She is 34 years old and has been living in Taipei. She has lived with her mother since she was a child. Her mother, an accountant, teaches her children to play the piano after work to support her family. Under the expectation of his mother, Chen Qizhen began to learn classical music at an early age. She doesn't like classical music, just like most children who learn piano, but her reasons are different from those of most children-"Moonlight by Debussy and Nocturne by Chopin, how can such things be listened to by children?" This should be a song where lovers tell each other about loneliness. " Chen Qizhen wrote in The Darkness of the Whole World. She gave up classical music and practiced guitar with her classmates.
1996, Chen Qizhen 2 1 year-old, studying philosophy at Taipei University of Political Science. This year, she signed up for the second time to participate in the wooden boat folk song competition. The wooden boat folk song competition is equivalent to the "super girl" in the mainland today. Huang Shujun, Youkelin and Mai all started their careers from this competition.
Last year, she was eliminated in the preliminary round. More than 2000 people signed up for the second competition. Wu Bai, the "boss" of the rock industry in Taiwan Province Province, served as the judge. He insisted that Chen Qizhen should win the first prize because "not many girls play their own works".
She has been in the business for 0/3 years, but she has a group of loyal fans and a reputation as a "talented woman".
How talented is a talented woman? On February 7th, 2006, Chen Qizhen published the second edition of 200 1 graphic document Never Tired, which beat Haruki Murakami's new book The Story of Tokyo and became the champion of the online sales list of Eslite Bookstore, the largest chain bookstore in Taiwan Province Province.
When Chen Qizhen first started singing in a folk song restaurant, there were not many listeners. She likes to talk in Kan Kan between each song and talk about the feeling of singing the right song, which is a bit like a teacher's class. Usually at the end of the performance, she always says: Today's singing is over, class is over!
So fans call her "Teacher Chen".
On July 18, 2006, City Pictorial held a "Chen Qizhen Meets the City" song club in Sun Yat-sen University. Tickets are for sale only. On the opening day, 1300 people crowded under the stage, including foreign audience who bought 200-300 yuan scalper tickets.
During the singing, the boys in the audience shouted in Cantonese: "Chen Qizhen, I love you!" The sound is getting louder and louder.
Chen Qizhen looked down at the audience and said, "Go on, I'll think about what to sing."
"I didn't think of makeup until I got to the stage, and I would remind myself of what to say on the stage. I can't just bury myself in singing.
I often forget that I am a singer. I like writing songs very much, but I don't have any star dreams. I care more about whether the songs I wrote are sung or not.
When I first entered the business, I thought I could do music-related things, but I was not confident enough to think I could be a singer.
I have studied classical music since I was a child. At that time, the trend of studying classical music was to go abroad and go to Europe for further study. The economic situation at home is not very good, so I gave up studying in junior high school.
In high school, folk restaurants were very popular in Taiwan Province Province. People in Taiwan Province Province like singing. At that time, there was no KTV, so everyone went to the restaurant and sang songs for everyone. At that time, bookstores often sold songbooks every month, and guitarists would sing them to you. The school guitar club and pop music society let everyone learn those songs. I thought it would be a good thing to be a folk singer in a folk restaurant one day. I started playing guitar in that guitar club environment.
You won't be nervous during the game. I remember waiting backstage for a long time. I don't know what happened. I waited a long time. I'm impatient with a group of people. It's my turn to start singing. For the first time, I found that the audience was so quiet that I could hear the sound of a needle falling to the ground. There is only my voice in the whole space. I think it's cool. When you sing at school, the audience is noisy and no one listens.
When I won the first prize, I was asked to sing in the restaurant. I couldn't sing any other people's songs or Aaron Kwok's songs. Some folk singers have thick songbooks, and anyone can sing, but I just can't sing.
I began to think that if I want to keep my interest in singing, I must write it myself.
Until that day, I won the Best Mandarin Female Singer Award in the Chinese Music Media Award, and I was a little lost in my happiness-why didn't anyone give me an award for composing or arranging music?
Starting today, I will remember that I am a female singer. "
After singing in the folk restaurant "Witch" for two years, Chen Qizhen finally signed a contract with a record company, whose boss is Magic Rock Records. Although Magic Stone is a record company in Taiwan Province Province, it is more famous in mainland China. Magic Rock has Dou Wei, Zhang Chu, He Yong, Tang Dynasty, who are famous all over China, and some unknown young people in Taiwan Province Province at that time. Chen Qizhen is the first female musician they signed.
At that time, the singers of Magic Rock Records were all very individual, but Chen Qizhen was still in college, so he couldn't be a student and play an individual role, so he positioned himself as "the voice of the city" to attract students.
Chen Qizhen released three albums in Magic Rock, Let me Think, Still Lonely and Guitarist, with an average of one album released every two years.
In 2002, the recording industry in Taiwan Province Province declined in a large area, and Magic Rock Records was dissolved.
"1998, I signed a contract with Magic Rock.
At first, I just made friends with people from Magic Rock and called to watch the show together. In fact, we are all looking at each other, I am also looking at what this company is doing, and they are also looking at whether I am creating.
In fact, they don't own singers from Taiwan Province Province, but mainland rock music from Dou Wei, Zhang Chu and Tang Dynasty.
I want to say that it is good for them to make masculine music, but I have never seen other female singers. If they want to deal with my music, we will give each other more space to see what they want to do.
The first day of the official release was this time eight years ago. The record company thought I was the voice of the city and positioned me as a girl who grew up in the city. They said they would do a stunt-distribute movies in the most crowded places.
We arrived at an overpass in the center of taipei main station. There are many people coming and going, causing traffic jams. The police gave us a ticket, sang a few songs and drove us away.
Now that overpass is gone.
In fact, I have sung in many strange places, such as underpasses and seaside. ...
During the period of 1998, Jacky Cheung and Faye Wong, any famous singer we know, can sell for 300,000 or 500,000. Magic Rock was a niche at that time, but it sold well and was distributed well. There are rock tough guys, street teenagers, and straight ... everyone thinks this is a music environment, and everyone can play what they want.
I didn't expect to leave so soon.
After the dissolution of Magic Rock, it was really terrible. Almost everyone who has helped you is at a low ebb. In the past, you were covered by others. Although you still have to write your own songs, there are many considerate employees in the company who will pay you.
Once all this is gone, when you write songs and sing, no one will tell you what performances to arrange today, what clothes to wear, what to say, whether to put on makeup or not, and everything depends on your own opinions. From the inside out, you make your own decisions. If you ask others, others will take care of themselves. "
In 2003, Chen Qizhen set up his own "so stingy" music studio and released three albums, including After 17, Sentimental Skills and the Meaning of Travel. In 2005, she used a loan to produce the album Gorgeous Adventure, which sold more than 300,000 copies in two months.
Chen Qizhen's music production mode is unique: self-making-recording your own songs on the bedside at home and distributing them yourself-taking CDs to record companies and even taking care of them-hoarding unsold CDs on your balcony.
On July 18, the concert "Chen Qizhen Meets the City" ended with the signing of CDs and posters, and Chen Qizhen shook hands while signing the sales. She thought she only needed to sign the handshake 10 minutes, but she didn't expect to sign it for a whole 1 hour-the singer club sold 600 CDs that night.
"I have a small balcony with a few boxes of CDs in the back.
The biggest difficulty in setting up a studio is that many things must be done by yourself: to get a government license; To sell something, you have to apply for a bar code; When the cover is designed, you should contact the printing factory, negotiate the price, select the paper and match the color; After the record comes out, you have to talk to the boss who sells the record about the date when the record will start selling, whether to hold an audition or not, whether to hold an activity ... you can hardly find an outsider to help you do these things. My mother helped me write the official document, and Xiao Hu (Zhong Chenghu, Chen Qizhen's boyfriend) helped me make music changes. The music was recorded by my own bedside at home. ...
I really don't look like the person to do such a thing. When the owner of the printing factory received my call, he felt incredible. He asked on the phone: Why do you do these things by yourself? Won't someone do it for you?
I said, I'll do it myself. Do you want me to count down a little?
Sometimes the record store owner will call and ask for 60 copies. I took a box of CDs and ran to sell them.
Later, I gradually got better and asked my former school sister for help. Now there are only two of us in our company.
She can distribute CDs and help me figure out how many CDs she sells every month and whether she makes any money.
I am a person with a poor concept of numbers, and I can't stand fighting with numbers. Now I can give these things to others, I just need to be responsible for thinking. "
Chen Qizhen's Musical Works In 2008, Chen Qizhen's song1/senseti-mental kills came out. A new English song, in a thin package, there are seven pieces of paper with lyrics and drawings, and a CD, which is gone. Only one girl was killed by imagination in bed, imagining that her head was separated from her body. The chivalrous woman blinded her boyfriend and pulled out her eyes to look at SAYHI herself in the mirror. Much like CHEER (Chen Qizhen's English name), a narrow-minded girl, protects her world well, and then uses her own thinking to occupy each other's thinking.
There are two people in the room, including her, but they borrowed money to produce a music album "Gorgeous Adventure" that sold 300,000 copies in February.