Zhang Yusheng

essential information

Early experience

Zhang Yusheng, whose ancestral home is Jiaxing City, Zhejiang Province, was born on June 7, 1966 in Magong City, Penghu County, Taiwan Province. At the age of 9, he moved with his family to Fengyuan City, Taichung County to settle down. In his youth, Zhang Yusheng seldom spent time reading textbooks. Instead, he spent most of his energy listening to music, playing basketball, swimming, reading the books he wanted to read, and even trying to write. After entering Taiwan University of Political Science in 1985, Zhang Yusheng listened to a lot of Western songs and wrote a lot of songs because he liked playing guitar.

Acting experience

Early stage

In 1986, Zhang Yusheng tried to sing for the first time in his freshman year. Because of his sister's death, in order to realize his sister's dream of becoming a singer, he took part in the "wooden boat folk song competition" to play and sing by himself. He entered the finals and won the championship. Zhang Yusheng began to have confidence and interest in singing. After his sophomore year, he immediately joined the guitar club.

In 1987, when he was a sophomore, he and his classmates from the guitar club formed the "thunderspot" Orchestra and began their inter school and off school singing career. On June 6 of the same year, Zhang Yusheng and his orchestra performed at NTU on behalf of Zhengda, and Zhang Yusheng's gifted voice was noticed by the "metal kids" Orchestra of NTU. Later, the band "metalkids" went to sing at the invitation of Donghai University, but the lead singer couldn't perform because he had a cold, so he asked Zhang Yusheng for help and opened the door for future cooperation. In his junior year, Zhang Yusheng won the first prize in the school ballad competition with a song "they", which describes the life of retired soldiers.

Idol period

In March 1988, Zhang Yusheng participated in the first Taiwan pop music competition and won the team champion and best lead singer award. As a result, he was discovered by record producer Weng Xiaoliang and joined Weng Xiaoliang's "Mingsheng communication company". In addition to Zhang Yusheng, Weng Xiaoliang's favorite generals are Zeng Baoming and Wu Zhihua, who are "intimate duets". Zeng Baoming's baby name is Baobao when he was young, while Wu Zhihua and Zhang Yusheng, who are No.1 and No.2 in Xiaohe, are called "Er Bao" and "Xiao Bao", which is the origin of Zhang Yusheng's nickname "Xiao Bao". In April, Zhang Yusheng attracted the attention of the singing circle with an advertisement song "my future is not a dream" by Shashi heisong. In May, we recorded the original album "six friends" of the movie "kitchen knife and six friends". This album included Zhang Yusheng's famous works "my future is not a dream" and "think you all know"; and in the album "find love back", we sang "find love back". In August, Zhang Yusheng took part in the first popular music competition as the lead singer of "metal boy" and co recorded the commemorative album "fire youth". As the winner of "best lead singer award", Zhang Yusheng specially sang two songs "fire youth" and "heat on fire". In October, Zhang Yusheng was shortlisted for the Golden Dragon Award for the most promising new singer. On November 1, he released his first album "miss you every day", which sold more than 350000 copies, making Zhang Yusheng a record man of the year in 1988. The title song of the album "miss you every day" has become one of the representative works of Zhang Yusheng's singing career.

In March 1989, Zhang Yusheng was elected as the top ten new record stars of the year in Zhongshi evening news. In the same year, he took part in the first film "seven wolves" and sang the theme song "never look back" with Wang Jie, Yao Kejie and Tai Zhengxiao in the original soundtrack. The album also included four songs: "never look back", "if you are cold", "I like crazy" and "see". In June, he shot the first commercial "Coca Cola Haas"; in July, he released the album "miss me", which continues the style of "miss you every day". From this album, Zhang Yusheng began to change to a writer; in August, he joined the army for military service; in September, he seconded to perform the eight point series "the battle of six heroes" of China TV; in October, he was nominated for the best newcomer award of the first Taiwan Golden Melody Award.

In January 1990, he starred in the film "soldiers of the golden horse"; in August 1990, Taiwan cartoonist Zeng Zhengzhong published a total of three episodes of the cartoon "Diary of soldier Zhang Yusheng".

Try to transform

In September 1990, he composed the song "I love you", which was included in Guo Fucheng's album "I love you forever"; in October, with the album "miss me", he was shortlisted for the best male singer award of the second Golden Melody Award.

In June 1991, Zhang Yusheng announced his retirement from the army; in October, he wrote and sang the single "I learn to fly" for the winning collection "youth is like a gun" of the fourth popular music competition. In addition, the collection also publishes "indistinguishable" by Wang Tianyou, and "what are you thinking in this quarter of an hour" by Liu Chongqi.

On February 24, 1992, he released "Zhang Yusheng's creative album" which was recorded in Los Angeles. Some of the songs were created during his service. He integrated philosophy and literature he used to like to read into the songs, expressing his dissatisfaction with the real world and his desire to break away from the secular ideal world. In July, he was shortlisted for the music video of "take me to the moon" in Asia The fourth album "the sea" released on November 30 sold more than 6 million copies, becoming the best-selling work of his music career, and the album title song "the sea" was also widely sung.

On August 24, 1993, he released his fifth album "fish swimming all day long". The overall style of this album symbolizes Zhang Yusheng's precipitation and aftertaste of his student career after he retired from the army. It also includes his song "good night, sister" written for his sister.

The struggle between ideal and reality

In January 1994, he published the original plus selected collection "free songs"; on September 5, he released his creative album "karaoke Taipei me". This album is a bold attempt of Zhang Yusheng to music. All songs are created by Zhang Yusheng and expressed in the way of orchestra live. The style of music ranges from hard rock, R & B, classical, etc. the songs involve abused children, stray animals and lonely old people, leaving business The industry is far away, and the market will not smile at each other. His fans call him avant-garde. His ideal, creative ability, exposure and satire of social phenomena, and string ensemble attempt are far away from that era. Until now, this album has been amazing. Although the album takes Taibei as the starting point of creation, it also points out some characteristics of many industrial times and modern cities It is one of the most classic albums in Zhang Yusheng's music career. In November of the same year, he published the Ci of "love for children's tomorrow", which was included in Zhong Zhentao's album "simple life".

On March 27, 1995, he released the album "still friends"; in April of that year, he released the lyrics and music of "postmodern women", which was included in Yi Nengjing's album "heavy rain, spring flowers bloom". In September of that year, the lyrics and songs "I can let go" and "vagabond" were published and included in Tao Jingying's "extraordinary" album.

Million producers

In January 1996, he officially joined Fenghua records. In April of that year, he sang the Taiwanese song "go to Hong Kong" in the "mahjong" movie soundtrack and sang "love position No. 9" with Suri. In July 1996, Zhang Yusheng released his double EP album "the war between Iran and Iraq - red passion" which joined to Fenghua records. The market orientation of "the war between Iran and Iraq - red passion" and his own creation of "the war between Iran and Iraq - white talent" were the main themes. Among them, "the most loved ones hurt me the most" and Zhang Huimei chorus, is also Zhang Huimei's debut. In September of that year, he created the lyrics and music of "so", which was included in Yi Nengjing's album "himself". In November, she made the album "sisters" for Zhang Huimei, and wrote two songs "sisters" and "water blue tears" by herself. Sister ranked first in the IFPI list for nine consecutive weeks, with more than 1.08 million copies sold.

In March 1997, she produced three songs of Zhang Huimei's music album badboy, I think of you, lonely tequila and badboy. Badboy sold 1.35 million copies in Taiwan, second only to the previous record holder Jacky Cheung's kiss goodbye album released in 1993. With the help of Zhang Yusheng, Zhang Huimei has become a household name singer, and Zhang Yusheng has become a million record producer. Moreover, after Zhang Huimei's album, she helped Hawick Lau to create the song "new engine", which was included in the album "La La, I love you", and the song "who can I love besides you" by dynamic train, which was included in the album "heartless love letter". In October, he published "coolcoolcoolcat" and "Ouch! "Nothing" and "babe let me tell you" are included in sister a's "I'll cook for you" album. In the same month, he released his creative album right and wrong, which won the best pop music record award of the 9th Taiwan Golden Melody Award.

Demo album

In 2003, Fenghua records released Zhang Yusheng's commemorative album "Yusheng Huanxi city".

In 2007, Fenghua records released Zhang Yusheng's commemorative album "missing like a swallow".

On April 23, 2013, Zhang Yusheng's unpublished demo "the Yellow River and the Yangtze River" was released digitally in three versions: Zhang Yusheng's and Yang Peian's chorus version, Yang Peian's solo version, and Yang Peian's and Zhuo Yifeng's chorus version.

On June 7, 2016, Zhang Yusheng's 50th birthday album star after rain was released. Most of the included works have never been published in public, and Zhang Yusheng has not left any relevant text including the lyrics.

Take part in stage play

In April 1993, he performed the first stage play "Danshui town", playing Chen Shaowei;

In November 1995, he took part in guotuo theater

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