I don't know if you remember the popular Internet song "Wolf Loves Sheep" that year?
Not only did it win the top ten golden songs of Chinese original pop music from 2002 to 2012, but even the income from online downloads exceeded 100 million yuan.
The creator and singer of this song is Tang Chao.
Tang Chao is an authentic Heilongjiang Daqing person, once worked in the Daqing oil field, but the daily stable work, nine-to-five life is not what he wants, so he quit his job and went to Shenyang Conservatory of Music to study.
While still in school, he composed the theme song "Moments of One and Two" for the Spring Festival Gala in Daqing City, and also composed the song "Green Leaves Deep love" for the Daqing Teachers' Day Gala in Heilongjiang Province, the Olympic bid song "Chinese Man", and the theme song "Fly!" for the National Volleyball Championship. Volleyball"; CCTV 5's "Wrestling King Championship" theme song "I Have No Regrets" and so on, are all created by him.
Until "Wolf Loves Sheep" became a hit.
It can be said that his creative talent is beyond doubt.
And he has always insisted on originality, composing his own lyrics and composing, and singing his own songs, which is also his most valuable place.
But Tang Chao came all the way and was not so smooth.
After graduating from the Conservatory of Music, he first did a few years of North Drift in Beijing, and then returned to his hometown of Daqing, but he did not find the most suitable road, and then he sold his only piano to make travel expenses, bought a leather coat to go to Guangzhou to develop, and did not have the imagination.
At its worst, he could only set up street stalls and sell DVDs; in order to save money and make music, he ate buns and wontons at every meal until he smelled buns and chaotic smells of nausea, and it was even more common to be coldly spoken.
But all this did not make him retreat, and the girlfriend he knew at this time, his current wife Yan An, was also the motivation for him to persevere.
Until 2005, a random class reunion, he was touched by the love of his classmates, and created "Wolf Loves Sheep" overnight. The song finally made him a hit, according to incomplete statistics, "Wolf Loves Sheep" on the Internet total revenue of more than 100 million yuan. But in fact, Yan An got his hands on it, but it was only 10,000 yuan.
It is said that Tang Chao can also be regarded as a pit, but fortunately, Tang Chao has gained popularity and can often go to sing on stage from all over the world.
In 2008, in the backstage of the CCTV fundraising party for the Wenchuan earthquake, he and Zhao Benshan were waiting, and Tang Chao took the opportunity to greet Zhao Benshan, "Hello Teacher Zhao." Did he say you were singing? I said I was singing "The Wolf Loves the Sheep" and he said I finally found you because he loved the song so much. ”
In this way, Tang Chao met Zhao Benshan, and after that, he often came and went, and the two people who talked happily sometimes chatted until 4 o'clock in the middle of the night.
Tang Chao recalled at that time, "Zhao Benshan said at that time: 'You just come to my side, I like you writing songs, or you will be my good friend.' I said, 'Well, I'll worship you as a teacher, and I like you very much.' ’”。
So on the fifth day of the first lunar month in 2009, Tang Chao officially worshiped under Zhao Benshan's door and became Zhao Benshan's apprentice.
Tang Chao, who became Zhao Benshan's apprentice, not only composed and sang the theme song "Good Boy" for Zhao Benshan's new drama "Mr. Kanto", but also formed a "Chaoyang Group" with the hot little Shenyang that year.
Zhao Benshan also attached great importance to this disciple of musical talent, and sent him to the stage of the 2009 CCTV Spring Festival Gala that year, singing "One Mu Of Field".
When Tang Chao held a solo concert of "Wolf Walking the World" in Beijing, Zhao Benshan took Xiao Shenyang to the scene.
And Tang Chao has also had a lot of works in recent years, not only for the production of music and theme songs for many TV series such as Master Zhao Benshan's "Veteran", "Country Love", "Not a Matter of Money", "Strange Hero Ouyang De", "Impact", "Pursuit" and so on.
He himself has also produced a lot of musical works such as: "Love Is Hurt", "Angry Lover", "That Taste", "Once People Change Their Hearts", "Love Thief", etc., and is known as the "founder of story love songs" and the inheritor of popular music.
Despite being given such a title, Tang Chao felt that his pop music was somewhat frivolous, and he hoped to learn further.
Big Eye Sister also hopes to see more works of Tang Chao.