Cheng Zhi
Cheng Zhi
Cheng Zhi, a native of Hongan, Hubei Province, was born in 1946. He is a famous tenor, a member of China Musicians Association and a first-class actor of PLA General Administration singing and dancing troupe.
He joined the Chinese people's Liberation Army in 1962, joined the General Administration song and dance troupe in 1965, graduated from the Opera Department of the Central Conservatory of music in 1983, and studied under Professor Shen Xiang, a famous vocal music educator.
Cheng Zhi has performed and visited all over the world as a Chinese artist for many times. He has held individual concerts in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Hong Kong and other places, and is famous in today's singing world for his skillful skills and brilliant voice. The second season of Hebei satellite TV's large-scale music reality show "good folk songs of China" is coming. Mo Longdan and the famous tenor Cheng Zhi's songs bring you unprecedented hearing enjoyment.
Acting experience
There is no "puppy love" complex between Cheng Zhi and music. He was born in Hongan, Hubei Province. His father was the old Red Army who took part in the revolution in 1929 and major general Cheng Qiwen who was awarded the title in 1961. His mother was also a "38 style" cadre.
Cheng Zhi is deeply influenced by his love of military and martial arts. Since he was a child, he didn't like music very much, and even misunderstood it. He thought that singing and dancing was a girl's little sentiment. As a man, I should aspire to the military camp and advocate the powerful style of marching with a sword and a gun.
He neglected or even despised music lessons, and his music scores were so low that he stepped into the gate of the General Administration song and dance troupe. The music teacher of the primary school sighed, "Oh, can Cheng Zhi still sing? Why didn't I find out? "
At the end of 1961, 16-year-old Cheng Zhi went to a mountain camp in Qinzhou, Guangxi, and became a soldier in the cavalry reconnaissance class of the secret service company. The camp life not only honed Cheng Zhi's excellent military quality, but also developed his singing voice with a little talent. Singing is indispensable in the army's meals and meetings. Cheng Zhi's mouth is more vivid than others.
He has a special ability of music memory and imitation. He loves to watch movies. After watching a movie and listening to an episode, he can skillfully talk about the melody. He often wins the praise of his comrades in arms when he is always singing, and is favored by amateur propaganda teams. Every time a company holds a party or a military and local party, there are more and more opportunities for Cheng Zhi to sing. In this way, he became a company singer.
At this time, Cheng Zhi was a real music layman, and he didn't even know the music score. If the propaganda team wanted him to sing a new song, he had to be taught. He thought that singing should start from the bass, and then gradually rise to become a tenor. He didn't even know whether Ma Yutao was a man or a woman. Once, Director Mao of the propaganda team asked him to sing "horse, slow down". He said, "I've read the song book. It's a girl's song." In order to be smooth, Director Mao sent the work down and said, "how can it be a female voice? This song was sung by Comrade Ma Yutao. As soon as Comrade Ma Yutao sang this song, he couldn't get off the stage. Think about it, is Comrade Ma Yutao a man or a woman This time, Cheng Zhi had no bottom in his heart. Listening to the tone of the Secretary, he might be a man, so he accepted the task happily. Singing, hey, it's really a bit "male Ma Yutao".
Main works
Characters and deeds
After picking up the name of a company singer, Cheng Zhi has no intention of going to art. In April 1965, the General Administration song and dance troupe sent a small team to a troop in the mountains to perform. Once, when the detachment got together with the company, their comrades in arms yelled, "Cheng zhilai, one of them!" In the face of a group of professional eaters, how dare he go to "250" stage. However, he couldn't resist the advice of the leaders and comrades in arms. He said, "let's be bright and ugly." unexpectedly, when his singing voice showed up, he shocked those experts, which made the team leader Ma Xuan marvel. Ma Xuan finds Cheng Zhi and asks, "kid, who taught you to sing?" Cheng Zhi said, "I learned from the movies. I can't sing well. I can't hum." Ma Xuan said, "you have a good voice. It's good to sing like this." Ma Xuan is not just an encouragement to an amateur singer, but with his keen sense of art, insight into Cheng Zhi's great talent in vocal music.
In the program, Mo Longdan sang "the night of the military harbor" and "the song of fishing light", while his partner Cheng Zhi sang the pop songs "love like tide" and "legend".
Cheng Zhi is lucky. Ma Xuan, out of cherishing and loving a piece of jade, spent more than half a year running and twists and turns to create conditions for Cheng Zhi's success. He even went to Cheng Zhi's home in person to persuade his parents to allow him to switch to singing. All this is unknown to Cheng Zhi. When a tune from the General Administration song and dance troupe came, Cheng was quite surprised. He had no idea that Ma Xuan, a teacher in Beijing, valued him so much. He is not prepared, but since it has become a fact, he should obey the arrangement of the organization. As a result, he accidentally and passively entered the chorus of the General Administration song and dance troupe and became a chorus actor. From then on, he had an indissoluble bond with singing.
Cheng Zhi's consistent rule is that if you don't do it, you have to do it well. Since he was "discovered" from the mountains and went to sing in the capital, he should be worthy of himself. His voice is 1.82 meters higher than that of him. When he sings, he is still in the original state of being pruned. He is a monk on the way and has no knowledge of music theory. He is just an amateur method in a professional team. What should I do? Aren't you ready to learn? Fortunately, there are so many experts in the capital that he never let go of any teachers he can find. With an open mind, he studied hard, corrected hard, and made a lot of efforts, which soon brought him up to the level of the company's singers. However, the good times are not long. The "Cultural Revolution" wave is surging, the whole country is in chaos, and the capital, which is on the crest of the wave, is in chaos. But Cheng Zhi shut the noise of "revolution" out of the window and still practiced singing.
The violence of the pseudo revolutionaries is publicized everywhere, and the difficulty and hopelessness of the search on the road of vocal music make Cheng Zhi feel that his future is dim and his heart is extremely bitter. He asked for advice, and the answer was, "Why are you so ignorant of current affairs? What's the time to learn that? Revolution He thought: my purpose is to sing. Now that I can't sing, I can't find a way to learn art. What's the point of staying here? So the report was submitted to the general for a simple and sufficient reason: the next unit was trained.
The red line of art, Cheng Zhi went to an independent division in Hunan, first in the amateur propaganda team, and then transferred to the basketball team, "Empathy" changed to play basketball. After a brief farewell, another miraculous chance made Cheng Zhi, who had been playing basketball for half a year, break and continue his red line with art.
It turned out that Chen Guoqiang, a member of the propaganda team of Hunan Military Region, often asked Cheng Zhi for advice on some vocal music problems. Later, he went to the "maritime culture team" of Guangzhou Military Region, and his singing voice was highly appreciated by the group. Asked who he studied, he replied, "that's how Cheng Zhi taught singing." As soon as the other party listens to it, Chen Guoqiang's singing is already quite popular. That Cheng Zhi must not be bad. The "maritime culture team" needs talents, so it has the idea of "digging" for Cheng Zhi. The team was first established by Comrade Tao Zhu, and then Huang Yongsheng and Lin Biao joined in one after another. They became famous for a time and were known as "light cavalry of maritime culture". Cheng Zhi went to Guangzhou in such a strange way, and fortunately met his real enlightening mentor Cen Bing, who ushered in the turning point of his vocal art. CEN Bing is a famous tenor and educator in China. He has brought out a group of star disciples such as Wei Wei, Mou Xuanfu, Zhu Mingying and Zhu Jinzhuan. Thanks to his scientific enlightenment and wisdom, Cheng Zhi began to use scientific techniques to control and tap his mysterious and difficult voice, and entered the realm of art from the kingdom of nature. Although teachers are rare, they don't get along for long. In 1971, Lin Biao broke down and became a "cultural light cavalry" who was once regarded as a "red flag" by him. When the flag fell and the people scattered, Cheng Zhi was at a loss again.
The modern Cheng Zhi, fortunately, the General Administration song and dance troupe resumed normal performance at this time, and Cheng Zhi's name was once again put on the chorus roster of the song and dance troupe. With Cheng Zhi's skill, he is not satisfied with the chorus way of tying a lot of people's voices together. He constantly "decorates" his voice to make it more vivid. With a salary of just over 60 yuan, he saved and saved money. He borrowed and bought thousands of yuan of tape recorders, sang and recorded by himself, and then compared them with records repeatedly. He savored and chewed them carefully, and slowly explored and corrected them. In pursuit of better recording effect, he followed the renewal of tape recorders with his shriveled wallet, and bought them one by one according to the latest products, so that he became a "big debtor". The recorder, Cheng Zhi, is still in good condition. These speechless teachers have recorded the track of his singing level rising to a new level.
Social evaluation
World famous tenor, President of New York opera house
Beverly Hills
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BeveryBechi
）She praised him as "a rare tenor"; a famous vocal master and Italian baritone singer
Bergino
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GinoBechi
）He was praised as "a rare tenor, a real Italian bel canto"; the New York Times of the United States commented that he was "the freshest and cleanest lyric and heroic tenor I have rarely heard in many years", and "a threat from the East" in the world today.
Cheng Zhi's singing is clear, the voice is solid and bright, the treble is brilliant and beautiful, and it has metal like penetrability. He skillfully mastered the traditional Italian bel canto, and freely controlled the volume and timbre of different sound areas. He was not only able to sing the aria of Western opera with large amplitude and strong strength, but also applied the scientific sound production method to artistic songs and folk songs (especially Chinese works) with different styles.
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