Dou Wei

essential information

Early experience

Dou Wei was born in Beijing in 1969. His father is engaged in folk music, and his mother works in Beijing No.1 Machine Tool Factory.

At the age of 6, Dou Wei played flute in kindergarten.

When he was in middle school, his parents divorced and Dou Wei and his sister lived with his mother. At this time, Dou Wei heard rock and roll for the first time.

In 1985, Dou Wei entered vocational high school to study psychiatric nursing; in vocational high school, he learned a little guitar, so he made his own music.

At the age of 18, Dou Wei was admitted to Beijing Youth light music troupe and began to walk on the stage. He mainly sang Jiang Dawei's songs, some English songs and Cui Jian. Among the artists from Hong Kong and Taiwan, he sang Qi Qin's songs and danced break dancing.

Acting career

In 1988, Ding Wu, the lead singer of the black leopard band, left and Dou Wei joined the band.

In October 1991, Dou Wei left "black leopard" and formed "dream band". There, he wrote the song "light of hope" (included in Rock Beijing I); the music is very Gothic and excellent. But their cooperation did not last long.

In December 1992, "Panther" album of the same name was released in Hong Kong, which led to a wave of piracy in the mainland. "Don't break my heart" is at the top of the Commercial Radio Hong Kong charts, and "shame on yourself" and "don't spoil it" are also widely sung. Excluding piracy, the album sold 150000 copies.

In 1992, Dou Wei left dream band.

In 1994's "black dream" album, almost all of the works were done in the "dream".

On December 17, 1994, at the concert of "Chinese rock power" held in Hong Kong's Hung Hom gymnasium, Dou Wei began to sing songs such as "advanced animals" and "Oh, darling".

In 1995, Dou Wei released his personal album sunny day, which marks the complete change of his music style. This album completely abandoned his original metal flavor, and sold 70000 copies.

In 1998, Dou Wei's album "mountain and river" was released, which is Dou Wei's struggling work in the way of expression. The album sold 70000 copies.

In 1999, Dou Wei joined the translation band; in the same year, he released the album "auditory hallucination", which sold 80000 copies; in October 2002, he ended the cooperation.

In April 2003, Dou Wei released "Yiju Liangde" in cooperation with the band not necessarily; in September, he released "Muliang Wenwang".

In February 2004, Dou Wei published the story of flowers in the mirror.

In July 2008, the tree music company solemnly released the record "five tone ring music" which Dou Wei cooperated with different bands. Five records and five colors matched the Olympic rings.

In 2013, Dou Wei was the music director of the film sweet 18.

In the early autumn of 2011, Dou Wei recorded the music of Shuhe, finished the post production in 2014, and sold it on time at 0:00 on January 13, 2015.

On October 10, 2017, Dou Wei announced that he will release a new song, and on October 12, 2017, he will release a new song, return to the devil's land.

On October 8, 2018, Dou Wei announced that he would release the single "soul of Zang gong'an" at 0:00 on October 9, 2018 in memory of his old friend Zang Tianshuo.

On April 4, 2020, Dou Wei's partner Wen Zhiyong released a new song "Hou Yi" on the epidemic situation in the name of "Chao Jian".

Personal life

In 1989, Dou Wei and Jiang Xin met and fell in love.

In July 1996, Dou Wei married Faye Wong. In January 1997, Faye Wong gave birth to her daughter Dou Jingtong in Beijing.

In 1994, Dou Wei and Gao Yuan made the album envelope of "black dream".

In March 1999, Hong Kong reporters met Gao Yuan and Dou Wei in Beijing. Dou Wei admitted their relationship and formally broke with Faye Wong. In August, they formally completed the divorce procedure.

On March 25, 1999, Faye Wong went to the lawyer's office and unilaterally signed the separation agreement, which officially started the divorce procedure.

In August 1999, Dou Wei and Wang Fei officially completed the divorce procedures. A vigorous love war between the three ended with Faye Wong leaving with her daughter.

In June 2002, Dou Wei and Gao Yuan officially registered for marriage. In August 2002, Dou Wei and Gao Yuan gave birth to a daughter.

In 2004, Dou Wei divorced Gao Yuan secretly.

Main works

Music Album

Composition and arrangement

Concert record

Award winning record

Character evaluation

It can be said that Dou Wei's music once reached a very high level in those years. When he was the lead singer of the band, it should be said that his singing was very relaxed. His band was also the most popular rock band at that time. And "no room for shame" is a classic among the classics. At that time, Dou Wei and his band were on the stage of Hong Kong for the first time, attracting the attention of many people. At the same time, people are even more surprised that there is such a rock band in the mainland. It was this event that made Dou Weihe the first mainland band to win the Rock Band Award in Hong Kong.

His first album "black dream" after flying solo is as wonderful as the previous music. But later, the music has a taste of non cannibal fireworks, and it is more and more far away from the public taste (Horqin Fu).

No matter in the Panther band, or in the magic rock three, his music is still good. Later, Dou Wei paid more attention to personal things, and the experimental elements were more. In the later period, no matter how much the album sold or whether other people enjoyed it or not, Dou Wei only made his own music. His songs can have no lyrics, but he filled them with music to express his own ideas. If Dou Wei is a musician in the early stage, he is an artist in the later stage. Just like performance art, he uses sound as art (Cui Shu).

In the view of non academic music, although Dou Wei may not be the best of them, he has at least shown the vein that an excellent musician should have, or the direction leading to his own music system; besides, his amazing amount of creation, long-term hard work and low-key music life have also made him gradually break away from his old dream and enter a new world worthy of discussion. Of course, Dou Wei, who we are looking at, is no longer a talented man in the age of rock and roll or magic rock, but a musician who is cooperating, communicating and trying to create with different musicians. On the other hand, his voice is often mixed in the group (just like the album "auditory hallucination" released by him and the translation band). If we can find out the track carefully, it will be helpful for us to investigate the new music groups in China (Yan Jun).

Character controversy

Car burning incident

On the afternoon of May 10, 2006, Dou Wei rushed into the Department of Beijing News and demanded to reprimand a reporter surnamed Zhuo. Dou Wei accused the reporter and another reporter of having previously collected and written reports about his life and economic situation on the plateau.

Dou Wei broke into the newspaper department for the first time, destroyed its computer, TV and other office supplies, and splashed water on its staff. When I left the Department, I burned the car of a newspaper in anger. According to witnesses. "Dou Wei left for a time after a series of acts of venting his anger, but later came to the newspaper. His mental state was still deep and melancholy, but he didn't have extreme physical behavior." Until about 6:30 p.m., Dou Wei was still waiting for the reporter he was looking for downstairs.

Dou Wei's car burning incident caused a huge reaction on social media, and many media have set up special reports.

On November 1, 2007, Dou Wei's case of car burning was pronounced in Xuanwu court. The court found that Dou Wei was guilty of intentional destruction of property, but he was exempted from criminal punishment because of the minor circumstances.

Infidelity in marriage

In 1999, Dou Wei and Gao Yuan were having dinner in a Japanese restaurant. When Hong Kong media asked him who the woman was, Dou Wei blurted out: "her name is Gao Yuan, and she is my lover." So far, Dou Wei and Faye Wong's marriage came to an end. At the same time that Faye Wong's career reached its peak again, the concert tour ended and their marriage ended. Because of the intervention of the plateau, the two eventually ended in divorce.

Later, Dou Wei said in an interview with the media, "I think the marriage of Plateau and me is revenge for Ding Wu, and the child is a plot plotted by others!" Dou Wei said that no matter he and Faye Wong, or he and plateau, there are all conspiracies behind them. "I think some agents in Hong Kong and Taiwan are afraid of the rise of mainland music, so they want to break up the band and disintegrate the band. At the same time, the company will also find suitable targets for artists!" Dou Wei believes that in the eyes of Hong Kong companies, he is certainly not a suitable target for Faye Wong, which is not in line with commercial interests, so they will certainly plot to destroy their feelings.

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