I suddenly found that Zhang Hongliang is 63 years old.
Bai Baihe has covered his "Do You Know I'm Waiting for You", I think it's quite good.
The year the song became popular was 1989. Many songs that were popular at that time will be a little earthy to listen to today, but this song will not, the longer it lasts.
The same is true of his "Hiroshima Love".
What many people don't know is that Zhang Hongliang used to be a dentist, and he still likes this job, saying that he has helped tens of thousands of teeth extracted.
When the dentist earns a lot, he said that he could earn 150,000 to 200,000 Taiwan dollars a month at that time, but then he went to music and earned only 15,000 Taiwan dollars a month.
His family was very opposed, but he insisted on himself, and later simply closed the dental office and released the first album at his own expense, which only sold a thousand copies, but he felt that this result was already very good.
Although Wang Jie, the hottest at that time, sold 250,000 copies with "A Game and a Dream".
As soon as he thought that he couldn't go on like this, he began to study the routines of pop music, and it just so happened that he was in love at the time, chasing a girl was very hard, and then, he created "Do You Know I'm Waiting for You".
He took the song to the company, but the company wanted him to let someone else sing it, but he didn't do it.
Later, he released a second album and used this song as the title song, which really exploded.
He also began to become popular at the age of thirty.
When Chen Kaige filmed "Overlord Farewell Ji", he invited Zhang Hongliang to participate in the production of film music, although he could not brush his sense of existence in this movie, but he became interested in movies and ran to New York to learn to make movies.
During this period, after watching the movie "Hiroshima Love", he wrote the song of the same name, which was later sung by him and Karen Mok. The song went viral again around 2001.
Zhang Hongliang's father was old at the time and still wanted his son to pursue a career in dentistry (he felt stable). In order to coax my father, and since he was not very disgusted with dentistry work, and could hear many stories from patients, he opened a dental clinic again and went to the clinic at least once a week.
In 2011, he was photographed with a blonde woman, and then everyone learned that he had long been married and had children, his wife was a gymnast from Lithuania, and the two had two mixed races.
Moreover, he really cherished marriage and family. In 2021, his wife suffered from terminal cirrhosis leading to liver failure, once dying, in order to save his wife, he did not hesitate to donate his liver to his wife, but unfortunately because the volume of his liver was not suitable, it was rejected, and finally the doctor decided to let Zhang Hongliang and Zhang Hongliang's cousin each donate a part of their liver to make up enough liver volume.
He is really a talented and warm person.
