In 2013, Huang Qishan stood on the stage of "I Am a Singer" and sang a song "Waiting", and her high-pitched and penetrating voice conquered the hearts of countless listeners.
Liu Zhuo, who accompanied him with a piano on the side, was also noticed by many audiences, and the stage where the two collaborated was hailed as one of the most classic stages in the first season.
In an interview, Huang Qishan mentioned the person she is most grateful to, she said, I want to thank Liu Zhuo, who has always accompanied me with the piano.
Liu Zhuo is not only responsible for many arrangements of "I Am a Singer", but also served as an album producer for Sun Nan, Li Jian and others, concert producer, and "Jasmine" sung by Song Zuying and Celine · Dion in the 2013 Spring Festival Gala, and he also participated.
He has been featured in major music programs, in which he always keeps his head down and plays the piano quietly.
Many people say that Liu Zhuo caught up with the good time for the development of music programs, but no one knows that he has walked for 9 years on this road to fame.
In 1981, Liu Zhuo was born in Harbin, and his father was a people's policeman.
Parents deliberately train their children to be musicians, and at an age when children of the same age are playing outside, Liu Zhuo is forced to learn the piano.
At first, he learned the violin, and the weight of the body made Liu Zhuo's thin body feel pressure, so he deliberately broke the bow, and was beaten twice by his parents.
His parents spent more than 100 yuan to buy him a second bow, but the rebellious Liu Zhuo did not learn his lesson and broke the bow again.
In a fit of anger, his parents bought him a heavy piano, and now Liu Zhuo couldn't fall anymore and began to learn the piano honestly.
In middle school, in order to attract the attention of girls, Liu Zhuo began to learn the guitar and practiced early and late.
Liu Zhuo was admitted to the Music Department of Harbin College (now Harbin College), and recruited a few like-minded friends to form the "Tendency Band" and started some small performances.
In 2000, after graduating from university, Liu Zhuo got an opportunity to become a music teacher in a primary school.
But that's not what Liu Zhuo wants, he wants to be a free musician more than being a teacher who follows his steps every day.
He went to Russia to study music, but returned to Harbin in less than half a year.
Liu Zhuo believes that after returning from studying abroad, he still can't get rid of the fate of being a music teacher, but he has improved his academic qualifications and changed his work place from primary school to university.
After Liu Zhuo returned to China, he chose to perform in a bar with the band, and he lived a fairly stable life every day.
One night, his mother came to the bar to watch Liu Zhuo's performance.
An audience member couldn't hold back his curiosity and asked why he came to the bar at such an old age.
The mother proudly said that it was her son who performed on stage.
The audience member was incredulous: why would you let your son perform in such a place?
This sentence deeply pierced Liu Zhuo's heart, and after careful consideration, he found a job in the Heilongjiang Provincial Theater.
The troupe system is very strict, and Liu Zhuo is like an outlier there.
At first, he was assigned to the studio, and after not writing a single play for a year, he was transferred to the band, without even a desk, and could only squat on a dilapidated instrument case every day, next to the trash can.
The members of the band work every day, and when the gongs and drums, erhu, pipa, ruan and other folk music instruments sounded together, Liu Zhuo felt that his ears were about to explode.
Liu Zhuo came home from work one day and said, "Mom, I'm going to Beijing."
In 2004, Liu Zhuo had a dream, took 2,000 yuan, and the other four members of the band embarked on the road to the north, and the five of them shared a simple apartment.
The band had a lot of experience in performing before, and soon found a job as a resident singer in a bar, earning a steady income of five or six thousand a month.
The only drawback is that the bar and the apartment are too far away, and Liu Zhuo needs to carry two pianos of about 70 pounds every day to shuttle through the crowded bus.
It takes two hours to wait for the train and transfer trains, and I work until 1 a.m. every day.
Liu Zhuo is not idle after work, and often learns to arrange music alone in front of the computer.
My mother and the director of the Peking Opera Company took the same train to Beijing.
When the dean saw Liu Zhuo, he said earnestly, "No, come back to work." ”
Although Liu Zhuo promised it, he secretly decided in his heart that he would stay in Beijing no matter how miserable he was.
"In the past few years in Beijing, it is not without difficulties and tiredness, especially when I watch the musicians in Harbin drift north, return to their hometowns, and change careers, there will be momentary heartbeats, but music has always been my dream, in order to realize my dream, no matter how helpless, lost, and painful I still have to face it calmly."
It didn't take long for Liu Zhuo to find his first job as an arranger, and in the course of a week, he poured all his enthusiasm and dedication, changed five or six versions, was recognized by customers, and earned 800 yuan.
At that time, Beijing's bar culture was in full swing, and many musicians in the circle were mixed in, and after staying for a long time, opportunities also came.
In 2006, Li Yuchun, who had just won the Supergirl championship for a year, was preparing to hold a concert, and the budget was not high, and the producer Tan Yizhe found a band.
It was the first time that the band had stepped on such a big stage, and they used to perform in a bar and say two words after each song, but now they have to play more than 20 songs in a row.
With the momentum of "newborn calves are not afraid of tigers", the band successfully completed the performance task.
Liu Zhuo gained a lot from this performance and got to know the most representative and outstanding musicians in China's early days.
In contact with them, Liu Zhuo realized that he only had a dozen years of classical piano foundation and lacked some experience in concerts.
Through constant reflection and experimentation, he found his place, and at the same time, a series of opportunities came flooding him.
In 2012, "The Voice of China" was broadcast, and Liu Zhuo served as a piano and keyboard player, and at that time, the musicians were hidden behind the spotlight and played an unknown supporting role.
The following year, "I Am a Singer" was born, and Liu Zhuo was no longer just an unknown behind-the-scenes worker, but gradually came to the front of the stage and had his own lens.
Through this show, countless viewers remembered this "little fat man who played the piano".
In the past, Liu Zhuo did the arrangement at home, and at the scene of "I Am a Singer", many arrangers secretly competed, and whenever he played the works of other arrangers, he would carefully study every detail.
IN THE THIRD SEASON OF "I AM A SINGER", LI JIAN SUCCESSFULLY BROKE THROUGH WITH THE FIRST PLACE, AND THE SONG "LOVE IS OVER" HE SANG WAS COMPILED BY LIU ZHUO.
That season, Liu Zhuo's most satisfying work was the finals singing session, which he tailored for Li Jian and Yue Yunpeng "Tang Seng expresses his feelings in the daughter country and looks at the eyes of the daughter king".
When Liu Zhuo and Li Jian found Yue Yunpeng, Yue Yunpeng was very worried.
After the rehearsal of the ducks being driven to the shelves, the first thing Yue Yunpeng said was: Brother Jian, why don't I book a ticket to go back tomorrow morning, I don't think I can sing anymore.
For two days in a row, Yue Yunpeng was so nervous that he couldn't eat or sleep.
Li Jian thought of a way, the cross talk actor has a foundation in opera, and let Yue Yunpeng sing in the singing style of Peking Opera, with a trill at the end, which is not easy to hear out of tune.
"There are not so many skills in arrangement, but the fusion of music, the connection of paragraphs, and the making of this song so smooth and smooth, is actually quite difficult. It's fun and musical. ”
Liu Zhuo has collaborated with hundreds of singers, and he is a frequent guest on domestic music programs.
Mao Buyi's "singer-songwriter" version of "Northeast Folk", Sun Li and Li Jian's "Wind Blowing Wheat Waves" in the 2013 Spring Festival Gala, Li Jian's "Red Bean Song + Love of My Life", and Song Zuying and Celine · Dion's "Jasmine" are all from him.
In "China's New Singing", Liu Zhuo served as the music director, selecting songs, arranging, and rehearsing for each student, and did his best to choose the most suitable song for the blind audition according to the age, timbre, and singing style of the students.
Ye Xuanqing, who sang and cried Liu Huan, said that she followed Liu Zhuo's advice and sang "Once Upon a Time".
"Lin Junjie's, Wang Leehom's, she tried them all. Because she was relatively young, we ended up picking a love song for her. ”
A few years ago, the CCTV music and culture program "Classic Chants" was on the air, and "Moss", a small poem that had been lying quietly for 300 years, was sung after adaptation.
When Liu Zhuo first received "Moss", the lyrics were only the original four lines of the poem, "The day is not everywhere, and youth comes naturally." Moss flowers are as small as rice, and they also learn to bloom peonies", and a simple guitar strumming.
With the skillful hands of Liu Zhuo and the behind-the-scenes team, we have the sincere and moving song we heard.
During this period, there was a small episode, Han Hong took the initiative to contact Liu Zhuo, saying that she liked this song very much.
After repeated discussions, Liu Zhuo still decided to let Liang Jun take the children to sing together.
In this program, in addition to "Moss", Liu Zhuo also made many golden songs, and Wang Yuan's "Long Song Xing" was praised by CCTV News.
In the second season of "Sister Riding the Wind and Waves" in 2021, Zhao Zhao, the music director of the previous season, quit and Liu Zhuo joined.
This season's "Sister Lang", Liu Zhuo's song selection and arrangement have been ridiculed by the group since the first gong.
He seems to be better at atmospheric traditional songs than music that requires fashion and groove.
Previously, the main Chinese style "Classic Chants" was praised by Liu Zhuo.
With the increase in TV music programs, Liu Zhuo's workload has also begun to increase, and it is the norm to rehearse for more than ten hours in a row.
Even though he worked so hard during the day, he still thought about small tunes before going to bed every night, and as soon as he was inspired, he would immediately sit up and write them down with pen and paper.
As soon as he had a task, he had to do it immediately, without procrastination at all, and he once completed 15 arrangements in just 3 days.
Sometimes Liu Zhuo was still talking to people in high spirits a second ago, and as soon as he returned to the lounge, he collapsed into the sofa and fell asleep immediately.
In the face of strong high pressure and 24-hour non-stop rehearsals, Liu Zhuo said that he would also be tired, and now he is desperate to make the music he wants to make one day in the future.
This year's "singer", Liu Zhuo and other singers worked together to contribute one wonderful stage after another to the audience.
Compared with other North Drifters, Liu Zhuo is lucky, but the premise of seizing the opportunity is that he works hard and persists enough.
Any ease at hand is the precipitation of accumulation.