He was the king of the radiant stage, and he was a disheveled trainee police officer. The biggest thing they have in common is that they are all called "Zhang Qi"—an undefinable, multi-faceted, three-dimensional human demon king, an all-round musician who can't help but dance with him.
If you have watched two variety shows at the same time, "Brother With Thorns and Thorns" (hereinafter referred to as "Brother Pi") and "Our Piping Hot Life" (hereinafter referred to as "Piping Hot Life"), you may agree that the word that Zhang Qi misunderstands the most should be "idol baggage".
He once openly admitted in an interview that he was a person with "idol baggage", and he himself "went straight" in these two publicly delivered programs, and simply did not regard reality shows as variety shows.
Dancing when you are happy, and tears when you are sad.
On stage, he is a wild, uninhibited, cold and tyrannical all-round musician.
Offstage, he is focused and immersed in what he loves, using Zhongzheng to calmly adjust his life and daily life.
The all-powerful music king who has been riding through thorns
Stephen Zweig said: "All those most important historical moments need to have a time to brew, and every real event needs to have a process of development".
"The Brother Who Cuts through the Thorns", which began to air in August 2021, should be a very important moment for Zhang Qi personally.
After the first episode of the program was broadcast, Zhang Qi quickly stood out with her cool and handsome appearance, metallic voice, and stunning and shocking stage performance. Since then, in the Mango TV popularity list, many popular votes have been the first in the fault.
For a time, "Zhang Qi" became the focus of the entertainment industry.
However, "Zhang Qi" did not appear out of thin air.
When Zhang Qi was recognized by the public because of "Phi Ge", he had trekked and accumulated 25 years on the road of music.
01 Relentless music ranger
In 1996, at the age of 15, Zhang Qi began to embark on the road of music. Looking back at Zhang Qi's musical path, we will find that Zhang Qi is not a piece of jade polished in the framework of a regular life, but more like a pure, uncut diamond.
From the beginning, Zhang Qi's involvement in music has been very extensive, jazz, rock, folk, pop and so on. To some extent, before joining the Black Panther Band in 2013, Zhang Qi was like a ranger driving a canoe to sail freely in the ocean of Chinese music, nourishing musical dreams in his own way.
The six years before signing with a record label from 1996 to 2002 were the period when Zhang Qi taught himself the music of "Sheng Bump". During this period, Zhang Qi supported his musical dreams by singing in a bar, not only formed a "non-band" as the lead singer, scored the soundtrack for Lu Chuan's film debut "Looking for a Gun", and also recorded the first demo in 2002. During this period, in addition to singing in the bar, practicing and writing songs every day filled Zhang Qi's lonely time, and also gave him the joy of creation.
In 2002, Zhang Qi became a signed singer of Jingwen Records, but did not encounter good development opportunities after signing, until the termination of the contract in 2007, Zhang Qi only recorded the single "Turn Around and Go", cameo in some film and television dramas.
Referring to that past, Zhang Qi said: "From 1996 to 2003, maybe for a longer time, it was the day when I immersed myself in hard music."
After breaking his contract with the record company in 2007, Zhang Qi entered another period of solo cultivation until 2013.
At the beginning of the termination, although Zhang Qi once fell into a state of confusion, but still wear several positions, insist on moving forward, he worked as a singer-songwriter and DJ in the FM97.4 "Most FM" and FM103.9 "With You" column of Beijing People's Radio, and also went to cameo in online dramas, performed at music festivals, and served as the music director of the bar...
In this 6 years or so, in his spare time, Zhang Qi taught himself instruments such as bass and keyboards and learned to arrange music. These accumulations opened up Zhang Qi's musical landscape and made him realize that "music is a project, it requires you to build brick by brick, you need to look at this as a behind-the-scenes manipulator, since then, my music pattern has changed." It is also the years of unremitting learning and accumulation that make Zhang Qi an all-round musician who is skilled in singing, arranging and instruments.
During this period, Zhang Qi also participated in a number of film and television dramas and produced some film and television music. For example, in 2007, the movie "Parting is Also Love" was released, and Zhang Qi sang the theme song of the film, "Love You is My Breath". Coincidentally, this song is composed by Li Tong. This allowed Zhang Qi to have his first intersection with the Black Panther Band. For example, in 2010, zhang Qi starred in the music theme movie "Song for Ah Shan" was released.
In addition, Zhang Qi also created "Angel with Broken Wings" (a song written for Li Huizhen), and undertook the lyrics, composition and arrangement of the Beijing Planetarium dome movie "Starry Sky Concert". It is reported that "Starry Sky Concert" is the world's first astronomical program in the form of a musical, which tells astronomical phenomena with music on the theme of constellations, universes, galaxies, nebulae, and the emergence, evolution and disappearance of stars.
The film perfectly integrates the story of constellations and music, allowing the audience to understand constellations in a poetic way: in the music, the vast starry sky that rotates through the four seasons, the knowledge of constellations has become concrete and perceptible, which is a very popular science and cultural significance.
02 The convergence of a leaf canoe and an icebreaker
In the 17 years (1996-2013) when Zhang Qi was alone and constantly searching, the Black Panthers experienced a downward spiral from high to low together with Chinese rock music.
As rock and roll as a whole fell silent, the influence of the Black Panthers faded. Black Panther was like an icebreaker for rock 'n' roll, but it was always on the edge of the mainstream music market. In particular, after the release of "Black Panther V" in 2004, the Black Panther band experienced a 9-year stranding and did not publish a new work in 9 years, which changed in 2013.
This year, Zhang Qi joined the Band Panther. After many years of perseverance, a leaf canoe and an icebreaker were brought together and connected in 2013. They are each other's choices. After Zhang Qi joined the band, a new Band of Black Panthers began to move forward with all their might.
In July of that year, the Black Panthers released their sixth album "Who We Are" and won the 9th China Golden Disc Awards.
In May 2014, he participated in the second season of Anhui Satellite TV's music battle program "I Am Crazy for Song" and won the championship.
On December 14, 2015, the Band Black Panther released their digital album "Fun".
In 2017, Black Panther released a new album "True Colors" to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the band's founding, in which Zhang Qi was responsible for the songwriting of five songs and the creation of all the lyrics except for one English song.
On September 2, 2017, a Saturday night in early autumn in Beijing, the weather was half warm and half cool. At the beginning of the lanterns in the area of East Forty Tiao, Workers' Stadium, Sanlitun and World Trade Center Tianjie, young people unloaded the fatigue and tension of work and began to spend leisure time in the night.
Many people don't know that in the workers' gymnasium nearby, the 30th anniversary concert of the Black Panther Band, which has always been unintended, is being staged. They didn't know that the concert they missed at that time needed to be reviewed in an archaeological way after August 2021.
That is after Zhang Qi stood out from the "Pi Ge", because Zhang Qi rarely appeared in front of the public before, many viewers had infinite curiosity about this "human demon king" who suddenly rushed out, waved the "Luoyang shovel", multi-faceted archaeology, and in the archaeological process, dug up the 2017 Black Panther Band 30th Anniversary True Color Concert.
So, through the video, these young people saw that that night, presented the song created by Black Panther in the course of thirty years, this more than 2-hour concert, the band members worked together to complete the interpretation of 25 band songs, lead singer Zhang Qi sang 25 songs alone, and there was only about 5 minutes in between (excluding interaction and communication with the audience) Intermission.
Once again, they were impressed by Zhang Qi's enthusiasm for the stage and business ability, and looked forward to the 35th anniversary concert of the Black Panther Band to be arranged as soon as possible.
03 Singers who fill life with the stage
In "Phi Ge", through multiple performances, the audience saw a singer who filled his life with the stage. A man who has been wrestling with music for 25 years and sees music as a life, whose energy and sharpness are not present in life, must find another outlet. The stage has an extraordinary significance for him.
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On the stage, he can unleash the small universe of life, burning the energy and blood that cannot be placed in life. It is precisely for this reason that every stage work of "Phi Ge" in which Zhang Qi participates is permeated with an extreme attraction, as if it has a life. He is not only using the stage to present his talents, but also using the stage to interpret a part of himself.
In fact, this feeling has been confirmed many times. After the end of "Phi Ge", the audience who chased after the Black Panther Band music festival, commercial performance and "piping hot life" found that whether it was the program stage, or various music festivals, or commercial performance arrangements, Zhang Qi's stage charm and on-site appeal had never been different or reduced.
On the one hand, Zhang Qi, who regards the stage as a part of his life, has a kind of pious obsession with the stage, which makes Zhang Qi very forgetful on the stage, and uses a natural and very enjoyable state to intuitively convey his beautiful perception and interpretation of music to the audience, creating an audiovisual feast for the audience participating in the interaction, making people involuntarily move with the sound of singing and music.
On the other hand, in Zhang Qi's eyes, the audience has no rating and the stage has no size. Whether it is a primary school child, or a business tycoon, whether it is a school playground in a remote mountainous area, or a super luxurious scene, or a commercial platter, what he sees is all "honorable fans and friends". As long as someone is listening, he will try his best to sing, interpreting each song with a sincere attitude, extreme voice, and full of emotion. Some fans said, "You can fully believe that even if Zhang Qi is left in the field, as long as someone wants to listen, he will sing with all his might." ”
04 Interactive talented live superpowers
Zhang Qi's live scene is alive and has a rhythm of life. In addition to his full-hearted interpretation, it is also indispensable to the help of interactive talent.
The live fancy Cue audience, playing with wheat racks, handing microphones, turning back on the stage, rushing from the stage to the audience... All are Zhang Qi's interactive methods, and he can use the interactive talent of "colorful" to mobilize the senses and experience of every live audience.
It's just that his talent for interaction isn't used in life or on social platforms, but during the time when he starts singing or acting on stage, it pops out naturally.
Whether it is facing the fire officers and soldiers of the Urumqi Fire Station, the teachers and children of the support primary school, or the university teachers and students of the Civil Aviation Flight College of China, the legal aid lawyer group, the SPECIAL police soldiers, the traffic police comrades and other different groups, Zhang Qi can make everyone "hi up". This talent and ability to interact is not available to everyone.
Constantly unlocking the "multi-faceted people" of a hot life
Frank, simple, undefended, not hidden, not vague, not wanting to cover up... If "Phi Ge" let the public see Zhang Qi as an all-round musician, then "Piping Hot Life" let the public see Zhang Qi's more flashy character and hidden charm.
01 Focused, immersive, undaunted "warrior"
Firefighting, SWAT, traffic police... Each stop is a profession with very high physical requirements, but Zhang Qi has never shirked, retreated or given up every challenge, and through his own efforts, he has won the unanimous recognition of the professionals at each stop.
In the fire station, he is a real trainee firefighter, even the steps of folding the quilt given by the instructor, he meticulously follows it, although the physical strength is not dominant, but in the real fire drill, he also strives to hold (not randomly drag) the dummy who is heavier than him and complete the task within the specified time.
In the volunteer teaching station, he is a real volunteer teacher, with gentleness, delicacy and sincerity, to interact with preschool children, use music to convey beauty and energy for children and enlighten their imagination of the future, and in less than 3 days for the school to create a school song "Where Dreams Begin".
In the flight station, he didn't even want to count a single soybean to ensure that the task was completed accurately and correctly. Before the real machine simulation, whether it is the flight principle of the aircraft or the practical specifications of the aircraft pilot, he strives to know what it is and why it is so, rather than staying in excitement, excitement, and half-understanding.
In the legal aid station, he and the accompanying lawyer tried every means to help the client realize his desire to see his daughter through sincere and empathetic communication.
In the SWAT station, during the gun drill, he endured the pain and physical discomfort caused by cervical spondylosis for many years, and also completed the prescribed challenge by holding a gun to a high standard (the position of the eyes, head, and hands are in accordance with the standard posture said by the instructor).
In the traffic police station, in the simulation training, he quickly intercepted the illegal vehicles because of his calm and meticulous and agile response, which was affirmed by the instructor.
02 The energy of love is extremely abundant InGiver
Zhang Qi, who is not defensive, is accustomed to treating people with sincerity: whether it is a guest who travels together, or a staff member of the "Phi Ge" and "Piping Hot Life" program groups, or a professional in different professions.
This behavior pattern of Zhang Qi is typical of Givenr, who is generally a person who is very willing to share and has a lot of energy to love.
This pattern of behavior is revealed in the "Phi Ge" and "Piping Hot Life" in which Zhang Qi participated.
Whether it is the super output of performance tracks such as "Yellow", "Wukong", "Dalabang Bar", "If There Is Tomorrow" during the "Phi Ge" period, teaching Jia to learn guitar in the dormitory, accompanying Zhao Wenzhuo to rehearse; or in "Piping Hot Life", sending medicine and water to Lee Seung-hyun, sharing the plaster to Zhang Jin, helping Zhang Yunlong prepare breakfast, gently shouting everyone to get up early, accompanying Chen Xiaochun and Zhang Zhilin to rehearse Mandarin songs... Zhang Qi is in a quiet, trustworthy, warm way, output love, express love. So much so that Chen Xiaochun, Zhang Zhilin, Hu Haiquan, Zhang Yunlong, Bai Jugang, Gao Hanyu and others have publicly expressed their appreciation and liking for him in the program.
In the closing program of "Piping Hot Life", Zhang Qi paid tribute to and thanked many people, and in the final group photo, Zhang Qi deliberately tilted his head to the left to leave a place for his PD "strategy". In the freeze-frame photo, "Ce Ce" puts his arm around his shoulder, as relaxed and comfortable as his brother.
03 "Flower Beauty Man" running naked under HIGH-definition lens
It was he who had a slightly exposed stubble, a disheveled face, and because he forgot to wipe his face with gloves because he forgot the tissue on duty; it was he who washed his face, made simple makeup, and made people beautiful to the point of aphasia.
The star artist who dares to run naked under the high-definition camera may only be Zhang Qi. In fact, Zhang Qi's casual life attitude and aesthetic style have some presentations in the dormitory life link in "Phi Ge", but when it comes to "piping hot life", it is simply more "unscrupulous".
If the broadcast of "Phi Ge" makes people realize that Zhang Qi is a low-material rock lead singer, then the broadcast period of "Piping Hot Life" makes people realize how unique Zhang Qi is a musician with a unique style.
When recording the last three stops of "Piping Hot Life", Zhang Qi only wore three sets of private clothes, two black autumn and winter coats and a cotton coat.
The itinerary and announcement density are certainly one factor, but the most critical thing is that Zhang Qi's core focus has never been on the private service look. (Extended reading: Zhang Qi, the king of the human world, interprets the dual wearing code of cold tyranny and simplicity and elegance)
The audience said that Zhang Qi's appearance in "Piping Hot Life" constantly changes with different time periods of the day, in the morning is a cool and handsome beauty who is refreshed and groomed, after half a day of training, by noon, he will become a slightly tired workplace cooker, and at night, he is basically a slightly exposed stubble and unruly appearance... People who don't understand him may feel that they are "bullying and committing murder", and those who know him know that he is nothing more than a person who appears on camera and has to take care of his wig and make a lot of effort.
A calm and open-minded person
That hot-blooded, wild, uninhibited music king is just Zhang Qi's state on the stage, and in life, Zhang Qi pursues "Zhongzheng peace".
Zhang Qi is not the kind of personality that comes from the past, in a strange environment, coldness and a sense of coercion are his norm, but as long as he mentions "wife" and "Peking Opera" to him, he can instantly disintegrate his cold appearance.
01 "Human Delusions" Softened by Love
During the "Phi Ge" period, millions of people knew that Zhang Qi had maintained the same hairstyle for many years because his wife liked it the most, and his hairstyle had been taken care of by his wife for more than a decade. During the "piping hot life" period, the public also knew that Zhang Qi and his wife's wedding anniversary, as well as his wife's long hair, were also reserved for Zhang Qi, because Zhang Qi has always liked her long hair.
2005 was the year Zhang Qi most wanted to freeze, and in that year, he met his true destiny daughter Wei Jia. Zhang Qi's musical road has always been full of thorns, along the way, no matter how difficult it is, Wei Jia accompanies him.
Now he always seems to be elegant, peaceful, warm and inclusive, and he says that these are all things that his wife once gave him. His wife changed his life and made him what he is now.
Before meeting Wei Jia in 2005, he said that he was a more extreme, self-strengthening person, at that time, he had thorns all over his body, and it was Wei Jia who had always embraced the wild and uninhibited him with love, and finally warmed into her appearance.
Where he is, she is. Husbands and wives follow, inseparable, and foam at each other... These words, which are usually slightly wen Zou Zou, are used in the relationship between Zhang Qi and his wife, and they are instantly vivid and vivid.
Many people's love is dissolved in chai rice oil and salt after marriage, and slowly transformed into an inertia and bondage; and love is the main line of life of Zhang Qi and Wei Jia, and chai rice oil and salt is more like an embellishment and adjustment of love life. Love at first sight, vigorous love, and long-flowing love have existed in the nearly 17 years that they have known, known and kept each other.
In countless public occasions, Zhang Qi has said that his wife is the most important person in his life, all the important moments in his life have his wife involved, his wife is happy and the most important, only take care of his wife's emotions, only used to his wife alone... The live broadcast also said that he would be with his wife for the rest of his life. Fans who envied their state of love said, "Zhang Qi, who loves his wife so much, is not an ideal in the world at all, it is simply a delusion in the world." ”
02 A hot-blooded naked child who practiced in Peking Opera
During the "Phi Ge" period, a song "Wukong" surprised countless people and made the public realize Zhang Qi outside of music creation.
During the "Piping Hot Life" period, a song "Fire War Horse" made the public realize the greater possibility of Zhang Qi's fusion of Various musical elements such as Peking Opera, Rap, and Rock.
Zhang Qi's accumulation of Peking Opera is not the superficial kung fu of listening to several plays and singing a few words, but the love from the heart and the appreciation of real study and learning.
Although Zhang Qi has long been associated with Peking Opera because of the relationship between his grandfather and father, his real love for Peking Opera is after 2017. After that, Zhang Qi began to specialize in the old art of Peking Opera, "I listened to a lot of old records, Wang Fengqing, Yu Shuyan, Tan Fuying, and even Tan Fuying's grandfather Mr. Tan Xinpei, Ma Lianliang, Xi Xiaobo, Gao Qingkui, these famous artists I have heard." ”
Peking opera has thus become the theme of Zhang Qi's daily life. Between getting up, sleeping, and resting, I am either listening to Peking Opera or singing Peking Opera, or reading books and video materials related to Peking Opera.
In the interview of "Definition 2021", Zhang Qi said that now he only likes Peking Opera and only loves Peking Opera, because Peking Opera is too great, and music (rock music), for him, is a part of life, and life cannot be given up. As a musician, he has an obligation to let more people see more possibilities and more kinds of output. Therefore, in the various music festivals, evenings, and program scenes after "Pi Ge", the same song, Zhang Qi has interpreted different novelties and surprised fans.
Take the band into the present and future of young people
Some fans said that when she first watched "Phi Ge", she couldn't think of it anyway, and it was almost half a year after the end of the show, and she was still addicted to Zhang Qi. Asked why, her answer is that Zhang Qi is too beautiful in all aspects, and three words and two words are not enough to describe, "But the most important thing is that I like Zhang Qi's musical charm and surging vitality on the stage, and I hope that the all-round, top musicians like Zhang Qi and the excellent music of his band can be heard and familiar to more people." ”
The Chinese music scene has experienced two glorious periods, first in the late 1980s and early 1990s, when Zhang Guorong, Mui Yanfang, Beyond, the Four Heavenly Kings, Faye Wong, Xiao Hu, Zhang Xinzhe and others appeared one after another; then around 2000 to 2010, this period is known as the golden decade of the Chinese music scene, such as Karen Mok, Eason Chan, Zhang Huimei, Jay Chou, Jolin Tsai, Sun Yanzi, Xiao Yaxuan, Zhang Shaohan, Penny Tai, S.H.E, Lin Junjie and other star singers emerged.
Good music can be passed on across time and space. Even if the young people of the post-90s and post-00s are still young in the boom years of Chinese music, they are not unfamiliar with the singers and songs of those eras. Their playlist not only contains the hit songs of the first decade of the new century, but also treasures many tracks from the 1980s and 1990s and even earlier. It's just that Black Panther, founded in 1987, has never been involved in the past days of today's young people.
In July 2004, when the Black Panther band released their fifth album "Black Panther V", the oldest post-90s generation was only 14 years old. When Zhang Qi joined the Band Panther in 2013, the youngest post-90s was only 14 years old, and the oldest post-00s were only 13 years old. Later, for the younger post-00s, their adolescent time is more filled with love beans.
Fortunately, after August 2021, this phenomenon is changing, because of the popularity of "Phi Ge", a large number of young people have become obsessed with Zhang Qi, and because Zhang Qi has known the Black Panther Band, which has been established for more than 30 years.
NetEase Cloud Music's "Chinese Music Trend Report (2022)" shows that the Chinese music scene has officially entered the era of civilianization from the era of elites, the "fading" of traffic artists, the revitalization of veteran singers, and the extension of the music life cycle will be an important trend in the future of the Chinese music scene. At the level of music consumption habits, the differentiation of users is becoming more and more obvious, and there is no longer a unified standard for listening to songs. Popular phenomenal works grow together with focused treasure songs.
In other words, the differentiation and diversification of the music tastes of mainstream young users may create an environment conducive to the blooming light of powerful musicians. Coupled with the successive launch of band variety shows and music variety shows in recent years, as well as the rise of cultural trends in music festivals, more and more bands have entered the vision of more listeners.
Since August last year, wave after wave of audiences who have vertically entered the pit of Zhang Qi have begun to spontaneously understand and appreciate all the music he has participated in creating. A large number of excellent songs such as "Lonely Soul", "Battle", "Fearless", "Contest", "Myna", "Keyboard Narrow", "Back To Rock", "Tide", "Blue Distant", "Great You", "Restart", "Everything is the Best Arrangement" and so on are also being liked, collected and recommended by more and more young people.
To be sure, these large numbers of young people who hold the right to consume are riveting their strength to let Zhang Qi participate in their present and future. However, whether Zhang Qi can lead the Black Panther Band to break out of the siege and go from the niche to the public still needs time to verify. Internally, it depends on the pattern and development plan of The Panther; externally, it depends on market choices and some unpredictable opportunities.