Bobida

essential information

Early experience

Bob was born in a musical family. His father worked as a musician in Shanghai for many years. Later he moved to Hong Kong, where he was born. When she was five years old, her mother unexpectedly found that bobbida was standing on a chair with a knitting needle as a baton and was intoxicated. She thought that the child might have musical talent, so she sent bobbida to learn piano. Since then, bobbida and the piano can not be separated. To support his family, he began to work in music at the age of seven - playing saxophone, guitar, bass and percussion instruments in nightclubs. He became a professional musician when he was more than ten years old, and later became the youngest music foreman in many famous hotels and nightclubs in Asia. Since the 1970s, besides performing live, bobida has also begun to set foot in the pop music industry. The melodies and arrangements created are often regarded as the works of Changqing, which makes people never tire of listening to them. In 1984, bobida took part in Taiwan's music production for the first time, the soundtrack of the TV series "Yang Guifei". The lead singer of the theme song "a generation of beautiful women" was Miss Tang Lanhua, who was very popular at that time. Since then, bobida has gradually become active in Taiwan's pop music industry. "I am a professional, and I also hope that the singer is a professional. If I meet an unprofessional singer, or if a professional singer has unprofessional opinions, the work will be difficult to continue." That's what bobida said. bobida doesn't speak Putonghua well, but his words are not tactful at all; he spares no effort in praising and merciless in criticizing. This may have something to do with the personality created by his birth background. Although he is well-known in the Chinese music world, he is a Filipino who does not know Chinese and holds a British passport. In 1975, he became the music director of Hong Kong Keyi EMI record company, composing, arranging and producing music for its singers. In 1978, he returned to school and majored in composition and composition at Berkeley College of music in Boston. After graduation, he transferred to dickgrove's workshop in Los Angeles to study film soundtrack and music industry.

Acting experience

In the early 1980s, Xuecheng returned to Hong Kong and participated in the production of front-line singers such as Xu Guanjie, Xu Xiaofeng, Chen Baiqiang, Zhang Guorong, Lin Zixiang, ye Qianwen, Jennie and Anita Mui, and served as music director and conductor for many large-scale activities. In 1984, bobida took part in the original music production of Taiwan TV series "Yang Guifei" for the first time. The main singer of the theme song "a generation of beautiful women" is Tang Lanhua. Since then, he has been active in Taiwan's pop music industry. In the early 1990s, he signed a contract with rolling stone records to become a producer, as well as a composer and arranger. In 1993, he played music for the film "new no love", and the theme song "new no love", which was sung by Wan Fang, became a popular song. At the same time, he was employed as music director by Zhengda international in Beijing, China. In 1993, he was employed as music director by Chia Tai International in Beijing, China. In 1995, bobbida set up a studio in Taipei. Shortly after that, she was commissioned to be the producer of Coco Lee's album. As a result, the song "love of the past", which was composed, arranged and produced by bobbida, became a hot song after its release. The album "CoCo Lee" set a sales record of 600000 + and established CoCo Lee's position as a queen in Asia. Later, bobida successively participated in the production of Coco Lee's "every time I miss you" (1997), "CoCo Lee" (Guangdong album) (1998), "sunny day in a good mood" (1998), "didadi hint" (1998), "today forever" (1999) and "true love" (2000). In the past few years, bobida has been very active in Taiwan's music industry. Besides CoCo Lee, bobida has worked as a producer for Xiao Yaxuan, Ke Yimin, Chen Xiaodong, Zhang Xinzhe, Zhao Yonghua, Cai Qin and Suri. In the production of performance music, including the oboe album by Wang Songen, the artist of bobida music studio, the piano album by Chen Guanyu, the pipa by Lu Xiuling and the erhu album by Wen Jinlong, etc. He is also a producer of Xiao Yaxuan, Ke Yimin, Chen Xiaodong, Zhang Xinzhe, Zhao Yonghua, Cai Qin and Suri. In 1997, he was the music director of the celebration of the establishment of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region. In 1998, he cooperated with Taiwan's guotuo theater for the first time to create the song and dance drama "angel never sleeps city". Besides composing and arranging music, he also acted as the conductor and keyboard player during the performance, and achieved success at the box office or in word-of-mouth. In 1999, he returned to Hong Kong to help Xu Guanjie produce the creative musical "Rhapsody of midsummer night". After that, bobida took part in such dramas as "Danshui town", "light of the city" and "Shanghai at night". In 2006, she cooperated with the Hong Kong Ballet Company to produce the ballet musical "Susi Huang". In 2003, he published a piano playing album "love song macchido". in 2008, he created a torch song for Beijing Olympic Games, which is called "lighting passion and passing on dreams". In 2011, he composed music for the whole symphony of Phoenix Satellite TV and produced "Nirvana of Phoenix - Celebration Party of Phoenix Satellite TV's 15th anniversary". on October 26, 2019, he was invited to participate in the Phoenix Satellite TV miss China global competition as a judge, with Lu Yu and Li Dongtian on the same stage. On December 12, 2019, baobida was invited to participate in the concert of classic ancient poetry of "harmonizing poetry with songs" and performed the song "youziyin" with singers Hanzi, Liu Hanzhi and young singer Yang Liya.

Historical memory

Baobida's name is associated with a large number of singers in the 1970s and 1980s, such as Chen Baiqiang, Zhang Guorong, Lin Zixiang, ye Qianwen, etc., which makes us lead the songs in these long forgotten memories. Today we may have entered another field of music, but these are also the past experiences.

studio

In 1995, bobida studio was founded, and began to devote itself to the development of fever music market beyond pop music. "Meet - when bobida meets Cai Qin" was the album that was widely talked about by fans before. In fact, as early as the 1980s, bobida and Warner cooperated to release their first solo album. At that time, it was very rare for Hong Kong to release a record for a musician who couldn't sing. Bobida was a pioneering work. Today, over 50 years old, bobbida can clearly draw a "marching path" in his 30 years of music career: "Hong Kong Taiwan mainland". Many of his contemporaries have chosen to retire, but he always continues his music dream in a changing state of life. Baobida said: "my music should have Chinese elements"!

Achievement and honor

He won the best film and music award at the 46th Asia Pacific Film Festival for "running at night", which is the biggest praise for his 15 years of struggle in Taiwan. In his acceptance speech, bobida said: "I was very excited and surprised to be recognized by the Asia Pacific Film Festival after 15 years of struggle in Taiwan, because it was a bit hasty to finish the work within two weeks when I took the task. But since I won the award, I hope that in the future I can strengthen the awareness of filmmakers about the soundtrack We should pay more attention to it. " He began to receive classical piano training at the age of 5. In 1978, he went to Berkeley Conservatory of music in Boston, USA, majoring in composition and arrangement. After graduation, he transferred to digrove Music Workshop in Los Angeles to study film music and music industry.

Chen Jieli

In 2006, rainforest records invited baobida to make arrangements for Chen Jieli's new album "baobida and Chen Jieli". This was a seamless cooperation between baobida and Chen Jieli. With baobida's arrangement and piano accompaniment, Chen Jieli sang 12 golden songs including Mandarin and Cantonese. Her singing and accompaniment recording reached fever level, which is another good disc worth having. on January 14, 2019, the theme song "the wind" of the movie "the king of new comedy" was composed by Chris Babida.

Personal life

Cai Qin is the first woman in bobida's friends series. Cai Qin, who has been fighting in the singing world for three years, answers the fans' expectation with a sentence "good things are worth waiting for". Cai Qin, who has published 35 albums, incarnated as Tianya girl in this attack. Half of her songs are created by bobida and the other half are so-called "classic old songs". For example, in about winter, leaving sadness to herself, not feeling, moving heart, etc., she also makes interesting metaphors about the encounter between her three years of study and bobida. In addition to reinterpreting the songs sung by male singers in the 1980s with a clean female voice, Cai Qin also sang bobida's new Taiwanese work "old melody". How does Cai Qin, who is sensitive, communicate with bobida, who is not fluent in Mandarin? I didn't expect that, with a simple answer: "it's goodby & Hello!" On the day of her hair, Mr. Zhao was unable to come to the United States because of her boyfriend, Mr. Zhao. Instead of being present in the United States, his friend Winston Chao came to the scene to present flowers, put on the perfume lily expression, and Winston Chao also offered kisses. Cai Qin, who was usually contacted by overseas telephone contacts, admitted that he had had the idea of marriage. But because the record company did not allow her to cancel the idea. the name of Chang Qingshu and Taiwan singer Cai Qin is always closely related to "fever". Cai Qin's voice is mellow, natural, affectionate, quiet and moving, which naturally becomes the favorite of fans. all

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