In 1996, Taiwan's Shanghua Records published a music compilation album "PUB Heroes Club". The 10 songs in it were all sung by bands (singers) who sang in various bars in Taiwan for many years, including the power train and Dick Cowboy, who later became popular.
After signing to Shanghua Records, Power Train quickly became popular with his debut album "Ruthless Love Letters", while dick cowboys who signed at the same time were not so good,The company did not have the intention of praising him well, and the following year continued to sing the "PUB Heroes 2" compilation album as a bar singer, and also sang a "Hong Kong Live Band Orchestra" compilation album in Hong Kong.
In 1998, Dick Cowboy participated in "Hong Kong Live Band 2", because it had a certain popularity in Hong Kong, Shanghua Records let him and the power train held a "Cross-Strait Shake" concert at the Hung Hom Stadium in Hong Kong, which caused great concern, and he was praised by Hong Kong fans as a "Taiwan legend".
Subsequently, Dick Cowboy released his debut cover album, Roar. Many of the cover songs included in it have become classic songs circulated later, such as "Love is Like a Tide", "When You Wake Up", "You Don't Want Anything", etc.
In 1999, Dick Cowboy returned to Taiwan to release three Chinese albums in a row, including a bunch of drooling songs that had been covered in Hong Kong, as well as some original songs tailored for him. The 40-year-old Dick Cowboy finally became red, and with his vicissitudes and hoarse singing, he was red all over the taiwan strait. Since then, Dick Cowboy has become a model of the late chinese music scene.
It has been 21 years since it became popular. Today's Dick Cowboy, it seems that there has been no news for many years, why do I talk about him today? Because I recently saw the dynamics about Dick Cowboy on social media, it was quite touching.
One of his fans, who was worried about him, posted asking where Dick Cowboys had gone, and if he came out to participate in music programs like I Am a Singer, he should be very popular. Then the Buddha-figure came out and replied to him: I don't like to be on the singing competition, I am what I am, than what...
Later, Dick Cowboy sent such a text to show his heart: I am a low-key person, I do not want to be popular, I am a few years old, don't be so tired... I love China, we are all Chinese, I am proud of China!
Low-key, attitude, stance, Daddy is a respectable artist.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" >1, my name is Lin Jinzhang</h1>
Dick Cowboy, formerly known as Lin Jinzhang, was born in 1959 to an ordinary family in Kaohsiung City, Taiwan Province. In middle school, he was the uncle of the crew and gave him a second-hand acoustic guitar, which made a huge difference in his life. He has been fascinated by this thing ever since, but he can't play, and he has no place to learn, so he can only fool around by himself.
Two years later, with the popularity of school folk songs, I can finally buy a guitar to teach myself. Lin Jinzhang began to grope for himself in front of the tutorial and slowly mastered some basic techniques.
Then he entered the university, and while continuing to explore the guitar, he went to the underground music house near the school to listen to songs all year round. There are thousands of music discs in the music house, and he revels in Western pop music every time. It is in this atmosphere that Lin Jinzhang came into contact with and fell in love with rock music, and he felt that the distorted tone of the electric guitar stimulated his musical nerves and stimulated his inner blood more than the log guitar.
Lin Jinzhang found a few friends to form a band, bought a set of second-hand instruments, and began to try to play rock. The money for the set of instruments was borrowed, and in order to repay the money, he also worked part-time as a coolie, such as going to the construction site to grout, but it was not long.
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" >2, the porter of the Rolling Stones</h1>
After graduation, Lin Jinzhang began to earn a living, and worked in many professions unrelated to music, such as ticket inspectors, handymen, etc., and later found that more and more young people learning guitar became guitar teachers, but in fact, he himself was also learning and teaching. Later, a classmate who worked at Rolling Stone Records introduced him to the Rolling Stones.
Although he said that he had entered a record company as big as the Rolling Stones, his work had nothing to do with music, because he was just a delivery clerk, and he was not in the head office, but in an office in Kaohsiung, and even the singers and stars of the Rolling Stones had not been seen.
Since then, he has ridden a motorcycle every day, sending Rolling Stones records to various record stores. The most sent, including the best-selling records of singers such as Chen Shuhua, Zhang Xinzhe, Zhang Hongliang, etc., but at that time, he did not have the idea of becoming a singer himself, because he always wanted to be a good guitarist, and he felt that he could not sing. He never dreamed that one day he would become a singer as popular as them, and would also cover their songs into his own famous songs.
When he was twenty-seven or eight years old, he grew his long hair, formed a band, and began to perform in bars. Delivery during the day, performance at night, because of insufficient rest, riding a motorcycle are snoozing, and later gave up the job of a delivery man, specializing in singing in various bars. At that time, he was also married and had children, and his life was stressful, and he had to fight for money.
< h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" >3, "Dick Cowboy" and "Daddy"</h1>
The name Lin Jinzhang, in fact, not many people know, everyone only knows Dick Cowboy, and fans also love to affectionately call him "Daddy". So how did these two names come about?
At that time, Lin Jinzhang's band, as far as he was older, he himself was more mature and mature, so other young members laughed and called him "Daddy", and later this nickname spread.
As for Dick Cowboy, it actually comes from the band's name. Their band didn't have a fixed name, and many bars even wanted them to use different names in different bars. For a long time they used "Dick & Cowboy" as the band name, which in itself was the name of a certain bar. Later, after Lin Jinzhang signed a contract, he simply used "Dick Cowboy" as his stage name.
Before Lin Jinzhang became famous, he almost had no ambitions, after all, he was almost 40 years old, and his dream of becoming a "great guitarist" was probably difficult to achieve. Many of the students who used to learn guitar with him later had a good development, only when he was still in the bar, he wanted to sing like this until he was fired from the bar, because if he didn't do this, he was afraid that he would only be able to do security work when he went out.
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" >4, the "Dick Cowboy" was created</h1>
Until he signed with Hua Records, and after two or three years of tossing and turning, Dick Cowboy finally became popular and achieved a miracle that belonged to him.
Perhaps in many people's hearts, the popular "Dick Cowboy" is Lin Jinzhang's dream goal, but it is not. Lin Jinzhang certainly wants to be famous, but "Dick Cowboy" is not the real Lin Jinzhang. Success is an accident, and Dick Cowboy is just a "human design" created by the company for him.
The tender tough guy who wanders through the vicissitudes, the rock singer who becomes a late bloomer... This is the label set by the company for him, cover songs such as "How Much Love Can Be Returned" and customized songs such as "Thirty Thousand Feet", which are all arrangements of the company, but Lin Jinzhang's heart is actually resistant: I have never been out of Kaohsiung at the age of 40, let alone wandering vicissitudes? I've never been on a plane, where is the experience of thirty thousand feet? I already have a family and a room, and asking "how much love can be repeated" is not sick?
"Without a thousand setbacks, ten thousand failures, there will be no Dick Cowboy", the company uses such slogans to create his inspirational image of "sad tough guy", and Lin Jinzhang said, Man, in fact, which is good to show failure, to win everyone's recognition.
But I have to admit that Dick Cowboy's positioning was successful, and his launch was indeed a big hit in the market. His hard rock cover injects a different flavor into each song, and can sing the original bland and soft songs to the heart. His cover songs are difficult to be disgusting, and everyone accepts his cover songs, and even lead to original songs such as "Thirty Thousand Feet" and "I Am the One You Don't Love", which often make people mistakenly think that it is another cover song.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" >5, I don't want to be red anymore</h1>
Since Dick Cowboy became popular, a cover song "How Much Love Can Come Back" made him sing until he vomited, but there was no way, everyone was willing to listen, especially when performing in the mainland. In recent years, except for occasional commercial performances, Dick Cowboy has rarely appeared in the public eye. It's also normal, any singer has such a process, who can not be angry all the time? Not to mention that Dad is already over 60 years old, as he said, why be so tired.
Dad said that when a friend saw me, he came up with a bunch of ideas about how to do it for me, saying that it would be more red. Like the fans said earlier in this article, I hope he goes to some music shows. But Dad said that after being tied up for 20 years, it is time to relax, go with the flow, and be happy to be yourself...
Although it is not often exposed in the public eye, there are still many performances in the mainland every year, but this year due to the epidemic, he did not come to the mainland. For him, these performances are just work, not for the sake of popularity or anything.
Even so, he still insisted on making music. He revealed that there were originally three new songs to be recorded this year, but due to the epidemic, the producers were abroad and could not be recorded as scheduled, and it may be delayed until next year.