Zhao Lei
essential information
Early experience
Zhao Lei came into contact with music and studied guitar in high school. He traveled through Shaanxi, Gansu, Yunnan and Tibet, accumulating profound knowledge and humanistic nourishment for the road of music.
In 2003, 17-year-old Zhao Lei, carrying his favorite guitar, started his underground singing life by shuttling or staying in the underground passage of Beijing.
In 2007, Zhao Lei began to travel through China's Sichuan, Tibet and Yunnan regions. On his way, he wrote such works as the train to Beijing and biting spring.
Acting experience
In 2009, Zhao Lei participated in the national tour of "sketch and wear music"; in the same year, he founded the anti beat music studio.
From May 1 to 3, 2010, Zhao Lei participated in Beijing strawberry Music Festival and Beijing Midi Music Festival, which attracted attention. In August, he first sang the songs "Taji Khan" and "painting" in Changsha singing area to obtain pass card, but Changsha singing area cancelled pass card due to contract problems, so Zhao Lei chose to move to Guangzhou singing area, and sang the original songs "painting" and "painting" Miss Fang and snowman have been promoted to the top 20 in China and stopped in the top 12 in China. The dandelion stage finale of Changyang Music Festival was held in Fangshan, Beijing on September 22.
In July 2011, Zhao Lei released his first album "Zhao Xiaolei", the main song "southern girl" included in the album; from July 27 to 29, Zhao Lei participated in Zhangbei grassland Music Festival; on December 4, Zhao Lei held his first personal album release in candy.
On September 20, 2012, Zhao Lei performed Zhao Zhao's "2012 new album" rough "Beijing premiere and national tour" and sang "winter in Beijing" with his mentor Zhao Zhao. From October to November, Zhao Lei, as the founder of the "ten wheel motorcycle tour", launched a motorcycle rock tour with Haozi, Xiaomeng, Guanqi, Xudong and others. He started from Chengdu to Guangzhou through 20 cities and performed 11 performances in 30 days.
In 2013, Zhao Lei conducted a personal 44 station national tour. The third station of the tour was held in Yantai "little lighthouse cafe" on September 10, which became the first personal concert held in the cafe in Yantai.
In January 2014, Zhao Lei took part in "good Chinese songs" as a folk singer, and his original song "painting" was selected by Liu Huan and included in Liu Huan's original album "new nine beats"; from April to may, he took part in "Yangtze River International Music Festival"; in May, Zhao Lei took part in Hong Kong Youth Music Festival, sharing the same stage with Xie Anqi, Zhang Liangying, Ji kejunyi, Wang Zhengliang, etc. In the same year, he released his second album, Jim's restaurant. On October 26, Zhao Lei came to Shenyang station of national tour with his album to tell the story of Jim's restaurant in his heart with music. In November, Zhao Lei released the album's first single MV "our time".
Zhao Lei's singing pictures
In January 2015, Zhao Lei held a series of mini live concerts in Jinan, Shandong Province. In September, Zhao Lei released the single "never go to Lijiang again". In November, Zhao Lei's "our time" National Theater tour was officially launched, which lasted two months. On November 27, Xi'an station and November 29, Nanjing station were successfully completed, and the performances went through 13 cities, He won the titles of "Golden Melody of the year" and "most popular musician of the year" selected by microblog musician network.
In March 2016, Taiwan live music Co., Ltd. hosted the first live performance of "Taiwan studio".
On January 21, 2017, Zhao Lei released the album "can't grow up"; in February, Zhao Lei participated in the third issue of Hunan Satellite TV variety show "singer" and successfully broke through the siege by singing the song "Chengdu"; on July 20, Zhao Lei's "Chengdu" won the CMA annual song award of the first singing Committee Music Award; on November 18, he held a "floating" concert in Beijing Workers' Stadium.
On December 18, 2019, Zhao Leixin's single little man was officially launched on the music platform.
Personal life
Zhao Lei was born in a traditional Beijing family. His parents are both business people, and they are not strict with Zhao Lei's teaching. Therefore, Zhao Lei chose to sing in the underground passage, and his parents did not object. After graduating from high school, Zhao Lei received the admission notice from the University, but he resolutely gave up and continued to insist on music.
Main works
Music Album
Concert record
variety show
Award winning record
Character evaluation
Zhao Lei's music is full of ruffian ridicule, simple and straightforward. Ci writing and arrangement are simple and frank. They are good at describing the details of life and have a strong sense of picture. (21CN News)
Born and raised in Beijing, Zhao Lei's music works have the cultural temperament of traditional Beijing Hutong, just like his silent character, simple and frank. The lyrics are mainly in line drawing, and the arrangements are simple and concise. The themes are all good at the details of life. They are not artificial, affectable and grounded. (Tencent online review)
As a new generation of creators, Zhao Lei's unique charm has attracted many young fans' long-term attention. His lyrics have both deep thinking and beautiful writing skills, clear information, catchy melody make the audience full of identity, and the natural style of expressing emotion with music accumulated in recent years' tour makes his performance more fluent and moving. After watching Zhao Lei's performance, the masters and musicians behind the scenes praised him as a pioneer of independent musicians. (Netease review)
Every ballad in Zhao Lei's album "can't grow up" is a true story, because he likes to write real things. It is also because of this, with the vicissitudes of a low voice, coupled with straightforward, simple lyrics, touched the hearts of countless people's soft. (Guangming online review)
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