Black Panther was formed in 1987 and has been around for 35 years. During these 35 years, the members of the Black Panther Band have come and gone, and they can be said to be members of the iron band Flowing Water. And what makes everyone more concerned is that the lead singer of this band is always replaced, and ten lead singers are changed back and forth.
【History of the band】
In 1987, Love Ding Wu suddenly organized several people to form a band, the lead guitar li Tong, guitarist Guo Linchuan, bass Wang Wenjie, drummer Cheng Wei Wang Wenfang, and then Ding Wu himself as the lead singer.
This year's Panther did not break through, but was just one of the many bands at that time.
In 1988, founder and lead singer Ding Wu quit the band, and then Dou Wei joined Black Panther as the lead singer, and also took over almost all the songwriting. The Black Panthers welcomed the most famous and influential lead singer in their history.
In 1989, Zhao Mingyi joined Black Panther as a drummer and Luan Shu joined as a keyboard player. At the end of the year, guitarist Guo Chuanlin rectified the band, and the pattern of the Black Panther Band was basically stable.
By 1991, the black panthers' glory days had arrived. They were valued by Hong Kong agent Chen Jiantian and signed to Jinshi Records. During this period, the Black Panther band gave birth to the most influential works, and songs such as "Landless Self-Tolerance" and "Don't Break My Heart" written by Dou Wei himself are from this period.
The glory always ends quickly, due to the entanglement of feelings, Dou Wei left the band in this year, and keyboardist Luan Shu took over as the lead singer of the band.
The Black Panther Band during Luan Shu's lead singer period was actually quite influential, and the glory continued for a long time. However, without Dou Wei, a talented musician, the Black Panther band obviously began to be weak.
In 1994, Luan Shu, who had been the lead singer for several years, had a conflict with the band's itinerary due to a so-called equestrian competition, and he willfully chose to quit the band as well.
The next lead singer of the band after Luan Shu is called Qin Yong, who should be the lead singer of the Black Panther Band with the longest standby time, and has been the lead singer for ten years.
Qin Yong's decade is the decade of the decline of the Panther Band, the majority of fans have complained a lot about Qin Yong's singing style, everyone said that the band in order to cater to the market style is becoming more and more popular, there is no original hard rock style, increasingly mediocre.
The reason why Qin Yong left the band was somewhat sad, his son was sick, and in order to take care of his son, Qin Yong chose to be a great father.
Qin Yong's next lead singer Zhang Kepeng is even weaker, his own creative ability is very weak, but he is a relatively good at singing.
Zhang Kepeng has been the lead singer for several years, and the Black Panther band is basically on the verge of falling apart, and the members have also focused their main energy on rock and roll, and have started business.
In the end, Zhang Kepeng left the Black Panther band on the grounds that the musical concept was incompatible.
In 2013, Zhang Qi, a post-80s who grew up listening to the Black Panther Band, joined the Black Panther Band and became the tenth lead singer. The gap between Zhang Qi's age and the rest of the band is more obvious, and at the same time, the band's old fans are not so satisfied.
However, the world is so magical, no one can imagine that Zhang Qi has become popular because of his participation in "Brother Who Cut Through Thorns", and at the same time, the Black Panther Band, a band that has been a band for more than 30 years, has re-entered the public's vision.
In addition to the six lead singers mentioned above, the Black Panther Band also had several people briefly serve as the lead singers during the lead singer change, including Qin Qi, Mark Thale, Feng Xiaobo, etc., some of them were in danger, some of them stayed for a short time, leaving few traces in this band.
[A band is a small group]
In fact, not only rock bands like Black Panther, but also the common groups we have now face the same problem, that is, the members of the running between things.
The band is a small group, and it is inevitable that there will be such contradictions and differences between the members, especially a rock band like Black Panther, the members are all "angry youth", once there is a disagreement, everyone immediately parted ways.
Just like Luan Shu, in order to participate in horse racing, you can quit the band, how is this possible for ordinary people? But this reason may only be a superficial reason, and the real reason is that it cannot be said to the outside world.
In fact, not only the lead singer has been changing, but the members of the Black Panther band have also been changing. There are new people joining, and there are also old people quitting. The band is like a camp of iron, and the members are the soldiers of the flowing water.
Feng Xiaobo, a keyboardist, briefly took over the position when the band lacked a lead singer, but later quit the Black Panther band for various reasons.
Up to now, the Black Panther Band founded by Ding Wu is only li tong and Wang Wenjie, two "old people". Li Tong, the lead guitarist, is the soul of the Black Panther Band, he has led the band through more than 30 years, and even has the saying of "Li Tong of iron, the lead singer of the flowing water".
【Where did the quitting lead singer go】
The reason why Ding Wu quit the Black Panther Band was because he and Li Tong's musical philosophy were incompatible. However, Ding Wu's love of rock and roll was not lost, and after leaving the Black Panthers, Ding Wu founded the Tang Dynasty Band. It turns out that Ding Wu's understanding of rock and roll is very profound, and the Tang Dynasty band has also become a legend in the rock and roll world under the leadership of Ding Wu for so many years.
Dou Wei became a immortal, and now people call dou Wei Dou Xian'er.
Why is it called that? Because Dou Wei's understanding of music became more and more extraordinary, it is said that Ding Wu once intended to invite him to join the Tang Dynasty, but Dou Wei's only sentence was dumbfounded, and he asked people if they could only make music without words. Rock 'n' Roll has no lyrics, what's the operation?
Although Dou Wei has a lot of controversy, he is indeed a pure musician, and his pursuit of music has never stopped, and he has been creating all these years.
As a rock musician, Luan Shu also has the maverick energy of a rock man. He left the Panthers because of the equestrian competition, and later made a lot of achievements in the field of equestrianism.
In his third year away from the Panthers, Luan Shu finished 8th in the individual track steeplechase at the 8th National Games Equestrian Competition. He truly loved equestrianism, not as an excuse.
However, Luan Shu's pursuit of music has not stopped over the years, and he is still continuing to compose music.
Qin Yong's departure is a very helpless thing, only 4-year-old son Big Pearl was found to have severe sensory system disorder, Qin Yong felt that the neglect of his family over the years was too serious, so he decided to take the child at home full-time and carry out rehabilitation training for the child.
This training is ten years, Qin Yong basically left the rock circle. After that, he reappeared with his son in front of the public, and after his comeback, Qin Yong won the Best Actor Award at the Asian Newcomer Award at the 19th Shanghai International Film Festival in 2016 for starring in the film "Out of the Dust".
Compared with the above, Zhang Kepeng's experience seems to be much bleaker. After quitting the Black Panther Band, Zhang Kepeng fell silent, and did not achieve anything on the road of music, but played soy sauce in film and television works, and careful audiences may have seen him.
epilogue:
For more than 30 years, after Ding Wu and Zhang Tong parted ways because of their musical concepts, the Black Panther Band has become a band represented by Zhang Tong. During this period, the lead singer of the band changed several times, but Zhang Tong, as the soul of the band, has not left. This also confirms the sentence that the rock circle sent him, "Zhang Tong who beats iron, the lead singer of the flowing water".
Regardless of the reason for leaving the band, Zhang Qi's previous nine lead singers have all contributed to the band.
To this day, when it comes to the Black Panther Band, the first thing that comes to people's minds is Dou Wei's style in the Hong Kong Red Pavilion, which was the most brilliant moment of the Black Panther Band. #黑豹乐队 #