Zhou Zhiping

essential information

Personal experience

1 to 25 years old

Zhou Zhiping was born in Taiwan on October 28, 1960. His ancestral home is Lingling, Hunan Province. Zhou Zhiping was exposed to music when he was very young. There are five brothers and sisters in the family. He is the youngest and is called Maotou. The nickname "Maotou" is very popular with fans. After becoming famous, Zhou Zhiping is still called "Maotou" by many fans. When I was in primary school, I had the first record player at home. His brothers and sisters love music very much. His eldest sister loves rock and roll, his second sister loves classical music, his elder brother loves folk music, and his third sister loves Huangmei tune. His brothers and sisters' different love gave Zhou Zhiping the initial music enlightenment and gave him the opportunity to come into contact with various styles of music. When he graduated from high school, just as campus folk songs were popular on Taiwan's campuses, playing the guitar became a fashion pursued by students. Of course, Zhou Zhiping couldn't stay away from it. Under the guidance of his brother, he learned to play the guitar. From the beginning of writing this song, Zhou Zhiping had some contact with it. He was eighteen that year. Soon, his first work, midusa, was sold to Gao Lingfeng for 3000 yuan. Although the price is low, he is still excited, because as a new creative person, as long as he can publish his own works, he can win a chance to succeed.

After graduating from high school, Zhou Zhiping was admitted to the broadcasting Department of Shixin University, hoping to become a radio announcer or reporter in the future. By chance, when he was performing for the school's club, he was favored by the producers of Gelin record company, so he took part in the recording of two campus folk songs of the record company, and finally stepped out of the first step of his singing journey. After participating in a program called "winning the championship" hosted by Zhao Shuhai, Zhou Zhiping's singing talent was recognized by many people. He was introduced to the "Scarecrow" folk song restaurant opposite Taiwan University to sing. Later, he had more opportunities to sing campus folk songs in various folk song restaurants. This kind of singing lasted more than a year, and Zhou Zhiping went to military service after graduating from university.

25 to 30 years old

In 1985, Zhou Zhiping was admitted to the assistant producer of Zongyi record company and began his professional music career. Coincidentally, less than a month after he joined the record company, the original producer left the company, leaving him and Huang Dajun as two assistant producers, which provided a rare opportunity for them to independently produce Qi Qin's personal album haunt. Zhou Zhiping later recalled this experience and said: "at the beginning, I was just an assistant producer. When I first entered the studio, I was at a loss. I couldn't stop many things, including arranging music and asking for your opinions. They would give you some growing experience. That record had the greatest impact on me and also gave me the fastest growing experience. " We can see on the cover of the album released by Qi Qin in 1986 that the production list is "production group: Qi Qin, Huang Dajun, Zhou Zhiping".

After the completion of the album production, Zhou Zhiping became a producer from an assistant producer. Then he left Zongyi record and wandered for a year in the embarrassing situation of not being hired by the record company, until he was hired as a producer by Polaroid. Baolijin records company gradually cultivated him and made him one of the top songwriters and music producers in Taiwan.

As a songwriter, most of Zhou Zhiping's works are written to other singers who sing well. Many of them have become classics, such as Zhou Huajian's lonely eyes, Liu Dehua's my dream and I chase, Zhang Xueyou's good night and my love, and Liang Chaowei's a little love a day. As a music producer, Zhou Zhiping's status in Taiwan is by no means lower than that of Li Zongsheng, Xiao Chong and others. He is one of the most popular producers in Taiwan. He has made records for Zhang Guorong, Zhang Xueyou, Zhang Haozhe, Qi Qin, Liu Dehua, Liang Chaowei and other pop stars. Among them, Liu Dehua's "inevitable mistakes" and Zhang Haozhe's "love in the world" became the best-selling albums of that year. In particular, we should mention Tony Leung. Zhou Zhiping's "romantic studio" after the establishment of the first production album received is Tony Leung's "trapped in love.". In the process of making this album, Zhou Zhiping studied and determined the music route of the album with golden point record company, and communicated with Tony Leung. He hoped to find the soul of Tony Leung through communication, and then infuse the soul into his album. Zhou Zhiping later said: "that was the longest time I've ever had a conversation with a singer since I made a record, even including all his ideas." Zhou Zhiping's efforts have made Liang Chaowei's records get good sales figures after release. He has won a place for Liang Chaowei, who has a common voice, in the competitive singing world of Hong Kong and Taiwan.

After 30

In 1990, baolijin company decided to let Zhou Zhiping produce a personal album named childhood sweetheart, out of good expectation of Zhou Zhiping's singing level and commercial consideration of creating a star producer for the company. After the release of this album, the market reaction is very strong. Not only has the album been selected into Taiwan's Top Ten Golden Songs of the year, but more than half of the songs in the album have been on the charts, and have been turned into Cantonese version by Jacky Cheung, Li Keqin, liming and others, which has been highly praised. The success of the release of the album has changed the company's positioning of Zhou Zhiping. The company hopes that he will gradually change from a producer to a full-time singer, and arranges him to release his personal albums such as "the year is like a song" and "collection of romantic works". But Zhou Zhiping doesn't want to be a full-time singer. He knows that his personality is more suitable to be a songwriter and music producer behind the scenes. In the interview with Zhou Zhiping, we can see that he has more personal views on the creation of songs and the production of records. Because he could not reach an agreement with the company on this issue, in 1994, Zhou Zhiping left baolijin record company, which had worked for eight years, and set up his own "romantic studio" and "Harlem music production room" together with Yu Chengqing.

In 1996, Zhou Zhiping held a concert of "that spring romantic evening party". After that, he bid farewell to his status as a singer and temporarily quit the singing world. His future creations were all published under a pseudonym. However, his works of composing lyrics and music for Zheng Zhongji and others under the name of "the next year of history" are still smelled out of the original flavor of "Zhou Zhiping" by fans. No matter how hidden, the style of Zhou style love songs is difficult to change. As for the pseudonym, Zhou Zhiping gave this explanation: "the secret use of the pseudonym" Shi next year "is because I am worried that the song" Zhou Zhiping "made has been finalized in everyone's mind, so I publish the work under another name." As a matter of fact, Zhou style love songs have indeed been shaped, but this is not the problem of fans, but Zhou Zhiping himself can not break through. As for the future development, Zhou Zhiping said: "in the future, it will develop in the direction of administration, with less slow implementation and production, more communication and more planning."

After 2000

After 2000, Zhou Zhiping shifted his focus to the mainland. Although there are not many performances and works, he is still working hard for the whole music market.

In 2006, he and Tong ange held three concerts in Taiwan, which won unprecedented praise and welcome. The repertoire of the whole concert is their own work, which is regarded as the classic among the classics by fans.

In the mainland, he produced Zhang Jie's album the most beautiful sun and contributed his works to the new generation of singers such as Wang Ye and Deng Chuan. At the same time, he also served as the judge of "happy male voice" and "Pepsi group voice".

In Beijing, he set up his own music production company "Caotai echo", often holding small concerts for independent musicians, and giving full support to creative newcomers. Referring to the original intention of setting up the company, he said: "the music circle in the mainland is not very sound. At present, there are probably two kinds of singers who can make films, either draft singers or people who have already become popular. Few record companies are willing to pay to be new unless you are a self paid singer. People don't agree with the Internet singers. They don't seem to be authentic. I hope that more and more musicians will have a third way to go by holding small concerts. Some people may not be suitable for the draft. For example, no matter how well I write songs, if I take part in the draft, I will be wiped out in the second round. " Cui Longyang, Cao Qin and Xiao Pu of the company are all outstanding young musicians.

On September 1 and 2, 2012, he held two series of "influence" concerts in Beijing Xiaoke theater, which won warm support from fans and praise from the circle.

On father's day in 2014, Zhou Zhiping launched his new work "Dad's shoes". The plain lyrics and catchy melody are deeply interpreted by Zhou Zhiping, making the whole work the best gift for his father.

On June 27, 2014, Zhou Zhiping held an e live series concert in Nanjing Zijin Grand Theater, presenting more than 20 Classic Golden Songs in three hours. Fans from all over the world get together to listen to their stories and the days related to youth in his warm and meaningful songs, new and old.

Production tips

Zhou Zhiping is an experienced producer. From the producer's point of view, he believes that in the process of record production, producers and singers should communicate frequently to understand each other's ideas and concepts of making music. Producers must clearly understand what the singer wants, and find out the way suitable for the singer according to the singer's voice and appearance, and then decide the direction of the album and choose the right song Music, so that singers can enjoy the hair

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