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Dou Wei (born October 14, 1969 in Beijing, China) is a Chinese musician, singer-songwriter and composer. Dou Wei is a multi-instrumentalist and produces music across many genres. His first album Dark Dreams draws influences from The Cure and Bauhaus, was a landmark album in the Chinese rock scene and gained strong popularity. Followed by Sunny Days and Mountain River, Dou Wei explored new frontiers in electronic and ambience. 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 draws influence from the UK post-rock group Bark Psychosis. Since then Dou Wei's music became more improvisational and he has consistently collaborated with others and formed the group Indefinite.

Dou Wei has two daughters: one named Dou Jingtong (born January 3, 1997), born to his ex-wife, Chinese pop singer Faye Wong, and the other one born to his ex-wife, photographer

Gao Yuan.

On May 10, 2006, Dou was arrested after storming the office of the Beijing News newspaper's 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. Dou claimed that his actions had been justified by the actions of a Beijing News reporter named Zhuo (This reporter is using an alias, which is illegal in China), whom Dou accused of publishing what he believed to be falsified news about Dou and his second wife, Gao Yuan.

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