Jonathan Lee is a Mandopop legend, having won nearly a dozen Golden Melody awards throughout his 50-year career as a singer, composer, and producer. He was born on July 19, 1958, in Taipei City, Taiwan, and made his musical debut during the final years of Taiwan's late-1970s folk era. His first full-length album, Light Rain Just Comes in Time, followed in 1983, with the record's popular title track sitting at number 1 on the Taiwanese charts for 13 weeks. "End," a song written by Lee, also became a genuine smash in Taiwan, setting the stage for the hit songs Lee would eventually write for Jackie Chen ("The Sincere Hero"), Jeff Chang ("Love is Like Tidal Wave"), and numerous others. Although Lee's long list of solo albums made him a genuine pop star during the 1980s, 1990s, and 2000s, his talent as a producer also broadened his reputation in Asian markets, with Lee winning his first Golden Melody Award in 1991 for producing Lin Chung's Marching Forward. A decade later, he won a Golden Melody Award for "Best Album Producer" once again, then took home three Golden Melody Awards for his original track "Jonathan's Song" in 2011. A road warrior, he toured globally during the 2010s and served as the composer of Road to Heaven: The Jonathan Lee Musical, a stage production that debuted in Virginia in 2017. A mainstream juggernaut well into his 60s, he reached number 43 with the single "凡人歌 (Live)" in 2023, followed later that year by the similarly popular "新写的旧歌."