When the audience after 90s and 00s talk about Liu Huan, they will probably always imitate Liu Huan and sing a few words of "Good Chinese Songs", but they don't know what these two words represent in the music scene in China ... The objective fact is that Liu Huan is not only the most fashionable male singer with changeable design styles in the past 30 years, but also the best leader of original music in the music scene!
How did Liu Huan seal the gods? In 1980s, Liu Huan studied in the Institute of International Relations. When he was a child, he liked crosstalk performances. He chose Dutch literature as an elective course in college, but he finally fell in love with music. Liu Huan likes traditional musical instruments very much since he was a child. He often plays traditional instruments in the music teacher's office during his lunch break.
When I was in an ordinary high school in Tianjin, one of my classmates made up his mind to take the college entrance examination for the Conservatory of Music this year. When I was a sophomore, there was a grand piano in the college. The first time I saw him playing Chopin's Butterfly in front of my eyes, I was at a loss. This thing could have done this. ...
It was after 1983 that I made my own fashion music. When I was a sophomore and a junior, I saw so many students playing guitar on campus. What was the difficulty in seeing this thing before? I borrowed someone else's piano in summer, and when I got home, I became the best player in that group. Then I gradually composed my own music. I'm a little interested in anything with human voice, such as musical singing. Although I haven't learned it, I like listening, even some methods of Chinese opera, which I pay more attention to. ...
His love for traditional musical instruments runs through his life. After he became famous, his family collected nearly 100 strange traditional musical instruments.
When he grows up, Liu Huan likes to gather with a group of songwriters in the Beijing International Audio-visual Plastic Arts Enterprise, which is called "Damucang" by musicians. If you have been to the service hall of "Big Wooden Warehouse", you will see a man playing the electronic piano slowly and singing English songs loudly, and that is Liu Huan.
At the age of twenty, his singing skills were a little delicate, far less than his favorite Bob Dylan, but in that era when the singer didn't even know the score, Liu Huan was so eye-catching.
1988, less than ten years after the wave of educated youth returning to the city, a TV series "Syracuse" starring him was released. "There is sunshine in the sky and the moon in the water ..." When Liu Huan was tempted, many people burst into tears. For some people, Liu Huan's songs can only be understood by those who have gone to "educated youth to the countryside", guarded the frontier with ideals and reclaimed wasteland.
Another well-known music, Without You, became popular again after 25 years because of Huang Qishan's singing. This is the first time that Liu Huan recorded a song for a TV series.
In this way, there were more than one TV series that were optimistic about Liu Huan at that time. After recording music for Syracuse, plainclothes police found him again. After musician Lei Lei wrote down the theme song "Unfulfilled Young Aspirations", the first thing that came to mind was Liu Huanlai's singing. Liu Huan was deeply impressed by her excellent sound quality, tone and appeal. After Lei Lei persuaded Zhao Baogang, the deputy director, the two men had a hard time finding Liu Huan's residence, so they decided to visit.
Go through the bedroom and look for the one with the largest number of beer bottles at the door. You can go to Liu Huan's bedroom. In the crowded room, there is only a bed and a table next door, and there is not even a place to stay.
"They handed me the song, and when I read it, I said, this sound is too low, it's 4 degrees lower, so you have to change it and match it again." Liu Huan, who had a bad cold, tried to sing "Unfulfilled Youth" on the guitar. Simple singing was more infectious than Bel Canto, and Liu Huan's live singing was more enthusiastic and full.
At that time, in Beijing, Plainclothes Policeman was shown on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, and songs such as Syracuse, The Sun in My Heart, I can't live without you and Young People's Ambition were all over the street on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays.
1990 At the opening ceremony of the Asian Games, the audience couldn't help singing with Liu Huan and Wei Wei: "In Asia, the mountains are expensive, in Asia, the rivers are like blood ..." This song "Glory of Asia" is not the anthem of the Asian Games, but only a propaganda and planning music, but its popularity far exceeds the original anthem.
While recording this song, Liu Huan stayed in the recording studio for two days and nights, but she couldn't find her own ideas. Therefore, the composer Xu Peidong came out and bought several cans of Yanjing beer. After opening the cork, Liu Huan took a sip and sang a song. Under the influence of alcohol, his mentality went up at once, and he sang it all for the first time, which made people excited. As the two most popular singers at that time-Liu Huan and Wei Wei, they were also widely known for this song.
I followed you in Wan Li for a few days, and you didn't care. You don't seem to be in my dream. In my dream, you are the only one for me ... In the 1990s, China entered a new wave of French immigrants. Under the tide, there are skyscrapers and exotic customs in the hearts of millions of people. This song "Ask a Thousand Times" is undoubtedly the most timely music.
In the case of writing this song, Liu Huan moved a full set of MIDI machines and equipment to the hotel room, and talked with Feng Dao every day to find design inspiration. In the end, in more than a month, * * * created 7 songs and more than 90 music works. When I was filming Peking Man in new york, I didn't have any money at all, and Liu Huan basically didn't earn a penny for arranging music. But he is still very attentive, and his funds are invested with great passion. At that time, everyone lived in a room in the hotel. He moved all the equipment into the room, talked to me about production every day, and even worked all night. -Feng Dao
Although he was exposed to classical music for the first time, he never stuck to a musical style in the case of creation. He tried rock music and fashionable design style, but in the end, he decided to be more gentle. At the end of the film, all the decisions were made by orchestral music, but later it was found that the actual effect was not very good, and electro-acoustic music was chosen.
In 1990s, the well-known TV series "The Water Margin", "the legendary swordsman", "Lotus Lantern" and The Journey to the West all had Liu Huan's voice, and he kept trying and improving in this creation. Excellent creation is the only way. With the wonderful singing skills and the support of TV series, Liu Huan's fame once reached its peak.
In recent years, Liu Huan's original music for the TV series "Empresses in the Palace" has once again won unanimous five-star praise from the audience and the industry. In fact, Liu Huan has completely watched 76 episodes of TV series for three times, and personally went to Hengdian, Zhejiang Province to watch Acting Castle once. Because "this music I made for you has a three-dimensional effect. If you actually have a big house, my music will become smaller, it will not sound right, or vice versa."
Hermit Liu Huan and teacher Liu Huan. Liu Huan often said: "Music is very big, I am not big, and my own unimportant things are not worth disturbing music", so he kept a certain distance from the outside world. At one time, Liu Huan was tired of hearing her sing on TV every day. 199 1 was banned for being "late" at the CCTV party. It is this opportunity that he can calm down and examine himself and think about music.
Therefore, he gradually refused the invitation of others, and gradually, few people asked Liu Huan to sing. Liu Huan has also set many standards for commercial performances. He said: "The performance area is more than two hours away from the airport; I didn't go to the canteen below when there was a performance; The church didn't go; Those who have not paid the full tax will not go. " After that, Liu Huancai returned to the music itself and bowed his head and studied hard. He is freer and more casual.
Liu Huan is one of the first musicians in Chinese mainland who can arrange, make and make music by computer. As early as 1990s, he liked to fiddle with mechanical equipment and create his own music. In the first issue of the interview of Singer in Liu Huan's home, Liu Huan showed everyone around his factory library, which was supposed to be a recording studio. It was filled with all kinds of music-making machines and equipment replaced by the times: from the desktop computer bought by 1992 to the background music of Peking Man in new york, to the iMac G3, and then to the mixer in the analog audio period. ...
Cancer's Liu Huan habitually "single-handedly": "Now I haven't made music for TV series for many years. Because I am too tired, I have done dozens of episodes and 100 songs. I always feel that others are not at ease around, and I have to follow them in the middle and late stages. I put this kind of music, dozens of episodes of music, one after another, so I have to do it myself. It stands to reason that they should do it later.
Liu Huan has an aura of a master artist, which makes it easy for everyone to distinguish him from other singers. He only released a few solo albums, most of which were created for TV series, and the rest were released as the latest singles. The rest of the time, he will teach. 1985, went to Shizuishan mountain area in Ningxia to teach. Liu Huan has been engaged in music teaching, teaching "Music History of Western Countries" in the Institute of International Relations and university of international business and economics successively.
Liu Huan said, "I didn't think of myself as a singer until I sang Asian Heroes. I seem to have no responsibility. I feel like an amateur group. If I do well, I am good. I didn't do well, no one said. " Even so, every time he creates and sings, he has a very high standard and high efficiency. Gao once said that over the years, he was the first person who dared to change his rhythm. Gao is not surprised, but deeply admired.
I remember their first cooperation, that is, in 1995, Gao gave the audio. After singing, Gao said, wait a minute, I'll write you a chord with a low third degree, and then you can sing it again. Liu Huan said, do you still need to compose for the chorus? I'll let you sing right away! Then I sang so impeccably.
Liu Huan: "Save the original music." 20 12 Summer, Liu Huan was a teacher of The Voice of China. This move is very surprising, because Liu Huan has never been keen on talent shows and rarely participated in entertainment programs. Liu Huan is the most professional and attentive of the four teachers. He said, I especially expect them to broadcast some technical professional comments from four teachers, or some implementation opinions on music, although this kind of goods may not attract people's attention.
Outstanding performance, Liu Huan has become a teacher of variety shows such as Good Songs of China, New Songs of China and Star of China. In this variety show, Liu Huan paid attention to "originality" several times-"Without originality, everyone's fashion music would be without rice." When the third season of "China's Good Songs" stopped broadcasting, Liu Huan once expressed his grief over the loss of this original variety show in the WeChat circle of friends:
He said that our record industry system is so poor that we can still ask singers as old as me to keep pressing young people on the stage. He just wants to tap some singers with real overall strength and deliver new strength to Chinese singers. In recent years, the styles of "super idol cultivation" and "star with small fresh meat and total flow" are all the rage. Liu Huan shows that total flow is not the same as plastic arts.
"In the past two years, the culture and art of online buzzwords have something to do with the way everyone promotes them. For example, in the Internet age, data and information are very good, but should we completely use the total traffic to guide our work? There are some excellent famous actors and singers who can't bring the total flow. This is indeed a realistic problem, but what does the total flow represent? Does not necessarily represent plastic arts. For example, American TV shows are believed to be watched by many people, but I never believe that American TV shows are traffic monitoring items. It has its own management system. "
Under the correct guidance of full-flow logical thinking, every fan is happy in his own circle, and fashion music has become "music only belonging to young people" and "music only belonging to a certain fan group". Liu Huan is very resistant to this situation. "Fashion music is actually for anyone, and it is precisely because of that kind of advocacy that it will lead to a strange status quo. People in their forties pretend to be people in their thirties and listen to songs in their twenties. Actually,
Liu Huan bluntly said that the original music has reached a critical moment, so his idea is to "save the original music". In 2020, The Singer can invite Liu Huan to join us, which is precisely because it attaches great importance to originality. After the singer announced the information of Liu Huan joining the agent in 2020, many viewers vomited, "Let's compare casually. In short, I believe that the final champion will be Liu Huan". Of course, this is not necessarily the case. Variety shows look at the whole process, not the result. But there is no doubt that the promotion of originality by Hunan, Taiwan and Liu Huan this time is a good thing.
People have been looking forward to a new era of China singers for a long time.