I think my audience's first reaction to my music was, "Jackie
Chan has a record?" They just couldn't believe it. But what could
I do? I like to sing, so I always sing over the closing credits
of my movies. The sound tracks always feature my voice. So people
finally realized, "Wow, Jackie has a very good voice," and later
on they just accepted that I was both an action star and a
singer.
This year I'm working on a record on which I'll duet with a
female singer from each Asian country. I've been planning on
doing some duets with American singers, and I hope one day to
sing with Barbra Streisand.
What matters is your voice. The Taiwanese audience really knows
and respects the singer, and I like that. In Hong Kong all the
young fans, no matter how talented the singer is, just scream and
go crazy.
Right now I quite like Mandarin songs more than Cantonese songs.
Mandarin songs are more touching and poetic. Hong Kong pop songs
are just too direct and boring. Also, Hong Kong pop audiences are
quite wild. In Taiwan they really listen—no matter how fat or
pretty or handsome you are. No matter what you look like, it
doesn't matter.
In Korea and Japan and the other countries I go to, all the young
kids are into hip-hop—even the way they dress, the way they move
and the way they shake hands; everybody likes that American
style. American music is so powerful now.
