Cai Lanqin

essential information

Personage introduction

influence

In the early 1980s, folk songs entered the campus, enabling more young people to express their views on all aspects of society through music. However, the campus folk songs with the intervention of commercial mechanism have become a part of the music industry. In the 1970s, it seems that the spirit of young people's pure pursuit of their own songs and cultural identity no longer exists. Although Luo Dayou, Li Zongsheng, Chen Sheng and other important musicians with style and money came into being, it can not be denied that through the commercial packaging of these music, there are many deliberate, not so pure, the only exception is simply to prove the love of music and leave a memory for CAI Lanqin. He agreed to record without being famous, exposed or stressed, but left the world in a hurry after the recording. This shows the purity and moving of his music composer, which still moved nearly 300000 young hearts when no one was singing.

Cai Lanqin's music

Pop music is like this. Although some songs are very popular, they quickly disappear in people's memory, while some songs show their abundant vitality after years. After more than 20 years of vigorous development of pop music, from the present point of view, the arrangement of CAI Lanqin's works in 1987 may have been a little old, but the whole album exudes the enthusiasm and ideas of young people, and still continues to infect many students in the new era, because it expresses the mood of youth. The contents of the 12 works in this world include Cai Lanqin's dissatisfaction and irony with the system education, his thinking and hesitation about life, as well as the love mood of young men, which is exactly the youth that CAI Lanqin has gone through. The reason why Cai Lanqin's music is moving lies in the truth and simplicity hidden behind his literary talent. Each of his works shows a special temperament, cold and profound, just like his people. Chen Lerong once said: "his style is absolutely not fresh. Simple words like this can be used in one stroke. Although the arrangement of musical form and small section is not surprising, it is extremely correct, and even can turn around unexpectedly." Maybe it was this kind of inconspicuous conflict that made Cai Lanqin's strong personal appeal, and made this album the champion of "intimate time" Mandarin list in Taiwan for several weeks at that time. As for those legendary stories, they are charmed to hide behind each song. They are moved and remembered.

Cai Lanqin's principles

Cai Lanqin was a good boy with excellent character and learning since he was a child. When he came to university, he saw more different lives from him, so he saw himself deeper. To many people, it's an enviable thing to make a record and become a singer, but to him, music is just a habit he grew up in. At that time, he told UFO records: don't expose, don't be famous, don't be stressed. These are the three principles of his recording, and his life is an unfinished painting, so every part of the painting is amazing. At the age of 21, Cai Lanqin began to write songs, and her first work was Ding Xiaowen's "no longer remembering"; at the age of 22, Cai Lanqin finished the singing of the whole album of "the world". Unfortunately, one week after the completion of the album, she was sent to the hospital because of heart paralysis due to shock, and died at the age of 22 and three months. Chen Lerong, who is now famous in Taiwan's pop music industry, recalled Cai Lanqin and said, "because at the beginning, it's the most beautiful. Fourteen years ago, I wrote an introduction for the first release of CAI Lanqin's commemorative album. It must be a unique opportunity in my record planning work. I didn't see him, but on the ninth night after his death, I heard his mother tape for the first time in the car of Wu ChuChu, then chairman of UFO records. It was the first night that I stepped into the recording industry... " Maybe today's fans don't know who Cai Lanqin is, maybe they can't understand this inexplicable emotion, but who should blame for all this? - quoted from a quarter century of pop music by Wang Chengxiang. Every year, June 6 is the anniversary of Taiwan folk songs. It has been more than 20 years since the rise of Taiwan folk songs in 1981. In this folk song movement, countless outstanding writers and singers such as Luo Dayou, Li Shouquan and Xue Yue have emerged. Cai Lanqin is one of these transient names. He only released this album "the world", and then he left music forever. His name and his songs only remain in the memory of a few people, gradually fade away. But Cai Lanqin has outstanding talent after all. In the album, Cai Lanqin has composed all 12 songs. The music shows his unique creative talent and strong personal style. These music sounds today, each song is a masterpiece, people are moved. Maybe talented people have a bad life. Shortly after the album was finished, Cai Lanqin left the world forever because of heart paralysis caused by shock. At 23, he hasn't even made it to the release. He is younger and more natural than Zhang Yusheng. He is less brilliant and has more unique thoughts when he was young. This is really Cai Lanqin's youth movement composed with tears and blood!

Chronology of people

Born in Taipei on November 15, 1964, male, O-type. In 1968, at the age of three and a half, he entered the kindergarten attached to Ximen elementary school. After his fifth birthday in 1969, he studied piano from Mr. Luo Qingzhou. In 1970, the painting "Lion Dance" was selected into the first national children's art exhibition. in 1971, he was admitted to the "Taipei Children's Choir" as an exception. After six years as a monitor, he participated in composition, speech, painting and other competitions on behalf of many times, and was a member of Ximen elementary school choir. During the winter vacation of 1976, he went to the United States and Philippines with the "Taipei Children's Choir" to perform for 40 days. He entered Nanmen junior high school in 1977. in 1978, after grade two, he stopped studying piano for nine years due to homework pressure. He learned to ride a bicycle and looked upon it as his life. He wanted to ride around the island alone to stop his father. in 1979, he was promoted to the third grade of the country. He suffered from duodenitis due to excessive tension, and then became ill. He and his younger brother Cai Chun began to collect Western records in 1980. The first one was "the all" with "pink flow". In the three years before the joint examination, he saved money and secretly bought a variable-speed sports car. He was still the first in the total score and won the "mayor's Award". Admitted to Jianguo middle school. In 1981, he joined the school orchestra and worked as a keyboard player. He began to dabble in western music and went to the western restaurant where the orchestra was singing. He was diligent in swimming and running, and won the second place in sprint in the school sports meeting at the end of the year. In 1983, one hundred days before the joint examination, he stepped up the sprint and was admitted to the Mechanical Department of the second National Taiwan University. In 1984, he became Vice President of popular group of guitar club. Due to poor health, liver and kidney problems, he was suspended from school. Due to the conscription of military service, he was admitted to the animal husbandry department of Pingtung agricultural college with high marks in the summer vacation. At the end of the year, she won the second place in swimming and the third place in sprint in the school sports meeting. After class, he went to the countryside to teach piano. In January 1985, he returned to NTU and reread it. in 1986, he studied electronic organ in summer vacation. Before that, he had been exposed to guitar, electric guitar, saxophone, electronic synthesizer and other musical instruments. Introduced by his friend Zhan Yuzhang, he got to know "UFO" and began to write songs. The first work is Ding Xiaowen's "no longer think of it". In October, UFO put forward the idea of recording a personal album, but it was not agreed. After reaching an agreement in November, preparations began to start to write most of the songs in the album. He entered the recording studio during the winter vacation in 1987 and finished singing after the lunar new year. One week later, in the early hours of February 14, he was sent to NTU Hospital for treatment because of heart paralysis caused by shock. He was 22 years old and three months old. On March 8, a cremation ceremony was held.

Music works

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