In 1991, there were no four kings, and Andy Lau could only be called a good actor.
At that time, Hong Kong's entertainment industry cultivated all-perch actors, and Andy Lau released eleven albums and hundreds of songs before and after, and none of them could be sold.
And what really made Andy Lau is the song "The Days We Walked Together".
This song made him popular at the most important node of his career and successfully became one of the four kings.
In fact, it was specially created for Andy Lau, and the person who created this song is Hu Weili, a master of martial arts music.
Andy Lau once said such a sentence, originally Du Qifeng did not believe that I could sing.
It was Hu Weili who created a song for me, and he believed it.
After making Andy Lau famous in one fell swoop, he never wrote a song for him again.
Compared with the composition assembly line project at that time, Hu Weili listened to all the songs of Andy Lau, studied Andy Lau's voice, and finally composed the song on the lyrics.
He uses erhu instead of a high vocal voice, melodious and gentle, which contrasts with Andy Lau's deep magnetic voice.
At that time, no one dared to make such a bold arrangement.
When Andy Lau himself got the song, he also proposed to remove the voice of the erhu.
Hu Weili said that the erhu soundtrack is the essence of this song, if you remove it, don't sing it.
Helplessly, Liu Tianwang could only compromise.
Who knows that it is this bold arrangement that makes this song full of chivalry.
After this song pushed Andy Lau's singing career to the peak, Hu Weili retired.
Later, there was an intention to let Hu Weili and Andy Lau cooperate again, but Hu Weili refused.
For Hu Weili, doing the same thing is a waste of life.
After all, in the first half of his life, Hu Weili did too many repetitive things.
Hu Weili, born in Hong Kong in 1937, traveled to Guangdong and Guilin during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression.
He did not settle in Shanghai until the end of the war.
In 1955, he was admitted to Beijing Normal University.
Because of his obsession with music from an early age, he began to compose in college.
With his extraordinary talent, his songs have been included in the textbooks of the National Conservatory of Music.
At that time, he was just a college student.
After graduating, Hu Weili naturally stayed in school to teach.
In 1960, it was an honor to have a job as a university teacher, and Hu Weili could be regarded as a glorious ancestor.
Popular works such as "Childhood Dreams" and "Hometown Water" are all from his hands.
In the 1970s and 1980s, Hu Weili became a well-known master in the mainland.
He has taught at the Beijing Academy of Arts and the China Conservatory of Music.
In the eyes of outsiders, he has a bright future and infinite brilliance, but in his own view, he is doing nothing.
At that time, when engaging in artistic creation in the mainland, the thinking would be greatly limited, and most of the time it was repeated in the melody.
Everything is so tasteless.
This is painful for Hu Weili, who has artistic pursuits in music.
After 26 years in the industry, Hu Weili plucked up enough courage to quit this "glamorous" job.
College professors are unemployed.
Hong Kong in the 1980s was the "Hollywood of the East".
The development prospects of the film and television industry are very good, and the creation is free.
Hu Weili was attracted by this atmosphere and went to Hong Kong alone.
This year, Hu Weili was 50 years old.
At more than half a hundred years old, he began to pursue his dreams.
Language barriers, cultural differences, hu Weili, who has just arrived in Hong Kong, looks at the bustling Hong Kong for a while.
Teaching piano writing accompaniment to participate in performances, Hu Weili started from these basic work.
But he enjoyed all the work related to music.
Here he is creatively free, his thoughts leap, and his infinite happiness.
In just three months, Hu Weili broke into TVB with his outstanding talent.
Hu Weili, Xu Ke, Chen Kun
At that time, TVB, which mainly developed film and television, hardly cared about the soundtrack of TV series.
Basically, it relies on copyrighted finished products, and several TV series use the same ending song from time to time.
The use of those soundtracks over and over again not only scolded the audience, but also the insiders were anxious.
In order to change the status quo, Hu Weili bought a set of equipment at his own expense to study the soundtrack.
The newly purchased equipment was all in English, and Hu Weili looked at the complicated English and cried without tears.
I thought of consulting a colleague, but no one wanted to take care of him.
In a huff, Hu Weili bought a dictionary and learned to use the equipment while flipping through the dictionary.
Lian Guess not only mastered the equipment, but also created the soundtrack of more than fifty TV series.
In this way, Hu Weili single-handedly ended the embarrassing situation that TVB did not have an original soundtrack for many years.
The brisk and lively "Market" in "Drunken Fist";
"Tang Bohu Dian Qiu Xiang" in the playful and interesting "Courage to Go Forward";
The drifting majestic "Stealing Gong" in "Taiji Zhang Sanfeng";
The bohemian "Happy Drama" in "Deer Ding"; each capital is different, and each song reveals the atmosphere of the jianghu.
In that song "Deer DingJi", Hu Weili thought that Kangxi Nian had entered Beijing, so he used The elements of Peking Opera, traditional and playful.
This song invites Huang Xia, who is "jianghu qi", to sing.
At that time, Hu Weili was huang xia's "competitor", and huang xia was very surprised the moment he saw Hu Weili: Ha! I thought that this new Hu Weili was a post-birth boy, how could he write such a Beijing-style song?
The heroes pity each other, and the two soon become good friends.
Huang Xia
In order to achieve a better singing effect, Huang Xia drank several cans of beer before singing this song.
The last time Huang Xia did this, he was still singing his own "A Laugh in the Sea".
After drinking, huang xia, who was slightly drunk, sang wantonly and vainly, full of charm.
This song has also become a classic with the popularity of the TV series.
Later Taiwanese music godfathers Luo Dayou and Du Qifeng were loyal fans of Hu Weili.
At that time, I was able to write songs for Andy Lau all because of my friendship with Du Qifeng.
Hu Weili really did not disappoint Du Qifeng.
Andy Lau squeezed into the ranks of the four heavenly kings with a song.
When everyone thought he was going to turn around and enter the pop scene, he let everyone down.
Hu Weili did not continue to work with Andy Lau, nor did he maintain long-term cooperation with other singers.
He continued to devote himself to the soundtrack of film and television dramas.
Others don't understand him, now that he is so famous, why do you continue to give film and television drama soundtracks such a tired and unprofitable job?
Hu Weili, on the other hand, said: Do something and do not do something, do not want to repeat, and have no intention of pandering.
It is this martial arts people's jianghu temperament that makes many big directors come to the door to cooperate with Hu Weili.
Director Xu Ke once said such a sentence, there is a realm that Huang Xia cannot reach called Hu Weili.
Xu Ke and Hu Weili
Xu Ke is also the most popular of all the directors who have cooperated with Hu Weili.
At that time, Xu Ke was making the movie "Oriental Undefeated".
When Xu Ke found Hu Weili, there were still three days before the film was released.
Being able to entrust such an important task to Hu Weili and believe unconditionally made Hu Weili, who lived with Xu Kesu, deeply moved.
This makes him feel more respectful and appreciative than paying a lot of money for his work.
Hu Weili, 56 years old, did not sleep for three days and three nights, and finally completed the work with quality and quantity.
"Undefeated in the East" was released as scheduled.
After Xu Ke listened, he didn't say anything, only gave Hu Weili a thumbs up.
"Iron Horse", "Lion King Battle", etc., Xu Ke handed over one important movie after another to Hu Weili to score.
This trust and pity between the two is enough to make Hu Weili give up all the achievements and comforts in front of him to help Xu Ke.
In order to score the film for Xu Ke wholeheartedly, he left TVB, where he had worked for 7 years.
When he left TVB, he symbolically sold his soundtrack to TVB for less than 10 yuan a year.
It was his last big gift to his old club.
Xu Ke was touched by Hu Weili's talent and character, and invited him to join him in another important work of his own, "Huang Feihong".
The two should be regarded as confidants.
Later, the only person who could move Hu Weili was Xu Ke.
In 1997, after ten years in the industry, Hu Weili suddenly "retired".
Perhaps, he felt that everything had begun again in the repetition that he least wanted.
In the past ten years, Hu Weili has scored more than 500 film and television works, such as "Tang Bohu Dian Qiu Xiang", "Drunken Fist", "Taiji Zhang Sanfeng", "Smiling Proud of the Jianghu" and so on, classic works.
His work was almost monopolized in an era.
People who love Hong Kong's prosperous film and television drama era cannot ignore Hu Weili's voice.
Ten years of Hong Kong dream, the name of a generation of grandmasters.
He did not linger in that famous circle, and at the end of all experiences he jumped out of the complexity of repetition and returned to nature.
In 1997, after choreographing "Descendants of the Dragon" celebrating the return of Hong Kong, Hu Weili seemed to retire after completing the most important thing in his life.
Confidant Xu Ke once advised him: It is the most smooth time, what a retreat!
Hu Weili said: In recent years, I have been too hard to resist my body, and I have also given the younger generations a place to live.
After that, he left in a dash.
For example, in martial arts dramas, the master who practiced the unique martial arts, left the martial arts secret book, and then retired with his whole body.
All that remains is the "sword spectrum" that later generations continue to learn and a white back.
In 2011, Xu Ke filmed "Dragon Gate Flying Armor", but he was once again worried about the soundtrack.
At that time, Huang Xia had been dead for 7 years, and there were few composers in Hong Kong.
In desperation, Xu Ke called Hu Weili.
After 14 years, 75-year-old Hu Weili re-emerged.
Due to physical reasons, Hu Weili's family strongly opposed, and her daughter said: Dad, you don't want to go, this is not something you have to do at your age.
The daughter knows that once the father agrees, he must be fully devoted, and it is common for three days and three nights to be blind.
She couldn't bear it.
But Hu Weili still agreed.
From the moment he stood on the stage at the age of 12, it was doomed that Hu Weili could not leave music for the rest of his life.
Music is his jianghu, and he can't quit.
A thousand dark rooms are illuminated at a time.
Music is his light, and his music is also the light of Hong Kong's film and television industry.
His music is also a beacon of light for memories.
Lu Kaitong, who committed suicide at the age of 32: You have represented the world in pain, and I can only age on your behalf
From the pursuit of the whole people to the imprisonment of the bell, the crime and punishment of a generation of jade women, so lamented?