Zuo Xiaozu Mantra

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Early experience

Zuo Xiaozu, formerly known as Wu Hongjin, dropped out of high school. He left home at the age of 15 and worked as a doctor in the army. In 1990, Zuo Xiaozu mantra came to Shanghai to make a living selling kowtow tapes. Three years later, he came to Beijing to play band. He once mixed up in the artists' gathering place in Beijing East Village.

Acting experience

In 1993, Zuo Xiaozu mantra founded the artist tribe "Beijing East Village" in Beijing. At the same time, he set up no band as the lead singer, guitarist, violinist and songwriter of the band. In 1994, Zuo Xiaozu recorded his first studio song "no solution"; in the same year, the lyrics were selected into Ai Weiwei's "black book". The following year, released by Hong Kong Music Communication Company, its extreme gloomy noise, crazy Violin and dismembered surrealism style brought the band no's initial popularity. In the winter of 1995, Zuo Xiaozu, yeqian and Yu Weimin recorded the second studio song "six flowers" by Lao Ge. Because of the strange and obscure lyrics, they were deleted from the next year's Rock Beijing II. In the same year, he and Beijing Dongcun artists created the performance art work "raise a meter for Wuming mountain" and participated in the 48th Venice International Biennale in 1999

. In 1997, he was suspected to be a suspect in the explosion of Beijing Dongfang Chemical Plant. He was detained in Changping shelter for more than 20 days and left Songzhuang Xiaobao Art District to live in Beijing. in February 1998, he recorded band no's first album "lost master", which included the songs he wrote during his stay in Dongcun, Beijing. It was released by Hong Kong's soinfactory record company in October, and the mainland version was released by modern sky record company in April of the next year, which won high praise from China's critics who are famous for being mean. He won the top ten Rock Record Awards of China pop music award in 20 years, and the best Chinese record award of the year of popular song rock and other magazines. The album continued for 13 weeks and ranked third in the sales list of popular song magazine. The song "authentic" won the ninth place in "China's original music list" of Radio Shanghai. At the end of 1999, the modern record company released the album "journey to the temple fair". Due to the historical environment, many lyrics could not be published in public. The record company was forced to remix the music again, making it difficult to hear the music clearly, and the strong realistic color of the album was not well reflected. In January 2000, Zuo Xiaozu published 1420 volumes of his first novel, the tomb of mad dog barking. It shows his crazy talent and unconventional creativity. In 2001, Zuo Xiaozu's curse is in Di'anmen was released by Beijing records in November, and the overseas version was released by Taiwan's direct pop record company in December. In the same year, he won the best rock artist of the year award of Chinese Music Media Award with "Temple Fair Tour" and appeared on the cover of popular song rock magazine. In 2002, he made a domestic tour called "signboard". At the beginning of 2003, the album "I can't sit beside you sadly" was finished. In the same year, he made a soundtrack for Zhu Wen's 54th Berlin Film Festival award-winning film "the south of the clouds", in which violinist Sheng Zhongguo played. In 2004, he performed in Helan Mountain Music Festival. Produced EP album "beautiful steed" for Yunnan Dai young singer Zhu Jing. On June 26, the official version of Temple Fair tour was released after re blending. In the same year, he also made the theme song the night of Ulaanbaatar for director Jia Zhangke's film the world. On May 25, 2005, I can't sit beside you sadly, an independent album, was jointly produced by Taiwan producer Fang Wuxing and Zuo Xiaozu mantra, in which Taiwanese female singer Chen Shanni and Zuo Xiaozu mantra sang the song "when I leave you", with a limited release of 2000 copies. On October 14, he participated in the performance of "Chinese Art Festival" held in Paradiso, Amsterdam, the Netherlands. In the same year, Zuo Xiaozu's contemporary art works were invited to participate in the German Cologne Art Expo, Berlin Art Expo and other exhibitions. In February 2006, Zuo Xiaozu's curse and Wang Tu's short film "younger brother" and photographic work "880" were exhibited in Singapore's National Art Center. On April 1, the first film soundtrack album "America" was released, including two film music produced for Zhu Wen's film "the south of the clouds" and Jia Zhangke's "the world", as well as a version of "the night of Ulan Bator" sung by Zuo Xiaozu. The album won the top ten Chinese records of the year by rolling stones magazine, and the night of Ulaanbaatar was also rated as 15 Chinese singles of the year by the magazine. In the same year, Zuo Xiaozu was nominated for best rock album and best rock singer by the music charts. He won the best rock artist award of Chinese Music Media Award for "I can't sit beside you sadly". In 2007, Ai Weiwei published his contemporary art work "I love contemporary art too" on his blog, and provided music for Ai Weiwei's work "fairy tale". In 2008, Zuo Xiaozu's sound installation work "methodology" participated in the "virtual city - new power" Chinese Contemporary Art Biennale of Shanghai Yuangong Art Museum and 2008 Art Beijing Expo; works "representative" and "younger brother" participated in the VIP preview of "maze 2" Asian Museum of contemporary art; sculpture work "1995-1997" participated in the outdoor sculpture exhibition of Beijing 798 Art Festival; participated in Shanghai Art Expo Gallery "academy and non academy" exhibition; participated in Chongqing Art Festival at the end of the year

. On March 8, the double album "do you know which side of the East is?" was released. The next year, it was rated as the annual tribute music in the Southern Weekend culture original list

. With this record, he won many awards, such as best rock artist of Chinese Music Media Award, best rock artist of Chinese Golden Melody Award, top ten Chinese records, jury award and best record of the year of Nandu Entertainment Weekly.

Zuo Xiaozu's contemporary art work "I love contemporary art too" has been invited to participate in Palm Beach Art Fair in Florida and New York, Basel Miami Art Exhibition and other exhibitions at home and abroad. in February 2009, the official edition of the lost master was released after remixing. With "do you know which side of the East" won the "ten mainland records of the year" of Music Time magazine and the "fourth place in the top ten Chinese records" of Chinese Music Alliance. In May, works of art "little donkey facing the wall" and "my way" were completed. On June 7, he participated in the 2nd exhibition of contemporary art and independent music in manruizhai, Yugong Yishan, Beijing. On August 8, he performed in the first Zhangbei Music Festival, with a peak of about 60000 people. In October, he participated in the opening ceremony of Ai Weiwei's "very sorry" solo exhibition at the Art Museum of Munich, Germany. On December 12, the album "event" was released and won the Chinese Media Awards for "Best Mandarin male singer", "best ci writer", "best rock artist" and "top 10 mandarin albums". On December 25, remix version of "lost master" was released. In the same year, he was invited to Cuba to participate in the Havana new China Contemporary Art Revolution exhibition. His art works have successively participated in the "polar tension" exhibition of contemporary art masters in Beijing, Shanghai and Chengdu, the 798 first Biennale, Qujiang International Contemporary Art season, Chengdu Contemporary Art annual exhibition, Beijing new art in depth invitation exhibition, Kunming "Thirteen not rely on" exhibition and the exhibition in New York, USA Many exhibitions at home and abroad, such as "passing by China" contemporary photography group exhibition held by Yue Yilai gallery. He was named a city hero by time out Beijing magazine. in January 2010, as a special guest, Chen Sheng participated in the 16th Taipei International Convention Center New Year's concert. March 19th

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Held the first solo concert "all the best" in Beijing Century Theater

. In the same month, he was invited to participate in the "3 + X" Contemporary Art Tour. In April, he appeared on the cover of rock for the second time. "Awalkin the park" with Cowboy Junkies, which also included their cover song "I can't sit beside you sadly" in the album "people's Park". May 2, Beijing strawberry Music Festival

. On May 14, he won nine nominations for the Chinese Music Media Award with "event"

Finally, he won two awards: Best Mandarin male singer and best lyricist

. On May 25, the soundtrack No.1 of Zuo Xiaozu mantra was released for Ai Weiwei's works. In August, the essay sad boss was published by Shanghai People's publishing house

. In August, "one meter higher for Wumingshan" and "I love contemporary art" were invited to participate in the East and West China contemporary art exhibition. On September 2, he won the best rock artist and the top ten records of the year in the 2010 Chinese Golden Melody Award for "event"

. On September 3, he was named GQ magazine's person of the year and pop musician of the year. In the same year, his contemporary art works successively participated in Arles' photography season in Beijing - caochangchang, collection retrospective exhibition of Shanghai ZENGDA Art Museum, Wenzhou seven space exhibition, Nanjing image exhibition, three shadow hall works exhibition, Nanjing "can be more poetic" exhibition, Suzhou "Chinese character - Exhibition"

. In March 2011, she and Ai Weiwei appeared on the cover of Elleman magazine. On June 26, he was awarded the award of "cultural China" for ten years by Oriental Morning Post. On August 20, the book Zuo Xiaozu's mantra was published by Shanghai Education Publishing House, and also appeared on the cover of music time and space. nine

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