Chen Shaoqi

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Creative process

Over the years, Chen Shaoqi has made different new attempts to become an all-round writer, including publishing novels and prose collections, planning concerts, creating screenplays and making advertisements, etc. From 1992 to 1995, he was the creative director of Hong Kong commercial radio. During that time, he planned more than 30 large-scale concerts, including Chizha music awards ceremony, famine 30, Chizha ten thousand people gang and so on. Later, he was the creative director of universal records (Hong Kong) Limited from 1995 to 1998. He was responsible for planning the records of many singers, including Jacky Cheung, Huixian Chen, liming and so on. In 1997, Jacky Cheung's musical drama "Snow Wolf Lake" caused a sensation in the music world. In addition to composing some music and lyrics, Chen Shaoqi also wrote scripts for the drama. Since 1998, besides creating lyrics, Chen Shaoqi has been acting as a producer, supervising a series of records of Leung wing Chi, leading her to the road of creation, and also as a planner of Leung's performing career. Chen Shaoqi was the planner of the 2001 April fireworks concert, 2002 gforgirl concert, 2003 funnyface concert, 2007 Shanghai Concert and 2007 charity concert. Chen Shaoqi and Liang Yongqi can be called "comrades in arms". They work together in the mainland market. At the same time, Chen Shaoqi also supervises other singers such as Chen Huilin, Li Keqin, Liang Chaowei, Yu wenle, Zheng Xiuwen, twins and Zheng Rong. "Li Keqin's performance I" and "Li Keqin's performance II" launched in 2005 and 2006 respectively are also one of Chen Shaoqi's creative masterpieces. Chen Shaoqi's scope of work has also expanded to greater China, writing Mandarin lyrics and supervising songs for a number of Hong Kong and mainland singers, including Zhou Bichang, Zhang Liangying, Pang Long, Fan Bingbing, AI Dai, Zhang Jie, Tan Yonglin, Wang Jie, twins, etc. In 2006, Chen Shaoqi won three music awards for the song "number" which wrote lyrics for the movie "601th phone" starring Zhou Bichang, Hu Ge and Cecilia Cheung. At the 2008 IFPI Hong Kong record sales award ceremony held on April 11, 2009, the Chinese album "Tonghua Yanyu" of twins, which Chen Shaoqi was the executive producer, won the top ten Chinese record sales awards.

Movie

Chen Shaoqi wrote lyrics and acted as producer for the theme song "painting heart" of the film "painting skin". It was composed by Yukio Fujiwara and sung by Zhang Liangying. In addition to the box office success of the film "painted skin" which has been drawing more than 100 million yuan in a week, "painted heart" has also become the super winner of the national pop charts. On the first day of its launch, the song immediately became the top of Baidu's new song list, and even became the champion of the national top ten radio pop charts at the same time. the most beautiful and bewitching song of 2008, Hua Xin, won the best original film song award of the 28th Hong Kong Film Awards in 2009. In addition, Huaxin swept many music awards, including Hunan Satellite TV Baidu entertainment boiling point 2008 annual inventory of the top ten golden songs and the most popular film and television songs, Beijing pop music ceremony annual Golden Songs and KTV singing on demand Champion Award. Chen Shaoqi also won the "best lyrics of the year in mainland China" on the music radio China top list. with the help of the original song "painting heart", he won the "Hong Kong Film Awards" and "MusicRadio China top ranking" in three days, which also created the history of the most awards in the shortest time! In 2012, Chen Shaoqi and Zhang Liangying collaborated again on the theme song "painting heart II" of the film "painting skin II". "Heart of painting II" was born out of "heart of painting", retained the essence of the original, and integrated into the new artistic conception extracted from the film "skin of painting II". Chen Shaoqi, Li Yunwen and Chen Jiashang worked together to create the theme song dream never dies in 2012.

Disney

For many years, Chen Shaoqi has been filling in lyrics for the Chinese versions of Disney's animated films and Disney TV channel cartoons. In 2005, the theme song of "Disneyland in Hong Kong" was opened with Cantonese and Mandarin lyrics for "let the wonderful fly" by Jacky Cheung. More Chinese versions of Disney's films produced in mainland China fill in lyrics and act as producers. Including "beauty and wild fish", "little fish Fairy" and "youth of singing and dancing". In addition, he also produced the theme song "Disney Mickey Mouse" and "little big man" by Fahrenheit. She sang for Zhang Hanyun in 2007, and wrote lyrics for the theme song "one person, one dream" of Disney's first domestic movie "the secret of baohulu". In 2008, a new version of the theme song "the world is so small" was produced for the opening ceremony of "little world" of "Disneyland Hong Kong". In 2009, she was the lead singer of Zhang Xueyou and Zheng Xinyi. She produced and wrote the theme song "missing is missing" of Disney animation "lightning dog". In 2010, he wrote lyrics and produced the theme song "I fly, therefore I am" for the Chinese version of Disney film "singing and dancing youth", composed by Jin Peida and supervised by Zhang Liangying and Lin Junjie. the theme song "let it be" of Disney's Chinese version of the movie "ice and snow Wonderland", which was praised as "2013 best animation", was composed and produced by musician Chen Shaoqi, who invited mainland new female singer Yao Beina to sing. In 2016, together with the world-class Music Master Mr. Tan Dun, he created the theme song "lighting up the strange dream in my heart" for the opening ceremony of "Disneyland in Shanghai", which was jointly sung by Zhang Liangying, Tan Weiwei and Li Keqin. He also wrote lyrics for the song and acted as the producer. At the same time, he filled in the lyrics of the Chinese version and acted as the producer for "immortals" sung by Tan Weiwei. She is also the producer of "awhole new world" sung by Zhang Liangying.

Travel around the world

Chen Shaoqi's photography series "lajiji around the world" has been filmed for more than ten years. This handicraft chicken made only of garbage is a gift that Liang Yongqi brought back from Italy more than ten years ago. This lajiji has been to more than 30 cities with Chen Shaoqi, and has participated in the 2016 "tale of two cities" Beijing Hong Kong art exchange exhibition, as well as the 2011, 2012 and 2013 "Shengxi" art exhibition held in Beijing, Shanghai and Hong Kong.

Public Olympics

Chen Shaoqi has also composed lyrics for many promotional songs of public welfare activities and public organizations, including theme songs of "famine 30" of 1999 and 2008, theme songs of "vocational training and Development Council" and theme songs of "WWF World Wide Fund for nature". In 2002, the theme song of "McDonald's children's Fund International Children's Day" Greater China Version "they are all our children" was filled with Chinese lyrics. In addition, Chen Shaoqi is also the lyricist and producer of the theme song "warm in the snow", the 512 disaster relief song "promise" Beijing edition, and the Sichuan disaster relief song "the way home" by Mo Wenwei. In 2007, on the 10th anniversary of the establishment of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, Chen Shaoqi and Jin Peida were invited by the Hong Kong government to jointly create and produce the official theme song "always have you" for the 10th anniversary of the establishment of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region. They created the song "light of life" for the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, which was sung by singer Zhou Bichang. In July, they were invited by the cultural activities department of BOCOG to create and produce the theme song "we are ready" for the countdown of the first anniversary of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, which was sung by 133 singers from both sides of the Taiwan Strait and three places. They made their debut at the Countdown Party of the first anniversary of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games in Tiananmen Square on August 8, 2007 Play. In December, we also produced Cantonese and English versions of we are ready. Chen Shaoqi and its composer Xiao Ke jointly produced the theme song "welcome to Beijing" released in April 2008. They recorded nearly 100 singers in Beijing, Hong Kong and Taipei, including Wang Leehom, Cai Yilin, Na Ying, Liu Huan and Sun Yanzi. In July of the same year, Chen Shaoqi and Jin Peida once again created and produced the 2008 Beijing Olympic and Paralympic Equestrian propaganda song "leap dance" by Chen Huilin. In August, Chen Shaoqi was also invited to be a member of the Beijing Olympic song selection committee to select the theme song of the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympic Games, Liu Huan and Sarah Brightman. At the same time, he also produced the opening ceremony performance songs of the Olympic Games: "stand up" by Jackie Chan, Mo Wenwei, Sun Nan and Han Hong; and "cheer for life" by Andy Lau, Zhou Huajian, Sun Yue, Nicholas Tse, Joey Yung and Wang Feng. At the end of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, Chen Shaoqi and Jin Peida jointly produced the farewell song of the Olympic Games: "hard to say goodbye" by Liu Huan, Jackie Chan, Andy Lau and Zhou Huajian; and "another look" by Tan Jing, Sun Yanzi, Mo Wenwei and Joey Yung. In 2009, Chen Shaoqi and Jin Peida once again wrote the theme song "out of the world" for the 5th East Asian Games held in Hong Kong. More than 60 singers including Jacky Cheung, Alan Tam, Li Keqin, Yang Qianyi, Xu Zhian, Liang Yongqi and Zhang Jingxuan participated in the recording. For the first time, the international version of the theme song "you are the legend" has invited five top singers from East Asia, including Zhu Zheqin from China and Hong Kong

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