Liu Huan

essential information

Early experience

Liu Huan was born into a teacher's family in Tianjin and studied in Tianjin gymnasium primary school. At the age of 8, Liu Huan and his classmate Dai Zhicheng became a group of small crosstalk actors in Tianjin gymnasium primary school. Chang Baohua had intended to recruit them as apprentices, but in the end, because Liu Huan's mother didn't want her children to do this business, she gave up the opportunity. Liu Huan's Peking Opera is also very good. He is good at the excerpts of "outwit the mighty Tiger Mountain". The publicity team of gymnasium primary school was well-known in Tianjin at that time, and the children of the art team had many opportunities to go out to perform and show their talents. In addition, Liu Huan also said Shandong express at that time.

After graduating from junior high school in 1979, Liu Huan was admitted to Yaohua middle school with excellent results. Because Dai Zhicheng failed to enter Yaohua middle school, their cooperation ended in their youth.

From 1981 to 1985, Liu Huan majored in French literature at the school of international relations. During her college years, Liu Huan showed an obsession with music. Liu Huan said: "I first came into contact with classical music, and I like music from classical music. At that time, I heard less pop music and more classical music. When I was in high school in Tianjin, one of my classmates decided to take the music college entrance examination. When I was a sophomore in high school, I had a grand piano. The first time I saw him play Chopin's butterfly in front of me, I felt dizzy. It turned out that this thing could be made like this I made my own pop music after 1983. When I saw so many students playing guitar at school in my sophomore and junior year, I used to see what was difficult with this thing. I borrowed a piano from someone in the summer vacation, and when I came back, I became the best player in the group. Later, he began to write his own songs. I'm a little interested in all kinds of vocal music. For example, although I haven't learned the singing methods of opera, I like to listen to it, and even pay more attention to some methods of Chinese opera... "

In 1985, they were about to graduate. The French Embassy held a French song competition in Beijing, and the winners traveled to France for a week. Liu Huan and Li Guowei went to the competition together, and finally Liu Huan won the prize. At the end of the same year, the first college English song competition was held in Peking University, and they signed up again. At that time, Liu Huan played the piano and Li Guowei played the electronic organ. Because the two instruments are bulky, it's difficult to move to the stage. The two of them discussed with the stage supervisor in advance. When it's their turn to go on stage, they must wait for the instruments to be placed before the curtain is opened. Unexpectedly, the announcer announced them in advance. Two people are in a hurry, under the stage one after another roars. Seeing this, Li Guowei's heart and hair are tight. Liu Huan whispered to him, don't mind them, you play your. He stood on the stage without saying a word, waiting for Li Guowei's prelude to pop up. His first voice was sung, and the applause rang out. After singing three English songs, Liu Huan introduced them fluently in English. This is his own song, "the whole audience is high.".

In 1985 and 1986, Liu Huan voluntarily went to Shizuishan of Ningxia with the central lecturer group to teach music for one year.

Acting experience

TV singer (1986-1990)

In 1986, Liu Huan took part in the CCTV "movie world" weekend Gala video, singing the English and French songs "country rock", "my way", as well as the theme songs of the films "Teheran 43 years" and "wild geese dare to die". This is the first time that Liu Huan entered the studio for recording and recording. Luo Youwei, then director, immediately sent someone to look for Liu Huan and invited him to the gala. At that time, Liu Huan was with the central lecturer group in Shizuishan, Ningxia. After receiving the invitation, he quickly returned to Beijing.

In 1987, he sang the theme song "the sun in the heart" of "snow city", which was the first TV drama song recorded by Liu Huan, so Liu Huan really stepped into the singing world. Lei Lei is looking for a singer for the theme song of plain clothes policeman. At that time, it was not common to use pop singers to sing TV drama episodes. Lei Lei and Zhao Baogang, the deputy director of the play, went to Beijing Institute of international relations to find Liu Huan. After an audition, Liu Huan recorded "youth ambition without worry" and became the theme song of the TV series "plain clothes police". The opening song of "plain clothes police" is also sung by Liu Huan, which reaches the high C.

In 1988, he released the cassette album "dare to love and dare to chase", which covers the works of Qi Qin, Lin Zixiang and other singers. In this year, Liu Huan also wrote the theme song "you are a flag" for the current affairs and political commentary film "journey to the century". For the first time, I invested in making and recording the album "Liu Huan's Salon".

In 1989, Li Haiying wrote lyrics and music for the urban folk song the curved moon. After some singers failed in the audition, he invited Liu Huan to sing. In April of the same year, the curved moon was released and became popular in China. The beautiful melody and rich connotation of the song express people's homesickness and attachment. It is also considered to be a representative work of the Chinese pop music industry in the quiet and introverted period after the popularity of Hong Kong and Taiwan Fanchang, northwest wind and so on. In 1990, Liu Huan won the double prize of "top ten young composers in China" sponsored by China Youth Daily for his works such as "Lilac rain" and "black boat"; in the same year, Liu Huan and Wei Wei Wei jointly sang composer Xu Peidong's "Asian style" at the Beijing Asian Games.

Evening performance and music creation (1991-1996)

In 1991, after the East China flood, Liu Huan and Wei Wei jointly sponsored a large-scale charity party in the capital literary and art circles, which competed with CCTV's large-scale disaster relief performance. On the night of the CCTV benefit show, he didn't receive any notice, but suddenly saw the host's announcement on TV: the next song should have been sung by Liu Huan, but he didn't arrive When he rushed to the scene and stepped down after singing the last song, he found that his bag was missing. He valued his reputation very much. The next day, naturally, he would go to CCTV to ask for an explanation. Before long, Jin Zhaojun, who was also working on people's music, personally saw the red headed document issued by the State Administration of radio, film and television, "it said that Liu Huan was late and made a big scene at the venue, so he wanted to ban him." The document was withdrawn immediately after it was issued. It is said that the relevant departments think this is inappropriate. According to Liu Huan's own introduction, when he went to Guangzhou to participate in the TV drama "flying sky Award" award presentation party, he sang the award-winning song "can't live like this" by Xu Peidong alone. When CCTV had to broadcast it, it used stunts to deal with Liu Huan's whole live performance: the audience could only see Liu Huan's occasional stretch from a box slightly smaller than the screen Hair comes out of the ends of the limbs and the top of the head.

In 1993, Liu Huan and Wei Wei jointly sang the theme song "five stars invite five rings" of the Seventh National Games and the theme song "rising East Asia" of the first East Asian Games. At the invitation of the Beijing Olympic bid committee, we cooperated with Wei Wei to record the English version of the song "good luck Beijing" written by Oscar winner George morrod for Beijing's Olympic bid, and went to Monaco to attend the unveiling ceremony of the host country of the 2000 Olympic Games. "Ten million questions" topped the list of Beijing music station for 12 consecutive weeks. And the album that included this song also exceeded the sales volume of one million copies. In this year's sample survey, Liu Huan's popularity has reached 87%.

In 1994, he was invited to New York to perform at Carnegie Hall, the world-famous music temple. He was invited to Japan to attend the opening ceremony of the 12th Hiroshima Asian Games and sang his work let's go together. At the invitation of director Mi Jiashan, he composed music for the film cradle with wheels. In the same year, directors Zheng Xiaolong and Feng Xiaogang made the TV series Peking people in New York. Finally, Liu Huan was chosen, and he became the only one who had never been to New York. In August, the film was almost cut out, and there was still no title, ending, episode or background music. Liu Huan transported the whole set of MIDI equipment from home to the friendship hotel where the crew was located. After more than a month's hard work, Liu Huan wrote seven songs and more than 90 pieces of music, including ten million questions. Amazing speed and quality, but also once again proved the irreplaceable strength of Liu Huan. With the broadcast of "Beijinger in New York" on CCTV, it broke the three-year ban on him.

In 1995, Liu Huanying was invited by director Zhao Baogang to compose music for the TV series sunrise in the East and rain in the West. At the invitation of the Ministry of culture, he went to Romania to serve as the judge of blasov international pop music festival. In 1996, Liu Huan won the "top ten Chinese singers Award" and "top ten Chinese songwriters Award" in the "classic retrospective exhibition of contemporary Chinese music".

Sony Music (1997-2002)

In September 1997, Liu Huan joined SONY and Shanghai audiovisual co operative body as the first singer signing singer in SONYMUSIC and the largest publishing house in China, and the Chinese mainland's first signing singer. In late October, he launched the double selected collection named Liu Huan. "Liu Huan". In October, Liu Huan's three singles were in the top 20 of the national review list. The sales volume rapidly exceeded 400000, and became the highest CD sales volume in the history of original music in mainland China. At the invitation of investor Zhu Shimao and producer Wang Wei, he composed music for the TV series Hu Xueyan, sang the theme song of the 8th National Games "flying of life" with Wei Wei, recorded the public service song "start all over again" for laid-off workers, and was invited to lead the team to participate in the Hong Kong Asian pop music festival.

In January 1998, Liu Huan sang the theme song "hero song" of the series "outlaws of the marsh", which ranked the top of the charts for several weeks. In February of the same year, he released the single "you are such a man", which changed the bel canto method to perform popular songs and became the champion single again. In July of the same year, at the invitation of the famous composer Tan Dun, he cooperated with the world cello master Ma Youyou,

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