#Hantai Cultural Treasure Hunt#In 1969, Zhou Chuanxiong was born in Taichung City, Taiwan Province, his ancestral home is Hubei Public Security, the Zhou family is a famous family in the old society, his father became a county magistrate at the age of 17, and later in order to escape the war, fled to Taiwan, married the fifth wife with a difference of 20 years at the age of 50, gave birth to Zhou Chuanxiong, Zhou Chuanxiong was sensitive and crying when he was a child, and his parents wanted him to be stronger, so he gave him the milk name "Xiaogang".
Zhou Chuanxiong has liked singing since he was a child, but his parents are not optimistic about the profession of singing, thinking that those who engage in art become famous after death. But later, due to family changes, his father left his big son and ran back to the mainland, and his mother left home to remarry, leaving Zhou Chuanxiong and his sister to rely on each other, so that he could freely pursue his musical dreams.
Due to the divorce of his parents, Zhou Chuanxiong became a work-study student at the age of 16, and had to work on his own to earn tuition. In addition to working at the Taiwan Youth Association while attending classes, Zhou Chuanxiong also used his winter and summer vacation to work outside the home and tried many different industries. He worked as a decorator, porter, swim instructor, and even sold earrings at a street stall.
When he was in high school, Zhou Chuanxiong had a secret love for a girl in the class, but he was worried that he didn't even have to do a friend after the confession failed, and he didn't dare to confess, and later this relationship that he had a secret love for 7 years ended with the girl going abroad to study. In order to commemorate this relationship, Zhou Chuanxiong wrote this experience into a song, which was later known as "Notepad".
In 1987, Zhou Chuanxiong participated in the "Inter-school Music Composition Competition", but did not achieve outstanding results. In 1988, he participated in the "Taiwan School Singing Competition" and was selected as the first candidate member of the Tigers, but gave up joining the Tigers due to personal reasons. Zhou Chuanxiong felt that the singing and dancing boy band did not match his musical line, and finally chose to quit.
In 1989, Zhou Chuanxiong released his first solo original single "Dust and Smoke" under the stage name "Xiaogang", which was included in the compilation album "Nobody", thus officially entering the music scene.
In April 1990, he released his first solo music album "Dialogue of Gemini", which included 11 songs including "Days Without You", "Your Melancholy My Departure", etc., and the style of the whole album is mainly lyrical slow songs.
At a commercial performance arranged for him to go to the department store at the company, when the scene was crowded and blocked, Zhou Chuanxiong originally thought that the king Andy Lau was coming, who knew that these fans were coming for him, until this moment, he found that he was red.
In August 1991, he released his third solo music album "Can't Let You Go", which not only included songs such as "Stand in the Direction of the Headwind" in the style of slow rock, lyrical slow song "Review the Past Again", but also specially included Zhou Chuanxiong's first solo original single "Dust and Smoke".
In February 1992, he released his fourth solo music album "Xiaogang's Flower World", which included 10 songs including "Hasa Yaqi", "Gypsy Lover", etc., Zhou Chuanxiong was not only responsible for the composition of 6 songs in the album, but also filled in the lyrics for 3 of them. "Hasa Yaqi" was sung for a while, which established the status of Zhou Chuanxiong as a "creative idol singer" during the Xiaogang period.
In March 1993, he released his fifth solo music album "Accompany Me to the End of the World", which included 10 songs including "Dry My Sadness" and "What to Say". In this album, Zhou Chuanxiong tried for the first time to use traditional Chinese music elements, MV and photo selection in the northwest of the Silk Road, after which he even decided to go to Yunnan to collect style, wanting to make a Chinese album of world music, unfortunately this advanced style was not recognized by the market at that time.
In March 1994, he released his sixth solo music album "Discovery", which included 10 songs including the lyrical slow song "Send Love Far Away" and "Back Home".
In April 1995, he released his seventh solo music album "Half of Love", which included 10 songs including "The 77th Time I Left You" and "A Woman's Kiss and Love", while Zhou Chuanxiong also served as the producer of the entire album.
In November, he released his first solo compilation "Heart Departure", which included 4 new songs such as "Don't Ask Me How I Lived After Breaking Up" and 11 rearranged and re-sung classic works.
In December 1996, he released his eighth solo music album "My Heart Is Too Messy", which included 10 songs including "Warm Wind" and "Can't Say How Much I Love", and was responsible for the composition and production of all songs on the album.
At the hardest time, he sold his house and moved to his sister's house, living a life under the fence. Because his brother-in-law had a bad temper and often scolded his sister, he looked very bad, but he was powerless to change.
In 1997, when international record companies acquired Taiwan's local record companies, Hong Kong artists seized the wave of Taiwan's market, the media began to flourish, record investment was greater than ever, most record companies would rather spend money to be newcomers than to be formed middle-generation singers. Zhou Chuanxiong's record company was acquired and lost the opportunity to release records. Zhou Chuanxiong chose to study abroad and went to the UK to study music and language.
In 1998, he changed back to his real name Zhou Chuanxiong, transformed into a behind-the-scenes production, and became popular with the album "Lonely Bombing" produced for Zhang Kefan, becoming a hot producer, and wrote and produced the song "Notepad" for Chen Huilin; In December of the same year, he released his second solo compilation "Can't Say How Much Love", and won the reputation of "The Godfather of Love Songs", and the limelight was unmatched.
Zhou Chuanxiong wrote songs in the early stage, and the songs he wrote could not be sold, and it happened from time to time that he was rejected by the same family for forty or fifty songs, but fortunately he survived that difficult time.
In 2000, he composed the song "Betrayal" for Na Ying, and was invited by Sony Records to launch his personal music creation collection "Transfer", which included 12 songs, including 6 new works "Dusk", "Forget", etc., and 6 representative works "Notepad", "Betrayed", etc., of which "Dusk" became one of Zhou Chuanxiong's masterpieces. But just a month after the album was released, it encountered a change in Sony's high-level personnel, and the album that had just been released sank into the sea.
In January 2001, he released his personal compilation "Music Notepad" to compose the song "Is There a Song That Reminds You of Me" for Zhou Huajian; He has successively produced music soundtracks for the TV series "Lavender" (creating "Floral", "Happy Moment", "Love Me Not Love Me"), "MVP Lover" (creating "I'm Sad"), "Dolphin Bay Lover", "West Street Boy", "Dancing Miracle" and other music soundtracks, and guest starred in the Taiwanese idol drama "Lavender" starring Xu Shaoyang and Chen Yirong, playing Toshio Komuro in the play, which is his first TV series work.
Zhou Chuanxiong was invited to the mainland to produce an album, and accidentally found that his work "Dusk" published in 2000 had been frantically reproduced hundreds of times, which made Zhou Chuanxiong regain his identity as a singer.
Zhou Chuanxiong and Xu Yi, President of Star Generation Entertainment, co-founded Hasayake Music Studio, mainly engaged in artist management and record production, and were invited to compose and sing Taiwan songs for Shanghai Oriental Radio Dynamic 101 (the full version of "Shanghai Dark Dawn" was included in the 2005 album "Legend Under the Stars").
In July 2004, he held a solo ticketing concert of "I'm By My Side" in Singapore, which was his first large-scale ticketing concert in 15 years since his debut.
In the same year, he won the annual IFPI annual sales champion of Singapore's "Y.E.S 933 Enchanted Golden Melody Award", was invited to serve as the music director of "Entertainment Center" under Guangguang Media, and composed the theme song "Happiness Turns with Me".
Launched his solo music creation album "Man Ocean", which includes 10 songs including "Another World" and "When I Love You the Most".
In 2006, he won the "China Original Song Ranking" Hong Kong and Taiwan Best Singer-Songwriter Award, and launched his personal music creation album "Happy Etudes", which included 10 songs including "Pain and Silence", "The Last Slow Dance" and so on.
"Love Everywhere" concert in Shanghai; In August of the same year, he won the producer award at the "New Town Chinese Power Awards Ceremony", while the song "Lonely Sandbar Cold" won the Golden Melody of the Year Award.
In January 2007, he won the best-selling composition award of the year at the "First Wireless Music Club Awards Ceremony"; In October of the same year, he launched his solo music creation album "Blue Turkey", which included 10 songs including "Blue Flower" and "Three Thousand Weak Water", among which "Blue Flower" is a song that combines tokens and Chinese style, and integrates rock and roll into the Chinese melody.
In 2009, he released his solo music creation album "Lovers Genesis", which included 10 songs including "Can't Close the Window" and "Secrets of Winter".
In 2011, an illness caused Zhou Chuanxiong to lose 40 pounds, and there was even news of his death on the Internet. In order to recuperate with peace of mind, he had to leave the music scene for a while.
When the 45-year-old Zhou Chuanxiong returned to the public eye in 2014, he was skinny and withered, resembling a paper man, which distressed thousands of fans.
In April 2011, he released his personal music creation album "Cool Memory", which included 10 songs including "Boring" and "Rush"; In the same year, he served as a judge of Qinghai Satellite TV's talent entertainment program "Flowers".
In 2012, he wrote and performed the ending song "Sigh Parting" for the detective suspense idol drama "Criminal Master's Crush Double Dragon", and launched his personal music creation album "Disturbing Love", which included 10 songs including "Leaving Soon" and "Leaving Yesterday", and won the "Music Pioneer List" Best Album Award, Annual K Singer King, and Best Singer-songwriter Award.
In 2014, he served as the judge of the third season of "The Voice of China" spin-off program "Return to the Peak", launched his personal music creation album "Time Doesn't Know Home", including 10 songs including "Sakura Blowing Snow", "The Sound of Rain Hitting Petals", etc., and was invited to serve as the judge of the finals of the "NetEase Cloud Music Campus Singer Competition".
In 2015, he held the "Time to Return" global tour and served as a judge for CCTV-3 "I Want to Go to the Spring Festival Gala" special program "Direct to the Spring Festival Gala".
In 2016, he released his original single "Where to Wake Up Tonight", and in 2017, he sang the episode "Ancient Promise" for the TV series "Ancient Love Song" and held a world tour of "Where to Wake Up Tonight" in Beijing.
For the TV series "Drunken Linglong", he sang the Chinese-style episode "It's better to laugh and go back", under the pseudonym "Oops, I knocked over the color palette" to participate in the recording of Jiangsu Satellite TV's music challenge reality show "Masked Singing Will Guess the Second Season".
From December 2019, the "Blue and Flower Love" global tour will be held. In February 2020, he wrote and sang the single "Snub" for the online game "Against the Water and Cold".
In 2021, Zhou Chuanxiong participated in the singing competition of "The Voice of God", and was eliminated in the first round, and the thought of the former godfather of love songs was reduced to being commented on by some traffic stars without any representative works, which made people sigh with emotion.
The Internet has even triggered rounds of heated discussions about "whether traffic stars are qualified to comment on Zhou Chuanxiong", and Meng Meiqi is the first to bear the brunt, almost being scolded by netizens on the hot search. In fact, Meng Meiqi did not comment on her predecessor Zhou Chuanxiong at that time, and she even angrily criticized the program team for misleading afterwards.
On January 1, 2022, he participated in "Sailing to the Greater Bay Area - 2022 New Year Concert", cooperated with Han Xue to sing the classic old song "Crooked Moon", and then participated in Hunan Satellite TV's "Time Concert", and adapted the classic song "Notepad" with Lin Zhixuan.