When "mouth beeping", "learning to meow together", "the sky falls and the earth is falling into the purple and golden hammer" become mainstream music, old fans also have a "painful comprehension": is not because the music has become younger, but We are really old, old...
Recently, 52-year-old Zhou Chuanxiong held a solo concert in Jiangsu. When he sang " twilight" and " lonely sands cold "Men's Ocean" and other classic songs, the audience suddenly became enthusiastic, forming a chorus of tens of thousands of people.
As a "passed singer" who was still commented on the show by the younger Meng Meiqi in the first half of the year, seeing that there are so many fans supporting him, Zhou Chuanxiong on the stage was moved with tears and emotions. Hard to be yourself.
The fans are also very grateful, and everyone sighs: We all came to listen to his concert, but he shed tears in our singing.
In this issue, let’s walk into the legendary life of "Godfather of Love Song" Zhou Chuanxiong and learn about the inspirational stories behind his growth.
01
On June 7, 1969, a baby boy fell to the ground in a poor family surnamed Zhou in Taichung, Taipei. His breast name was " Xiaogang " and his scientific name was "Zhou Chuanxiong".
When he was a child, his parents continued to instill in him the idea of "everything is inferior, only a high school", hoping that he can change his destiny through reading.
Xiaogang is as strong as his name. Not only does he rank among the best in his subjects, he also helps his parents with housework after returning home.
starting from elementary school,Zhou Chuanxiong is very obsessed with music, as long as it is a song or tune he has heard, he can write it down completely.
Although he has a dream of music, his parents do not support him, because in their opinion, playing music is not doing business properly, and science and engineering is the capital based on society.
His dream was thwarted. The sensible man didn't "do not hit the south wall and never look back", but plunged into the sea of books and proceeded along the planned route of his parents.
There has always been a huge gap between dreams and reality. There are very few that can defeat reality with dreams.
When I was in the third grade of middle school, because I didn't want to be poor anymore, my mother ran away from home abruptly. Since then, there has been no news.
And my father, with his head full of blue silk and white hair overnight, provokes the burden of the family alone, silent and reticent.
Since then, in order to help his father lighten the burden, Zhou Chuanxiong and his brothers and sisters have begun to work and study, experiencing hard life.
At that time, the mother died from the world, the brothers and sisters were separated again, and the family hardly reunited once.
Therefore, every Mid-Autumn Festival, the day when the "full moon is not round" comes, which is the most painful day for Zhou Chuanxiong.
After many years of success, whenever Zhou Chuanxiong talks about the past, he said: I have never celebrated the Mid-Autumn Festival because it was a day of separation.
At this time, he looked very calm, but his eyes revealed enough bitterness.
02
In order to earn more tuition fees, Zhou Chuanxiong worked a lot of jobs, driving a taxi, setting up a street stall, working as a canteen handyman, and even a decorator. There were 73 kinds of jobs in Line 72.
The bitterness of life, instead of overwhelming this thin boy, made him stronger and stronger and matured early.
The most painful thing for him is the infinite yearning for his mother and the worry about his father's growing depression.
is also in those days of freedom,His musical dream has been continued, not only has learned a variety of musical instruments and a lot of knowledge of music theory, but also has a certain creative ability.
At the age of 18, Zhou Chuanxiong formed a band with several like-minded friends and participated in the inter-school music creation competition held by the school.
This year, he composed the first original song in his life, "Dust and Smoke", which was included in the collection of " unknown boy ".
It is this highly commercialized work that became his main song in the campus singing competition.
After passing the campus singing competition, Zhou Chuanxiong joined the record company through a friend's introduction, and became colleagues with Wu Qilong , Su Youpeng , and Chen Zhipeng .
At that time, the record company was planning to build Zhou Chuanxiong and the three together into a " little tiger team " and let him start learning dance.
After studying for a while, he decided to take the power line after careful consideration, instead of the "idol line", and then moved from a record company to another record company.
Although he is a newcomer and a student at school, Zhou Chuanxiong has his own great dream, that is, to become a musician like Li Zongsheng , Xiao Chong, Yang Minghuang , etc.
Therefore, at the beginning of signing the contract, Zhou Chuanxiong put forward two "harsh" conditions to the record company. One is the space for free creation.The second is to release one's own record.
The record company may have taken a fancy to the huge potential in him, and this has promised him.
After sinking my heart to create for a while, Zhou Chuanxiong's second album "Finally Learned" was released in Taiwan.
This album contains 10 songs including " I may be a joke ", " puts you in the mailbox of memories " and so on.
What's funny is that the company thinks he looks gentle and handsome, and finally decided to make him an "Idol Singer".
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Since then, Zhou Chuanxiong has used his nickname "Xiaogang" as his stage name under the company's suggestion.
With the album "Finally Learned", Xiao Gang has been popular in Taiwan ever since, and the album was sold out of stock for a time.
According to reports, the owner of a commissary once said that if anyone could come up with a thousand records of Xiaogang, he would marry his daughter.
Even more exaggerated is that when the company arranged for him to go to a department store in Taichung for a promotional activity, it caused a traffic jam, which was cleared after several hours of dealing with the traffic police.
Facing the sudden red and purple, Zhou Chuanxiong didn't take it seriously.
He simply believes that he can be regarded as a real singer if he can be recognized by everyone.
even this kind of popularity caused a lot of trouble to him while he was studying.
Fish and bear's paw are not available at the same time, so he can only be busy with his studies while being a singer, exhausted physically and mentally.
At that time, Xiaogang was the number one man in the school. The teachers were proud of him and the students were proud of him.
In order to take care of both ends, he can only ask for leave from the teacher continuously.Sometimes even skipped class to sing.
has been self-reliant since he was a child, he knows how to choose, but he is nervous.
Because since his mother left without saying goodbye, he has been very afraid of losing.
As an "idol singer" for three or four years, Xiaogang also released two albums " I can't bear you to go " and "Xiaogang's Flower World".
The next album included 10 songs including " Hasayaki "," gives me a warm space ", he was not only responsible for 10 songs He composed the six songs in the album, and he wrote the lyrics for three of them.
Here, while successfully completing my studies, I also made a lot of money.
But at this time, he also began to feel confused, because he didn't want to put on an idol coat, his strength was ignored by people.
Sometimes he even thinks, in case the singer can't go down this road, he will find a bar as a luthier and play music carefree.
In 1993, Xiaogang's fifth album " accompany me to the end of the world " hit the market, which incorporates a lot of elements of Chinese traditional music .
In order to make the album unique, he also went to the northwest Silk Road in the mainland to shoot pictures and photos.
On this innovative journey, Xiao Gang did not achieve success. After the album was released, the bleak sales gave him a head-on.
is more tragic,It is the boss's only profit, and he bluntly said that his music is too bad to keep up with the trend of the times.
In this way, Xiaogang was wiped out by his boss, and he even no longer supports him to continue his independent creation.
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The sale of the album is right in front of his eyes. Xiao Gang bowed his head and said nothing. After learning from the pain, he decided to study in the UK, and then went to Yunnan for collection, constantly searching for the crux of the failure.
Before going, Xiaogang had a good talk with the boss. After returning from this trip to "learning", he must make an album of world music.
The reality is that when he returned to the company with confidence, he was rejected because the style of the work was too avant-garde.
This year, his contract with the company has expired, and it coincides with the " EMI record " coming to Taiwan to open up the market.
One day, an agent suddenly visited the house and recommended that he and another singer sign in to EMI at the same time.
This singer is the " love song prince " who walks the same route as Xiaogang- Zhang Xinzhe .
Xiao Gang, who was feeling confused and helpless, became a colleague with former idol Zhang Xinzhe in a vague way, and became an "enemy" imperceptibly.
In fact, before Xiaogang debuted, Zhang Xinzhe had already become popular throughout Taiwan, but because he had reached the age of military service, the position of "The Prince of Love Song" was vacated.
Xiaogang was able to become popular during Zhang Xinzhe's military service. First, the record company was "unique and discerning", and the other was his own strong strength.
A few years later, the two of them "hand-to-hand", Xiao Gang was defeated very thoroughly.
In an interview many years later, Xiaogang said with a calm smile: When I heard the song " love like tide " from the radio,I knew I was finished.
Because the singer's path was blocked by Zhang Xinzhe, Xiaogang thought about transformation, so he spent a lot of time in creating and decided to become a producer.
In the face of the profit-oriented music market, his creative philosophy has also begun to change, from the original "individualization" to "commercialization".
Unfortunately, at that time, with the influx of countless Hong Kong artists into the Taiwan market, a huge competition situation of "a hundred flowers blooming" was formed.
In addition, his contract with EMI is about to expire, and the company has long been included in the list of layoffs, and the future is very slim.
Seeing his colleagues transforming into the hosting industry, film and television industry, business and other fields one by one, Xiao Gang fell into contemplation for a long time.
After some deliberation, he finally chose to do record production, because this is his lifelong pursuit.
From the front of the stage to behind the scenes, the era of proclaiming "Xiaogang" has passed, and the identity of his replacement is-"Music Producer" Zhou Chuanxiong.
When he made this decision, he also felt very anxious because he was worried that no one would care about the work he created.
But thinking in reverse, since starting from scratch, in case of failure, it is nothing but nothing.
In the following time, Zhou Chuanxiong began to write songs in an undisturbed environment, wrote countless popular love songs, and became the best musician in Taiwan.
In those years, who sang the songs he composed.
Zhang Kefan sang "Lonely Bombing" and became popular again;
Chen Huilin sang "Notepad",Successfully entered the Mandarin market;
Na Ying sang " betrayed ", the fire became more popular;
Of course, there are also "Yong Ye Hua Span_span_span 6" "Is there a song that reminds you of me" by span6span, and "Lavender" and "MVP Lover" by two newcomers of Xu Shaoyang and 5566...
And some of these songs, he once asked I went to all major record companies, but it has been treated as rubbish all the time.
05
His music became popular, and it also established his position as a commercial producer, and won the reputation of "Godfather of Love Songs".
It is ridiculous and sad that few people know who Zhou Chuanxiong is, and no one remembers the school singer named "Xiao Gang".
For Zhou Chuanxiong, the millennium is a mixed blessing.
Happily, he found the other half of his life, his beautiful girlfriend Vivian, is his MTV heroine when he filmed " Without You ".
Worried, he decided to release a record as a singer, but suffered a flood of pirated discs.
This year, with the help of Sony Records, he released his ninth solo music album " Transfer ",Contains 12 songs including " dusk ", " tiger tail stream slowly flowing ".
When the album was released in Taiwan, the sales were terrible, which made him feel very confused and uncomfortable.
To this end, Zhou Chuanxiong not only terminated the contract with the record company, but also struggled for a while.
Until May, two years later, news of the album's fire came from the mainland.
In order to find out, he took advantage of the opportunity to produce the album "I Need You" for Man Wenjun , and visited the major audiovisual stores in Beijing.
At this time, he was surprised to find that there were as many as 100 pirated discs of this album in the Mainland, and the sales volume exceeded 5 million.
At the invitation of Anhui TV station , Zhou Chuanxiong held a song club. He was a little embarrassed and excited to see the crowds of fans at the scene.
After all, this time it became popular in the Mainland, which is actually due to pirated discs.
Since then, Zhou Chuanxiong's name has become popular across the Taiwan Straits and three places. The stubble-faced man sang love songs affectionately and moved countless people.
In July 2004, Zhou Chuanxiong held a solo concert in Singapore. He wept several times on the stage, and his tears were filled with awkward music tracks.
After this, Zhou Chuanxiong created "Man·Ocean", " The Legend under the Starry Sky ", " ", " 5span Span5 Happy Etude in Turkey" span5_span6 _span6 , " Lover Genesis " and other albums.
Among them are " lonely sand bar cold "," goodbye Arctic snow ", " can't close the window is the hateful thing of span 6 _span _span _span _span 6) The song is still circulating today.
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Time has come to 2014, as the network magic song spreads across the Internet, traffic singers bloom everywhere.
At that time, fans also gradually discovered that Zhou Chuanxiong had disappeared out of thin air for a long time.
When he reappeared in the public eye, it turned out to be a stage for some small commercial activities, and he was as thin as a paper man.
The questions of fans were answered in an interview with Zhou Chuanxiong.
According to his description, his stomach has been infected with " Helicobacter pylori " in the past two years. He has lost a full 20 kg and is 178 cm tall. He is almost out of shape.
At that time, because he was worried about his fate, he decided to "build a car behind closed doors", even if he left this noisy world, he still had to leave some more musical works.
Fortunately, with the long-term companionship and meticulous treatment of his family, his body is recovering day by day, and he finally returned to the stage two years after disappearing.
Here, he was invited to participate in popular variety shows such as " masked singer ", "national furnace concert", " unanimous ".
ushered in, but the new generation of fans complained.
Some people believe that: Zhou Chuanxiong has gone from the “godfather of love songs” to a variety show cafe who “bends his waist for five buckets of rice” and a disregard of face.
In February 2021, Zhou Chuanxiong participated in the program " Godsend Voice ".
He was over half a hundred years old on the stage. Not only was he eliminated tragically, he was also commented as a mentor by Meng Meiqi, who was in his early 20s, and became a laughingstock in the entertainment industry for a while, causing disputes from all walks of life.
The most exciting thing is that after the 80s and 90s, everyone grew up listening to the "Godfather of Love Songs" song. Seeing the idols were "blasphemed", they were filled with indignation.
To this end, Zhou Chuanxiong hurriedly issued an article to help Meng Meiqi clear the siege, saying that there is no difference between onstage and offstage, so please don't take it out of context.
On this occasion, 思琦 can be fair to say, this matter is really no wonder Meng Meiqi, if the program group deliberately arranged, how could she sit in the position of the instructor?
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Anyway, in the "traffic is king" today, there are many capable singers who have fallen into the altar. The reason why the "steel wire" speaks for the "godfather of love songs", except for the hardship. In addition to the old feelings, it is also a kind of respect for the senior singers.
on October 30, 2021When Zhou Chuanxiong opened the concert to the Suzhou Olympic Sports Center Stadium, the hard-to-find situation of tickets has explained everything.
And those who were fortunate enough to be present at the concert will know more about whether the "Godfather of Love Song" is out of fashion.
It is worth mentioning that in order to reserve enough time for fans and fans, Suzhou Rail Transit also extended the running time of Line 1 and Line 5.
The times are constantly advancing, and the years are constantly changing.
If you really like a singer and are willing to be his (her) "true love fan", there is really no need to ask for "lasting prosperity".
Because in our beautiful memories of youth, there is a glimpse of them left, which is actually enough...
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(The picture comes from the Internet, the infringement link is deleted)
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