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"I wonder which person over 30 can listen to 30 Li Zongsheng songs without breaking down?"
After the premiere of Li Zongsheng's musical " When Love Is a Past ", an audience member expressed such emotion.
From January 17th to 19th, the tour of "When Love Is a Past" is about to come to an end. It's hard to get a ticket for
, and people flock to it. Perhaps what drives them is not the singing and dancing stars on the stage, but the person behind the song: 50 years ago, he was just Xiao Li, who carried gas in the vegetable market.
What was it like to understand Li Zongsheng in an instant? The question
has been viewed 550,000 times on Zhihu. Some people say it was at the midnight of a broken love, some people said it was at the bottom of their career, and some people said: It’s not about understanding, it’s about living.
Sylvia Chang said: "Everyone has a Li Zongsheng song in their heart."
Li Zongsheng's song, if you don't understand it, you are lucky, but if you understand it, it means life.
From a young man in the gas industry to a great master, Li Zongsheng’s 62-year life itself is a record of the growth of Chinese pop music.
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Li Zongsheng was born in Taipei on July 19, 1958. His father ran a gas shop and his mother was a teacher.
Unfortunately, he had no luck in taking exams since he was a child. He failed the high school entrance exam, so his mother spent a lot of money to send him to a cram school, but he still failed the exam again.
"There were only two people in the class who failed the exam, one was me and the other one. I think he has a slight intellectual problem."
html Li Zongsheng and his mother when he was 7 years old.
His sister took him around to take exams, and he passed all the exams. He also took the art college exam, and ended up getting zero marks in two professional courses: dictation and audition, notation and music reading! Finally, Mingxin Polytechnic admitted him, but it took him 7 years to complete the 5-year course!
Not only his family, but also himself, doubted whether he could survive in society: "At that time, there was no evidence that I was a person who could survive in society. Every step I took, I would be told again and again, You are destined to have no future."
His father felt that he was "good for nothing" and his future was indeed uncertain.
is like the dull and hopeless youth of Taipei teenagers captured by Edward Yang. During the Mid-Autumn Festival when he was 17 years old, Li Zongsheng wandered on campus and felt lonely, so he wrote "A Person".
Those days of wearing slippers to deliver gas at the night market became Li Zongsheng’s most vivid memory of city life.
"I like this place. It is like an old sweater given to you by your elders. It is obviously outdated, but it makes people feel warm."
In the following decades, the identity of "the son of the gas line owner" also became Never forgotten by him.
"Xiao Li, where do you come from? Ah, you are just an ordinary person. You have nothing special and no superb abilities. You have to remember where you come from." He said, this is his father. A reminder to him.
On May 17, 2018, Li Zongsheng released the only song written for his father in his life: " an old song newly written ". At the age of 60, he "made peace" with his deceased father.
"Three Things About Azong": I am the son of a gas shop owner. Before I could prove my ability to make money independently, my father asked me to help deliver gas at home. I had to use the afternoons when business was slow to sell gas in the new community. I had to tie a telephone sign to the telephone pole, and I had to carry the gas through the night market, which was filled with smelly water.
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The days when gas was sent out "forced" Li Zongsheng to music creation.
"Looking back now, writing songs and writing songs was actually more like a ritual for me when I was in my early twenties and tried every means to avoid sending gas home. After a very physically demanding job, a piano, A pen made me no longer a gas station worker. "
In 1978, 20-year-old Li Zongsheng formed an acoustic guitar choir with several friends, which gradually became a famous folk band at the time. Two years later, he signed with Polytech. Jin released a "Complete Collection of Acoustic Guitar Works".
His girlfriend Zheng Yi was already a well-known folk singer. At that time, she signed with Rolling Stone to release records. During the recording process, the original producer had an unexpected situation: Li Zongsheng's opportunity came.
was appointed at the critical moment, and he served as the producer for Zheng Yi's "Little Rain Comes at the Right Time". The song became an instant hit, and the 25-year-old Li Zongsheng was also regarded by Rolling Stone.
The one on the left is Zheng Yi and the one on the right is Tsai Qin.
However, from "Anonymous" to a gold medal producer, more than one song is enough. In 1985, the album "Busy and Blind" he produced for Sylvia Chang established his status in the music industry in one fell swoop. In the same year, he officially signed with the Rolling Stones.
"Busy and Blind" is called "a great album". Sylvia Chang used her voice to act in a "biographical movie", a dialogue between voice and soul, a woman's most beautiful time. "Busy and Blind" started the "concept album" trend that is still popular in Taiwan's music scene, ranking 19th on China Taiwan's Top 100 Records.
In January 1986, he released his first solo album "The Elf in Life " on Rolling Stone.
34 years later, many of the songs in this album are not outdated and are still favorites of many listeners: "The Man from Fenggui", "You Are Like a Child", "Unbearable Loneliness", "The Tenderness of a 17-Year-Old Girl", "" What's the point of love " "Old Love and New Love".
"The Ghostly Mind" is written for a beautiful stewardess. The song
was also my first Li Zongsheng. I fell in love with someone when I was 15 years old, and I suddenly understood this song.
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People say that Li Zongsheng understands women’s hearts best.
Sylvia Chang and Wang Jingxiong were struggling with their underground relationship. He wrote "The Price of Love" to her: "Let's go, let's go, people must learn to grow up by themselves, let's go, let's go, life will inevitably experience Struggling with pain."
Xin Xiaoqi was betrayed by her boyfriend of ten years. He wrote "Enlightenment" to her: "I thought I would cry, but I didn't. I just stared at your footsteps and gave you my last blessing. This Isn’t it a kind of realization that allows me to see myself clearly?”
The Chinese music scene is lucky to have Luo Dayou and Li Zongsheng at the same time.
If Luo Dayou is like a knife, it is a sharp edge that cuts through reality. That Li Zongsheng is medicine, a good recipe to heal the souls of people who return to the city at night.
People call Luo Dayou and Li Zongsheng the "godfathers of the Chinese music scene", but Li Zongsheng is very humble: "I feel terrified when compared with him. To me, he can only be worse than him. He is the best." A true heavyweight in the Taiwanese music industry."
In the words of music critic Ma Shifang: "Before that, when we talked about Luo Dayou, it was all about the big narrative, about the times, and about the big self. It was only with Li Zongsheng that he began to move toward the personal. , small love, small expectations and disillusionment, and Li Zongsheng can always find the light of poetry in these trivial matters of life, and write an epic spirit from the trivial details of his life. "
The gold created by Li Zongsheng. era is also the golden age of the Chinese music scene.
The Rolling Stones at that time accounted for almost half of the Chinese music scene: Pan Yueyun , Sylvia Chang, Chen Shuhua , Lin Yilian , Xin Xiaoqi, Zhou Huajian , Zhao Chuan , Zhang Xinzhe .
A song can change a person's destiny. This is not a myth. It happened to Li Zongsheng and them.
Chen Shuhua changed her music style after signing with the Rolling Stones. "Talking to You, Listen to You" produced by Li Zongsheng was released in 1990 and became the first album in the history of Taiwanese music to sell over one million copies.
Zhao Chuan, whose appearance is not superior, Li Zongsheng wrote " I finally lost you " and "I am a little bird" for him. Zhao Chuan, whose studio was burned down and almost collapsed, recovered from adversity. Pulled out.
Leung Jingru , a shy Malaysian girl, was discovered by Li Zongsheng in 1997. The sales of her first album "Grown Up Overnight" were dismal, and she almost gave up, but Li Zongsheng did not give up on her. In 2000, he created " Courage " for her. 》, became famous in one fell swoop.
Zhou Huajian told the story of Li Zongsheng teaching him how to write songs in the latest issue of "A Date with Luyu". He said that it was Li Zongsheng who inspired him for the first time: "Only then did I know that I was doing something. When singing a song, one should stand in the listener's position. "
Doll, everyone knows the story behind the song "Across the Ocean to See You": At that time, she was involved in a long-distance love triangle, and her boyfriend was in Beijing. Every time I went to see him, I had to change planes and fly to Beijing again. It was very hard to fall in love with him.
After Li Zongsheng heard her story, he wrote the lyrics on a greasy placemat in a beef noodle shop.
After that, in order to take his baby to Japan to record songs, Li Zongsheng sold his 800,000 Mercedes-Benz car. The song
was included in Jin Zhijuan's album "Heavy Rain" released in 1991, and it has now become her most famous masterpiece.
Someone asked: Which teacher taught Li Zongsheng Chinese? The answer is: He learned it from his own life.
"Across the Ocean to See You" is an example. Although he has never been to Beijing and only listened to the doll's story for 5 minutes, Li Zongsheng is like a genius and is good at understanding people's hearts. He wrote such details: "A strange city Ah, in a familiar corner." "In the wind and sand, watching you go away, I am so sad that I can't help myself."
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When talking about Li Zongsheng, no matter whether it is music or life, there is one person: Lin Yilian.
They are top female singers and music masters who have been working together for 12 years. They were once regarded as the "Goddess of Condor Heroes" in the Chinese music scene.
"Just hearing her voice is enough to fall in love with her," Li Zongsheng said.
He pushed her to the pinnacle of her career and created classic songs such as " Don't Care Who I Am ", "The Night Is Too Dark", "Scars", "Blow by the Cold Wind for You and Me".
The cooperation between the two people began with "When Love Is a Past". When they announced their breakup, they used the song "Enlightenment".
In 1992, they collaborated for the first time and sang the theme song "When Love Is a Past" for Chen Kaige's "Farewell My Concubine".
At that time, people thought this song was sung to his ex-wife Zhu Weiyin, but later, this song turned out to be their theme song.
On July 12, 2004, Li Zongsheng quoted "Enlightenment" written for Xin Xiaoqi and announced the end of his six-year marriage with Lin Yilian.
"If our love is wrong, I hope you and I will not suffer in vain, Sandy, I wish you happiness and find what you want, what you think is worth it."
" Cloudy Day " written to Mok Wenwei is actually Li Zongsheng's divorce A portrayal of the bleak reality of the time.
"The lyrics I wrote more than ten years ago are like fables, foretelling my current life. When I come to such a big city, I can't figure out the east, west, north and south. Without marriage, I can only guard my life." Children, my work."
Every word in "Cloudy Day" touches my heart.
"Relationships don't just mean you and I agree. It's best to be equal and not owe anything to each other. To put it bluntly, one person breaks free and the other picks it up."
After the divorce, he moved to Beijing with his two daughters and learned Deal with loneliness.
During those days, it was his piano and his acoustic guitar that accompanied him through sleepless nights. He founded the "Li Guitar" brand and spent two years just to make a piano.
"Only Qin knows that I went back and forth and tossed and turned when I was writing songs."
Fortunately, his cloudy day did not last long.
In 2006, 48-year-old Li Zongsheng held the "Reason and Sensibility" tour, and Sylvia Chang, Zhang Xinzhe, Liang Jingru, and Zhou Huajian all came to be his guests.
"Don't mention the past, life has been full of storms", he choked up after singing the first line.
On May 1, 2019, they had a dinner party with their 20-year-old daughter and were photographed by the media.
15 years, this is the first time the two of them have been together in public since their divorce.
Nowadays, Lin Yilian and Gong Shuoliang have a stable relationship, and Li Zongsheng also has a stable relationship. It was rumored that he has remarried some time ago.
is very good. He has written about women's hearts and finally has a lover.
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Li Zongsheng's life has overcome the two hills of career trough and failed marriage, and once again stood at the pinnacle of everyone's attention.
From 2009 to 2010, he formed a limited combination " vertical line " with Luo Dayou, Zhou Huajian, and Zhang Chenyue. "Song for Myself" was a song that shocked everyone and was included in "Line to the South" by "Line Through Line".
In 2010, at Zongjuanxian’s farewell concert, Li Zongsheng sang a song that “I had endured for fifty or so performances before and didn’t sing until I got home.” He didn’t even give it a name, so he simply saved it on his computer. The title in it - "Song to Myself".
Ma Shifang was at the scene and clearly remembered the grand occasion: "The entire audience burst into waves of applause and cheers following the lyrics. Everyone present knew that they were witnessing the birth of a masterpiece."
Take a look at "Give Yourself" "Song" was a manuscript that had been modified to the point of being almost unrecognizable. In an instant, I understood what Li Zongsheng said: "The one hundred golden sentences you saw in one of my songs may have been selected from the twenty thousand sentences!" "
"Song for Myself" won three awards at the 2011 Golden Melody Awards: Best Composer, Writer Lyricist and Best Song of the Year. No one expected that another, more powerful song would be born two years later. .
In an interview with Yang Lan in 2012, Li Zongsheng said that he had given Huang Lei a CD and wrote this sentence: "The really good songs haven't come yet, so just listen to these first!"
In 2013, Li Zongsheng wrote "The Hills" came out.
"After crossing the hill, I found that no one was waiting for me. I was chattering endlessly, and I could never call you gentleness again. Why can't I remember who gave me a hug last time and when?"
"Find any reason for yourself, fight back against the teasing of love and the influence of fate, without overestimating your own capabilities, until death."
Ma Shifang said: "This song "Hills" is superb, sincere and profound, and even surpasses "Song for Myself" has such a high standard that it is difficult to live up to it. Yes, looking at it, Li Zongsheng's only opponent is Li Zongsheng. "
Director Ning Hao also loved "The Hills".
At the premiere of Li Zongsheng's musical "When Love Is a Past", Ning Hao said: "My Li Zongsheng song is "The Hills". I think that song was perfectly written!"
30 years, 300 songs In terms of singing, Li Zongsheng is not very prolific, but he has influenced an entire generation of Chinese musicians, and perhaps more than one generation of Chinese music audiences.
"I don't want to become an old man who has no good works anymore, and I only read and criticize them."
"As a musician, I think that the age of fifty is just the beginning. The records I made and wrote before I was fifty Songs are all about what I experienced and learned when I started to mature, and those before are not counted. Therefore, including being a man after the age of 50, I have a deep understanding of what I should have and what I have experienced. "It's full of expectations."
Yang Lan said that Li Zongsheng has never stopped, and he is still the person who "races against himself."
The audience of this era is fortunate to have him, who has written our laughter, tears, and suffering into songs, and who has accompanied us, facing the difficulties of life with a playful smile.
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