The opening ceremony of this year's Paris Olympics took place on the Seine, a sporting event that evokes Olympic memories for many.
Twenty-three years ago, Beijing successfully bid for the Olympics in Moscow, and the whole country was boiling.
At 8:08 p.m. on August 8, 2008, the Beijing Olympic Games were grandly opened in the Bird's Nest......
Liu Huan and Sarah · Brightman stood side by side at the top of the "Blue Planet" and sang the theme song "Me and You", lighting up the theme of the Olympic Games "One world, One dream".
Few people know that the original singer of "Me and You" was not Liu Huan and Sarah · Brightman, but an unknown musician Chang Shilei.
There is only less than half a year before the opening ceremony, and the "Me and You" sample has not found a suitable recording candidate.
Director Zhang Yimou imagined that this song would look like a person sitting on the earth and not wanting anything complicated, just like talking to himself.
Music director Chen Qigang thought of Chang Shilei, who once had only one side.
At that time, Chen Qigang was a judge in a composition competition, and Chang Shilei was responsible for singing to people during the intermission.
Chang Shilei's unrestrained singing style attracted Chen Qigang's attention: This child is quite interesting.
Chen Qigang contacted Chang Shilei, but he didn't expect to be closed.
Chang Shilei's reason is: I am engaged in music, what does the sports circle have to do with me.
The opportunity that others can't ask for is not precious to Tsuneishi Lei, who is immersed in the world of music.
Chen Qigang didn't give up, and sent a long text message to Chang Shilei, to the effect that I like your singing very much, and I hope you can experience such a musical life, one of which is: "The theme song requires purity, simplicity, and moving, and only you can do it." ”
Chang Shilei was moved, he came to Chen Qigang's house, and after listening to this song, he took off his clothes, shirtless, and showed his belly, and recorded a sample of "Me and You".
Chen Qigang said that he had never heard a more touching singing method in the whole year after that.
Later, Chang Shilei also joined the theme song production team and was responsible for songwriting.
During the rehearsal of "Me and You", many people objected, they thought that Chang Shilei was a newcomer and couldn't hold down such a big field, and once something went wrong, it would fall short.
Director Zhang Yimou considered the overall situation and chose Liu Huan and Sarah · Brightman to perform this song, and in the end, Chang Shilei did not appear on the Olympic stage.
The list of the production staff of "Me and You", although the names of Chen Qigang and Chang Shilei were written that day, but on many occasions after that, Chang Shilei's name was rarely mentioned, but he didn't care.
Director Zhang Yimou values his talent very much, and every time he sees Chang Shilei, he will keep praising him, and he will introduce to others: This is the young man who sang the original song of "Me and You".
In 2010, he prepared the new movie "The Love of the Hawthorn Tree", and let Chang Shilei be fully responsible for all the soundtrack work of the film, and invited him to sing the theme song "Hawthorn Tree".
In many later movies, director Zhang Yimou will invite Chang Shilei to produce the theme song.
"Me and You" opened a different path for Chang Shilei's life, and Chang Shilei signed a contract with the company and cooperated with the king and queen.
released his own album and had a broader world.
But this unprepared road brought not only fame to Chang Shilei, but also pain.
Creation is always interfered with by the company, he wants to use chords somewhere, the company says no, he wants to sing in a high note in one place, the company says no, to consider whether everyone can understand.
Chang Shilei's creation is unique, and the traffic stars at that time were difficult to control, and those who could often control his style were basically singers at the level of kings and queens.
Insiders said: "Ordinary people can only bring humiliation on themselves." ”
At the same time, Lin Yilian's team found Chang Shilei, who was well-known at the time, and invited him to be the producer of the new album.
At that time, Lin Yilian's songs were mostly popular love songs about urban crazy men and women, and she wanted to make an album led by herself and transform it:
"I don't want to be safe anymore, I don't want to make safe and tasteless anymore"
This coincides with Tsuneishi's creative philosophy.
At that time, one of the two was in Hong Kong and the other was in Beijing, and there were very few opportunities to meet, and this album was three years old.
This is a whimsical work that completely breaks away from the traditional production process of the record industry, Lin Yilian first tinkered with the absurd melody on the computer software Garage Band, and then handed it over to Tsuneishi Lei to arrange the music.
The musicians were invited to perform live, not only to ask for the advice of each musician, but also to encourage everyone to use their imagination and creativity to add improvisational elements to the music, and then to coordinate the revision of the arrangement, and then call the musicians to play.
Everyone thinks it's okay, and then they go into the studio to record, and some people feel dissatisfied with the recorded version, so they revise it......
In 2012, the album "Gaia" was released, and the album title is taken from Greece, meaning "Mother Earth".
In this album, through the form of love songs, there is a profound indictment and reflection on the emotions and living conditions of all human beings.
This is an experimental electronic album that opened Lin Yilian's road to "goddess".
In the same year, at the Taiwan Golden Melody Awards, Lin Yilian won two awards for Best Female Singer and Best Album with this album.
Chang Shilei won the Best Album Producer and Best Arranger awards in one fell swoop, and was the only mainland musician to win the award that night, achieving a breakthrough for mainland behind-the-scenes musicians in the pop category of the Golden Melody Awards.
After the First World War, he said lightly that it was just luck.
Many kings and queens saw Chang Shilei and asked him to cooperate.
Wang Yunzhi's "Blank", Karen Mok's "Not Scattered, Not Seen", Zhang Liangying's "Drifting Bottle", Chen Jieyi's "Innocence", ......
There is a saying in the circle: If you want to see if your coffee position is enough, you have to see if the person standing next to you is Chang Shilei.
Because of his love and study of music, people in the industry call him a "music maniac".
Chang Shilei's paranoia about music actually started when he was a child.
In 1981, Chang Shilei was born in a military family, began to learn electronic piano at the age of 5, and transferred to piano at the age of 9, winning many awards.
At the age of 9, by chance, he heard Maria · Carey's "One Sweet Day".
Chang Shilei felt the charm of music for the first time and fell in love with singing.
At the age of 12, Chang Shilei was admitted to the Shanghai Music High School, the only junior high school in the country that offers a composition major.
The school piano room rules are to be quiet and no hustle and bustle.
Chang Shilei doesn't take it seriously, and often drags the stereo to the piano room to play songs, sometimes six at once.
"I want to listen to songs, I can't live without music."
At that time, he most often listened to Faye Wong's "Crazy Thoughts".
At the age of 18, Chang Shilei was admitted to the Shanghai Conservatory of Music, majoring in electronic composition.
He rented a house outside the school and sang and composed music in the rented house when he didn't attend classes.
During that time, Chang Shilei sang until he forgot himself, 24 hours a day, and he could sing for 20 hours at the longest.
When he didn't have money to eat and pay the rent, he would come out to pick up the work, sing and arrange music for others, and he would do everything he could to make money.
Later, Chang Shilei described himself at that time: irrational and unable to restrain himself.
Under the recommendation of Mr. An Dong, the head of the university department, Chang Shilei participated in the production of Hu Yanbin's debut album "Wenwu Shuangquan", and served as the keyboard, harmony writer and harmony of 2 songs.
Huang Ling's famous songs "Itch" and "High Song", and "Light" in Guangliang's solo album "Light" were all created by Chang Shilei during this period, and Xue Zhiqian's "Serious Snow" became an instant hit, and he was responsible for harmonic production.
With the rise of the draft competition, Chang Shilei was called by a friend to be a teacher and tutored Zhang Jie, so the two became close friends.
In 2002, he graduated from university and successfully entered the music industry of his dreams.
In 2005, at the 5th Chinese Music Media Awards Ceremony, Chang Shilei's "Blessing" was nominated for Best Arrangement and Best Producer.
A few months later, at the Hong Kong TVB8 Golden Melody Chart Awards ceremony, his "Powerless" was nominated for Best Arrangement.
At that time, Chang Shilei, who had been repeatedly nominated and missed, never thought that he would really become a professional singer.
"I don't have many intentions for music, the craziest and most unexpected thing in my life is to become a singer."
2012 was the peak of Tsuneishi's behind-the-scenes work, and in the professional field, all he heard was praise, and he wanted to hear different voices.
It was at this time that he received an invitation to the program "Sound of Asia".
At that time, Chang Shilei was very concerned about his appearance, and in order to participate in this show, he made a lot of determination.
In his music program debut, he chose to sing a song "I still believe".
Unexpectedly, everyone paid attention not to his voice and singing skills, but to his appearance that did not match his voice at all, and many netizens ridiculed him for being blind.
He once said, "I think I can be thinner and look neater in front of the camera." ”
In the end, Chang Shilei stopped in the top three, which was a big blow to him at that time.
After the competition, he did not indulge in loss, but actively reflected and summarized, and made in-depth improvements and improvements to his music creation.
After seven years of precipitation, Chang Shilei set off again, and in 2019, the first Chinese singer-songwriter ecological challenge program "I Am a Singer-Songwriter" was broadcast, and Chang Shilei joined the second half of the competition as the first singer-songwriter.
The first issue brought a nearly six-minute original song "After Waking Up from a Nightmare", and entered the upper area with the first place in the first round of mutual listening and internal casting.
In "I Am a Singer-Songwriter", he overcame all the obstacles and became the champion, making up for the regret of seven years ago.
In the 2022 Winter Olympics, Chang Shilei was once again invited to join the music production team as the music director, creating the theme slogan promotion song "Together to the Future" and the countdown to 100 days theme song "See You in Beijing".
As soon as "Together to the Future" was launched, the number of broadcasts quickly exceeded 100 million.
What is surprising is that it took 1 year before and after the creation of "See You in Beijing", and the songwriting of "Together to the Future" took only 3 days.
The release event was at half past two in the afternoon, and the song was not finished until the early hours of the same day, but the creation was so smooth that it was not at all audible that this was a rush work.
Recently, Shan Yichun's new song "Pure Sister" was also composed by Chang Shilei, and netizens said that Shan Yichun on the stage has a bit of Lin Daiyu's temperament.
Chang Shilei borrowed and reconstructed the classic melody of "Sister Lin fell from the sky", and created it boldly, which is refreshing.
In just a few days after the launch of "Pure Sister", the views exceeded 1 billion.
Chang Shilei never coveted fame and fortune in the entertainment industry, and when the work was completed, he turned off his mobile phone, sang alone in the room, and even his family couldn't contact him.
Chang Shilei's friend said that he has nothing to do with his life, he is music and non-music. We went to his house, and there was no place to sit except for the bed, and it was all CDs.
In 2020, Gao Xiaosong organized the "Believe in the Future" charity performance, Chang Shilei and Faye Wong appeared together, he sat in front of the piano, wore home clothes, combed a casual braid, accompanied Faye Wong, and sang "Heaven and Earth" together.
More than ten years ago, the person listening in the headphones sat next to him, he did not deliberately dress up, but simply immersed himself in the music and sang for life.
He said: If you keep doing it, love will bring out potential that you can't even imagine, and that potential may well be something that will change your life.
From 2008 to 2024, in 16 years, Chang Shilei has changed, he is no longer the young boy who plays six stereos in the piano room to listen to Faye Wong.
He hasn't changed, he's still the same "silly boy" who has no distractions and is leisurely in his music world.