Du Dewei

essential information

Early experience

In 1969, Du Dewei entered St. Paul's College in Hong Kong St.Paul 's college is educated and studies here until graduation from high school. In 1977, Du Dewei, a freshman in senior high school, formed sidewalk band with his classmates. Du Dewei acted as lead singer and lead guitar.

In 1977 and 1978, he took part in the first and second "amateur singing competition" sponsored by TVB (Hong Kong Radio Television) for two consecutive years and won the second place. In 1978, when Du Dewei participated in the competition, he met Zhou Huajian.

In 1980, Du Dewei went to Canada to study. Due to his father's failure in business and his family's decline, he began to work and study and live a life of self-reliance. By virtue of the fictional so-called "Chinese Kung Fu", he formed a dance troupe with his black friends and took part in performances everywhere. In 1985, Du Dewei returned to Hong Kong and worked as art director in a well-known enterprise, responsible for the design work related to art and vision.

Acting experience

In 1985, he returned from studying in Canada and participated in the fourth Hong Kong rookie singing competition. He beat Li Keqin, Zhou Huimin, grasshopper and many other contestants and won the first prize in one fell swoop. Then he entered the performing arts circle and signed a contract with Huaxing records.

In 1987, from the first album "just want to stay", it was appraised as "yellow soul" by the Hong Kong media, that is, the soul music of the yellow people, thus starting its career as a professional singer. In the same year, he sang "Lang Tao Sha" with a group of Luo Wen's disciples such as Lin Chuqi, Dai Yunhui, Su Yongkang, Zhang Weijian, Ouyang Dexun and Mo Zhenxian, and took part in shooting the MV of "Lang Tao Sha".

In 1988, he hosted the Hong Kong TVB entertainment program "Dianjie so funny". In 1990, he released Taiwan's first personal Putonghua album love. In 1991, he joined Warner records and became a member of rolling stone records in Taiwan. His later album "mylove" includes dance music, slow motion, sweet love songs and bitter love songs.

In 1993, sang Taiwan's "Shan Guo Lu" beverage advertising song. In 1997, he was shortlisted as an outstanding overseas Chinese male singer in the 8th Golden Melody Award. In 1998, he served as a safety and epidemic prevention soldier in the activity of "safety and epidemic prevention, healthy life". In 1999, he was the judge of rave 2001 Asia Pacific Dance Competition in Hong Kong. In the same year, he won the "vouge fashion artist of the year award".

In 2000, the concert "change 2000 and fly with you" was held in Taipei. In addition, he served as the Environmental Protection Ambassador of the Singapore government to promote transport buses. At the same time, the album "follow me for life" won the "top ten album award of voice of Taipei".

In March 2001, he and Daniel Wu starred in the movie "heavy police" directed by Lin Chaoxian, in which he played a member of the Flying Tigers. In 2002, he took part in the filming of the documentary "dragon after 1973" in memory of Bruce Lee. In the same year, he won the "best male singer award of China's original music pop list", and the song "Rainbow" won the "Golden Melody Award of China's original music pop list".

In 2003, he starred in the magic drama pawnbroker No. 8 adapted from the best-selling novel by Hong Kong writer Shen Xue, playing Hannah in the play. In March, Zhang Jiahui, Li cansen, Yang Gongru and others starred in the movie "the man of gamblers wins the sky" produced by century studio Co., Ltd. and friends studio Co., Ltd. In April, he and Chen Derong and Yu Rongguang starred in the online thriller suspense film "evaporation cloud" shot by golden palm film and television production Co., Ltd.

In 2004, he released the album "take off". In 2005, he acted as MV director for the first time, shooting "take care of her for me" and starring in singapore drama "the head of love". In 2006, the host of "amazing legend" on Chinese TV. In January 2007, Du Dewei, Wu Mengda, Chen Derong, Zhao Ke and others starred in the film "two birds with one stone 3" jointly invested by Taiwan and Hong Kong companies.

Rockabilly style album "good work" was released in 2013. In 2014, Du Dewei launched a new Guangdong single "Zhen", which kicked off the world tour of Jidu. From 2014 to 2015, several "Jidu World Tour concerts" were held in Hong Kong Red Mansion, Macao, Toronto, Canada, Malaysia and other places. In addition, Guangdong song "our virtual world" was also launched in 2015 to repay the fans.

In September 2016, Du Dewei signed a contract with Chengli Qiandai to open a new version of his music career. In December, the world premiere of the single "hold tight" was held in Beijing. My good friend Liang Jiahui was surprised and cheered for the premiere. Then the MV of "hold tight" was launched. In the MV, Du Dewei interacted with baby to show the new baby dad's urgent treatment in the face of baby's various temporary situations, showing his warm care for baby.

In January 2017, he was invited to participate in CCTV's "cctv2016 award ceremony for people of agriculture, rural areas and farmers" program recording, and then participated in the 2017 "hundred flowers welcome spring" Chinese literature and Art Carnival held in the Great Hall of the people, and together with Yang Qianyi, he presented two songs of "lover" and "full moon". In February, he was invited to participate in the "2017 CCTV overseas Spring Festival Gala" performance in San Francisco, USA. In May, the release of single "you are in my love", sweet confession wife. In June, I was a guest of super sound. On August 9, he won the "Asian pop singer" award from the 2017 Chinese Golden Melody Award. In October, he recorded music programs "masked singer" and "furnace concert". In November, the MV of "you are in my love" was released, and then he took part in the Asian Music Festival and won the best pop male singer award in Asia.

In 2018, he participated in the recording of CCTV variety channel's new year's Day special program "beautiful scenery in China". Then he took part in the recording of the program "Chinese love songs collection" of Yunnan TV station and sang the song "you are in my love" live. In January, he won the billboard radio icon award, becoming the first Chinese to win the award. In October, the first recommended single "goodbye Louis" of the music album "get up" was officially launched. On November 28, the music album "get up" was released. In December, the title song MV of the same name "get up" was released.

On May 9, 2019, the new album "get up" will be released in Beijing; on December 24, the first stop of the "get up" world tour will be held in Beijing Workers' Stadium.

Personal life

Family situation

His father, Ollie Delfino, a Latin drummer and band leader, died in Pingtung, Taiwan Province in May 2011; his mother, singer Zhang Lu, died in Hong Kong in January 2009; and his elder brother, Orlando to, a sports coach.

Marital status

On November 11, 2012, Du Dewei and Li Xiaobing held a wedding banquet.

On the afternoon of October 2, 2016, his wife Li Xiaobing gave birth to a son in Hong Kong.

Main works

Music Album

Music single

Take part in the film

Take part in TV series

Host the program

social activities

Award winning record

Character evaluation

Du Dewei was one of the pioneers who introduced soul music, blues and R & B music into Chinese music and led the trend of dance music. His music career is accompanied by the heyday of Chinese music. With the strength of both slow song and dance music, he has become one of the few Chinese singers who have outstanding "singing" and "Dancing" skills at the same time. His "Du style love songs" are unique. He is a singer with a high degree of internationalization. His works cover Cantonese, English and Mandarin (Nandu entertainment evaluation).

Du Dewei is known as the "perfect lover" in the Chinese music world. As a singer, Du Dewei has always had distinct personal characteristics and played the pioneer and experimenter of the trend. His music style spans a wide range, from the romantic Du style love songs to the dynamic and hot dance music; from sound, jazz, R & B, hip hop, electronics, rock and roll, salsa; from Cantonese To English, to Mandarin. Du Dewei has conquered a large number of fans with his fashionable and avant-garde image, rebellious and uninhibited character, keen sense of fashion and constant innovation of music. (Sina entertainment evaluation).

Character controversy

On December 25, 2002, in the private room of Studio 1 bar on Wong Nai Chung Road, Happy Valley, Hong Kong, police found a hand cigarette containing 0.13 grams of marijuana hidden in its jeans pocket. Although the results of urine test showed that Du Dewei did not take it, the Eastern District Court of Hong Kong held that he was "given"

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