Roberts

essential information

Character experience

Early experience

Taiwan singer Roberts, known as "music kid", was the pioneer and representative of Taiwan's electronic dance music. It is worth mentioning that Roberts is the best original DJ of dance music in Southeast Asia, leading the new trend of dance music. Some people once commented that a party with 20000 or 30000 people in Southeast Asia, as long as there is a party with a lot of people, it will make everyone excited until dawn. It's the first time that Luo Baiji has come to the Seven Star arena to do a program. What's most unexpected is that he is quite different on stage and off stage. He sings and dances vigorously on stage, but he is as quiet as a boy who has just entered the world.

Youth

Before the age of 17, Robert spent his time in the United States. Western culture and music had a great influence on young Robert, especially rock music and black dance. When he was in school, he tried to be a DJ in a dance hall.

Wandering in Taiwan

Although Robert's Chinese is not fluent, his parents are Taiwanese after all. Because his parents have been in the United States, he came to Taiwan to learn Chinese when he was 17 years old, that is, in 1988, with the approval of his parents. While learning Chinese, Luo Baiji worked as a DJ in the dance hall. His crazy singing and dancing made people know him as a "musical child". He was worthy of being the representative of Taiwan Dance music at that time. What's amazing about Roberts is that he is not only a singer who sings and dances wildly, but also an excellent music producer and songwriter. As of 2010, Roberts has published 10 individual albums. At the same time, Roberts has done a lot of music arrangement, composition and lyrics creation.

marriage

Since 1994, Roberts has been producing one album every year: in 1994, he released his first album "Obasan", which caused a sensation in Taiwan and Southeast Asia. In the second year, he released his second album "sacred ball", and in the third year, he published his third album "Friday night". After three years, he published his fourth album "let's call together", which is a special album The collection includes "OK? OK！ 》In 2000, he published his fifth album gene. from 1996 to 1999, Roberts didn't release a single album. In recent years, he was struggling in that unhappy marriage. Robert's wife is also a member of the music circle. She is a music producer. Because of their personality differences, they often quarrel about their financial management opinions. After several years of marriage, quarreling is a common practice between them. Later, there was a serious economic dispute. During this period, he was not in the mood and had no time to release an album. Finally, they had to break up in 1998. Roberts said he was very afraid of remarriage. After the divorce, he had always dreamed of buying a house in the desert and living there alone. After his divorce, he often went back to the United States to reunite with his parents. Every time he flew by the Las Vegas Desert, this unrealistic idea came out of his mind.

Music generalist

When making his own album, he also made music for other singers. For example, he made the first three music albums for L. aboy, and then made many famous singers' singles, some of which were music arrangement, some of which were composition, some of which were lyrics, such as Anita Mui's "let go of your mind"; Zeng Qingyu's "next man may be better"; Du Dewei's "Happiness is about to burn out"; Su huilun's "duck"; Lin Zhiying's "angle"; Aya's "file ice March", "Miss wallflower" and so on. He also played with a lot of movies. looking back on Su huilun's brilliant career as a singer in the 1990s, "OK? Ok！” It should be regarded as an important work. Although it is a cover of "beauty and the beast" from DJD. O.C., and although Su huilun's performance in the song can only be described in a proper way, the wonderful rap paragraph of the cooperation between Roberts and Ren Xianqi is recognized as the biggest highlight of the song, which is also an important reason why it can be spread today. behind the scenes, there are many similar successful cases in Roberts. Aya's famous song file ice March and one of her masterpieces Miss wallflower are all composed by him. Anita Mui's important Mandarin work let go of your mind is also composed and arranged by Roberts.

Encounter twists and turns

On the other hand, as a singer, Roberts once enjoyed great popularity. His several popular records published in the mid and late 1990s almost monopolized the Chinese dance music market, from "Obasan" to "holy ball" and "Friday night". I believe many friends who had played in disco at that time enjoyed crazy pleasure in DJ Jerry's music. But with the advent of the new century, a variety of music types have seized the Chinese pop music market, and Roberts' music can no longer be as popular as it used to be. His downhill road began with "let's call together". The failure of his career and family even once knocked down the childish him. That year, he even staged the shock of smashing Wu Zongxian's expensive sports car after losing control of his mood Farce, a time to let people completely lose confidence in him. Maybe it's the venting of emotion, maybe it's the awakening after making a mistake. Anyway, DJ Jerry finally presented his new album "Asian night" in 2004. It's easy to know if it has changed.

stage a comeback

At that time, if we didn't make sure that the album "night of Asia" was just released, people could definitely think that it had been finished at least in the last century, because it was almost the same as the works of Roberts seven or eight years ago. It's no exaggeration to say that if we take his first album "Obasan" released in 1994 and put it in the same place as this "night of Asia" Together, if they are a set of double albums, people will believe them. Some people may say that "the night of Asia" has absorbed many new elements, such as the composer loop with Oriental melody characteristics suspected of Li Zhenxian's famous song in the title song, such as the arrangement with the flavor of trance in "wind". But if you have heard that batch of works by Robert Roberts nearly ten years ago, I believe no one will say such words again, because DJ Jerry was quite popular at that time In order to be good at these aspects, it's a pity that over the years, Jerry is still that Jerry, but the market is no longer that market. In the face of the most critical fans who have almost no music position, follow blindly but have no reason, it's a very dangerous thing to stick to their own style, unless it happens that they are infatuated with this style for no reason. You want to know what kind of person Robert really is? Listen to the records of "sayonara" and "saddeme esayo (love you more)" and you will understand that the two works are just like him on stage and off stage. In fact, there will be such a pair of works in each of his records. This may be a way for him to unintentionally convey some information to the outside world. If "Asian night" is something that Roberts has to do for the so-called trend of dance music, then "sayonara" is the most typical Jerry style, with simple and upward melody, childish and lovely lyrics, and model techno music, just like Roberts' usual favorite: hamburger and coke, without any complicated fancy, simple and direct In one step. "Saddeme esayo" is an absolute standard love song of Roche. It's also a straightforward melody and almost no modification of singing. However, time flies, and jerry can no longer pull out a loud but moving voice like he used to. He can't help it. this "Asian night" will be a rebirth of Roberts. To a large extent, it has little to do with the record itself, just as the success of Roberts ten years ago has little to do with his music itself. In the Chinese record market, it has always been the market that makes music and people. There has never been a market for music and people. Ten years ago, the market needed dance music, so it became Roberts. Ten years later, the market needed R & B, so there was Zhou Tianwang. There was nothing wrong with this, but it was worth noting that when our record market needed some kind of music, it was basically the whole market Every Chinese recording industry will focus on this kind of music, leaving all other music behind. From our employees to music fans, there are many people who admire the maturity and health of the overseas record market. However, few people have noticed that one of the major characteristics of the overseas record market is that a hundred schools of thought contend and a hundred flowers bloom. Maybe some music will be popular in a certain period of time, but at the same time, other music has not shrunk because of this. There are still a large number of loyal fans behind it What about us? In this regard, Luobai guitar is still a real hero in the history of Chinese pop music.

Main works

Music works

reference material

Album

The first one in 1994:《

Obasan

1995, sheet 2:《

The sacred ball

Fridaynight, 1996

1999 sheet 4:《

Let's call it

2000 page 5:《

Genes

2002 sheet 6:《

Love speeding

Page 7 of 2003:《

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