Zhang Di

Zhang Di's father is a doctor. He grew up under the influence of medicine. His parents are versatile intellectuals. His father is not only skillful in medicine, but also fond of opera. When Zhang Di was a child, his family often heard wonderful aria by Ma Lianliang and other famous Peking opera artists. His parents' love of literature and art makes young Zhang Di a little "opera fan". As a young man, he is very good at Beijing Opera and can often sing twice.

Zhang Di, a former surgeon, changed his career because of his personal interests. He often improvises words with existing songs on the spot to create songs in line with the atmosphere of the scene; Among them, the most famous is "Maomao song", which was created in Indonesia in the late 1970s; In addition, the patriotic song "country" sung by Zhang Di is widely spread in the mainland, which is very touching.

In 1993, at the unveiling Party of China's bid for the 2000 Olympic Games, Zhang Di's Jizhi song created after he lost the election in Beijing was also impressive.

Zhang Di, together with Ling Feng and his younger brother Zhang Kui, hosted the CCTV variety show "weekend 2100" (also known as "immortal tiger dog", 31 episodes, 90 minutes each), which was broadcast from January 2, 1982 to July 31, 1982. It was very popular in Taiwan Province at that time, especially Zhang Di's Jizhi song unit "on and off the stage". As the three people are all ugly, the three hosts often make fun of me. Later, the brothers Zhang Di and Zhang Kui mentioned the incident in an interview and said that the reason why they would partner with Ling Feng was that they fell in love with Ling Feng, who was uglier than the two of them.

In 1989, Zhang Di, on behalf of the Chinese Kuomintang, was elected as a legislator in Shinan District of Taipei, Taiwan Province. However, he failed to be re elected in 1992.

From November 3, 1995 to March 1, 1996, Zhang Di and Zhang Kui co hosted the TV variety show "happy fairy nest".

In 2002, he cooperated with artists Wu Hongjun, Jiao Enjun, Robin and Chen Jinpei to release the Minnan language album "millions of stars make money".

In October 2010, I went to Changsha to record the talk show "day up". In December 2010, he went to CCTV to record the annual finals of "Avenue of stars" as a guest.

He began to sing English songs in 1966, and soon established his position with his witty and humorous live rap style. In 1968, the drama and record of "Zhang Di looking for a Zhu" became popular in Hong Kong and Taiwan.

In 1972, he was invited by Li Hanxiang to make the film "deception strange pool". From 1972 to 1982, Zhang Di performed more than 1000 performances in ten years, a record that no one could break. Zhang Di has actively participated in all kinds of public performances, and has been the oldest pop star since his debut for 38 years. He can sing English, Japanese, Malay, Cantonese, Minnan and other songs and spend more than two hours reading all kinds of information every day. In addition, with his experience in thousands of concerts, Zhang's skill is becoming more and more sophisticated.

For decades, Emperor Zhang has traveled all over the world with this unique skill. His famous sketch singing and answering cassettes entered the mainland with Teresa Teng in the late 1970s, and have won great popularity. In the early 1990s, after Tang Long art company arranged him to perform in the mainland, he became even more popular and took part in charity performances for many times, such as the flood in East China and helping the poor in Shanxi.

In addition to Peking Opera, Zhang Di loved Tang poetry and Song Ci since childhood, and chanting poetry was a major hobby of his youth. Zhang Di said that he was born to like art and a free and happy life. From this point of view, his most suitable occupation is literature and art.

However, as the eldest son of his family, Zhang Di was forced to "inherit his father's career" during the college entrance examination. There is still a traditional Chinese concept in his family that the eldest son must inherit his father's career. Therefore, no matter how tired Zhang Di was of medicine, he went to medical school and studied until he was a graduate student. Among the singers, there are few people who have read postgraduate, especially those who have read medical postgraduate. Not only that, after graduation, Zhang Di was assigned to the army as a military doctor and became an excellent surgeon.

Give up medicine and become an artist

After becoming a doctor, Zhang Di had a prominent social status and considerable income, so he had no reason to give up this profession. However, nearly 40 years ago, Zhang Di had to face patients with sad faces every day, which made him feel very depressed. How he longed for the joy and sunshine in his life.

After a hard struggle, he decided to quit his job as a doctor. This move not only made Zhang Di lose his job, but also made him "deported" by his family. The angry father couldn't tolerate him giving up such a decent career to sing for a living. The rebellious emperor Zhang had to run away from his home and stepped onto the stage with a vision of his singing career.

Stills of emperor Zhang

Hard work

Young singers are mostly valued by record companies and directly enter the performing arts circle. But nearly 40 years ago, Zhang Di could only start as a waiter in a nightclub. Without stable income and family support, Zhang Di came to a nightclub alone. Without any professional training, experience and fame, he can only work in nightclubs. Watching the singers perform on the stage, he was envious. However, Zhang Di, who was once a famous doctor, could only pour tea for the musicians, turn over the music scores, and silently look forward to the day when he would be on the stage.

Until one day, the diligent Zhang Di attracted the attention of his boss and made an exception to allow him to sing two songs on the stage. This "grace" made Zhang Di very excited. He made a long preparation to welcome the first performance.

On the day of Zhang Di's first performance, when the nightclub was just open, there were only two casual customers sitting under the stage, chatting while eating melon seeds. They hardly looked up and didn't notice Zhang Di on the stage. Nevertheless, Zhang Di was very happy to perform for the first time and got a gentle compliment from his boss.

However, this successful start did not bring him much luck, he is still a nobody in the nightclub. Zhang Di once met the owner of a famous nightclub. He asked carefully, "I don't want you to give me money. I just want to have a chance to sing a song or two with you." The boss replied very impolitely: "we are full of singers here." As soon as the voice fell, a popular singer passed by them at that time. The boss quickly caught up with them and said happily, "we have reserved a place for you there. As long as you go, you can pay as much as you like." He totally ignored the emperor Zhang who was "exposed" to the sun. At this time, Zhang Di, who had been a doctor, was full of embarrassment and great psychological pressure.

A song of quick wit

Zhang Di was very honest and told reporters that many times I wanted to give up. Once, he went to the dam alone and thought bitterly, my family background is so good and my work is so good, why should I give them up to suffer here? But then he thought, I think I have a talent for singing. If I go back like this, I will lose face. Just when he was full of doubts, a chance brought him to the peak of his singing career.

Zhang Di recalled that once he was singing in a well-known nightclub, when the audience asked to sing "full cup of bitter wine". But Zhang Di only remembers the melody, not the lyrics. When he was in trouble on the stage, the boss handed him a note and asked him to tell the customers that the police would check their ID cards at 12 o'clock. Customers without ID cards should go home as soon as possible. On the one hand, there are songs that can't be sung, and on the other hand, there are orders from the boss, which can neither disappoint the audience nor delay the tasks assigned by the boss. In this way, the anxious emperor Zhang wrote his first song. He picked up the microphone and sang on the stage with the melody of "full glass of bitter wine": "my friends, I tell you, the boss wants me to sing a message. I have to check in the evening. If you don't bring your ID card, go home quickly, or I'll take you to the police station. " As soon as he finished singing, he got angry. All the questions came. How can you sing this song? How many dads do you have? How many wives do you have. From then on, Zhang began his quick witted career.

Create a new era of performance

The first Minnan song contest

The first Minnan song contest

For more than 40 years, he has traveled all over the world and is a famous old star in the Chinese circle all over the world. Zhang Di once created many firsts in the field of Chinese music, such as the first to wear jeans, the first to wear leather jacket, and the first to wear a big beard. Because he has been conveying his patriotic feelings to the audience, he is deeply loved by the mainland, Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan compatriots, as well as overseas Chinese. In order to commend Zhang Di's patriotic behavior, the Ministry of culture also awarded him the title of patriotic artist.

When Zhang Di was the most popular, he had to catch up with eight performances a day, and more than 2000 performances a year later. Often, the cars outside were always in the starting state. After Zhang Di stepped down, he immediately got on the car and ran to the next performance. This kind of high-intensity and exciting whirlwind performance has lasted for more than ten years. Zhang Di said with great certainty that I am definitely one of the artists with the most performances.

In one performance, a girl came on stage with a mobile phone and asked Zhang Di to sing a song for her father, who was going to die soon. Zhang Di sang to the mobile phone very attentively. Afterwards, the girl told Zhang Di that her father was tearful and asked her to thank him. Zhang Di said that in the performance, you will always have something moving, which is why I have been unable to give up the performance. In addition to years of training, Zhang spent two hours every day surfing the Internet and reading newspapers. In Malaysia, he sang about the 9 / 11 incident, not only about the cruelty of terrorists, but also about the hegemony of the United States. He also sang live songs about whether the RMB should appreciate. At the Zhongguancun Electronic Festival, Emperor Zhang came up and sang a song about Zhongguancun, and the information was carefully read by Emperor Zhang in advance. This is the professionalism of the veteran artists formed in the past ten years.

On February 17, 2014, Gao Lingfeng passed away. On February 18, Zhang Di went to Gao Lingfeng memorial hall to mourn his old friend. At noon the next day, he felt unwell. His family members sent him to the hospital for emergency treatment and woke up after two days of coma. Five days after he was hospitalized, he dragged his sick body to participate in the video recording of the program, but suddenly he felt like the world was spinning around and the video recording stopped temporarily. On March 11, 2014, Zhang Di's sister-in-law (Zhang Kui's wife) revealed that he was still in a coma from time to time and had been transferred to the Department of Neurology for treatment. There was a problem with the "vestibular nerve" in his brain. He was still recuperating in the hospital and was unable to attend Gao's farewell ceremony. His family were very worried.

Kuishao said that Zhang Di was the eldest parent of his family. Every Spring Festival, all the family would kneel down to ask him for a red envelope. Zhang's wife, candy, is 19 years younger than him. "So Zhang Kui has to know everything, because candy only goes through the later period. Zhang Kui knows every part of Zhang's family and has to contact him about everything! At least we can't let Zhangjia lose face in the end“

Take part in the film

1987 road hero traffic police (guest)-

1969 Zhang Di looks for a Zhu

Magic pool

1969 cosmopolitan

Music Album

Mandarin humorous Golden Melody - durian song 2009-03-17

Brothers duet 2006-01-01

Dad is not old 2005-12-01

Golden Melody in Mandarin - fenghuangming 2004-06-19

Zhang Di - Maoge 2000-01-01

Farewell in the starry night

The melody of love becomes a famous classic

Answering audience questions on the spot

Licorice 1981-01-01

Love song love song 2010-05-18

Zhang Di 2009-06-25

Zhangdi superstar collection 2004-01-01

Star of treasure island 2003-01-01

A Zhu Tianding fa cai 2002-01-01

Fall in love with each other

Zhang Di thought that performing must understand human nature, otherwise he could not perform. What the audience really needs, what he likes, what you should say at this time, an action, a sentence, in that second, you use it, it is a wonderful burden, after a second, it is a burden. Therefore, the most important thing for the whole performance is to respond in time. If we grasp this point, we can play an unlimited role. Sincerity is the most important thing. The same words, the same action, the same performance, different people, produce different effects. It's really a good article. Are you singing with your heart or with your mouth on the stage? Zhang Di can combine with the audience, because they feel the sincerity of Zhang Di to them. From the beginning, just a few words can resolve our estrangement. So is Zhang Di. No matter how big the performance theater is, he thinks it's a family. The whole family is joking, chatting, having fun, having no restraint, regardless of size, and playing freely. He can immediately turn anything that happens on the scene into lyrics, add a little burden, and let everyone have fun together. The reason why emperor Zhang can still stand on the stage with us is that he has this direction.

Zhang Di thinks the tricky audience is his best friend. If people ask the same questions, they will not look at them. He hasn't been able to answer. The answer he gave was his understanding of life, his understanding of life. I think the theater is a big family. It's good to have fun. The most terrible thing about people is that they are backward. Zhang Di spends two or three hours every day reading computer, TV, newspapers and magazines. He collects information from all over the world. No matter what problems he encounters, the background information can help him analyze problems and express them. Zhang Di thinks that singing is his pleasure, and he can make some money carelessly, so his life is very happy. He will sing until he can't sing, until he retires when no one wants him to. Zhang Di thought God was too kind to him. He is over sixty years old. He is a bad old man. There are so many people who know him and would like to hear him sing. He is Chinese and sings all over the world, but he seldom goes to the mainland. He wants to make up for this regret in the future and go to all parts of the mainland to fulfill his wish.

Talking about his acting career, Zhang Di said that the old artists were very hard at that time. There was no company to help you. You had to do everything by yourself. The success of the old artists is one by one, one station by one, word by word. Our relationship with the audience is like a stable pyramid. Despite the hard work, we have enjoyed the warm stage relationship between the audience and ourselves and accumulated a lot of friendship in the long-term performance. Stars, seemingly happy, don't do anything by themselves. When you don't know who he is, he's red, and soon he won't be found, just like a ghost. Their relationship with the audience is inverted pyramid, not stable at all.

In the early 1980s, when Hong Kong and Taiwan pop music just entered the mainland, Zhang Di, Deng Lijun, Liu Wenzheng and other pop stars became the most influential representatives. Emperor Zhang is known as "the king of quick witted songs".

Jin Zhaojun, a music critic, said that emperor Zhang had a sense of common people, and at the same time he attached great importance to a kind of feelings, which was a very high pursuit. Zhang Di's singing laugh and scold, but Zhang Di never with dirty words, if you take someone else to open a rinse, also immediately come back to say some apology polite words. When singing who should be saved first when his mother and wife fall into the river, Zhang Di should first sing to save his mother, and his wife can be replaced. But after that, she sang and said that she didn't save her wife because she was a good swimmer and had already swam ashore. In Zhang Di's singing, many of them have to return to the eastern ethical standards such as filial piety and friendship. On the surface, they have no scruples, but in the end, they are in order. It takes a lot of effort to move others when you are happy. In China's first bid for the Olympic Games in 1993, due to inexperience, when Sydney was declared the winner, the live personnel of Beijing TV live show were at a loss. At this time, Zhang Di wrote a song by Teresa Teng, telling everyone not to be discouraged and to respect their opponents. Beijing has shown its openness to the world, and the Olympic Games will return to Beijing one day. According to Jin Zhaojun, this kind of quick wit not only saved the scene, but also showed emperor Zhang's high level.

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