Wait...Jackie Chan can SING?!?! (Why did no one tell me this before?)

[liz_marcs]

(Reposted due to code borking...)

Maaaaaaaan, I love the Internet. Without it, I wouldn't be able to find out about stuff like this: Jackie Chan can sing.

In fact, he was the Cantonese and Mandarin speaking voice for General Li (which was voiced by Donny Osmond in the English version) in Mulan.

Of course, I'm all, "Wait, Jackie Chan can sing?"

Don't believe me? Here's Jackie Chan's dub of "I'll Make a Man Out of You" from Mulan (I think it's in Cantonese. Someone please correct me if I'm wrong).

(If you want to see the non-cartoon video version of Jackie Chan singing the song, go here and watch him do pretty-pretty martial arts with a staff while singing.)

For comparison purposes, here's Donny Osmond's version of "I'll Make a Man out of You."

AAAAAaand right now I feel like an idiot because it seems to me that I should have known that Jackie Chan could sing.

As a side note, does anyone out there have a recording of Jackie Chan singing "I'll Make a Man out of You?" Because right now, I need to get my hands on this song the way some people need oxygen.

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Comments

[innerbrat]

Donny had a higher billing, but I suspect it's because they wanted someone of Asian extraction to play Shang. Now, I know from BD Wong's IMDB page that he's American, it's possibly his ethnicity comes through just enough in his voice to sound 'Chinese' enough for them?

I have no ear for obvious accents, let alone be able to tell an Asian-American from a White-American, but accents do change with ethnicity, right?

Mulan's speaking voice was also an Asian-American, and her songs were sung by a white woman.

[liz-marcs.livejournal.com]

Actually, Lea Salonga is Filipino, and I believe they self-identify as Asian. :-)

Which...again...is a very, very weird choice to make Lea Salonga ONLY the singing voice instead of both singing and speaking because she is huuuuuuuuuuge in musical theater. Huge.

And she can act. I mean, REALLY ACT.

So, yeah, still completely mystified by their choices in splitting voices, as well as the voices they've chosen to split. (Although, B.D. is a Tony-award winning actor, but I see nothing on his resume that indicates that he can sing.)

[innerbrat]

Oops, my bad. I just assumed white.

But I think it was a case of casting people of Chinese/East Asian extraction in the speaking roles, then finding people who could sing to do the singing. I may be looking for the worst in Disney, but it makes sense to me.

[iko.livejournal.com]

Yes, Filipinos like myself self-identify as Asian. The only reason why I could imagine casting someone else to do the non-singing parts is the quality of her speaking voice.