Hu Defu
essential information
Character experience
During the period of study
Hu Defu was born in 1950 to an Aboriginal family in Dawu Mountain, taimari, Taitung County. He stayed in the tribe of Dawu Mountain until he was 11 years old. Until the age of 11, he left the tribe for the first time and went to Tanjiang middle school. Tanjiang middle school (complete middle school) is a church school with a choir. In order to sing, he joined the choir. Under the care of the principal, he was able to practice the piano in the school piano room. During his study, a Canadian teacher who taught spiritual songs gave him a lot of music materials to listen to.
In 1968, Hu Defu entered the Department of foreign languages of National Taiwan University. As soon as he entered university, he fell in love with English folk songs and western music.
In 1970, because of his father's urgent need for surgery, Hu De Fu dropped out of school to make money. It happened that Wan Shalang, the singer, returned to the singing world after his military service and needed a chorus man to reorganize the band. Hu Defu was recruited to play the electronic organ chorus for WAN Shalang in the band.
Folk Song Movement
(unknown year) after wanshalang became famous, he did not continue to play and sing, and the band was officially disbanded. While working for two jobs, hudev also sang Western songs in the coffee shop of Columbia station, and gradually became famous. Even some TV stations interviewed him.
I met Lee in the 1970s. Li shuangze advised Hu Defu to sing less English songs and more Beinan's own songs. Li shuangze's suggestion made Hu Defu have a new understanding of music. Under the encouragement of Li shuangze, Hu Defu tried to create folk songs such as "the child on the back of the ox" (1974) and "Maple Leaf" (1977). He and his friends Li shuangze and Yang Xian set off an upsurge of local music creation in Taiwan, which had a profound impact on Taiwan and even the whole Chinese music world. This movement was later known as the "Folk Song Movement". The Folk Song Movement laid the foundation for the later popular music in Taiwan, so Hu Defu was called "the father of Taiwan folk songs", and together with Yang Xian and Li shuangze, he was called "the three gentlemen of Folk Song Movement".
In 1974, Hu Defu held a concert, becoming the first singer in Taiwan to hold a solo concert.
On June 6, 1975, Hu Defu and Yang Xian held a modern folk song concert at Zhongshan Hall in Taipei, which became a landmark event of the "campus folk song" movement. Under the influence of Hu Defu and Yang Xian, a large number of musicians such as ye Jiaxiu, Liang Hongzhi and Shi Xiaorong emerged, and then Taiwan Music entered the era of pop music.
In September 1977, Li shuangze drowned in the Tanjiang River before he finished recording "beautiful island". Hu Defu and folk song singer Yang zujun recorded the song overnight and played it at Li shuangze's farewell ceremony. Soon after, the "Meili Island incident" broke out, and the song was identified by the authorities as a "Taiwan independence" song. Since then, it has been banned. Hu Defu and Yang zujun have also become "problem singers" and have been banned.
Aboriginal movement
In 1977, Hu Defu participated in the social activity of "caring for young prostitutes in Taiwan" initiated by Yang zujun to raise money for Aboriginal girls who were sold to cities as young prostitutes.
In 1982, he served as the convener of the ethnic minority Committee of the non party editorial Federation.
In 1983, Hu Defu began to participate in non party sports groups as an aborigine. He took advantage of non party magazines and various performances to inform the society of the situation of the aborigines.
When Haishan coal mine exploded in 1984, Hu Defu personally participated in the rescue. Seeing the dead miners, he was greatly stimulated. He wrote the song "why", questioning the oppression of the government and the mainstream society on the indigenous people, and completely embarked on the road of "original movement". At the end of the same year, he participated in the establishment of the Taiwan Aboriginal Rights Promotion Association, the first group in Taiwan to appeal for aboriginal human rights (formerly known as the Association for Aboriginal Rights). After the establishment of the original Council, Hu Defu successively promoted the "name rectification movement", "returning our land" and "striving for the seat of the aboriginal Legislative Council". It is required to change the usage of "mountain compatriots" and restore the traditional names of people and tribal places. As a result, Hu Defu became the focus of the authorities and was bugged, followed, and his family was threatened.
In 1987, Taiwan ended its 38 year period of martial law. In order to win over the leaders of the movement, the Taiwan government assigned "leisure work" to Hu Defu, who refused to register with the aborigines at the county level.
After 1990, Hu Defu published the song "Bu Bu Ge" in the blacklist studio's album "Lullaby", devoted to collecting and learning the traditional songs of Beinan, Paiwan, AMI and other ethnic groups, and studied the creative direction of "Hai Yang Blues".
From 1999 to 2000, he participated in the "aboriginal tribes working team".
Because Hu Defu promoted many aboriginal movements, he was called "pioneer of aboriginal movement" by the media.
Return to music
In 1997, in the collection of "born on July 1st" published by Shanghua records, Hu De Fu recorded his work "the furthest road", which was composed by himself.
In 1998, he went to Spain for national music exchange.
In 2000, he cooperated with Moyan records in the aboriginal singers' singing collection "Yuan Chao Chao", performed Taiwan Aboriginal music with Guo Yingnan and Ma Lan's singing team in Tokyo, Japan, and served as a special lecturer of ethnic music at the third national cultural conference of Aboriginal college youth. Since then, he has focused on the Renaissance movement of Aboriginal music, singing his native songs in concerts around the world.
In 2001, the "wildfire" concert was performed on campus tour.
In 2002, "Moonlight, friends and music gathering of Taipei House" was performed in the concert.
In 2003, he was invited by Taiwan Tourism Association to perform music for overseas visiting tour groups.
On May 17, 2004, Taiwan University Gymnasium cloister cafe and Japanese jazz geek Yukio Harada jointly held a small concert.
On April 15, 2005, Hu Defu released his first solo album rush, and held a solo concert in Taipei.
In 2006, Hu Defu won six nominations for the Taiwan Golden Melody Awards, and won the best song of the year and the best lyrics for "in a hurry".
In 2012, a concert was held in Shenzhen. On June 21, he performed in the "Chengdu voice world stage" of Chengdu da'ai Music Festival. From September 8 to 18, "dawushan Blues talk and sing private sharing meeting" was held in Beijing, Guangzhou and Shanghai. On November 17, "dawushan Blues" concert was held in Shenzhen concert hall.
On August 17, 2013, he attended and performed in "China Rizhao Ocean International Music Festival". On December 14, as a guest of performance, he attended the "2013 China dream practitioner salute ceremony" and sang three songs including "beautiful rice ear". In the same year, he sang the theme song "Guo fan" for the documentary "going to Nanyang".
On February 21, 2014, a concert of "Zhong Ge · Zhong Ge" was held in Taipei Concert Hall. In November, he won the "outstanding contribution award" awarded by the first Chinese folk song award and performed in the "Award music festival" on December 6. On December 26, Hu Defu's third solo album, fragrant Valley, was released in Taiwan. On December 30, he held a lecture on "Music Lecture Hall 1 of Star Asia New Year Music Festival" in Guangdong University of foreign studies, and performed in the "Star Asia New Year Music Festival" the next day.
On January 22, 2015, the musical film "long time no respect for me, you" performed by Hu Defu as a guest star premiered in Taiwan. On March 21, the mainland version of fragrant valley was officially released. On May 24, he participated in and performed in the Music Salon "memories, time migration - stories about time and songs" in Xinyi District, Taipei. On October 24, the 20th Anniversary Concert of "Yellow River ballad" was held in Beijing, with Hu Defu as the guest. On November 24, the nomination of the 16th Chinese Music Media Awards was announced, and Hu Defu was shortlisted for four awards. On December 4, a special concert of "fragrant Valley" was held in Shenzhen concert hall. On December 26, he participated in the public welfare concert of "sounds of nature, let the world hear".
Personal life
Hu Defu was born in the Nanwang tribe of Dawu Mountain in Taimali, Taitung. His father was a Beinan nationality and his mother was a Paiwan nationality. Therefore, he called himself a "beipai nationality". He left his hometown in Taitung at the age of 11 and returned to his hometown after the typhoon in 2009.
His wife, Mu WA, is a Bunun nationality. She met with Hu Defu in 2001. After four years, she got a marriage certificate and became Hu Defu's third wife. Mu wa has been calling her husband Hu Defu "teacher".
He was the first missionary in the tribe. After Hu Defu graduated from primary school, he could have gone to Taidong middle school to study in junior high school. His brother insisted that he take the church children's examination, so that he could get the chance to study in Taipei.
In the early 1970s, Hu Defu dropped out of the Department of foreign languages at National Taiwan University. He and his friends opened Taiwan's first Teppanyaki restaurant "Lost City" in Taipei.
Main works
Music Album
Take part in the film
variety show
Concert record
social activities
In 1994, the local residents of pingdongma hometown in Taitung City launched an anti reservoir movement to protect the local villages. Hu Defu and the press corps organized by China times held vigils together to prevent the authorities from carrying out construction.
After the "921" earthquake in 1999, Hu Defu created "flying fish and clouded leopard Taipei Basin" to encourage the people in the disaster area to rebuild their homes, and formed a flying fish and clouded leopard troupe with yunlisi and other singers, and went to various tribes in groups to connect and organize, calling on people to protect their hometown.
Award winning
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Hu Defu
