The Flowers

essential information

Early experience

Wang Wenbo and Zhang Wei are junior high school classmates. Zhang Wei studied vocal music in his early years, won many awards and joined the chorus. Later, he began to learn guitar after he came into contact with rock music. Wang Wenbo studied piano since childhood and began to play drum in junior high school. He completed junior high school in 1998 and was admitted to vocational high school to study hairdressing. Guo Yang studied bass and photography. After graduation, he worked in a studio. A year later, he resigned and began to participate in some band rehearsals. Later, he joined Huaer band through Wang Wenbo's introduction.

Acting experience

In February 1998, Hua'er band was discovered by Hong Feng, the boss of "New Bee Music" in the bar, and Hua'er band was officially established. On March 28, Hua'er band performed in Beijing "busy bee" bar for the first time. In July, at the invitation of rolling stone, it recorded "School is over" and included in the collection of "China Fire (3)".

The flowers released the flowers' the first album "happiness next to" in the Chinese mainland in January 18, 1999. In the same year, the original version of the flowers' elimination was also selected as the theme song in the Taiwan youth movie brokendownpalace, and the overseas edition of the flower band's "school break" in December 16th.

In 2000, Huaer band appeared in the first issue of Playboy magazine's international Chinese edition, during which CNN and the Wall Street Journal conducted interviews and special reports on Huaer band; in January, 1998, Huaer band's album "flowers, birds, fish and insects" appeared on the market; in February, it began to produce demo for its second album "Strawberry Statement"; on September 16, 1998, Huaer band's album "flowers, birds, fish and insects" appeared on the market On December 25, the group's first EP record "Christmas Eve" was released.

In September 2001, member Shi Xingyu officially joined the flower band as a guitarist. In July 2002, Time magazine, with the theme of "young Chinese", made a large-scale report on Huaer band.

In April 2004, he signed EMI EMI EMI EMI to define the band style teenpop; on June 25, he released EMI EMI EMI's first album "I am your Romeo"; in August, his main song "just in time" won the top four titles of "Chinese song list", "global Chinese song list", "Sprite my choice of Chinese original music pop list" and "Guangdong music pioneer list"; in September He went to Taiwan for the first time and won the "most popular Orchestra of the year" award in the 4th global Chinese Songs List; in November, he won the "most style pioneer music trend Award" of CCTV · MTV2 super grand ceremony.

In January 2005, he won the most popular band award in China's song list, and the song "just right" won the top 15 golden melody in China's song list; on March 12, he won the "2004 most popular band Gold Award" in Guangdong music pioneer list, and the song "just right" won the top 10 Golden Melody Award; on March 19, he won the "2004 best band" in Shanghai Oriental fashion list; on April 18, he won the third Golden Melody Four "Sprite my choice" Chinese original music pop charts "Best Band Award", the song "just right" won the "mainland Golden Melody Award"; on April 22, it won the "mainland most popular Orchestra" in China top ranking of 2004 music radio; in August, the MV of the song "Butterfly fly" was invited by MTV channel of the United States and premiered on the big screen of times square in New York.

On October 26, 2006, he released his special album "Huatian Huo Shi"; on December 15, he won the annual avant-garde Composition Award of "9 + 2 music pioneer list" award ceremony of Guangdong radio music voice in 2006; on the same month 16, he won the best composition award of the mainland at the award ceremony of the second "heroes on campus" of Shanghai Oriental TV station.

On January 14, 2007, the first wireless music club award ceremony was held in Beijing Guangming, and won the best combination Award; on January 20, 2007, it won the best band in mainland China at the annual award ceremony of Chengdu sprite China original song list; on January 23, 2007, it won the top ten Golden Songs; on the same month, it won the most popular band in mainland China at Beijing Music Station 2006 Beijing pop music ceremony, "my juice is yours." "Half" won the top ten golden tunes; on the 25th of the same month, it won the best band award in mainland China at the award ceremony of the 13th Global Chinese Songs List in Shanghai; on the 28th of September, it released the album "flower age grand gathering"; in October, it won the most popular Golden Melody Award and the most popular group / Orchestra award of the year in the 7th Global Chinese songs list, which is also the award of Zen band for three consecutive times.

At the end of July 2008, Huaer band made the costume comedy "Royal tattoo", with Zhang Wei, Guo Yang and Wang Wenbo playing three "stunt" gangsters respectively. On June 21, 2009, Hua'er band held a farewell party opposite the former site of busy bee, announcing the formal dissolution of Hua'er band. On November 14, 2009, Hua'er band held a ten-year concert in Beijing Workers' Stadium.

On July 30, 2020, the new Huaer band will be formed by the lead singer Wang Wenbo, bassist Guo Yang and guitarist Zhu Lijie, and the new song "the nearest distance" will be released.

Main works

Music Album

Concert record

variety show

Magazine Photo

Award winning record

Character evaluation

As the spokesperson of teenagers, Huaer band has won the recognition of young audiences for their lively, lovely and lively image. (sina.com) Huaer band is regarded as "pistachio" by everyone and brings too much joy to people (sohu.com).

Before its dissolution in 2009, the beautiful and audible stage image of Huaer band was deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. They draw on the profound humor of folk art to enrich their own funny style, and do not blindly follow the "Chinese style" in the music market. Different from the classical Chinese style adopted by most of the "Chinese style", they use the traditional folk art techniques freely and transparently, creating their own school in the pop music market (Tencent).

Character controversy

Plagiarism

In late February 2006, 13 songs in the two albums of Huaer band were suspected of plagiarism. On March 14, four songs of Huaer band were identified as plagiarism. On the same day, EMI and its lead singer Zhang Wei issued a statement admitting that the music was defective. EMI announced that it had reached an agreement with Sony to share the copyright of "hee Shua Shua". On the evening of the 16th, EMI issued an open letter to major media, admitting the fact of "plagiarism", apologizing and withdrawing from all awards ceremonies in China that year. Some people say that this is actually the Revenge of Xinfeng music, the former owner of Huaer. Many people in the media have received emails from Xinfeng music listing the plagiarism of Huaer band.

Fight door

On June 13, 2007, a netizen announced a video of the fight between the lead singer and the members of Huaer band. People related to EMI records admitted that after the "plagiarism" incident, Hua'er was faced with great pressure, especially Zhang Wei's demand for the album was particularly high. At that time, they were discussing some problems about the recording of the album. Because of some differences, the conflict happened and soon it was all right.

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