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"He said that this little pain in the wind and rain is nothing. Don't be afraid to wipe away your tears. At least we still have dreams..." A familiar melody came from the roadside shop, melodious, sonorous and powerful. I can't help but think of the person who inspired my entire youth with his singing - Zheng Zhihua .
Zheng Zhihua, known as the "inspirational singer", became popular on both sides of the Taiwan Strait in the 1990s with his song "Sailor". He sang about the mood of young people pursuing their dreams and touched the hearts of many people. His own growth history is also an inspirational history, accompanying the growth of a generation.
He was born in Taipei in the 1960s. It was like a cruel joke of fate. He contracted polio when he was 2 years old. He could not walk with crutches until he underwent surgical correction at the age of 7. The unfortunate experiences in his childhood made him mature precociously. After he entered elementary school, he studied hard and had a lot of certificates and prizes at home, which made him stand out. This kind of scenery has always accompanied him to graduate from college and start a new life. After graduating from college, he went to an advertising company and worked as a layman until he became the creative director of , a well-known 4a company. No one expected that the advertising industry, which he had done so well, would accidentally become his springboard into the music world.
Everything comes from his talent. While working in an advertising company, he wrote his first song "For Happy Girls", which was used as an advertising insert and caused quite a stir. This attracted the attention of Gui Mingyu, the owner of Dianjiang Records. This company has launched Chinese world diva-level female singers Zhang Qingfang , Cai Qin , Youke Li Lin ( Li Ji + Lin Zhixuan ), etc. Singer. In this way, Zheng Zhihua walked into the recording studio and recorded his first album "'s youngest member's story ". After recording "The Story of the Youngest One", the news that he could sing became a topic of conversation among colleagues in the advertising agency, which also aroused some doubts. Colleagues ridiculed that the record company that recorded Zheng Zhihua's songs would definitely go bankrupt. This ignited his fighting spirit and vowed to carve out a niche in the music industry and prove his ability to his colleagues.
It turns out that he succeeded. Relying on his unremitting efforts, he released his first album "The Story of the youngest" in 1988 and released his twelfth album " the last night city " in 1998. During this decade as a singer, he released a series of high-profile songs, such as "Sailor", "Star Lights", " braids ", "Youth", "Single Escape", "Fallen Angel", " game" "Human ", "The Crying Actor", "Thirty-Three Dollars", "The World of Great Harmony", "Great People", "Don't Cry, My Favorite Person", "Your Birthday" and so on. To this day, these songs are still sung, and the on-demand rate of KTV remains high.
From then on, Zheng Zhihua as we came to know him and his classic songs that are still widely circulated today. His famous masterpiece "Sailor" is melodious, sonorous, powerful, and inspiring. In 1992, it created a spectacle of universal singing on both sides of the Taiwan Strait. This song has become one of the most popular inspirational songs in the past decade, inspiring many people who have encountered setbacks in their careers and lives, and giving them the strength to fight after loss.
At that time, Zheng Zhihua was at the peak of his singing career. He was very popular on both sides of the Taiwan Strait and three places. At that time, the "four kings" of Hong Kong were still unknown, playing small roles in their respective fields... However, after getting married in 1999, During the most glorious period of his career, Zheng Zhihua suddenly announced his official retirement from the music scene and faded out of the entertainment industry. For a time, rumors spread so much that it was reported on the Internet that Zheng Zhihua was imprisoned for 7 years because the lyrics of his early song "Big People" were extremely satirical about various ugly phenomena in real society, which angered the local government in Taiwan Province. . Regarding the rumors from the outside world over the past seven years, Zheng Zhihua conducted an exclusive interview under the arrangement of the mainland company he signed with. Zheng Zhihua bluntly said, "I was not imprisoned because of the song "Grand National". The rumors are just nonsense. In the past seven years, I I just put on the music and do something I want to do, and it is definitely not restricted by any external restrictions."
In fact, after announcing his farewell to the music industry, Zheng Zhihua devoted himself to the IT industry.Zheng Zhihua explained that he made such a choice because there are still many things that he likes but has not done. "I am not just a singer. The IT industry is a developing industry. I came back from studying in the United States. The singer transformed into a businessman with his own IT company." Another important wish is that Zheng Zhihua has suffered from polio since he was a child and can only stand with a cane. The IT industry does not require him to go out and compete with others physically, which is very suitable for his actual situation. In the past few years after he has been out of the public eye, Zheng Zhihua has not only grown bigger and bigger in his company, but also has a happy marriage.
He is such an independent person who will try his best to do whatever he wants to do. From a young painter in his childhood to the creative director of a 4A advertising company, to an inspirational singer popular across the Taiwan Strait and three places, he finally became a successful IT entrepreneur. Every step seems to be light and breezy, but in fact it takes a lot of hard work and effort that ordinary people can't imagine. He used his singing to interpret the whole life of a man who had to rely on crutches to walk his whole life. The injustice and imperfection of fate to him did not hinder his pursuit of a better life. Just as he sang in "Sailor", "He said that the pain in the wind and rain is nothing. Wipe away the tears and don't be afraid. At least we still have dreams." !
In fact, every sparkling diamond has been polished thousands of times; every dancing butterfly has to endure the pain of tearing and breaking out of its cocoon; every seemingly effortless success is The repeated pouring of sweat and tears.
