Cui Jian
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Early experience
On August 2, 1961, he was born into a Korean family in Xingfu village in the eastern suburb of Beijing. His father regretted that his son could not be born on the day of army day, and changed his birthday from August 2 to August 1. Cui Jian's original name was Cui Jianjun. Later, Cui Jian thought that the name had no personality, so he changed it to Cui Jian. Cui Jian's father Cui xiongji is a professional trumpet player, and his mother Zhang Shunhua is a member of the Korean dance company. His parents' Chinese proficiency is not very high, which also caused Cui Jian's stuttering in his childhood. With the transfer of Cui xiongji's work, his family has lived in Xingfu village, Dengshikou, air administration and cultural troupe, and Air Force Academy. Cui Jian grew up in his father's army environment throughout his childhood. Cui xiongji said that Cui Jian had a strong desire for knowledge about "things he didn't understand" since childhood. And often observe and think alone. "
In 1975, Cui Jian began to learn to play trumpet. Cui Jian showed his talent in writing when he was in primary school. His teacher once suggested to his father to give up music and specialize in literature, but Cui Jian himself refused.
In 1976, Cui Jian learned "Bellman Trumpet Concerto". The art troupe of Shenyang Military Region and the art troupe of Beijing Military Region recruit trumpet players in the society. Cui Jian's performance has won great praise from the examiners. Shenyang Military Region sent a transfer order to recruit Cui Jian, but Cui Jian's mother opposed it. However, the Beijing military region literary and Art Troupe directly went to Cui Jian to talk with him, because there was no need to leave Beijing, and obtained the permission of Cui Jian himself and his parents. But it was rejected by the school on the ground of influencing the "movement of going to the mountains and the countryside".
In 1979, Cui Jian graduated from middle school and was unemployed at home. Soon afterwards, the engineering corps and the General Political Department asked Cui Jian to help blow the trumpet.
In 1981, Cui Jian became a trumpet player of Beijing Symphony Orchestra. At that time, the Cultural Revolution had just ended, and most industries stayed more than ten years ago. China's official musical instruments are not plugged in, and there is a blank in the field of modern music, such as rock, pop and jazz. Cui Jian's Beijing Song and dance troupe divided its members into classical and folk music according to the only literary form at that time. Cui Jian was responsible for the trumpet part of classical string music, but it didn't take up too much of his time, because he was the third trumpet. Generally, he only needed a trumpet for a performance, and he didn't often play. Facing the free time of the league members, Zhou Yaping, a drummer, quickly came up with a way to make money. He focused on a large number of foreign students and experts who came to China because of the reform and opening up. He contacted the diplomatic staff hotel, which is a special institution providing accommodation and catering for foreigners, and formed his own small band to play songs from Japanese, European and American movies for them. Cui Jian was invited in because he could sing "straw hat song" in English. At that time, most of the singers came from folk music and only knew the singing style of Li Guyi or Jiang Dawei, but Cui Jian was different. He could very accurately imitate the singing style of those English singers or Liu Wenzheng, which was rare at that time. Different from the rock musicians of the same period, Cui Jian was not infatuated with heavy metals at that time, but with jazz when he was in Beijing Song and dance troupe. His freedom and improvisation made Cui Jian believe that the playing method should not be the pressure of artists. Cui Jian heard tapes brought into China by foreign tourists and students. He began to learn to play guitar and soon sang in public.
In 1983, Cui Jian wrote his first song, I love my guitar.
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The beginning of music career (1984-1987)
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In 1984, Cui Jian released "disco, contemporary European and American popular jazz - Cui Jian's solo album", which is Cui Jian's first album in real sense. This album consciously and directly draws on European and American pop music and rock music, but Cui Jian believes that "rock on the new Long March" is his first officially released music album. In November, Cui Jian and six other professional musicians set up the band heptaco. Play western pop music in restaurants and hotels in Beijing. This is the first band of this type in China.
In 1985, Cui Jian released his special album "talk in a dream". This special album really appeared Cui Jian's first original work "hard walk", which is also Cui Jian's second work after "I love my guitar" and the first work officially published. In addition to "difficult journey", another original work is Liu Yuan's "my wish". The remaining ten works of the album are all cover songs, and are mainly divided into two parts: cover songs from Taiwan and European and American works. In June, the seven plywood band was forced to disband.
1986 was a turning year. In the summer of this year, Cui Jian wrote his first rock song "it's not that I don't understand". Then he wrote "rock on the new Long March", "start all over again", "no longer cover up", "run away" and "have nothing" in an excellent creative state. From April to may, Cui Jian and the band took part in the peacock cup national folk song and popular song Grand Prix sponsored by the Chinese Musicians Association with two songs "not I don't understand" and "the last complaint". But because their singing is difficult to be accepted by the mainstream in the fashion, they were eliminated in the first round. Wu Haigang of China audio and video Publishing Corporation proposed to hold a concert of 100 singers for the International Year of peace. Recommended by his good friend Wang Di, Cui Jian was also invited and became one of the 30 solo singers. In the process of approval of his solo work "nothing", Wang Kun, who was in charge of the Oriental Song and dance troupe at that time, was worried because Cui Jian's singing style was quite different from the aesthetic habits at that time. However, after two rehearsals, he formally agreed that Cui Jian would be on the stage at the party.
On May 9, 1986, at a concert held in Beijing to commemorate the International Year of peace, Cui Jian came onto the stage wearing a coat and sang his new work "nothing". Towards the end of the party, the world is full of love. When singing the third part, Cui Jian, who is standing in the third row, takes a space walk. At the end of the year, Peking University established the Peking University Cui Jian support association, the first support association in mainland China.
On January 14, 1987, when Cui Jian performed in Beijing Capital Gymnasium again, he covered the revolutionary classic song Nanniwan in the form of rock and roll, which soon banned his music from broadcasting. Later, Cui Jian himself was punished by the Beijing Symphony Orchestra, which had been independent from the Beijing Song and dance troupe. In February, Cui Jian held a concert at Peking University. Cui Jian started working for ADO after leaving Beijing Song and dance troupe. Two foreign embassy employees of ADO introduced him to reggae, blues and jazz. They bring rhythmic and dynamic music into Cui Jian's music melody.
The peak of performing arts and creation (1988-1993)
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On July 16, 1988, the people's Daily published a 1500 word article "from nothing to rock music -- why Cui Jian's works are popular" as the front page of the literature and art page. This is the first time a rock singer has been reported in the mainstream media in the mainland. While Cui Jian has established a reputation in China, he has also begun to gain international attention. In the global live broadcast of the 1988 Seoul Olympic Games, which opened in September, Cui Jian sang "nothing". On December 3, the concert "ten years of golden melody in the new era" was held in Beijing. Cui Jian's award-winning work is "nothing", but he sang "a piece of red cloth". According to the rules, each singer only sings one piece, so he decided to go on stage with his guitar alone without a band. For the first time in this concert, he showed himself blindfolded with red cloth.
In February 1989, Cui Jian created and completed rock on the new Long March, which was published by the then China Tourism audio and video publishing house, and then published in Hong Kong and Taiwan. He won the double platinum Record Award in Taiwan and the platinum Record Award in Hong Kong. The title of all overseas versions of the album has been changed to nothing. In March, Cui Jian held a concert of "rock on the new long march road" at the theater of Beijing exhibition hall. Tickets for the concert were sold out. The ticket price of that performance was raised to 20 yuan by scalpers, but it's still hard to get one ticket. Go to London for the Asian pop music Grand Prix at the Royal Albert Hall. In April, he led ADO to Paris, France to attend the "spring of Bourges" international rock music festival and held a special concert, which attracted the attention of international music circles. In May, he and the band sang "start all over again", "rock on the new Long March", "like a knife" and "a piece of red cloth" in Tiananmen Square. In July, in order to raise money for the Asian Games, Cui Jian began to prepare for the first rock concert of the national tour.
On January 28-29, 1990, Cui Jian's Beijing Concert "from scratch" was held in Beijing Workers' Stadium. In March, "rock and roll on the new Long March - fund raising for the 11th Asian Games" officially started, which is also his most influential tour, and even considered as "the most successful rock and roll tour in China so far". Cui Jian has appeared on the stage in four cities, Zhengzhou, Chengdu, Wuhan and Xi'an. He has performed three performances in the first two cities and the last two cities
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