1972 Xie Tianxiao was born in Zibo. He studied painting since childhood and was influenced by his family.
198 1 began to learn Peking opera and participated in performances with the troupe for many times.
199 1 year, he went to Beijing alone to develop his music career.
1994 Composed "You Are Not Like" and movie music for the movie "Vietnamese Girl".
1995 released the single "Tell Cause and Effect" in Rock Beijing.
1997, Cool Blood Animals was founded. The band consists of lead singer, guitarist, Xie Tianxiao, bassist and Li Minghe drummer Xu Liang. After replacing drummer Wu Rui.
1999 signed a contract with Wen Jing record company.
In 2000, she published her first album, Cold-blooded Animals. Since the release of the album, the band has performed a series of tours in Chinese mainland, including Shanghai, Kunming, Qingdao, Beijing, Nanning, Beihai, Zibo, Wuhan, Xi and other large and medium-sized cities, which have been warmly favored by fans. Record sales reached-150000 boxes and 200000 CDs (excluding piracy). In Taiwan Province Province, the sales volume reached 5000. Known by mainland media as "a wonderful flower blooming in China's rock and soil".
After the 200 1 single Right Here was published, the band changed its name to Xie Tianxiao and Cold-blooded Animals and went to new york for development.
2006 54 38+0-2004, the band was invited to participate in SXSW and Mendocino Music Festival held by South by Southwest Company in San Francisco, Texas, USA. At the same time, drummer David achieved great success! Attract the attention of American media. Austin American-Politician Daily, Texas TV, Austin local CBS Evening News, Associated Press, Time Magazine, NBC TV, San Francisco Music Station and many other American media have interviewed and reported the band. Bill Bottrell, a famous American music producer, worked as a music and MTV producer for Michael, Jackson, Michael Jackson's Danger, Madonna's Like a Prayer and Truth or Adventure, and won various Grammy Awards with 1 1 times, strongly recommending Xie Tianxiao and cold-blooded animals to go to the United States for development.
The band "Xie Tianxiao and Cold-blooded Animals" created a gloomy and violent musical fantasy with three original musical instruments, namely guitar, bass and drums, in which the nutritional components are metal, punk, skank, hard core and junk music ............................................................................................................... And push its unique musical style to the extreme.
After returning to China in 2005, she published her second album "Xie Tianxiao and Cold-blooded Animals XTX", which achieved 300,000 good results. Guzheng was added to the album for the first time, and this successful combination of folk music and rock won Xie Tianxiao the title of "Bruce Lee of Chinese music".
In 2006, as the new spiritual leader of Chinese rock music, Xie Tianxiao attended the 20th anniversary concert of Chinese rock music at the invitation of Cui Jian.
In 2006, as the only musician in China, he was invited by the Italian government to perform in the Italian China Culture Year.
Brief introduction of Xie Tianxiao, the new godfather of Chinese rock music
Xie Tianxiao began to compose music at the beginning of 1990. At the end of 1994, I wrote the song "You don't look like" for the movie "Vietnamese girl". 1995, Xie Tianxiao left the Monk Band and formed the Cool Blood Animals with fellow countryman Li Ming, who was also from Shandong. Then Wu Rui, a drummer from Gansu, joined the team. The cold-blooded animals arranged by the trio swept the Beijing rock stage with their wild music style and unparalleled crazy performance. At that time, cold-blooded animals became famous in the background of the surging junk music in China.
However, different from other China junk orchestras in the same period, their full and restrained lyric works make their music thicker and more appealing. Around 1998, Cool Blood Animals gave many performances in the now legendary Beijing Howl Club. The scene that Xie Tianxiao suddenly changed from a bard to a tyrant violinist deeply infected a large number of fans. 1999 Cool Blood Animals signed Wen Jing and immediately released their album Cold-blooded Animals. The unique music style of this record and the powerful explosive power contained in the songs have established the position of the band in the Chinese rock music scene. Record sales reached-150000 boxes and 40000 CDs (excluding piracy). In Taiwan Province Province, the sales volume reached 8,000. Known by mainland media as "a wonderful flower blooming in China's rock and soil". The names of cold-blooded animals and Xie Tianxiao and their works have become the new coordinates of Chinese rock music. In the hearts of fans, cold-blooded animals are the embodiment of independence/pride/strength and thinking.
From 2000 to 2002, while gaining more support and recognition, the band participated in dozens of performances at home and abroad. As representatives of Chinese rock, they even participated in large-scale international rock music festivals held in Japan and the United States, and they were warmly sought after everywhere! "Cold Animals in bould" appeared in Rolling Stone magazine, so that during the visa process to the United States after the band, the visa officer said: You are officially recognized artists in China, and you are welcome to perform in the United States anytime and anywhere!
In 2002, as the bassist Li Ming immigrated to the United States, Xie Tianxiao also came to new york and began a new experience in his life. During the more than one year of living in the United States, they got together with friends, watched various performances, sometimes worked and traveled around ... The completely unfamiliar environment and lifestyle gave Xie Tianxiao more creative space, and his heart surged. He realized that music was the sustenance and source of his life, and everything else became unimportant.
In 2003, Xie Tianxiao returned to Beijing and set up a brand-new cold-blooded animal. Dave, the drummer he knew in America, came to Beijing to join the band. At the end of the year, Xie Tianxiao married Fran, an Italian girl who has been silently supporting her, and gave birth to a very beautiful daughter. In 2004, Cold-blooded Animals signed a new record contract with their old club Howl Records with a brand-new lineup and began to record their second album. At the same time, the band officially changed its name to Xie Tianxiao and Cold-blooded Animals, and the new album was finally named "Xie Tianxiao X.T.X".
Inheriting the music style of cold-blooded animals, the new album still has several offensive works. Exploding guitar, changeable musical form, roaring with boiling blood. But unlike the first classic "Always a Secret", this album contains not only helplessness and fate, but also hope and longing. Xie Tianxiao's singing is subtle and simple, with a Shandong accent; Musically, the brand-new musical concept broke through the shackles of three simple musical instruments, adding wind music, national musical instruments and even guzheng. As always, the whole album is full of China, which is the most unique and valuable place for cold-blooded animals. It can be said that this new record can be called as gentle as a mountain stream and as violent as a storm. As soon as this album was released, it easily broke through the100000 mark in the whole country. At this time, Xie Tianxiao's name and appeal are enough to compete with Cui Jian, the godfather of Chinese rock music (Cui Jian News, Cui Jian Music, Cui Jian endorsement).
In this year's CCTV World Cup opening ceremony broadcast, Xie Tianxiao sang the enthusiastic theme song of CCTV World Cup broadcast. Pure rock musicians appear in CCTV programs, and it seems that only Cui Jian has enjoyed this kind of treatment before. It seems that Xie Tianxiao not only rushed out of the ground, but also was accepted by the mainstream media. This is undoubtedly a brand-new and broad stage for him and his music!
At present, the next album that Xie Tianxiao is preparing will return to reggae in an all-round way and pay tribute to his spiritual idol bob marley!
Xie Tianxiao will always be the skinny but wise rock fighter and the new godfather of Chinese rock music!
Calendar album tracks
Wen Jing Records of Cold-blooded Animals 2000
1. Happy
2. Out of the window
3. Always a secret
4. The place where the treasure is buried
5. Epitaph
I may have died last night.
7. A long time ago
8. The circulating sun
9. terminally ill patients
/kloc-0 0. Yanqi Lake
X.T.X howl record 2005
1. Cold-blooded animals
2. Ashima
3. Sunflowers
4. Agreed place
Come again
6. The whereabouts are unknown
7. Song of Strings 9S
8. Who brought me here
9. Pick your teeth
Review of Important Courses in 2006
May: Visiting Italy on behalf of China;
Invited to extend the theme song of CCTV World Cup "Again";
June: 20th anniversary concert of rock and roll;
July: Shenzhen Music Festival denounced vulgar entertainment and became the focus of national media;
August: Recording and publishing the first international single "I don't love you" in the history of China;
September: Participated in beijing pop music festival as the godfather of rock and roll, and became the most popular musician in the festival by singing in Sabastianbach;
September: as an image ambassador, he spoke for the World Band Challenge;
10 month: China Rock Congress sang "National Anthem" and was praised by the media as "Jimihenjex" of China;
1 1 month: start the first rock band in China 1000 people tour, and start the national tour of "Music Breakthrough" with second-hand roses;
1 1 month: respectively interviewed by ABC TV station in the United States;
1 1 month: As a cultural celebrity, I accepted an exclusive interview with Southern Weekend, the highest review weekly in China.