Zhao Chuan
essential information
Early experience
When he was in primary school, Zhao Chuan heard the songs from the US military radio station, which made him feel the magic of music. He liked to listen to the Beatles' songs most.
When he was a junior, he bought his first guitar in his life and independently explored the fingering of folk guitar and electric guitar.
After graduating from junior high school, he studied in the finance and taxation department of China Municipal college [now renamed China University of science and Technology (Taiwan)]. After entering junior high school, Zhao Chuancai was really infatuated with music and organized a chorus band with his classmates by working and raising funds.
After finishing junior college, he joined the army for military service. After two years of military service, he worked as a salesman in a trading company. In 1982, Zhao Chuan, his younger brother Zhao Jie and several good friends formed the Red Cross choir. It was a band full of "heavy" metal flavor. In 1986, the Red Cross chorus led by Zhao Chuan won the first "champion" of the island popular chorus competition. In 1987, Zhao Chuan and the Red Cross held an orchestra music conference in the junior college youth activity center. During the three hour performance, Zhao Chuan's stage charm was appreciated by Landy, who was then the planning manager of rolling stone records.
Acting experience
In 1987, he and the Red Cross Choir held a concert called "superrock" in Taiwan.
In 1988, he released his first album "I'm ugly, but I'm gentle", which included 10 songs. The song "I'm ugly, but I'm gentle" became Zhao Chuan's famous work.
In 1989, he held a "loyal partner" concert with Chen Sheng and Luo Hongwu, the former "red ant Choir" in Taiwan. On May 20, Zhao Chuan released his second album "I finally lost you", which includes the title song "I finally lost you".
On January 6, 1990, in the first Golden Melody Awards, the song "I'm ugly, but I'm gentle" was shortlisted for the best song of the year award and the best single singing video film award. Later, at the invitation of NHK television, he represented Taiwan artists to Ryukyu to participate in the performance of "Ryukyu rock music festival". On August 1, Zhao Chuan released his third album "I'm a little bird". The song "I'm a little bird" made Zhao Chuan popular all over the world, and also made him a pop star from a mortal to a singer.
On September 21, 1990, he accepted the invitation of the organizers of the Beijing Asian Games and participated in the "eve of the Asian Games" Concert (three in a row) in Beijing Workers' Stadium to raise funds for the Asian Games. He gave the finale performance together with three other Taiwanese singers pan yueyun, Yu Chengqing and Xin Xiaoqi, creating a precedent for Hong Kong and Taiwan singers to hold concerts in the mainland.
In 1991, he held a solo concert in Beijing Workers' Stadium in mainland China. He was the first Taiwanese singer invited to hold a solo concert in Beijing.
In 1992, he went to Japan on behalf of Taiwanese artists to participate in the 20th Tokyo Music Festival, the biggest annual music festival in Japan, and performed with artists from all over the world. On October 8, he performed with Li Zongsheng, Zhou Huajian and Chen Shuhua in Shanghai, recording the live album of "everyone's music" concert, singing "sister, you dare to move forward" and "you and me agreement". He went to Beijing and Shanghai again to hold three "get together tonight" solo concerts. On November 9, in the third Taiwan Golden Melody Award, Zhao Chuan won the best single singing video film award for "coming out in ink", won the best Mandarin male singer award for his album "I'm a little bird", and was shortlisted for the best annual Song Award for "coming out in ink" and "I'm a little bird".
In September 1993, at the invitation of the mainland Olympic bid committee, two individual concerts called "looking forward to the Olympic Games together" were held in Beijing Workers' Stadium. Zhao Chuan got an unexpected response when he said "do you have water? Drink it". The excited audience threw more than 200 bottles of coke onto the stage. Since then, bottled water has been banned in Beijing concerts. On October 1, Zhao Chuan released his album "agreement", and the song "how to say love" has become one of the classic old songs in the Chinese music world.
In 1994, three Taiwan solo concerts entitled "love me so long" were held for the first time at the National Father Memorial Hall in Taipei. The singers included Xin Xiaoqi, Chen Sheng, Zhang Zhenyue and Huang Yunling.
In 1995, 15 campus tour concerts named "always have you" were held in Taiwan. For the first time, they were held in Singapore's indoor stadium.
In 1996, with Chen Sheng and Wu Bai, he held a concert in Hong Kong called "loyal partners sharing the world". At the 7th Taiwan Golden Melody Awards, Zhao Chuan was shortlisted for the best song of the year award and the best Mandarin male singer award with "I should have loved you at the beginning.".
In 1997, at the invitation of mirage, Las Vegas Hotel, USA, he went to the annual Spring Festival party held by the hotel and performed with Lingbo, Hu Jin, Yang Yan and other artists. On June 1, he was invited to be a special guest of Ke Shouliang's "flying over the Yellow River" performance. Later, he recorded and sang the song "Celebrating 1997 Hong Kong's return to China" for CCTV. In the 8th Taiwan Golden Melody Award, the Taiwanese album "hero of darkness" was shortlisted for the best dialect male singer award.
In 1998, ten "brave campus tour fund-raising concerts" were held in Taiwan to raise money for the reconstruction of the 921 earthquake stricken campus. With Yang Naiwen, Li Xinjie and Lin Xiaopei, they held a "break the silence" concert in Singapore Orchard Plaza.
On March 15, 2003, he participated in the emotional kaleidoscope concert to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the rolling stones held in Hong Kong's honghom gymnasium, and held the "9.5 Beijing Concert" in Beijing Capital Gymnasium on September 5.
In 2004, he held a public welfare individual concert "dream back to hometown" in Nanning, Guangxi, and donated 500000 yuan of income from the individual concert to Longming middle school in Tiandeng, his hometown.
In 2006, a solo concert was held at the Taipei International Convention Center. The guest was Wan Fang. Jackie Chan claimed by video that he would be the first to come uninvited to Hong Kong's Hung Hom next time Zhao passed on. In addition, fan weiqi, pin Guan, Xiong Tianping and his wife, and Xiao Chong all attended. Huang Pinyuan, Ren Xianqi, and Huang Yunling sent flowers to celebrate Zhao Chuan's 50 years of rock and roll. Two individual concerts were held in Beijing exhibition hall, called "moving songs".
On September 12, 2009, he held a concert in Beijing Workers' Gymnasium. He not only sang two new songs "Manjianghong" and "the beginning", but also sang "I am a little bird" with his daughter.
On February 26, 2014, he went to Beijing to release his new album music martial arts. On September 6, Zhao Chuanhui held a world tour in 2014 with his new album "music martial arts" in Beijing Workers' Stadium.
On June 13, 2014, he released his album "25 years of a rolling stone", which included selected tracks from the past 25 years, and created a new song "a rolling stone".
On November 29, 2015, he took part in the new variety show "hidden singer" as the original singer guest.
On January 15, 2016, he participated in Hunan Satellite TV's singing reality show "I am a singer in the fourth season" and participated in the competition as the first lineup.
On April 4, 2016, in honor of Liu Tianjian's "forever old boy" memorial concert in Taipei, Zhao Chuan came to the scene and sang a song.
In 2017, he released his single "the invisible place"; on September 23, he started his tour in Malaysia.
On December 15, 2018, he won the Chinese Golden Melody Award for outstanding contribution to Chinese music, and won the best Fujian song of the year with the song "thank you".
Personal life
In 1998, Zhao Chuan married Li Bingzhen, a girl from Shanghai. He has two daughters and one son. He has settled in Shanghai for many years. In 2011, his 13-year-old daughter returned to Taiwan to study as a first year student. "One son and one daughter are still studying in Taiwan business primary school in Shanghai.
Main works
Music Album
Take part in the film
Take part in TV series
variety show
social activities
On December 3, 2017, he won the honorary title of the 10th National Spirit builder of modern communication group.
Award winning record
Character evaluation
Zhao Chuan is a legend of an era in Chinese pop music. High pitched, hoarse voice is the biggest feature of Zhao Chuan, coupled with its slightly "vicissitudes" appearance, Zhao Chuan does have a very strong recognition in the singing world. Compared with the deep feeling and beauty of Chyi Chin at the same time, and the indifference of Wang Chieh, Chief Chao's music may be closer to the pop rock music that influenced young people in Chinese mainland. Zhao Chuan's sincere and humanistic lyrics, orchestral arrangement and excellent singing skills have won the favor of many Chinese rock fans and become an elementary course for many contemporary Chinese young people to listen to rock. (sina.com)
This ordinary Taiwanese man has a large number of female fans. It seems that the charm of the song has broken through the obstacles of appearance, and the male fans are also impressed by the full masculinity of his songs, and think they are bosom friends. (South China Sea network evaluation)
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Zhao Chuan
