When writing about well-known figures in Taiwanese composing circles, the personal mood is excited and nervous. For fans in non-Cantonese-speaking areas, Taiwanese music is the "pathfinder" of Chinese music, from "The Moon Represents My Heart" to "A Thousand Miles Away", without that heavyweight composer, the Chinese music scene will not have the classic pop music that fans are familiar with.
Today, walk into the elite Taiwanese music scene and look for ten top composers in the music world. The comprehensive musical literacy of Taiwanese musicians should be the highest among the three places on both sides of the strait, taiwan's four heavenly kings, Zheng Zhihua, Zhang Yusheng, Zhang Yu, Yu Chengqing, Pan Meichen, Zhang Hongliang, You Hongming, Huang Shujun, Ma Zhaojun, Wu Bai, Zhang Zhenyue... What kind of all-round musician is not an all-round musician who can write and sing at the same time!
In order to "make way" for the musicians behind the scenes, the best musicians who "sing" in the words, songs, and singing are not on the list, and the only "exception" is Jay Chou, because he is too important.
In today's list, there are many juxtaposed rankings, not "double standards", because the creators who are juxtaposed are too good, and it is a pity to abandon anyone. Let's take a look at the list.
10. Chen Xiaoxia/Chen Yaochuan
Chen Xiaoxia + Yao Ruolong, Chen Yaochuan + Li Anxiu, this is the outstanding representative of the "golden partner" of the Taiwanese music scene in the 90s, under their creation, many Heavenly Kings and Queens have "shouted, standing, and long-lasting" masterpieces.
"Ten Years" (Eason Chan), "Whose Tears Are Flying", "Meng Tingwei", "Engagement" (Zhou Hui), "He Doesn't Love Me" (Karen Mok), "The Next Dawn" (Guo Jing) and so on are Chen Xiaoxia's representative works.
"Forgetting Love Water" (Andy Lau), "Woman Flower" (Mei Yanfang), "A Cloud Made of Rain in the Wind" (Meng Tingwei), "Breakup" (Li Bihua), "Single Love Song" (Lin Zhixuan) and so on are Chen Yaochuan's representative works.
9. Tan Jianchang / Li Taixiang
You may not know Tan Jianchang's name, but you must have heard Liu Wenzheng's "Light Rain in March", Fei Yuqing's "Dream Camel Bell", the article's "365 Mile Road", and Fei Xiang's "Clouds of Hometown". These works are all from Tan Jianchang, whose lyrics complement XiaoXuan's songs, and they are a pair of well-known "divine eagle heroes" in the Taiwanese music scene, like Lin Qiuli and Xiong Meiling, Zhang Yu and Shi Yilang.
Li Taixiang is a "Taidou" level figure in the Taiwanese music scene, as a promoter of Taiwanese music, Li Taixiang has not made a full effort in traditional pop music because he is too extensive, but a song "Olive Tree" and "Happy Face" are enough to ensure that he will not be forgotten.
8. Liang Hongzhi
Liang Hongzhi is a genius musician emerging from the Taiwanese folk song movement, and his works promoted the development of Taiwanese music in the 1980s, which can be described as the "gospel" of the Chinese music divas.
His works are beautiful in tune and graceful, and the beauty of the artistic conception is different in the 80s, Cai Qin's "Just Like Your Gentleness" and "Read You", Teresa Teng's "May People Last", Su Rui's "Please Come with Me", Ye Qianwen's "Blessing", Tan Yonglin's "Half Awake and Half Dreaming" are all Mr. Liang's representative works.
Liang Hongzhi died of illness in 2004 at the age of 47.
7. Chen Zhiyuan / Li Ziheng
Most of the "Seven Chens and Two Lees" of flying saucers are compound talents, who can compose lyrics, compose music, arrange music, and also produce.
When it comes to composing, Chen Zhiyuan and Li Ziheng are even better, because they not only have many works, but also many fine works.
Jiang Yuheng's "Plum Blossom Three Alleys", Wang Jie's "Do I Really Have Nothing", Su Rui's "Follow the Feeling", Ouyang Feifei's "Grateful Heart", Lin Yilian's "Falling in Love with a Person Who Doesn't Go Home" are all Chen Zhiyuan's masterpieces.
The Little Tigers' "Butterfly Flying", Wu Qilong's "Wish You a Smooth Wind", Wang Jie's "Red Dust with You", Su Rui's "Holding Hands", Zhou Huajian's "Wind and Rain" are all representative works of Li Ziheng's composition.
Chen Xiunan is not listed here, and his compositions such as "Dashing Walk Again", "The Sea", "Choice", "You Are the Eternal Pain in My Chest", and "The Snow Is Burning" cannot be described as excellent.
6. Worm/Li Zongsheng
Xiao Worm and Li Zongsheng are the musical godfathers of Taiwan's music scene, and ren Xianqi, Du Dewei, Li Lifen, Chen Shuhua, Xin Xiaoqi, Zhou Huajian and other well-known singers in the Chinese music scene have become fanatical pursuits by fans under the tutelage of the two godfathers.
Zheng Yi's "The Time for the Little Rain to Come", Pan Yueyun's "I Am Not your Favorite Person", Zhong Zhentao's "As Long As You Live Better Than Me", Li Lifen's "Love Jiangshan More Love Beauty", Ren Xianqi's "Heart Too Soft" and other works are all from the hands of Xiao Worm Teacher.
Yang Ziqiong's "Love Is Like a Shooting Star", Zhang Aijia's "The Price of Love", Chen Shuhua's "Laughing Red Dust", Lin Yilian's "When Love Has Become a Thing of the Past", doll's "Across the Ocean to See You" and so on are just a small part of Li Zongsheng's masterpieces.
5. Jay Chou
Jay Chou is the most prestigious pop king in the Chinese music scene in the new century, can be described as the leader of the new wave of music, and is a top musician with excellent singing and composition.
Because of the influence, the individual singled out Jaylen from the singer-songwriters and joined the other composers on the list. After all, which leaderboard can "reject" Jay Chou, as long as he is involved.
Jay Chou's epochality need not be said, to borrow a passage from zhou Huajian, the king of the music world: Jay Chou has brought a revolution to popular music, which is very fresh and shocking. Our group of male singers were all shaken by it. Including me, Li Zongsheng, and Luo Dayou, for a long time, we were all confused, feeling that the energy of our music was gone, and we didn't even know whether to stick to it or not. We're afraid because it's really good, that new musical concept, that new language logic, combined like a flood into the music world, making us collapse.
Jaylen's masterpiece, not to mention, for many post-80s and post-90s, Jay Chou's production must be a boutique.
4. Luo Dayou
If Jay Chou is a musical giant in the new era, then Luo Dayou is a musical giant of the previous era, this musician who can write and sing, and his influence on the Chinese music scene is pale and powerless to praise with any praise.
Compared with Luo Dayou's words, his songs are also a must, but Luo Godfather's words are based on the times and beyond the times, and the composition cannot exceed the height of Luo Dayou's lyrics, so it is temporarily listed in this position.
Zhang Aijia's "Childhood", Teresa Teng's "Proverbs of Love", Pan Yueyun's "Wild Lilies Also Have Spring", Chen Shuhua's "Rolling Red Dust", Chen Huixian's "Where Life Does Not Meet", Mei Yanfang's "It Seems like the Old Man Came" and other compositions are just "a leopard in the pipe" among the many fine works of Luo's godfather.
3. Weng Qingxi
Who will be the composer who can rank ahead of Luo Dayou and Jay Chou? Of course, some of the "ancient gods" in the Chinese music scene.
Teresa Teng is the "eternal queen of heaven" in the Chinese music scene, and since her, the Chinese music scene has no influence over Teresa Teng's female singers. Teresa Teng's fame is inseparable from Zhuang Nu, Tony, Gu Yue and other singers who have been famous for decades.
The first is Weng Qingxi, Weng Lao's pen name "Tony", representative works include "The Moon Represents My Heart", "Small Town Story", "Original Villager", "Big Eyes", "Coincidence" and so on.
I can't count how many famous singers have covered a song called "The Moon Represents My Heart", and it is perhaps one of the most well-known songs in Chinese pop music.
Jay Chou's music has been popular for 20 years, and Weng Qingxi's works have been sung for half a century and will continue to be passed down.
2. Liu Jiachang
In the middle of Tony and Gu Yue, the individual added a quota, he is Liu Jiachang, a grandmaster in the Taiwanese music scene.
Teresa Teng, Liu Wenzheng, Fei Yuqing, Feng Feifei, Zhen Ni, Gao Lingfeng, Huang Yingying and other singers have become legendary singers in the Chinese music scene under the support of his tuning, and it can be said that the glory of Taiwanese music in the 70s is inseparable from Liu Jiachang's talent transportation.
"The West Building of the Moon Full Moon", "The Past Can Only Be Remembered", "Meilan Meilan I Love You", "Yunhe", "A Curtain of Dreams" and so on are all works by Liu Jiachang.
1. Zuo Hongyuan
There is a saying in Taiwanese composing circles that "one left and one right", "right" is Luo Dayou, and "left" is "left Hongyuan".
I don't know if Zuo Hongyuan doesn't matter, then you must have heard songs like "Wait a Thousand Years" and "Wine and Coffee". "A Thousand Years waiting for a time" is almost a song suitable for all ages, Chinese fans, who will not hum a sentence "a thousand years to wait, I have no regrets, ah, ah, ah" it!
Such a work is from Mr. Zuo Lao. Zuo Hongyuan pen name "Gu Yue", is Teresa Teng's teacher, but also Liu Jiachang's teacher, a lifetime of countless classics, from the 60s to the 90s, Shanghua Records can be from scratch, small to large, inseparable from Zuo Lao's cultivation. Zuo Hongyuan cultivated Liu Jiachang and Teresa Teng, and supported Qiong Yao Opera and Shanghua Records, which led to a flourishing piece of Taiwanese music later.
In addition to the two songs pointed out above, the songs that are still being sung today, such as "A Thousand Words", "Where the Wind Comes From", "I Am a Cloud", "Nanova Love Song", and "Treading Waves", are all originals composed by Zuo Lao himself.
In addition to the above dozen, there are many well-known composers such as Luo Mingdao, Hou Dejian, Huang Qingyuan, Yang Minghuang, Cao Junhong, Jin Tiezhang, Lin Longxuan, Pan Xieqing, Liu Tianjian, Tu Huiyuan, etc. Because of the length of the article, I will not expand on the narrative here.
For this list, what do you think, in addition to the above list, you can also think of which well-known composers in the Taiwanese music scene, welcome to leave a message in the comment area, ask for praise and attention!