Cheng Lin

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Early experience

Cheng Lin was born in Luoyang, the ancient capital of thirteen dynasties. Her parents are engaged in Henan opera performance, and she is the founder of Luoyang Art School. She has trained a group of accomplished talents in Henan opera performance with outstanding achievements. Influenced by the good artistic atmosphere of her family, Cheng Lin, who comes from an art family, has loved music since she was young. When she was 6 years old, her parents bought a pair of Erhu for Xiao Cheng Lin with four yuan. At the age of 7, she began to learn from a famous erhu master. At the age of 8, she performed on stage. She won the first prize in Henan children's art show and was praised as "nine year old red" by local people.

Acting experience

In 1979, he was admitted to Haizheng song and dance troupe as an erhu soloist.

On November 3, 1980, 13-year-old Cheng Lin made her debut as a singer in the "new star concert" of the capital gymnasium. She made the audience refreshing with her fresh and pure singing. Her singing song "small spiral" made her popular in Beijing.

In 1982, a national newspaper took the lead in criticizing Cheng Lin by name, saying that her singing was decadent, decadent, frivolous and provocative. Cheng Lin's acting career is at a low ebb.

In 1983, Cheng Lin published two special albums, small spiral and small rocking car in childhood, and made the TV film Shekou people. At the end of the year, the Oriental Song and dance troupe approved Cheng Lin to cooperate with Hou Dejian.

In 1984, through Wang Kun's efforts, Cheng Lin was transferred from the maritime administration to the Oriental Song and dance troupe, where she started a new stage of her music career. In the same year, Cheng Lin recorded the theme song "wind and rain" of the TV feature film "the circle of Kyushu" and the album "new shoes, old shoes" with Taiwan singer Hou Dejian.

In 1985, he recorded the single swing.

In 1986, he sang the theme song of the movie night truck.

In 1987, she published the album "new song of Cheng Lin 1987", which triggered the "northwest wind"; in the same year, the album "new song of Cheng Lin 1987" was shot as MTV by Guangzhou TV station, thus becoming the first female singer to shoot MTV in China.

In 1988, he took part in the Spring Festival gala for the first time, singing "missing forever" (Xintianyou); in the same year, he cooperated with Taiwan singer Hou Dejian on the album "understanding after 30 years old".

In 1989, he took part in the CCTV Spring Festival gala for the second time, singing "good boy" and playing erhu song "Moonlight on the Spring River"; in the same year, Cheng Lin and Jiang Wen co starred in the film "benmingnian" and sang the theme song and episode; in the new year's Day Gala of "tonight at 8:30" on the Central People's radio, he sang "secrets in my heart".

In 1990, he went abroad for further study. He studied modern music, composition and production at the University of California. At the same time, he became his first Chinese female disciple under the guidance of Michael Jackson and Madonna's teacher sass Riggs.

In 1991, he studied modern music at the University of California Leton and UCLA (University of California, Los Angeles).

In 1993, he prepared his personal album home. In the same year, after studying in the United States for further study, Cheng Lin band was set up in Los Angeles and performed in various parts of the United States.

In November 1994, he returned to China and aroused widespread concern; in the same year, he participated in the "World Radio Expo" in Guangzhou and sang; in December, he participated in the "Chen Xiaoqi concert" in Shenzhen.

In February 1995, he took part in the Spring Festival Gala of Henan TV station; in April of the same year, he took part in the "95 Chinese singers' anti piracy concert" in Nanjing; he cooperated with Mr. Huang Zhan, a famous Hong Kong musician, to release the album "going home"; in June, the album "going home" was released nationwide, and the dream of Red Mansions ranked first in the list of "audio and video world"; in July, he received an exclusive interview with Time magazine.

In 1996, he participated in the "ten years of Chinese singing" concert in Beijing, and in the same year, he participated in the "forever true love" concert in Nanjing.

In 1997, he took part in the large-scale evening party of "century record album" in Beijing. In the same year, "Cheng Lin's erhu solo concert" was successful. At the same time, he launched the erhu CD "new new erhu" produced in the United States.

In April 1998, Cheng Lin held a successful erhu solo concert and released her own CD, star erhu EP album.

In 1999, she sang the theme song "woman's heart" of TV series "woman's heart".

In 2000, he took part in the performance of the same song by CCTV and sang "if you sell dry wine, you can't have it".

In 2001, Chen Lin's "good boy" was broadcasted in CCTV's "Golden Melody review of previous spring festival galas"; in the same year, he went to Taiwan to perform "the same song - Lantern Festival special program"; and in Sichuan satellite TV's "variety world - sing the same song with Cheng Lin".

In 2003, with nine artists from all over the world, he participated in the "embrace the world" tour in North America, and achieved success in the United States and Canada.

In 2004, he was invited to participate in the concert of "Sino French Cultural Year" in front of the Meridian Gate of the Forbidden City and performed with "father of French electronic music" Yar, which was broadcast live on CCTV all over the world.

In 2006, at the invitation of American band ozomatali, he played erhu to participate in the recording of their album.

In 2007, in collaboration with Ricky Martin's music producer KC Porter, he published the album "greater than gold", which integrates Chinese and western music elements.

On November 20, 2011, Cheng Lin's golden Beijing concert was held in Beijing Poly Theater.

On January 6, 2012, Cheng Lin's special episode was launched in Shandong satellite TV's "singing legend"; on November 4, 2012, a personal concert "heavier than gold" was held in Beijing Poly Theater.

In October 2013, he participated in CCTV variety show "Dream Star Partner" as a guest.

In 2015, he participated in the recording of the program "Chinese New Year" of the National Farmers' Spring Festival Gala, singing songs "Hometown" and "Xintianyou".

In 2016, Cheng Lin was a guest of "glory blooms" and moved forward for love.

Personal life

During the six years from 1984 to 1989, Hou Dejian and Cheng Lin became public lovers through their cooperation. However, on the one hand, there is a contradiction between Wang Kun, the head of the Oriental Song and dance troupe, and Hou Dejian; on the other hand, Cheng Lin's parents firmly oppose their association. Around 1985, Cheng Lin left Beijing and went to Guangzhou with Hou Dejian to live in seclusion for nearly two years. However, after four or five years of communication between Cheng Lin and Hou Dejian, their feelings split. From the second half of 1989 to the beginning of 1990, they broke up.

personal works

Music Album

reference material

Concert record

Award winning record

social activities

In August 1998, Cheng Lin gave a concert entitled "donation for disabled children".

In 2002, at the invitation of China children's fund, he became an ambassador of love in the project of donating Tibet's "Chunlei primary school", holding a handover ceremony and singing in front of the Potala Palace.

In 2003, as the sponsor, he participated in the construction of Mahe village hope primary school in Yanshi, Henan Province, which enabled more than 600 children to learn in a good environment.

In 2005, he participated in the "world blood donation day" charity activity "love flying".

In 2007, he and American famous children singer Rhett promoted the development of "virtue project" in China and became the image ambassador of "virtue project"; in the same year, he launched the "children's fashion show" love activity to raise money for orphanages.

Character evaluation

Cheng Lin, with her fresh and pure singing style, has created a precedent of pop music and become a milestone in the history of Chinese pop music (Beijing Radio and television news review). In the 1980s, she created many achievements as a pioneer in the music world, and sang many classic songs full of music vitality, such as Xiao Luo Hao, Xin Tian you, Jiu Gan Ruo Mai Wu, etc. in addition to her role as a singer, she also has a deep foundation in erhu national music (sina.com review).

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