Zhang Xinzhe

essential information

Jeff Chang, born on March 26, 1967 in Yunlin County, Taiwan, China, is a male singer, actor and head of a stage troupe of Chinese pop music.

In 1987, it signed a contract with Jushi music, a subsidiary of rolling stone records. In 1989, he released his first album lying. In 1995, Chaoshui music established a music studio and joined EMI's subsidiary brand seed music. In 1996, it won the best Mandarin male singer award of the 7th Taiwan Golden Melody Award for its album tolerance. In 1997, he released two albums, love and intuition. In 2000, he won the award of the most popular singer in Taiwan in the China pop music list of the Central People's broadcasting station. In 2003, he won the first China Original Song Award and Taiwan male singer award. In 2005, he won the singer award of Xincheng Mandarin power award ceremony. The album escape was released in 2008.

In 2010, he released the album "Chu", and won the 16th Singapore Golden Melody Award, the best male singer award in Hong Kong and Taiwan in the 8th southeast pop music list; in the same year, he won the first drama Talent Award. Released the album "free time" in 2012. In February 2015, he released the album "still love"; in the same year, he won the best male singer award of Hong Kong and Taiwan in the 19th global Chinese list. In April 2016, he won the best young influential musician award of the 16th annual music storm list; in the same year, he won the China best male singer award of the 18th Huading award. In 2017, he won the special contribution award of Chinese music in the 21st global Chinese language list. In 2020, he will join the voice of China dream · our song Season 2 of Oriental satellite TV

Early experience

Born in a religious family, Zhang Xinzhe has lived a musical life since childhood. His father is a priest. Because he listens to church choir every day, he can sing every chorus when he is about three or four years old.

In junior high school, Zhang Xinzhe failed in the joint examination of senior high school because of his poor grades. However, he did not give up his studies. Instead, he took part in the joint examination of five majors and got the highest score. He was admitted to Jiayi synergetic high school with his transcript of the joint examination of five majors. In the open education environment of senior high school, the school gives students sufficient free space, and at the same time, it also inspires Zhang Xinzhe's field of art cognition.

During his college years, Zhang Xinzhe was admitted to the English Department of Christian College. The school allowed students to hold various activities. Because Zhang Xinzhe was good at music, he was not only in charge of the students' music group, but also led a choir to hold music competitions, becoming a prominent figure in the school. In his sophomore year, Zhang Xinzhe sang understanding heart in the competition and won the first prize. Her singing shocked the songwriters Ding Xiaowen and Zheng huajuan who were the judges. Later, Zheng huajuan recommended Zhang Xinzhe to rolling stone records and signed a contract with Jushi.

Acting experience

Rolling stone age (1988-1995)

Zhang Xinzhe, who grew up in the church, is the son of a priest. He has been enlightened and trained in music since childhood. He was discovered in the school singing competition and signed for Jushi music, a subsidiary of rolling stone records. In 1988, he sang the first song "you are the only one" with pan yueyun. In 1989, he released his first album lying. After finishing his service in 1992, Zhang Xinzhe returned to the music world and released the album "know" (the main song "it's hard to resist your face"). At this time, Zhang Xinzhe began to seek transformation and breakthrough, refused all kinds of commercial performances, and spent a year in silence to create a music album "heart", in which the main song was "love like tide" composed by Li Zongsheng and Li Feihua. In 1994, Zhang Xinzhe released the album "waiting". The main song "don't be afraid of me, I'm sad" is another representative work created by Li Zongsheng for Zhang Xinzhe. It also includes the chorus "a little bit moved" with Carina Lau.

EMI era (1995-1997)

In 1995, after his engagement with Jushi music, Zhang Xinzhe set up his own music studio, Chaoshui music, and joined EMI's subsidiary brand seed music. In 1995, Zhang Xinzhe released the album tolerance, and all of them became representative works, such as don't talk to him, overdo it and tolerance. This album also made Zhang Xinzhe win many music awards in Hong Kong and Taiwan, including the best Mandarin male singer award of Taiwan Golden Melody Award. In 1996, Zhang Xinzhe produced the most music works. He released his second Mandarin album dream, two Cantonese albums affectionate and missing, and one English album night. Among them, the main song "I want to love you so much" and the non main song "I love you so much" became popular songs.

New force era (1997-2005)

In 1997, Zhang Xinzhe released his third Mandarin album "sincere love" in the era of EMI, with the main song "Yong Qing". In the same year, Zhang Xinzhe launched his first Mandarin album intuition, which he joined Xinli. In 1998, Zhang Xinzhe took part in the "Spring Festival Gala" on the mainland for the first time. In 1999, Zhang Xinzhe released the Mandarin album "come back" and the single "love is a word" (theme song of animated film "lotus lamp"), which became one of Zhang Xinzhe's important works in the mainland.

In 2000, Zhang Xinzhe launched the Mandarin CD faith. In 2001, Zhang Xinzhe began to get involved in movies and released his album I really want to. In 2002, Zhang Xinzhe sang another representative work of his own, the Chinese theme song "from the beginning to the present" of the Korean drama "winter love song". In 2004, he released the music album "next forever", including the music work "white moonlight" created by Junichiro Matsumoto.

Independent production era (2006)

After his engagement with Sony, Zhang Xinzhe began to make music completely independently. In 2006, he chose his new owner, Haidie music, to release his album in China (Warner records in Taiwan, Hong Kong to the British emperor). In 2006, he launched "be your man". In the following works: 2007 Cantonese album "snow country in August", 2008 Mandarin album "escape".

In 2010, he chose Huayan international to release his Hong Kong and Singapore records, and released his Mandarin album "Chu". In 2012, he signed the gold medal Dafeng and Jingtian entertainment group. In 2012, he released the Mandarin album "free time". Zhang Xinzhe tried different music types, including Chinese style, European style, hip-hop, rock and roll, etc.

In 2014, it signed with Bosheng entertainment. In 2014, Zhang Xinzhe covered the theme song "love your destiny" of the Chinese version of TV series "you from the stars".

In addition, Zhang Xinzhe also began to participate in stage plays. In 2011, he took over the Taipei Story theater and became the head of the theater.

On November 22, 2015, "Prince of love song" Zhang Xinzhe will drive to Country Garden century city-state to warm the people of Nanjing all winter with his voice.

On January 15, 2016, he took part in Hunan Satellite TV's singing reality show "I am a singer in the fourth season" and took part in the competition as a supplementary lineup, and won the second place in the competition; on March 4, he won the second place in the competition of "I am a singer in the fourth season". On March 11, he took part in the ninth issue of "I am a singer fourth season" competition and won the first place by singing "the ordinary road"; on April 1, he sang "Zhi time" in the breakthrough competition of "I am a singer fourth season" and broke through with the first place result; on April 8, he sang "love not lonely" with Akon in the last issue of "I am a singer fourth season"; he also performed in his personal performance Sing the song "city of the sky".

On January 27, 2017, Huang wanqiu, Zhang Xinzhe and Deng Ziqi performed the song and dance "song from Lijiang River" at the Guilin Branch of CCTV Spring Festival Gala. On April 20, he attended the 21st global Chinese music list and won the "Channel V media recommended Hong Kong and Taiwan album" and "special contribution award for Chinese music on the list".

On October 1, 2020, he participated in the "2020 CCTV Mid Autumn Festival party" and sang the song "white moonlight" with Shanghai rainbow Chamber Choir; on October 11, he participated in the Oriental satellite TV variety show "voice of China dream · our song Season 2".

On January 6, 2021, he sang the opening song "no difference" for the animation of "Tian Guan Fu"; on January 15, he released the single "amatter of love". On March 5, he released his 35th personal non selected album, just understand.

Personal life

Zhang Xinzhe came into contact with the Christian faith when he was young, but he really knew Jesus clearly when he was in high school. At that time, Zhang Xinzhe took the opportunity of sharing his work in the fellowship to give him more time to think about his relationship with God. When he was in doubt, Zhang Xinzhe would find the answer by talking with some people or talking with the church pastor. Finally, he was baptized in his sophomore year of high school, and then he became more aware of his beliefs, which almost became a part of his life.

At the same time, Zhang Xinzhe is also a collector. His collection has no clear theme or direction, from stone carvings, bronzes, furniture, carpets to Thangka. Among them, there are many kinds of antique furniture, from Rococo style, Victorian style, old Shanghai colonial style, to Ming style and Qing style furniture. In this regard, Zhang Xinzhe thinks that as long as it is beautiful things will attract him, as for what material is not so important.

At the same time, Zhang Xinzhe also has a number of restaurants, such as golden wo bieyuan Faya kitchen in Kaohsiung, Erya kitchen in Taipei and 3000 courtyard in Shanghai. All the decoration of the restaurant is designed by him personally, and all the decoration is made by Chen

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