Reprinted from: Taolu Music
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If you like Taiwanese pop music, as long as you pay a little attention, you will find Mr. Chen Zhiyuan's name in the "Arrangement" column.
If you pay more attention, you will find that many of your favorite songs come from this Mr. Chen Zhiyuan.
In the 1980s and 1990s, when Taiwanese pop music was at its peak, Chen Zhiyuan wrote thousands of pop songs and also composed many popular classic songs. Wang Jie , Ouyang Feifei , Jolin Tsai were all gifted by him. .
In the history of popular music in Taiwan, the one that can rival "Rolling Stone Records" is "Flying Saucer Records" founded by Wu Chuchu, a representative figure of Taiwan's folk song movement.
And Chen Zhiyuan is one of the leaders of UFO Records.
In the last century, Chen Zhiyuan personally handled the arrangement work of most Chinese pop music records on the market, and continued to make wedding dresses for popular singers.
also has Meihualao's soundtrack. Most of the songs were specially composed by Chen Zhiyuan. The soundtrack is all Japanese songs. I didn't understand it when I was a child. Now when I look at Chen Zhiyuan's arrangement, I just think it is too outstanding, especially the theme song " Plum Blossom Three Lanes". 》.
The songs he participated in writing can span the entire glorious history of Taiwanese pop music. According to incomplete statistics, he has arranged 2,216 songs.
He is known as the "Music Magician".
If we listen to the many works left by the master with a grateful heart, it will be a great blessing in life, and we will be amazed again by his magical hands.
Countless classics were born in his hands. Compared with today's various equipment, various gimmicks, or arrangers who try to "eat everything with one trick", Chen Zhiyuan seems to be more worthy of being admired.
Compared with the music godfather Luo Dayou , Chen Zhiyuan is not inferior at all. This master does not stick to his style and creates behind the scenes like a farmer who cherishes his crops. He is a rare and thoughtful person.
In the early 1980s, Chen Zhiyuan was just starting out. At that time, arrangement did not receive much attention, but the emergence of Chen Zhiyuan made arrangement a link that cannot be ignored in the production process of pop music.
After UFO Records was acquired by Warner Records, Chen Zhiyuan came to Fenghua Records , which inherited the bloodline of UFO Records, to hold an important position. Mr. Chen Zhiyuan is one of the most important behind-the-scenes promoters of the popularity of
Zhang Huimei, Huang Lei, , etc. As a result, Huang Lei and Chen Zhiyuan have become close friends.
In the minds of many young people, the first time this familiar yet unfamiliar name was mentioned was when Huang Lei appeared in the third season of " Longing for Life ".
After dinner, everyone gathered around the dining table and chatted openly about the past. Xie Na used her mobile phone to play a song that Huang Lei once sang - "Time is Like Water".
Huang Lei hummed along,
He asked He Jiong: "Do you know why I stopped singing? The person who wrote this song has been dead for six years. He is my best friend, his name is Chen Zhiyuan, and I used to He was the one who composed and arranged all the records. "Looking for a close friend in the mountains and flowing water,"
Huang Lei said slowly in a calm tone: "Looking for a close friend in the mountains and flowing water, the sound is gone." It’s hard to get up. ”
Many of Huang Lei’s popular songs were written by Chen Zhiyuan. He seems to be Huang Lei’s soulmate and knows his heart, and Huang Lei can also interpret Chen Zhiyuan’s songs to the extreme.
Huang Lei, who has long since simplified his life, has been walking for half his life, but he has never forgotten this close friend. This can be regarded as a great blessing in life.
For Huang Lei, who has friends all over the world, the person who can become a close friend with him must have something special about him. Whether on the show or on Weibo, this strong teacher-student relationship will always make Huang Lei It’s hard to calm down.
In 1996, Chen Zhiyuan composed a song for Zhang Yusheng called "The Lamp That Doesn't Light". Maybe it was because the title of the song lacked luck and it didn't become popular.
A year later, the song was re-written with lyrics and renamed " and singing while walking". It was included in Huang Lei's album of the same name. Suddenly, the song became popular.
This is the first time Huang Lei and Chen Zhiyuan have crossed paths.
The encounter between Huang Lei and Chen Zhiyuan was the first TV series "In Time" directed by Huang Lei, and Chen Zhiyuan was responsible for the music of the entire drama.
Huang Lei once said: "The first time I heard this melody was at the beginning of 2002 in Wuzhen, Zhejiang, a small water town. It was my first time to be a director, and then teacher Chen Zhiyuan made the entire music. One day I shot it all night He waited for me all night, and in the morning we sat in the restaurant on the second floor. He handed me a pair of headphones, I put them on, and he pressed Play, and then this melody of "Time is Like Water" will forever be engraved in my heart. I have been carving for ten years. Maybe it was because I was too tired, or maybe the music was so good. I cried, and the teacher lowered his head and remained silent."
And then every drama by Huang Lei, from "Orange Is Red" to "Orange Is Red". Chen Zhiyuan is both a composer for the TV series. The two hit it off immediately and their tacit understanding led to the beginning of a friendship that lasted for more than ten years.
The two are twenty-one years apart. Creation makes them lonely and makes them bid farewell to loneliness.
Huang Lei would fly back and forth between mainland China and Taipei just to see Chen Zhiyuan. He was also the only "affair" allowed by Chen Zhiyuan's wife, Sister Mimi.
Every time Huang Lei goes to Taiwan, Sister Xiaoyan will joke: Tell that teacher quickly, his lover is coming! Everyone knows that both of them are good.
In addition to love, putting aside worldly interests, we can also have a true and pure friendship. Is this the deepest desire of many people?
Although Chen Zhiyuan is talented in music and many people are rushing to collaborate with him, few people understand him.
Huang Lei once told a story. He and Chen Zhiyuan were sitting at the dining table, with a bottle of Moutai in front of them. The teacher was thinking, and Sister Mimi was making mushroom and chicken soup in the kitchen.
The teacher called: "Mimi, come here." Sister Mimi came.
Teacher said: "Excuse me, why does Maotai wine need to be paired with mushroom and chicken soup?"
Sister Mimi replied: "Because it tastes better and is warm."
Teacher would say: "Wrong."
Sister Mimi said : "Okay, I was wrong."
Then the teacher asked: "Do you know why you were wrong?"
Sister Mimi said: "Because I was wrong, so I was wrong" and continued to cook her chicken soup. The teacher continued his long and profound thinking.
Chen Zhiyuan is such a boring person, but he makes his life extremely interesting.
Oh yes, this is also the reason why Huang Lei has never had mushroom and chicken soup again.
The beauty of the past is no longer the same as it was back then, if it is not the scene before us or the people of the moment.
In Chen Zhiyuan's last few years, it was Huang Lei who understood him best.
Chen Zhiyuan once said: "I am a person who doesn't know how to express..."
But Huang Lei said: "The teacher is the person who knows how to express best, and every note is his most vivid expression. All of him His emotions and deep feelings are all poured into the song. "
Perhaps it is "Heaven's Jealousy of Talents". In 2004, Chen Zhiyuan suffered from colorectal cancer. At the end of 2010, Chen Zhiyuan's physical condition deteriorated rapidly after 7 years of fighting cancer, and he was admitted to National Taiwan University Hospital at the end of February the following year. Hospitalization. When
was seriously ill, Huang Lei flew to Taipei many times to see him, imagining that his health would gradually improve.
But he still did not persevere and died of illness in Taipei.
The genius who composed and arranged more than 2,000 songs, Chen Zhiyuan, a generation Chinese pop music master, left.
While he was dying, Chen Zhiyuan's love for music never faded even on his death bed. He persisted in completing the composition of "If One Day I'm Not Here, the Tree Is Here". After
passed away, Chen Zhiyuan was awarded the "Lifetime Achievement Award" at the 11th Annual Music Chart Ceremony. On the day of
's death, Huang Lei posted four consecutive Weibo posts to express his unforgettable and sad feelings for his mentor.
Throughout the remaining years of his life, he expressed his longing for his dear friend.
When UFO Records was first established, it signed Tsai Chin , Su Rui and other future superstar singers. At this time, Chen Zhiyuan participated in the productions of Tsai Chin's "This Is Love" and Su Rui's "Taipei Tokyo" at UFO Records. Arranging work and making these albums become classic albums in Taiwan's pop music scene.
In 1982, Pan Yueyun released the album "天天天蓝". With this album, Chen Zhiyuan won the "Best Arranger Award" at the Golden Tripod Award that year.
Su Rui's song " Follow Your Feeling " that became popular across the mainland was the mainland audience's first impression of Mr. Chen Zhiyuan's composition and arrangement and UFO records.
Chen Zhiyuan used his imaginative way of arranging songs to quickly become "popular hits" at that time and "classic songs" in the future.
In 1990, Lin Yilian released her first Mandarin album " Falling in Love with a Person Who Never Goes Home " on UFO Records. At that time, "Chen Zhiyuan's music + Ding Xiaowen 's lyrics = market guarantee."
Rumor has it that Chen Zhiyuan is still is the only musician in the Chinese music industry who has earned 100 million yuan by arranging songs. When he was making "Falling in Love with Someone Who Won't Go Home", the boss of UFO laughed and said "I heard the sound of money falling" as soon as he heard the intro.
In the second half of 1992, Chen Zhiyuan finally formed his own production company "Tropical Music", and the first singer Chen Zhiyuan chose was Ouyang Feifei. The "iron triangle" combination of
UFO, Chen Zhiyuan, and Ouyang Feifei also laid a solid foundation for Ouyang Feifei to join UFO and the sales of her first album "Embrace".
By the way, Zheng Zhihua said that the song "Embrace" by Ouyang Feifei was forced by his record company to write when he was about to board the plane.
No wonder there is a joke circulating in the Taiwanese music circle that Chen Zhiyuan can complete the arrangement of the next song in a taxi on the way.
Later, UFO made a movie called " Seven Wolves " to support Wang Jie and other young singers. The so-called seven wolves are Wang Jie, Zhang Yusheng, Tai Zhengxiao , Orient Express's lead singer Yao Kejie and "Stars and Moon" "Sun Group" 7 people. Two of the theme songs of
, "Never Look Back" and "Fire Youth", make people excited every time they listen to it.
Chen Zhiyuan's iconic rhythmic composition adds many rock elements and is more modern, sweeping away the minor-key style of the Teresa Teng era, but it is different from the heavy metal niche. The tunes are catchy and popular. , ushered in a new era of Taiwanese pop music.
Chen Fuming said that without Chen Zhiyuan, there would be no current Taiwanese pop music. He represents the highest level of Chinese pop music and is unprecedented.
The great thing about Chen Zhiyuan is that he does not achieve his own success as a singer, but loves the entire music scene and benefits the entire Chinese music scene for him.
Compared with Li Zongsheng, , Luo Dayou and others who have been frequently exposed in the media, Chen Zhiyuan is almost a low-key musician who can no longer be low-key. He truly has the high-spirited and upright character of "getting done with it and hiding his merits and fame".
But he himself thinks that it is because he is not sociable and not good at talking, and he can easily ruin the situation.
In 2008, he won the "Special Contribution Award" at the 19th Taiwan Golden Melody Awards, but he did not attend the award ceremony. Instead, he asked his wife and children to come on stage to receive the award on his behalf.
That night, he happily appeared in casual clothes at Fenghua Records' golden song celebration banquet, saying, "How could I not come to a place with good wine?"
Although Chen Zhiyuan is busy and low-key, he is still very lively and funny in private. He never appears in public, but he has a lot of close friends.
Chen Zhiyuan’s nickname is Dr. Music Monster. Some people commented that he feels smart and paranoid. He doesn’t want to waste time on people he doesn’t like. Should he date you? Friends, you can tell by whether he wants to talk to you.
And there is no age limit for making friends, and he has a group of people who make friends every year.
Jiang Yuheng and Chen Zhiyuan are 10 years apart.
As early as when he debuted, Chen Zhiyuan was already a recognized master in the music industry.
But this does not prevent them from bickering, arguing, drinking together, and staying up late making music together.
The golden age of the Chinese music scene is thanks to the existence of Chen Zhiyuan.
is just like the evaluation given to him by the Golden Melody Award: Chen Zhiyuan, a master arranger and composer. In the 1980s, his name and his music were packaged in every Taiwanese record that moved you.
On December 10, the year he passed away, Taipei International Convention Center held a music concert titled "If One Day I'm Not Here, the Tree is Here" to commemorate Chen Zhiyuan.
Nearly 70 friends from the music industry, including Li Zongsheng, Tsai Qin, and Jiang Yuheng, shared their memories together, and the performance lineup was unprecedented.
Huang Lei did not sing at the concert. It can even be said that the moment Chen Zhiyuan left, Huang Lei decided that he would never sing again.
He said: "He is the most important musical soulmate in my life. If he is gone, I feel it is meaningless."
A person who can insist on or give up something because of another person should be the most affectionate person. Performance, right?
Just like when "Ziqi died, Boya said that he would never be able to play again in the world. He broke the strings of the harp and would never play the drum again."
Perhaps, this was his own way of remembering the relationship with his teacher.
The person who understands you best in the world, the only person who understands you is gone. Even if there are thousands of feelings, who should you talk to?
At that farewell concert, he said: "I just want to talk."
He smiled and talked about the little things between them easily, and the background music was "Time is Like Water".
Years are like water, a quick glance
How many years are understated, my heart turns to you thousands of times, never forget that day between you and me
In Huang Lei's book "My Shoulders, Their Wings", he wrote to his two daughters to discuss what When it comes to friendship, he quoted his friendship with teacher Chen Zhiyuan:
"A few words about Uncle Chen, my friendship with him is a lifelong friendship. When we meet, we will talk constantly. On weekdays, when we are busy, we are a part of each other. Support. We will believe that there are people in the world who are thinking the same as you. It is most important to find such friends. No matter where we are, you will not be afraid or in a hurry. After his death, his widow Aunt Mimi will take care of him. The myopia glasses that have been on my face all year round were given to me. I still keep them in my desk drawer and rarely touch them. "
When the world has almost forgotten Chen Zhiyuan, Huang Lei himself is still thinking about it over and over again. I still pass on Chen Zhiyuan and his story to my children. Over the years, it has always been unforgettable.
I don’t envy Huang Lei, but I really envy Huang Lei with Chen Zhiyuan.
He is like a tree, and the sound of the leaves swinging in the breeze is the last note he leaves in the world.
He is not a star, but he is a master, and a master among masters, there is no doubt about it.
08 has passed, and I don’t know how many people can still remember this genius who pioneered Chinese music. Every time I see the name "Chen Zhiyuan" still being remembered, I still feel a little excited.
If as time goes by, when the music is gradually forgotten, this will be the biggest regret in the history of Chinese music.
Remember him just like you remember Luo Dayou and Li Zongsheng!
He is the real half of the Chinese music scene!
