He has too many titles, "Gold Medal Composer", "TVB Music Director", "Big Name Producer", etc., and he is a name that has to be mentioned in the mainstream market of Hong Kong after 2000.
"Gold Medal Composer", "TVB Music Director"...
Not enough to encapsulate his identity
In 2000, Tang joined TVB Television in Hong Kong as a composer, and four years later, he took over as the famous musician Gu Jiahui in Hong Kong, China, and at the age of 28, he was promoted to music director. In this way, he became the youngest music director in tvb's history, and in the next ten years, he participated in the music creation of all tv dramas produced by TVB, and his advocacy of "one drama and one song" and "soundtrack customization" changed TVB's old music creation form, from 2000 to 2012, he created more than 300 songs and soundtracks for TVB, and cooperated with most of the singers in Hong Kong, including Karen Mok, Joey Yung, Lin Feng, Tan Yonglin, Li Keqin, Yang Qianwei, Cai Zhuoyan, Zhang Zhilin, Xie Tianhua, Gu Juji, Chen Huilin, Guan Juying, Huang Zongze, Wu Zhuoxi, MC Jin, Hu Xing'er, She Shiman, Wang Haoxin, Xue Kaiqi, etc.
In 2012, he held the "Parallel Memories Concert" for two consecutive days at the Kowloon Exhibition Centre as an official farewell to TVB.
At a time when Cantonese music is declining, he has brought Cantonese music back to the public eye many times, and "Breathing Harmful", composed by him and sung by Karen Mok, created the miracle of Cantonese music in 2020, winning all the best awards of song Song of the Year, the world's top ten Chinese Chinese golden songs, supreme golden songs, and the five major TV stations and radio stations in Hong Kong, China.
He is Deng Zhiwei, who used to be referred to as CW for short. Now he has given himself a new name, Dengzhiwei.
"I'm not trying to avoid the past, I just think it's time to write and write songs for myself and sing my own songs."
In 2014, Deng Zhiwei began to dabble in the mainland music market, successively composing theme songs for a number of film and television dramas, including "Wei Zifu", "Flying Tiger's Stealth Extreme Battle", "Yu Zhaoling", "Red Fox Shusheng", "I Am Waiting for You at the End of Time", "Zhou Sheng Is Like a Past" and other popular dramas, and in 2018, he was invited to compose the theme song "Common Home" for the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, with nearly 20 film and television actors and singers participating in the recording, and this work was even listed on CCTV Spring Festival Gala in 2020.
Of all the titles and identities that have been imposed on Deng Zhiwei, the one he values most is the "singer-songwriter" that has rarely been mentioned.
"I've devoted almost all of my youth, and I often think of what it was like when I was younger, and I've always wanted to do that again."
Of all the titles and identities that have been imposed on Deng Zhiwei, the most important thing he values is the "singer-songwriter" that has rarely been mentioned, "My adolescence is almost all dedicated, I often think of what I looked like when I was young, and I always wanted to do that kind of thing again." ”
After Beyond, there have also been many excellent bands in Hong Kong. In Deng Zhiwei's youth, there were also two bands he participated in and formed, one was axiom that he served as a drummer, which he said was a band that was greatly influenced by Nirvana, although the life of this band was very short, but it gave him a very great creative passion; subsequently, Primary Shapes led by Deng Zhiwei is still remembered by the young and enthusiastic fans who were young and enthusiastic at this time.
In the active underground music scene in Hong Kong in the 90s, Primary Shapes was unique for its elegant temperament and melody, and the band's debut EP "bElla LAB" released in 2000 was strongly recommended by the Hong Kong media, including MCB magazine, which became the Hong Kong NME, and was invited to the NXNE Music Festival in Canada in 2004, HUSH! The music festival, the Hong Kong Arts Festival, during which the band took their works to the UNITED Kingdom to visit Melankolic, a label founded by Massive Attack, and received positive feedback from the label. Two years later, the band released their first studio-length album, Here There Everywhere, which was also popular with fans and the media. Unfortunately, this record also became the best of Primary Shapes.
(Some media reports from Primary Shapes)
"You've probably heard my music on TV shows, movies, radio, concerts, concerts, and that's the album name of my band Primary Shapes, Here There Everywhere, and I'm going to go to more places."
With "WaterMade Water Shape"
Infiltrate any corner with a new identity
In August 2021, Deng Zhiwei was officially signed with Modern Sky's label "WaterMade Water Shape", and at the end of the year, he will publish his first singing work through "WaterMade Water Shape", and he will be reborn as a singer-songwriter.