singer who sings in Cantonese, Mandarin, English, and Japanese.-Career:...

, Sylvia Chang

Sylvia Chang

Sylvia Chang is a Taiwanese actress, writer, singer, producer and director. In 1992, she was a member of the jury at the 42nd Berlin International Film Festival.- Actress :...

, Winnie Hsin

Winnie Hsin

Winnie Hsin is a Taiwanese singer. She is best known for her crystal clear soprano voice.-Biography:In 1976, Hsin was admitted to the Taipei Hwa Kang Arts School, and in 1979 she studied music in the Chinese Culture University in Taipei. After graduating, she became a music teacher in the Yamaha...

, Tarcy Su

Tarcy Su

Tarcy Su is a Taiwanese singer and actress who was popular in the 1990s during her recording days with Rock Records.Her first album was released in 1990, when she was 20 years old and still schooling...

, Jeff Chang

Jeff Chang

Jeff Chang is a Taiwanese male singer, who performs sentimental Mandarin pop ballads.Chang was born in Yunlin, Taiwan. He started off his showbiz career by winning a singing competition while in college...

, Jackie Chan

Jackie Chan

Jackie Chan, SBS, MBE is a Hong Kong actor, action choreographer, comedian, director, producer, martial artist, screenwriter, entrepreneur, singer and stunt performer. In his movies, he is known for his acrobatic fighting style, comic timing, use of improvised weapons, and innovative stunts...

, Chao Chuan, and Wakin Chau

Wakin Chau

Wakin Chau is a Hong Kong singer and actor. Chau's popularity has spread throughout Taiwan, Hong Kong, Mainland China, and parts of Southeast Asia. He was known as Emil Chau through the 1980s and 1990s, and by 2000 he reverted to his given name Wakin...

.

Lee is hailed as one of the godfathers of Taiwanese Mandopop

Mandopop

Mandopop is a colloquial abbreviation for "Mandarin popular music." It is categorized as a subgenre of commercial Chinese-language music within C-pop. Mandopop was the first variety of popular music in Chinese to establish itself as a viable industry. As the name implies, Mandopop features songs...

. He was one of the most successful producers of the 1990s and 2000s and has been credited with building Rock Records into the foremost independent label in Asia

Asia

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. Many songs he wrote for Sarah Chen, Chao Chuan, Sandy Lam, Winnie Hsin, Jeff Chang and Wa Wa Jin Zhijuan became No 1 hits. Lee also produces the occasional solo album for himself and have recorded duets with many of his artistes.

In 1998 Jonathan Lee divorce

Divorce

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d his first wife and married Sandy Lam, one of his artistes at Rock Records. They have a daughter Li Xi'er (李喜兒). The couple eventually divorced in 2004.

Recently Lee have formed "Super Band" with three other popular Taiwanese artistes at Rock Records: Wakin Chau

Wakin Chau

Wakin Chau is a Hong Kong singer and actor. Chau's popularity has spread throughout Taiwan, Hong Kong, Mainland China, and parts of Southeast Asia. He was known as Emil Chau through the 1980s and 1990s, and by 2000 he reverted to his given name Wakin...

, Luo Dayou and Chang Chen-yue

Chang Chen-yue

Chang Chen-yue, also known as A-Yue is a Taiwanese rock musician known for his 1998 hit song "Ai Wo Bie Zou". He is a songwriter, singer and guitarist, and also a dance music DJ under the name DJ Orange. Chang is also the frontman of his band, Free Night, also known as Free9...

. http://english.cri.cn/6666/2009/03/20/1321s466545.htm

Contributions for other artists

• Chao Chuan: I Am a Little Bird, How to Say I Love You, I Am So Confused
• Jackie Chan
  Jackie Chan
  Jackie Chan, SBS, MBE is a Hong Kong actor, action choreographer, comedian, director, producer, martial artist, screenwriter, entrepreneur, singer and stunt performer. In his movies, he is known for his acrobatic fighting style, comic timing, use of improvised weapons, and innovative stunts...
  
  : A Vigorous Aspiration in My Mind, How Come
• Jeff Chang
  Jeff Chang
  Jeff Chang is a Taiwanese male singer, who performs sentimental Mandarin pop ballads.Chang was born in Yunlin, Taiwan. He started off his showbiz career by winning a singing competition while in college...
  
  : Love Like the Tides, I Do Love You
• Sarah Chen
  Sarah Chen
  Sarah Chen is a Taiwanese singer who became famous during the late-1980s and early-1990s. Her most famous hit songs, many resulting from her collaborations with songwriter Jonathan Lee, include Dream to Awakening 夢醒時分 and Is it Right to Love You? 這樣愛你對不對...
  
  : Walk Your Own Way, Dream to Awakening, Is it Right to Love You, So Transparent Is My Heart (duet with Jackie Chan), Questions About Love, Love in Progress
• Sandy Lam
  Sandy Lam
  Sandy Lam, also known as Lam Yik Lin, is a Cantopop singer who sings in Cantonese, Mandarin, English, and Japanese.-Career:...
  
  : Bygone Love, Scars, I Suffered for You, Dark Night
• Sylvia Chang
  Sylvia Chang
  Sylvia Chang is a Taiwanese actress, writer, singer, producer and director. In 1992, she was a member of the jury at the 42nd Berlin International Film Festival.- Actress :...
  
  : Busy and Blind, The Price of Love
• Tarcy Su
  Tarcy Su
  Tarcy Su is a Taiwanese singer and actress who was popular in the 1990s during her recording days with Rock Records.Her first album was released in 1990, when she was 20 years old and still schooling...
  
  : Every Day in My Life (duet with Jackie Chan), I Live Alone
• Wakin Chau
  Wakin Chau
  Wakin Chau is a Hong Kong singer and actor. Chau's popularity has spread throughout Taiwan, Hong Kong, Mainland China, and parts of Southeast Asia. He was known as Emil Chau through the 1980s and 1990s, and by 2000 he reverted to his given name Wakin...
  
  : You Make Me Happy and Sad
• Winnie Hsin
  Winnie Hsin
  Winnie Hsin is a Taiwanese singer. She is best known for her crystal clear soprano voice.-Biography:In 1976, Hsin was admitted to the Taipei Hwa Kang Arts School, and in 1979 she studied music in the Chinese Culture University in Taipei. After graduating, she became a music teacher in the Yamaha...
  
  : Understanding, It's Not All My Fault to Love Him

External links

• Lyrics of songs composed by Lee: http://lyrics.dreamnicky.com/writer468-1.html