A fortuitous act may bring about an inevitable change in life.
In the entertainment industry, people who abandon medicine and follow the literature abound.
Tai Zhengxiao, known as the prince of digital love songs, also entered the song world from the process of learning art at a young age.
Tai was born in Shanghai Street, Mong Kok, Hong Kong, in 1966.
He attended primary school at Deming Primary School in Argyle Street.
Children often write typos, originally he is the word "Xiao", but often written as "night".
Perhaps the father felt that the child was related to this word, so he changed the third word to "supper".
His father was a Chinese medicine doctor, so Tai Zhengxiao remembered that his life as a child was peaceful and peaceful.
During his secondary school years, he attended three schools.
At that time, newspapers, magazines and screens had the image of Bruce Lee.
Therefore, he was full of interest in martial arts.
He not only studied Wing Chun with Ip Man's apprentice, Luo Yao, but also practiced taekwondo.
Injured in a competition, he changed the trajectory of his life ever since.
During the days when he was recuperating at home, his father saw that he was idle and gave him a guitar.
Tai Zhengxiao's hand, who had been practicing martial arts and boxing since childhood, had never plucked the strings.
This accidental injury actually gave him a positive encounter with music.
Before that, although various songs came from the street every day, the songs of Teresa Teng also floated out of the home from time to time.
But he had never listened carefully to this tune.
And the days with the guitar made him slowly come out of calm, as if he heard the voice of the soul.
Tai Zhengxiao has since had an extra hobby.
Middle school is about to end, and his future life path is to inherit his father's business.
His father hoped that he could practice medicine, and Tai Zhengxiao also hoped to be a doctor who saved lives and helped the injured.
So, he hopes to spend his college years at the University of Hong Kong School of Medicine.
But that year his test results were not ideal.
There was no way, he had to retreat to the second place, to Taiwan's Kaohsiung Medical College, to study laboratory biology.
Far from his parents, in a strange city, he began a long way to study.
During this period, the hobbies that had been cultivated gradually became a means of earning living expenses.
Bars and various restaurants that allow singing are often seen from then on.
The repertoire of the singing is not fixed, and the styles are also varied.
After all, when I first started singing, most of the songs were someone else's.
Gradually, Tai Zhengxiao was not satisfied with singing other people's songs, and began to try to write his own songs and compose his own songs.
He was a poor student and lived in a poor place.
The tin room at the top of the attic, sweltering and damp, he endured the hot flashes and wrote songs almost every day.
Years later, recalling that experience again, he said that the songs written at that time were full of flesh and blood.
Because all experiences are the most real, facing the wind and rain, basking in the sun,
Feel life with your heart, and music can gush out from the bottom of your heart.
Therefore, he, an "amateur singer" who sells songs, has gradually gained the recognition of the audience.
It is said that once when he sang in a restaurant, the audience gave him 9 roses.
He thought that the 9 roses represented the longevity of the world, so he gave the bouquet of flowers to a girl on that day.
And this girl later became Tai Zhengxiao's wife.
Later, in an interview, he laughed and said that his wife had never known that what he had received that day was actually a bouquet of second-hand roses.
In addition to singing, he also participated in singing competitions during college.
It was when Tai Zhengxiao was 22 years old, and he won the third place in the competition in the form of a choir.
Through singing competitions, he made his debut in the world of singing.
After graduation, he began to formally work as an inspector.
If there is no other transformation, he will spend the rest of his life in the hospital wearing a white coat.
It's just that at this moment, deep inside his heart, there is a hot current of singing.
However, at this moment, he is still a newcomer, and if he wants to sing for a career, he must be recognized and promoted by the music industry.
It was the end of the 1980s, and Tai Zhengxiao had also consulted Li Zongsheng.
Li Zongsheng's evaluation of him is said to be that you can't pronounce your Mandarin pronunciation accurately, what other songs do you sing?
Asking for advice hit a wall, and did not discourage Tai Zhengxiao.
As he continued to write songs, he continued to lie dormant, waiting for the opportunity to come.
Subsequently, he joined UFO records.
Through dedicated creation, in 1993, the first album "Find a Word to Replace" was released.
This year, Tai Zhengxiao was 27 years old, and compared to many singers, he actually did not have an advantage in age.
However, the creation makes his music explosive and continuous.
In particular, the title song "Nine Hundred and Ninety-Nine Roses" was widely recognized by listeners after its release.
His career rose immediately, and he gained the reputation of "Prince of roses".
The song later became a model of love songs, and it has been sung several times without fading.
Tai Zhengxiao and Rose seem to have an indissoluble relationship.
He wrote this song in honor of a sick girl.
It was when he had just graduated and worked in a hospital, and there was a young girl in the ward who had leukemia.
In order to encourage her to actively treat, Tai Zhengxiao will send her a bouquet of flowers every day.
Unfortunately, the girl eventually died of illness, like the withered petals.
Thus, there was this song "Nine Hundred and Ninety-Nine Roses".
Immediately after, he released songs such as "A Thousand Paper Cranes" and "One Thousand and One Nights".
His audience began to expand, from Taiwan to Hong Kong to the mainland, and was loved by fans.
Because he is a singer-songwriter, in addition to writing songs for himself, he has also written songs for Dawn, Gu Juji and Tan Yonglin.
In the early nineties, it was a hot time in the music world.
The record was a big hit, and the singer could also receive countless fans and flower applause.
Moreover, his songs have not only been sung all over the Chinese music scene, but also covered by singers in other languages.
Therefore, Tai Zhengxiao's singing career reached a peak in 1994.
That year, his "Think You Think So Lonely" was also broadcast on major radio stations in Hong Kong.
Fans have fallen in love with the new star.
And many people have found that Tai Zhengxiao is actually a Hong Konger, so the public's love for him has more nostalgia in it.
So from 1995, he wasted no time in entering the Hong Kong music scene.
He signed a contract with New Yibao Records, followed by the Cantonese album Too Deep.
In order to launch him, the company specially invited Xu Guanjie, the originator of the Hong Kong music scene, to write the main song "Moonlight Ocean Dream" for him.
Although his Cantonese albums were popular, he felt that the Cantonese song market was small.
So after 1997, he put the focus of his career back on Taiwan.
It is said that he fell ill with Fukumo Records in early 1997.
The subsequent album "Captive", released in April, is also very melancholy in style.
As a result, the album's sales were unsatisfactory.
It wasn't until the depression symptoms improved the following year that sales of the new album Acacia Like Hemp improved.
This year, at the age of 32, he temporarily stayed away from music after releasing his new album.
He and his girlfriend entered the palace of marriage this year.
Unlike other people in the entertainment industry, whose families are at the bottom, or face various scandals.
After Tai Zhengxiao's debut, there were few scandals,
The outside world doesn't even know what his wife's name is, let alone the video data flowing out.
Even Tai Zhengxiao's marriage was inadvertently revealed by him after marriage.
The more it is concealed, the more it will arouse the curiosity of the public.
Even the people in the circle had never even seen his wife.
So much so that the media reported it with the label "Digital Love Song Prince Harbors His Wife".
Some people also say that he is in order to maintain the status of the prince of love songs in the minds of fans, so he does not let his wife be exposed.
Some people also broke the news that since Tai Zhengxiao's debut, all he sang were love songs.
Therefore, for its own benefit, the record company has not let his feelings be exposed.
However, when his son was 1 year old, he once appeared in front of the public with his child in his arms.
But again, his wife still did not show up.
He once said that when he held the concert, his wife and son were in the middle of the audience.
It's just that it's well protected, so it's not exposed.
Since then, he has not appeared in public view with his son.
The media also described his wife as "evaporating in the world".
Just when the outside world has questioned him for many years, friends around him often give him a break.
Friends all said that he was not hiding anything, and everyone knew that he had long been married.
When someone asked, he didn't shy away from it.
It's just that his wife is not a person in this circle, and she doesn't like exposure.
Whenever in the interview, Tai Zhengxiao will also respond, the family is an outsider, can not see the light.
He also often said that career is always second, and family is the first.
This attitude may have something to do with his being a devout Christian.
It is worth mentioning that the reason why Tai Zhengxiao will get the title of digital love song prince,
Because the names of several songs released in the early years of debut, "999", "Thousand Paper Cranes", and "One Thousand and One Nights" are all related to numbers.
After getting married, Tai Zhengxiao was silent in the music scene for several years.
In 2005, 39-year-old Tai Zhengxiao opened a bakery.
However, because he was not good at business, the bakery eventually closed down.
So he finally believes that singing is what he is best at.
In addition to being on stage, after so many years of debut, he has not put down his work behind the scenes of music.
He feels that discovering new people is also the only magic weapon to maintain the vitality of his career.
Therefore, in the early years, he successfully discovered Zhong Hanliang.
However, there is an interlude in between.
Once Tai Zhengxiao went to Hong Kong, and "Young Five Tigers" was playing on TV.
He suddenly felt that the actor Zhu Jianjun's appearance and conversation were good, so he thought of bringing him in and talking about cooperation and development.
Who knew that the agent made a mistake and brought another actor, Zhong Hanliang, over.
Tai Zhengxiao knew that he had called the wrong person, but he couldn't break this in person.
He took out a pair of Ji and Zhong Hanliang to sing, and he felt that Zhong Hanliang's voice was very good, and it looked very similar to his debut.
In this way, he brought Zhong Hanliang to Taiwan to develop.
Since then, with the song "OREA", Zhong Hanliang has a fire in Taiwan.
Therefore, Tai Zhengxiao is the Bole of Zhong Hanliang's career.
But whenever he talked about it, he felt that he was just gently pushing him behind his back.
After 2010, Tai Zhengxiao has rarely released new songs.
In 2011, he released his third Cantonese album, Love Songs.
However, due to the diversification of entertainment forms, the original hot phenomenon no longer exists.
During the epidemic last year, Tai Zhengxiao, who rarely appeared in front of the camera, appeared to be very emaciated.
Because of the epidemic, the acting work in front of and behind the scenes has been suspended.
Suddenly quiet, he said he was a little uncomfortable.
Exercise regularly every day, and teach singing and guitar through online teaching.
During this time, he released a new song "Looking Up".
He hopes that through music and singing, he will lead everyone out of the shadow of the epidemic and meet the sunshine.
Nowadays, Tai Zhengxiao often participates in some activities and gathers with friends.
He will also post his recent situation on Weibo.
Some time ago, the 54-year-old also participated in a commercial performance.
Because of the emaciation, the figure appears very slender.
His state is not at all like that of a person over half a hundred years old.
From "A Thousand Paper Cranes" to "Nine Hundred and Ninety-Nine Roses", he sang the songs of that year.
And the audience may hear the memories of youth.
However, probably because the sound equipment on the scene was not good, he sang out of tune.
So much so that some netizens ridiculed that this is a proper large-scale rollover scene.
But in any case, his passion for singing at that time was still very abundant.
From a doctor to a singer,
In addition to Tai Zhengxiao's own talent and efforts, there is also a blessing of the era of musical explosion.
He debuted in the early 1990s, when the new music industry was at its most popular.
Therefore, as long as there is a suitable opportunity, and then through their own efforts, they can become popular.
And with the opening of the Internet era,
The myth of the popularity of the music scene at that time, even the era when it could become popular by relying on a song, can no longer be copied.
Therefore, an era has its own debut methods and characteristics of an era.
At the same time, as his creation declined, he gradually moved from the front of the stage to the backstage.
The situation has changed, but the dream of a musician is still there.
It is also this dream that has inspired generations of new singers to emerge.
Text | twenty-two
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