Dou Wei | |||||||||||
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Born | |||||||||||
Occupation(s) | Singer-songwriter, musician, composer, poet | ||||||||||
Years active | 1987 – present | ||||||||||
Spouses | |||||||||||
Children | Leah Dou (daughter) (b. 1997) Dou Jiayuan (daughter) (b. 2002) | ||||||||||
Chinese name | |||||||||||
Traditional Chinese | 竇唯 | ||||||||||
Simplified Chinese | 窦唯 | ||||||||||
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Musical career | |||||||||||
Origin | Beijing, China | ||||||||||
Genres | Alternative Rock, Post-rock, Ambient, folk, Electronic, Chinese rock | ||||||||||
Instrument(s) | Flute, Drums, Guitar | ||||||||||
Website | www.dou-wei.com |
Dou Wei (born October 14, 1969) is a Chinese musician, singer-songwriter, composer and music producer. He is a representative figure in Chinese rock music. Alongside rock singers He Yong and Zhang Chu, they were collectively known as the "Prominent Three of Moyan Record Label" in the 1990s.[1]
Dou Wei is a multi-instrumentalist and produces music across many genres. He first came to prominence as a member of the hard rock group Black Panther (Hei Bao, 黑豹). In the album Sunny Days and Mountain River, Dou Wei explored new frontiers in electronic and ambience.[citation needed] From there on, Dou Wei's music took the direction of ambience, folk and post-rock. His two last vocal album Acousma and Rainy Murmur with the E band drew influence from the UK post-rock group Bark Psychosis.[2]
Since then[when?] Dou Wei's music became more improvisational and he has consistently collaborated with others and formed the group Indefinite. His 2013 album Golden Curse (殃金咒) was described as "a fifty-minute Buddhist metal freakout".[3] In 2014 he released the "one track album" Horoscope, with Zifeng on flute and Moxi Zishi.[3]
Dou Wei has two daughters: one named Dou Jingtong, born to his ex-wife, Chinese pop singer Faye Wong, and the other one, Dou Jiayuan (窦佳嫄), born to his ex-wife, photographer Gao Yuan (高原).
On 10 May 2006, Dou was arrested after storming the office of The Beijing News' editorial department, destroying a computer keyboard and a DVD player, and pouring water on editors in the office, before setting fire to a car's boot parked in front of the newspaper's office building.[4]
In March 2019, Dou Wei was married to a longtime fan two decades younger than him. She and Dou had a child in 2016.[5]