He is a powerful singer who is the official "stamp" of "Dream China" and "The Most Beautiful Harmony", a music producer spanning many fields such as pop, rock, and Chinese style, and the youngest winner of the "Five Ones" Project Award, the highest award in the field of domestic culture, and has won this honor three times.
He is Ding Yu.
Speaking of his name, it may not be as loud as the current traffic singer who dominates the chart, but his songs you must have heard. "Don't Give Up", "Love Each Other", "The End of the World", "Let's Get Married"...
Since his debut, Ding Yu has cooperated with Wang Lihong, Zhang Huimei, Song Zuying, Li Yuchun, Karen Mok, Jin Zhiwen, Huang Qishan and other music giants in the entertainment industry, creating and singing hundreds of popular music works, of which "Blind Love" has been played more than 1.5 billion times, and the cumulative number of musical works has reached 10 billion times, because of its super music creation and "TOP song" hit rate, it is called "musical aliens" by insiders and media.
Recently, Ding Yu accepted my exclusive interview, talked about his experience from "Internet café network manager" to "golden song maker", and also generously revealed his golden song creation formula, and went deep into his musical life.
From internet café network manager to CCTV celebrity, his counterattack experience is like a rock song
Ding Yu was born into an ordinary working family.
When he was young, he was precocious because of the accident family's heavy debts and the double frustration of almost dying due to naughty drowning, so he submitted a volunteer form to his favorite art school in junior high school, and although he was admitted, he took the initiative to give up the opportunity to share the debt for the family. After directly choosing the vocational high school computer maintenance major that is convenient for employment, he was selected by an air-conditioning group school to become an assembly line worker during the graduation period.
When he lamented that life might be like this, the opportunity to work as a network manager in an Internet café in the summer once again exposed him to his inner yearning. In the 90s, during the barbaric development of social software, voice chat rooms were also popular for singing in various awkward chats, and some people sent virtual flowers and props to sing well, similar to the previous life of today's online live broadcasting apps.
Ding Yu has accumulated a lot of fans by relying on daily awkward chats and singing, and they all care about and remind Ding Yu, who has a good voice, why not become a singer? After countless entanglements, Ding Yu made up his mind to kneel and beg his mother to show his determination to "make music".
After borrowing more than 20,000 tuition fees, Ding Yu went to the art school as he wished, and after a short two-year period, Ding Yu was assigned to an art troupe in Beijing in 2004, but due to the compulsion of life, he had to start a bar singing career across the country.
Soon the second turning point in Ding Yu's life came in 2006, when the draft tide swept the country Ding Yu resolutely resigned from the night singing job to register for the third "Dream China", and Ding Yu, who was not smooth and stubborn in the early stage of the competition, stood in Xi'an for three consecutive times to advance, and finally broke into the top 5 and won the "Most Persistent Singer Award".
As he said in front of the screen: My mother said I was cow, and I stood on the stage of CCTV today to prove that I am not cow, I am gold sooner or later will shine. 」 And this first award in his life is precisely a high summary of his ability to embark on the road of music from his hometown - "persistence".
After dreaming of China, Ding Yu met Hu Haiquan through the introduction of his friend Li Haohan (Yamano) and signed an EQ record, thus starting a career as a professional musician. And his musical life is generally open, in a short period of time, there are many amazing works.
In December 2007, he was invited to the "Thrill My Heart" competition held by Toyota, and won the best arrangement award for the single "Transformers". In April 2008, he released his first solo EP "Don't Let You Cry"; in May, he participated in the CCTV Young Singer Grand Prix and won the Bronze Award for his original song "Children's Dreams".
In 2009, he released his first self-titled album "Ding Yu", and in the same year, he composed the title song "Don't Give Up" for Yu Quan's album "Everyone Has a Yu Quan in Their Hearts", and won the Best Male Singer at the Global Chinese Very Short Film Creative Festival.
Especially the song "Don't Give Up", the beautiful melody and straight to the heart of the lyrics, triggered a strong resonance of the audience, this song not only won the annual best Golden Melody Award, but also let Ding Yu be well known to the outside world, it turns out that this little music boy who does not say much on the screen, the mind of making music will be so delicate.
The 10 billion divine comedy "Blind Love", originated from "telecommunications fraud", born in the UFO dream?
For Ding Yu, the most influential song is "Blind Love".
In between, he was a north drift singer with empty musical talent but no one knew about it, and after that, he immediately became a hot musician. There is also an interesting experience about this song.
Late one night in the summer of 2009, ding Yu, on the way home from the recording, suddenly found that the sky flashed particularly brightly, and he looked up to find a UFO-like aircraft flying in the sky. He was so excited that when he returned home he had a dream about a grand sporting event. When I woke up, I still had a melody in my head.
Later, the 11th National Games collected theme songs from all over the world. The director called him at 12 o'clock in the middle of the night and invited him to compose music for the National Games. Ding Yuyi heard the other party say that he was the general director of the National Games, and also said that Sun Nan, Wang Lihong and other big names were going to sing this song, mistakenly thinking that the other party was a liar, and simply hung up the phone.
Ding Yu admitted that at that time, his fame was not very big, and he felt that such a good opportunity should not look for me.
Later, the other party called him again and said, "I am Hu Haiquan's friend!" As soon as Hu Haiquan was mentioned, Ding Yu believed it, so he began to seriously consider the matter of composing music. The other party sent the lyrics of Teacher Chen Tao, and he remembered the scene of the occasional UFO that night, and the melody flashed in his mind in an instant. Holding the guitar, I couldn't help but hum the melody of the chorus, complete the "homework" in about half an hour, and then send the song demo to the director.
As a result, the next day the director excitedly told him that the song was unanimously approved! Also pk dropped a lot of big composers! At that time, he couldn't believe that a song of the nature of his ticket could be seen by the organizing committee. Finally, the director called again and opened the door: How much is appropriate?
Later, this song shined after the National Games, and then appeared on the stage of the CCTV Spring Festival Gala, becoming a classic song in the history of the Spring Festival Gala, and won a series of honors such as "CCTV Tiger Spring Festival Gala Best Song Award", "Singing China's Top Ten Golden Songs", "Five One Project Award" and so on.
Ding Yu admitted that the reason why "Love and Affection" was successful was not only the light of the National Games, but also the director and the organizing committee at that time were able to "open the door". "After all, in addition to the Olympic Games, the biggest sports event in China is the National Games, and the director can give the opportunity to the newcomers and believe in the ability of the newcomers, which is the most rare."
With the brilliant achievements of "Blind Love", Ding Yu's popularity has greatly improved, and many people in the circle know this young musician who is "very good at writing", and the theme song he wrote not only closely follows the theme, but also gets rid of the lack of popularity of the traditional theme song, and the melody is very attractive to the ears. And Ding Yu himself seems to have opened the "Ren Dou Second Pulse" of music creation, and since then it has been out of control.
The 16th Guangzhou Asian Games called for theme songs, Ding Yu effectively integrated Chinese style elements with R&B, Rock and other popular elements to create "Tianya Gong this time", this song was sung by Li Yuchun, Lin Junjie, Xin, Karen Mok and quickly became popular, was included in the "Asian Games Golden Melody Fifteen Songs", and also won the "Asian Games Golden Melody Award" issued by the Organizing Committee of the 16th Guangzhou Asian Games.
Jin Zhiwen, a good brother who has known him for many years, got married, and Jin Zhiwen originally had excellent creative strength, but when he heard the song "Let's Get Married" written by Ding Yu specifically for him and his lover, he was touched and immediately decided to use this song as a marriage proposal.
CCTV and Ding are old friends, and the two sides have collaborated on many songs, including "Our New Era", "Life is the Stage", "Happy Beat", "Great Journey" and so on. Once, the cooking reality show "Taste of China" asked Ding Yu to create a theme song, in order to write this song, Ding Yu ate all kinds of dishes to find inspiration, the experience could not be better! After combining Chinese food culture and music, he wrote "Taste of China", and later Phoenix Legend appeared on the stage of the CCTV Spring Festival Gala in the Year of the Snake with this song, so that the national audience "ate a Chinese New Year's Eve meal with delicious music".
Taobao and Jingdong are "good rivals" in commercial competition, but they have become "good teammates" in the production of theme songs, and the musical aesthetics are quite consistent, both invited Ding Yu to write, Ding Yu created the theme song "Five Blessings" for Alipay, and wrote "All the Way Forward" for Jingdong Mall.
In addition to the above, Ding Yu has continued to "efficiently output" over the years, writing the theme songs of many large-scale events, activities, columns, games, festivals, film and television dramas, and basically realizing the "theme song grand slam" of important national events and events. If Ding is the first person to create a theme song in China, I am afraid that no one disagrees, and even many media call him "the man who contracts the theme song".
Golden Song Creation Formula = Dreaming? The post-80s generation of musicians is happy
With so many golden songs, the author asked Ding Yu if there was any formula for the creation of golden songs, and he joked that now writing songs mainly relies on dreams.
"In fact, there is no formula for the creation of golden songs, and occasionally see what you hear, immediately write a key word, and then extend." He believes that if a song can be popular, it must first have memory points, but also pay attention to singing, and the rest is fun! ”
Over the years, Ding Yu has composed many songs with different themes. "Children's Dreams" focuses on anti-war, he hopes that the world will be peaceful, many people can live comfortably, and let the children get a good education. "World Paradise" carries forward positive energy, he hopes that the world will become heaven, and everyone will think about others. "Chinese Characters" and "China No Hip Hop" promote traditional Chinese culture...
In particular, in order to carry forward the traditional Chinese culture, he specially launched the "Pop Music Meets Traditional Culture Collection Activity", which went deep into Yunnan, Guizhou, Anhui and other places to collect and sort out local music forms. He said that compared with foreign music, Chinese music has one thing that they will never have, that is, intangible cultural heritage, such as Peking Opera, Yue Opera and so on. This is the essence of Chinese music.
When it comes to which singers are optimistic about, Ding Yu said that what he pays the most attention to is the quality of the singer and the quality of the voice, one is the female singer Chen Sisi, the voice is very infectious, and the other is the Galaxy Youth League, inheriting traditional Chinese culture, representing the appearance that Chinese teenagers should have.
Speaking of his favorite idol, Ding Yu firmly said: Michael Jackson. He is very caring, often does public welfare activities, and the song conveys positive energy. Idol singers should do this, give people direction, set benchmarks, this is the responsibility. This is what traffic stars lack now.
Ding Yu said that his musical path has no goal, "Since existence is value, he has always created value." The meaning of life, the mystery of the universe, is to make anything more valuable in itself. With so many planets and galaxies, each experiencing a different life and mission. If music has a certain target direction, it limits itself to that place. Even when you get to that point, you don't know what you're doing. My mission is to pioneer and innovate and cultivate the next generation! ”
In his view, catching up with a good music era, "the era I grew up in, but also the era of Chinese music growth, from tape recorders to MP3, to network downloads, network copyright formalization..... China is getting stronger and better, paving the way for our post-80s generation of musicians to grow up, and we are happy.