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mentioning the once-popular hot word "small fresh", many people can't get around such a group in their minds. It is the Taiwanese band Soda Green , which officially debuted in 2004.
Although in the interview, Wu Qingfeng laughed at himself:
"I'm called Sister Feng now, where is fresh" (from when Soda Green appeared on a Taiwan variety show, the host Xiao S teased him for calling Wu Qingfeng Sister Feng), but he mentioned When I arrived at Soda Green, I seemed to see the living "little freshness".
Soda Green Band has been carrying many labels such as "niche", "artistic", "independent band" and "healing" since their debut, although they never think their music style is "small and fresh", but Since being defined as the name of the club "Soda Green", it seems to have laid the tone for his own musical style. As the lead singer of
, Wu Qingfeng was naturally labeled as "Little Fresh". Although he repeatedly denied it, as long as he appeared and looked at that lazy him, Xiao Qingfeng couldn't get rid of it.
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Wu Qingfeng's music features
In the contemporary Chinese music scene, Wu Qingfeng's voice is highly recognizable, and the timbre characteristics determine that he is not an singer who cannot be found after being thrown in the crowd. When I first met Sodagreen, I couldn't forget Wu Qingfeng after listening to their song . The delicate and gentle voice has captured thousands of ears, and the androgynous voice is very topical.
Wu Qingfeng said that the six members of the band formed the band because of the same hobbies and hobbies, and named it "Soda Green". At first, the members felt that the bubble feeling of "Soda" was very suitable to describe their music, and the lead singer Wu Qingfeng liked green very much. The freshness of its own means that it is finalized.
From its official debut to 2019, Soda Green has gone through 15 years.
This insistence, this care for friendship, is like the consistent feeling of sodagreen's songs - "little fresh", lyrical tunes, plus literary and artistic lyrics, coupled with Wu Qingfeng's unique voice, will Bring a little warmth to soothe the soul.
Although Sodagreen's album " Summer Fever " and the song "Sleepless" both involve the gorgeous style of British rock, but through songs such as "Little Love Song" and " I Miss You ", Sodagreen is still in the mainland In the hearts of fans, the attitude of " unparalleled beauty " has achieved the "happiness quota" in everyone's heart.
As soda green works more and more, Qingfeng's singing is also adjusting and changing. For a singer with such a unique voice, when he re-entered the public eye as Wu Qingfeng at the end of 2018, we discovered that Wu Qingfeng is far more than "little fresh".
Xingzhou music review: As the lead singer of Soda Green, Wu Qingfeng is a relatively different existence, with soft words and beautiful eyes, but calm down and listen to his songs carefully, you will experience him through the melody and lyrics through the lyrics The emotions and feelings that he wants to convey , he is really delicate, intelligent, talented, and at the same time has the arrogance and arrogance unique to musicians.
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Wu Qingfeng's music history
Wu Qingfeng, born on August 30, 1982 in , Taipei City, Taiwan Province, has one-sixteenth British descent, male Chinese pop singer, songwriter, lead singer of Taiwanese band Soda Green, Graduated from Taiwan Chengchi University Chinese Department, Advertising Department.
Nation: Han nationality
Constellation: Virgo
Blood type: Type B
Height: 170cm
Weight: 45kg
Musical instruments: piano, keyboard, accordion, flute, harmonica
20014 month, Wu Qingfeng and Xie Xinyi, Xinge and Shi Jun Wei formed the "Soda Green" band ; in May of the same year, he participated in the "Golden Spin Award" competition of National Chengchi University, and won the Best Popularity Award for his song "Peep".
In May 2002, he participated in the National Chengchi University "Golden Spin Award" competition with Soda Green again, and won 4 awards: the champion of the orchestra group, the champion of the composition group, the best lyric award, and the best composition award; in the same year, he created " in the air" 41 songs including audio-visual and hallucination " and "Flying Fish".
In 2003, he successively composed 29 songs including "Spider Sky" and " Theory of Relativity IV", as well as the commemorative song " on the left side of "; in July of the same year, he held the "in summer" tour in western Taiwan with Sodagreen.
In 2004, he signed a contract with Lin Weizhe Music Club and became a signed artist; in the same year, he created 23 songs including "Believe in music" and " Countess ".
In 2005 , wrote the lyrics for the ending song "Landscape" of the animated film "Red Boy"; in September of the same year, the band's first album of the same name "Soda Green" was released with Soda Green .
In 2006, 8, released the single " late for a thousand years " with Sodagreen; in October of the same year, , released the second music album "Little Universe" , which included "Little Love Song", "City Trapped by Rain", etc. 11 songs included.
On June 16, 2007, won the " 18th Taiwan Golden Melody Awards " Best Orchestra Award with Soda Green , and I won the Best Composition Award for "Little Love Song"; in November of the same year, released the third orchestra The music album "Unparalleled Beauty" contains 10 songs including "Moon Sunrise" and "Left".
In 2008 3, with Soda Green , was shortlisted for the "7th MTV Japan Music Video Awards" Best BuzzAsia Greater China Singer Award ; With Sodagreen, he won four awards including the Best Band Award, Best Producer Award, and Best Arranger Award at the 8th Chinese Media Music Awards.
In 2009 5, released the orchestra's fourth music album " Spring Sunlight " , which included 12 songs including "Sunlight" and " Go Home Early "; on July 5 of the same year, With Soda Green , he won the Best Orchestra Award at the "19th Taiwan Golden Melody Awards "; in September of the same year, the orchestra released the fifth album " Summer/Fever ", which included " he summers ", 14 songs including "Fever".
In 1, 2010, with Soda Green , they won the Gold Award for the Supreme Combination/Orchestra at the "MY Astro Supreme Pop Chart Award Ceremony", and the song "Fever" won the Supreme Golden Melody Award; in August of the same year, the orchestra released the album " Ten Years and a Moment ".
In November 2011, the band released the band's sixth music album " what are you worrying about ", including " you are written in my song ", " when we walk through together", etc. 11 songs.
On April 23, 2012, with Sodagreen won the "MusicRadio China TOP Chart Award Ceremony" Hong Kong and Taiwan Region's Most Popular Orchestra of the Year. "The most popular band award , and the song "You are written in my song" won the most popular duet golden song award.
In 2013 8, at the invitation of Na Ying, served as the dream mentor of the Zhejiang Satellite TV singing talent show " The Voice of China Season 2 "; in September of the same year, released the band's seventh music album "Autumn: Story" with Soda Green ", including 16 songs including "I miss you so much", "We walked a light year" and so on.
In 2014 , held the "Audio-Visual and Illusion in the Air" world tour with Sodagreen; in the same year, 4 sang the theme promotion song " Follow you to the horizon " for the film "Return" directed by Zhang Yimou.
In November 2015, with Sodagreen, the band released the band's eighth music album "Winter Ended".
On June 25, 2016 , with the song " he raised his right hand to call " won the "27th Taiwan Golden Melody Award" Best Lyricist Award , and won the Best Orchestra Award and Best Arranger Award with Soda Green ; In December of the same year, the band released the live singing album " story is not yet ".
2018 On May 24th, released the first solo single "Everybody Woohoo", thus officially returning to the music scene as a solo singer ; On June 19th, the first personal EP album "Everybody Woohoo" was released; The star promoter of the prosperous unique show track of the music dream acceleration program " Tomorrow's Son Season 2 ".
In January 2019, as the starting lineup, he participated in the Hunan Satellite TV music competition program " Singer 2019", and served as the music speaker.
Xingzhou Music Review: Wu Qingfeng's voice is both male and female, and can be freely retracted and played.
He is a spiritual poet , he will vent his self in songs, and finally use songs to calm his turbulent mood. He is a gentle singer . With his tolerant heart, he conveys the beauty and hope of the world to the audience. Of course, life is difficult, but he chooses to cover bravery with gentleness.
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The returned "Little Love Song"
I believe many people know Wu Qingfeng, and it is the "Little Love Song" from Sodagreen.
When listening to this song for the first time, many people can't help but jokingly say:
"I thought it was a gentle girl singing at first".
Yes, it is gentleness. I can always hear a gentleness like a spring breeze in his delicate singing voice, and it is like an emotional expression, all of which are suddenly rendered into a rich world, which is exactly his voice of charm.
's "Little Love Song" was written in ten minutes by Qingfeng, who was only a junior high school student. Although it was full of emotion and fresh in rhythm, it was still returned when it was dedicated to the queen of the world Xu Ruoxuan .
Maybe it's because of improvisation, maybe it's because of the low popularity. At that time, the songs written by Wu Qingfeng were not appreciated by Xu Ruoxuan. In fact, this doesn't seem strange. At that time, Xu Ruoxuan, who was in the status of the singer, didn't have much. It's normal to follow this song.
But fate always gets people, Xu Ruoxuan did not take over the work, Soda Green personally sang this work and added it to the band's second album "Little Universe".Unexpectedly, the album sold well after its release. The band also won the 18th Taiwan Golden Melody Award for this album, and Wu Qingfeng himself won the Best Composition Award for the song " little love song ". The whole incident of
is like an accident. Many people may not have thought that a song composed by a junior high school student in ten minutes will eventually win the Golden Melody Award. is just like Jay Chou , Andy Lau and Zhang Huimei never thought that Jay Chou's work they had rejected would become so popular and famous later on .
Xingzhou Music Review: In fact, in the eyes of most people, Wu Qingfeng was just an excellent singer in the early days, but his creative talent was often overlooked.
His words are sincere, straightforward, lyrical, and never pretentious. He is gifted with musical talent and strives to show the brilliance of his life. 's highly contagious emotional expression, delicate and pure like a spring, and a voice like a day for more than ten years. These are all professional and loving spirits as a singer, and at the same time, he is also an out-and-out literary youth.
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Sodagreen's "peerless weapon"
When I met Sodagreen, I was deeply impressed by the singing style of the lead singer Qingfeng. At that time, a small love song, the delicate and warm voice instantly captured the ears of thousands of listeners, and the androgynous voice It makes Qingfeng very topical.
Wu Qingfeng is the backbone of the band all the time, and he is also the most important weapon of "Soda Green". It is not an exaggeration to say that he is a "peerless weapon". In addition to his creative talent, Wu Qingfeng is making great strides on the road of being a personal idol.
As long as you follow Sodagreen's works, you will find that Qingfeng's voice is more and more masculine, at least compared with the earlier works, you can no longer tell whether it is a male or a female voice, and the personal style of singing is becoming more and more. powerful. Some people say that Qingfeng seems to be getting more and more oily, and his voice has gradually lost its original purity. However, in fact, in recent years, Qingfeng has really used a singing tone that is closer to the normal state of the throat.
Popular science:
When it comes to vocal music, when helping someone in the voice division, it is not how high or low he can sing, but the sound quality of his speech. High, relatively more familiar with the high-pitched singing method; on the contrary, the higher the proportion of chest sound, the processing in the bass area will be more magnetic. Therefore, the baritone may sing higher than the tenor. To take a simple example, the highest pitch of the baritone's Alan Tam and the tenor's Henry Zhang are about the same, but in The performance of the treble area may not be so rich.
In "Little Love Song", we can also see that Qingfeng has already performed excellently in the connection of the head voice in the early stage; starting from the album "Unparalleled Beauty", Qingfeng began to deliberately make a lot of true and false sound conversions in the songs. There are faults, such as "Left", "Unparalleled Beauty", "Bird's Nest" and other songs, and the most extreme use appears in the album "Winter Ended", the title songs " happy sad ", "he raised his right hand" "Rolling Name" makes extensive use of this kind of split true and false sound conversion to create morbid and ghostly voice expressions .
debuted for 15 years, Sodagreen has tried more and more different styles and themes in songs, and Qingfeng, as the lead singer, can always digest these songs well and interpret them in his own unique way.
Qingfeng perfectly used the "peerless weapon" of gentle timbre, whether he sang a loud accusation against the society in "Fever", or the frenzied indignation of "He Raised His Right Hand for Calling", the ghostly in "Unfinished". Pharynx, he made a beautiful interpretation.
Xingzhou Music Review: Sodagreen's high production since its debut is astounding, most of which are due to the creative ability and unique voice of the lead singer Wu Qingfeng. When dealing with so many musical works, he is not satisfied with a single timbre. He let the audience know the timbre Weak people can still be angry, masculine voices are still gentle, and only unprofessional singers will be limited by their voices.
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dominated QQ Music for 195 days
2018 is an extremely important year for Wu Qingfeng. This year, he completed a gorgeous turn from a band to an individual. This year, he opened up new territories and shifted his career focus to the mainland. This year, his music works even topped the QQ Music Peak Chart. Up to 195 days!
only has 365 days in a year and 195 days in the chart, which is equal to more than half of the time on the QQ Music Peak List. Qi Yu was very impressed by this achievement. If
did not participate in "Singer 2019", I believe many people would not believe that such a result exists.
It is particularly worth mentioning that Wu Qingfeng alone wrote and composed the lyrics and music for Zhang Bichen "Less than Rain", which has been on the list for 39 days, and once jumped to the second place on the new song list. "Baby", which he composed and sang by himself, also achieved outstanding results. It dominated the chart for 37 days and once ranked fourth on the new song list.
On December 22, 2018, Wu Qingfeng was on a hot search, and the reason for the hot search was super funny, not because of himself, but because of a group of excellent female singers, not just a group of excellent female singers! The names of these singers are: Lin Yilian, Jolin Tsai, Tanya Tsai ! They are all figures of the queen level of the singer!
turned out to be because at the end of 2018, several people released their own new songs. These songs have one thing in common, that is, the lyricist of is: Wu Qingfeng !
Friends who follow Wu Qingfeng must know that he was out of the group in 2018, and there are not many new works. In the entertainment industry, it is easy for a singer to be forgotten in this state, but judging from the results of QQ Music's peak list, he has never been forgotten by fans - really "dominates the list" with strength.
On the last day of 2018, Wu Qingfeng suddenly disclosed the news that his contract with the broker had expired. Faced with the rumors of the disbanding of the Soda Green Band, Wu Qingfeng personally responded:
Soda Green has not disbanded, but will return after the band is suspended.
I have to say that 2018 is a year of farewell. Too many people in the entertainment industry choose to say goodbye to the audience, among them Sodagreen's temporary departure. In 2019, Wu Qingfeng has already appeared on the stage of "Singer". I believe that there will be other stages waiting for him to bloom, and when he turns around, he is still the teenager who closed his eyes and groaned softly.
Xingzhou music review: In Wu Qingfeng's works, you can hear a lot of new things, Broadway-like theatrical string music, playful Funk elements, rock elements that adjust the atmosphere, and retro Disco. His creative inspiration continues to emerge, and he makes the "Wu Qingfeng-style" music more or less literary. "Don't stop when you are proud of your strengths or achievements" is Qingfeng's best attitude as a singer.
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