To be honest, he is not handsome, but he has conquered many musicians through his own strength, and has also gained a lot of hardcore fans, this person is Wu Bai.
Wu Bai's real name is Wu Junlin, born on January 14, 1968, in Xindian District, New Taipei City, Taiwan Province.
In 1996, Wu Bai wrote "Last Dance", which set off a rock fever in Taiwan
Chao, at that time he was known as the "King of Taiwanese Rock".
But his songs aren't just rock'n'roll, and if you listen closely, you'll find the delicate heart hidden beneath its grim exterior.
The origin of the name Wu Bai is very interesting, because Wu Junlin was both good at school, once he scored a hundred points in five subjects in the exam, and his classmates called him Wu Bai, Wu Junlin became interested in music from high school, when he joined the school's pipe band, and often sold some music tapes in the school commissary, which exposed him to different types of music, including rock music such as Led Zeppelin DEEP PURLE.
The shocking magic of this kind of music made him deeply fascinated, but at the same time it also made him lose the ability to score five hundred points again, which led to the once excellent character and learning of him when he was admitted to the university, and wu Bai, who was not willing to study for a year, but only improved by one point in the final exam, at this time Wu Bai deeply knew that his mind could not return to reading, so he made a bold decision and sat alone on the train from Chiayi, Taiwan to Taipei. At that time, Wu Bai, who had no education and did not understand technology, lived a very hard life, usually renting a dilapidated house with a group of friends, and when it rained, the house often leaked, and even the roof was blown by the typhoon.
During Wu Bai's job search, because he did not understand technology and had no work experience, he could only start from the most basic, he once set up a stall, sold insurance, and also worked as a salesman, but the cruelty of reality has never been played
It was not until he finally worked in an instrumental shop that he began his glorious rock 'n' roll path.
Wu Bai's debut work is the song "Little Man Country", which depicts an ordinary teenager who resolutely came to the big city to work hard in order to pursue his dreams, and this song is also a song based on Wu Bai's personal experience.
Before forming the band, Wu Bai participated in the songwriting and singing of the eponymous song "Teenager, Anla" in the 1992 movie "Boy Zha, An La".
This song also shows Wu Bai's deep blues skills, and after performing underground for a period of time, Wu Bai's personal ability was quickly discovered, and everyone who watched Wu Bai's performance at that time was deeply impressed by him.
Wu Bai's band name was from the United States Dino in a coincidence, when Wu Bai consulted the opinions of the band members to think of what kind of band name, dino on the side casually named Jungle as the beginning, and after constantly repeating the word Jungle slowly became China, plus Wu Bai's favorite blues, so there is the china blue we hear now, The word china is also a metaphor for the beauty of their music.
In 1992, the China Blue band was officially established, in the same year Wu Bai took the lead in releasing his first solo album "Falling in love with others is a happy thing", but this album was only 20,000 sales at the time, which can be said to be a very dismal result for a professional singer, after contemplation, Wu Bai also found the reason, it turned out that his music was too "abrupt", even he himself would be frightened when listening, and because all the music types at that time were basically the same, Suddenly a song that comes directly from others cannot be accepted by the public for a while.
In order not to let the record company that has always supported Wu Bai lose money, Wu Bai changed some of his previous styles and released his second album "Ronin Love Song" in 1994.
Originally, the song "Ronin Love Song" was created by Wu Bai for others, but it was tragically rejected, and Wu Bai thought that since he had withdrawn the draft, he would sing it himself.
Unexpectedly, it was this song that opened the road to Wu Bai's fame, after becoming famous, Wu Bai was invited by many businesses at that time, fans were worried that Wu Bai would become a commercial singer in the future, but Wu Bai said very imposingly, "My 'rock spirit' has always remained the same", he believes that business is not bad, to reform the market is first to enter the market, if there is no volume then everything is just a fantasy.
Wu Bai decided to develop a "new" song, using a Minnan accent to sing the most beautiful, romantic love songs,
The song "Ronin Love Song" has enhanced Wu Bai's popularity, so that Wu Bai's performance scene is no longer only a few people, but the venue is full and full.
"Friday, five hundred pieces, look at Wu Bai" became the most popular passage of that era, just like when the British band Beatles first officially arrived at The Kennedy Airport in New York, the airport's waiting hall had gathered more than 3,000 fans to see them, and more than 5,000 fans booked tickets for the New York show at that time.
At that time, Wu Bai also set off the so-called "Wu Bai phenomenon", which brought up a live house boom, and at the same time, he was also put on the reputation of the king of the "King of Live" scene, and launched his first live album "Wu Bai's LIVE - Wasted Youth".
The live album of "Wu Bai's LIVE - Wasted Youth" sold more than 500,000 copies as soon as it was launched, which is a bit like the scene when we went to grab new year goods at the New Year, but this is just the beginning of Wu Bai's road to fame.
Soon after, Wu Bai immediately ushered in another peak of his life, and in 1996, Wu Bai released his third album "The End of Love".
For this album Wu Bai has traveled to the United States to record, in this album Wu Bai added a lot of romantic love songs, which in addition to the well-known "LAST DANCE", of which "Summer Night Wind" is also one of the classics.
If you haven't heard these two songs, it doesn't matter because what follows is a song that is familiar to the public, and it is also one of the must-have songs in KTV now.
That is the most representative work of Wu Bai's acting career, "Norwegian Forest"
The song "Norwegian Forest" was inspired by the novel of the same name by contemporary Japanese writer Haruki Murakami, "Norwegian Forest", which depicts the loneliness and sense of loss of the protagonist 'Watanabe', and successfully portrays the two classic female characters of 'Naoko' and 'Midoriko', this novel broke the silence of the Japanese literary world in one fell swoop at that time, and Wu Bai was reading' After this work by Haruki Murakami, he has a new insight into the word love, saying that in fact, everyone has such a forest in their hearts, this forest cannot be reached by even the closest people, and love is exactly like this, it will never let us think through it, but isn't this what really fascinates it?
After the release of this album, Wu Bai immediately began a tour of Taiwan, and each concert broke the record of a local concert, and in the following year Wu Bai released his second live album "Rock romance".
As usual, the live album is Wu Bai's home, this album sold more than 700,000 copies at the time, and is still the most successful rock live recording album in the Chinese music scene to date.
Wu Bai also won this album personally, when the "Taiwan Golden Melody Award For Best Chinese Male Singer Nomination" and the American Billboard Chart Asia Best Creative Artist Award, in the same year Wu Bai also produced the album "This Afternoon Is Boring" for the famous Taiwanese musician "Zhang Zhenyue".
I believe that at this time, no one can imagine that the teenager who took the train from Taiwan Jiayi to Taipei, who had been crowded in the leaky rental house with his friends, actually became the famous 'rock king' in Taiwan in just a few years, and after Wu Bai became completely popular, he also fulfilled what he once said, "Enter the market, and then reform the market."
In 1998, Wu Bai's first Hokkien album "Branches and Lonely Birds" came out, wu Bai in this album integrated a variety of styles and even added the more avant-garde electronic music elements at that time, which is like opening the door to a new world, this album shocks the hearts of every listener.
In addition, this album won the '10th Taiwan Golden Melody Award, Best Pop Music Singing Album Award' and Wu Bai has released a total of three Hokkien albums so far, and each album has a very high evaluation, and in the same year he also composed the song "World First Class" for the famous Hong Kong actor Andy Lau.
In 2005, wu Bai won the Best Taiwanese Male Singer Award at the 17th Golden Melody Awards with the Hokkien album "Two-Faced Man", and finally Wu Bai's third Hokkien album "Nail Flower" released in 2016, with which Wu Bai won the 28th 'Taiwan Golden Melody Awards Best Taiwanese Album Award' and the single "Bundling Hole" Wu Bai was even nominated for the 28th 'Taiwan Golden Melody Awards Best Song of the Year Award, Best Arranger Award and Best Lyricist Award' with this single.
However, if it is to let the editor choose which song is the most favorite, the answer given by the editor may exceed many people's expectations, but this is the choice made by the editor after thinking about it. For the editor of this song
It's White Dove.
You may have heard this song or not, but it doesn't matter that the next xiaobian will focus on this song, as well as the situation of this song created by Wu Bai at that time.
The song "White Pigeon" is a song included in Wu Bai's self-titled album "White Pigeon" released in 1999, it is two years after the release of "Lonely Bird on the Branches", Wu Bai once again used birds as the theme of creation, Wu Bai once said, "I compare my own musical history is flying, so my new record still has to continue to fly before it will take 'bird' as the theme" Like a bird soaring in the sky, "White Pigeon" This song is specially given by Wu Bai for the "Guangsan Department Store Shooting" in Taiwan. Written by the injured pregnant woman Zhuang Jiahui, this song depicts that even if you are injured and have blood, you still have to fly strongly.
Wu Bai's music is always changing and constantly breaking through, just like the album "Space Bomb" released in 2008.
"Space Bomb" was inspired by the novel he read, "Time Whirling", the background of "Space Bomb" was set in the future world of 2406, the avant-garde style of science fiction, breaking the traditional framework of the past, this song with Wu Bai's fantasy of the future, with his innocence of music, with fans to find a new earth.
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